Our kids go to a pluralistic Jewish school focused on social justice, diversity & community.
School is cancelled tomorrow because of the Day of Jihad - Hamas' call for worldwide murder & violence against Jews.
We live in NYC.
Are we still pretending this is about Israel?
Aaron Messing
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- Replying to @amess3. Social Justice is great. My kids care about the world, the environment, about the less fortunate, about Tikun Olam — making the world a better place. Not everyone is terminally online or a rabid political partisan. Go touch grass, hug your family & put some love out in the 🌎
- Replying to @amessEveryone is trying to insert their garbage politics into this. 1. Pluralism is great. If you’re anti, you’re on Hamas’ team & IDGAF what you think. 2. Diversity is great. That’s why I live in NYC. You want homogeneity, that’s your issue.
- Replying to @chastaantics and @emily_murnaneYou should feel great. Your heart was in the right place
- All of them
- Replying to @yonejutsu @SonyaShaykhoun and @JohnKel58896389Can confirm
- Replying to @amess and @AkivaMCohenAnyone with an ounce of common sense understands that in a conflict, people on both sides do horrible, unjustifiable things to each other. Justifying those horrible, unjustifiable things because of an affinity for one side not only perpetuates the conflict but saps our humanity.
- Since there appears to be a lot of interest in California privacy law, I figured I'd do a quick #lawsplainer (with apologies to @popehat -- mine will definitely not compare) on California's two-party consent requirement for recording phone calls. 1/
- There are images of piles of dead civilians in bus stops. People on their way to work, dragged from their cars and shot right there in the streets. Militants taking selfies next to normal people murdered in their living rooms. I'm sorry I do not get those trying to justify this.
- I love NYCJust happened. 68th and Lex. Jews protecting the posters of Jewish children hostages from being torn down.00:00
