Neo-Nazis make a Chrome extension that alerts you to potential Jewish names

Hey, just because someone’s a Jew doesn’t make them automatically a good person.

I’ve pretty much cut ties from my birth community of Orthodox Judaism because people in that community were corrupt, bigoted, and generally inconsiderately evil, and, in their zeal to observe the halakha as strictly as possible, had forgotten the lessons of Rabbi Akiva’s students of courtesy, empathy, consideration, and kindness, instead making a social pecking order out of Ostentatious Piety–it mattered more in that community how strictly (and publicly) one held to the most strict interpretations than how one treated one’s fellow Jews with kindness.

So I don’t really give a crap about how publicly pious Ivanka and her husband are, because that has zero reflection on how they engage in certain other aspects of Judaism, such as Hillel’s Dictum (“Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. The rest is commentary, go forth and learn it.”), Tikkun Olam (lit. “repairing the world”, taken as a commandment to engage in social justice and make a better world), midda kineged midda (lit. “measure opposite measure”, but interpreted as “you receive what you give”), or צֶדֶק צֶדֶק, תִּרְדֹּף (Deuteronomy 16:20, meaning “Justice, Justice, you shall pursue”–i.e. that you’ll never reach perfect justice, but to still try), or the classic quote from the Talmud, “Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world” (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Yerushalmi Talmud 4:9, Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 37a).

In the light of that last one, the fact that she supports her father’s political ambitions is enough to make me go :unamused:

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