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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #140 on: March 03, 2022, 11:46:23 PM »
Whoever decided to change the clocks less than a week before a tanis, is definitely an Anti Semite!
ah I thought about it the other way- we have 1 more hr of daylight on Purim  :)
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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #142 on: May 08, 2022, 12:46:21 AM »
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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #143 on: May 08, 2022, 03:17:16 AM »
Here's one story.

This had started hours earlier in the day when one a teen was harassing me when I was in the library and threw a penny toward me while telling his friend "I heard if you throw a penny in the for, they'll pick it up!" After I didn't pick it up, this bright guy picked it up himself.

Later that night, I went to a movie and after the movie, on my way out, there was a group of teens that included the genius that picked up the penny earlier that day. Her recognized me and they surrounded me and started shoving me around in front of the theater. A woman came out of the theater and yelled at them to stop or she'd call the police. They stopped, and then begged me not to call the cops. I told them not to worry and then I saw a bus across the street. The bus stop was two blocks away so I started running for the bus. One of the teens started chasing me. I pulled out a bottle of pepper spray and shot it blindly behind me and nailed the loser. Good times lol.

I was about 10 years old when a bunch of black teens came up to our schoolyard fence and shouted that they’re Nazis and will f*** us up.
Oh, the irony! Were they Jewish too?

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #144 on: May 08, 2022, 02:17:58 PM »
Here's one story.

This had started hours earlier in the day when one a teen was harassing me when I was in the library and threw a penny toward me while telling his friend "I heard if you throw a penny in the for, they'll pick it up!" After I didn't pick it up, this bright guy picked it up himself.

Later that night, I went to a movie and after the movie, on my way out, there was a group of teens that included the genius that picked up the penny earlier that day. Her recognized me and they surrounded me and started shoving me around in front of the theater. A woman came out of the theater and yelled at them to stop or she'd call the police. They stopped, and then begged me not to call the cops. I told them not to worry and then I saw a bus across the street. The bus stop was two blocks away so I started running for the bus. One of the teens started chasing me. I pulled out a bottle of pepper spray and shot it blindly behind me and nailed the loser. Good times lol.
Oh, the irony! Were they Jewish too?
Was at Olympic Stadium in Montreal about 30 years ago for a Montreal Machine indoor football game. When we got off the Metro at the stadium we realized that a group of people were throwing pennies at us. We just ignored it and they just looked like fools.
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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #147 on: April 19, 2024, 04:49:20 PM »
https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1780973659525382650
Just heard a beautiful vort last night from Rav Moshe Ahron Friedman, maggid shiur in the Mir.

The halacha is that by עולת העוף - a bird Olah, you can split the head off completely. But by a bird Chattas, it says "Lo Yavdil" - you are not allowed to completely separate the head. Rav Moshe Ahron Friedman said that it's reminiscent of how the nations view Yidden. When one person does a Chattas - something wrong - they are not mavdil, but they see it as all Jews are guilty. But when one person does something Olah, uplifting, then they separate it and see it as the act of a lone individual.

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #149 on: April 21, 2024, 12:51:01 AM »
https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/1781815850057486703
Why the need for the last 2 paragraphs? Just useless misdirection. Par for the course for social media I guess

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #150 on: April 21, 2024, 08:43:27 AM »
Why the need for the last 2 paragraphs? Just useless misdirection. Par for the course for social media I guess

Isn’t it trying to say this isn’t an isolated incident?
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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #151 on: April 21, 2024, 09:37:18 AM »
Isn’t it trying to say this isn’t an isolated incident?
not the way I would have understood it, I would think it means Toronto is full of graffiti, not necessarily anti semitic.

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #152 on: April 21, 2024, 10:54:04 AM »
Why the need for the last 2 paragraphs? Just useless misdirection. Par for the course for social media I guess

Isn't he saying there is so much of [Juden] everywhere... i.e. too many jews

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #154 on: April 21, 2024, 09:54:36 PM »
Why the need for the last 2 paragraphs? Just useless misdirection. Par for the course for social media I guess
Isn’t it trying to say this isn’t an isolated incident?
not the way I would have understood it, I would think it means Toronto is full of graffiti, not necessarily anti semitic.

That is presumably what it means, and that does sound like the intended (presumably incorrect) interpretation - hence Euclid's comment.
"Any word can mean anything! By giving words new meanings, ordinary English can become an exclusionary code!" -Cal.&Hob.

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Re: Have You Experienced Anti-Semitism? Share Your Story
« Reply #155 on: April 21, 2024, 11:30:15 PM »
Literally hundreds of first person accounts on Twitter today.