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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1140 on: January 19, 2021, 11:25:05 PM »
https://twitter.com/topshuur/status/1348396957887311880
In Portuguese, people typically say "half" (as in half a dozen) instead of the number 6.
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1141 on: January 20, 2021, 12:22:01 AM »
Sure. Jews have been living in Poland for at least 1000 years, for example.
Very very few if there were. Polish towns aren't mentioned at all and no known Gedolim lived in Poland until the era of the Achronim. Reb Yakov Pollak- the Baal Hachilukim- was probably the first known Gadol to live in Poland, hence his last name. Although I remember from visiting Krakow that they said that the Old Synagogue dates back some 700 years. Most Ashkenazi Jews at the time lived to the west.

And as a matter of fact, a lot of Ashkenazi Jews lived in Italy too, in towns like Padova and Venice. The Mahri Mintz and Mharam Padva were the most prominent ashkenazi gedolim at the time who lived in Italy.

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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1142 on: January 20, 2021, 12:26:59 AM »
In Portuguese, people typically say "half" (as in half a dozen) instead of the number 6.
How many children do you have? Half.

In Egypt the gave birth to half kids at a time

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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1143 on: January 20, 2021, 12:29:18 AM »
How many children do you have? Half.
Lol, I typically heard it used in addresses and phone numbers. Doubt it would be used in that context.
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1144 on: January 20, 2021, 08:26:59 AM »
How many children do you have? Half.

In Egypt the gave birth to half kids at a time
”I’ll be home in half hour, Honey”

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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1145 on: January 20, 2021, 10:35:07 AM »
”I’ll be home in half hour, Honey”

Arrives 6 hours later

What do you mean? I don't even speak Portuguese and I do this all the time :D
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1150 on: January 22, 2021, 03:23:41 PM »
https://twitter.com/effortlesslycat/status/1351611983414644737

16m in 1939 growing at the same rate as the rest of the world = 55m in 2020 using an annual growth ratio of ~1.6%, but if you apply the same growth ratio to the 10m who survived the Holocaust, you'd still have 35m in 2020.

Of the 'missing' 40m Jews, half are probably due to assimilation, not the holocaust.

It's also a very conservative number, the growth ratio is closer to 1.8% which would make it 50m 'missing' Jews.
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1153 on: January 26, 2021, 01:16:55 PM »
https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/1350675788102713346

https://twitter.com/RobertP221B/status/1350702181549105152

(There was also one that amused me from someone whose name started with Sonny about the
number of Pirates of the Caribbean sequels vs the lack of any for M&C, but I can't find it now.)
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1154 on: January 26, 2021, 03:12:51 PM »
16m in 1939 growing at the same rate as the rest of the world = 55m in 2020 using an annual growth ratio of ~1.6%, but if you apply the same growth ratio to the 10m who survived the Holocaust, you'd still have 35m in 2020.

Of the 'missing' 40m Jews, half are probably due to assimilation, not the holocaust.

It's also a very conservative number, the growth ratio is closer to 1.8% which would make it 50m 'missing' Jews.

I never understood why people say that the Jewish population is shrinking due to assimilation.

To say that there are more people unaware that they are Jewish is one thing...

But at the end of the day there are x amount of Jewish women who are having x amount of children whom are all Jewish whether their husband is Jewish or not....

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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1155 on: January 26, 2021, 03:17:08 PM »
I never understood why people say that the Jewish population is shrinking due to assimilation.

To say that there are more people unaware that they are Jewish is one thing...

But at the end of the day there are x amount of Jewish women who are having x amount of children whom are all Jewish whether their husband is Jewish or not....
That's true and I've argued that point many times, buy by assimilation I don't mean intermarriage on its own, I mean people forgetting they are Jewish. A large proportion of the 1945 10m Jews were behind the Iron Curtain and thus forgot their Jewish identity.
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1156 on: January 26, 2021, 03:18:09 PM »
I never understood why people say that the Jewish population is shrinking due to assimilation.

To say that there are more people unaware that they are Jewish is one thing...

But at the end of the day there are x amount of Jewish women who are having x amount of children whom are all Jewish whether their husband is Jewish or not....

If an unaffiliated Jewish woman has a daughter in 1947, that daughter has a daughter, who has a daughter, who has a child, and all those generations remain unaffiliated, the child might not even know their Jewish and can't necessarily trace their Jewishness.
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1157 on: January 26, 2021, 03:42:40 PM »
I never understood why people say that the Jewish population is shrinking due to assimilation.

To say that there are more people unaware that they are Jewish is one thing...

But at the end of the day there are x amount of Jewish women who are having x amount of children whom are all Jewish whether their husband is Jewish or not....
And all the children of intermarried Jewish men are non Jews
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Re: The Funny/strange/interesting/random Tweets Thread
« Reply #1159 on: January 26, 2021, 03:49:45 PM »
And all the children of intermarried Jewish men are non Jews
Think it over. All the children of Jewish women are Jewish. Jewish men have no impact on whether or not their kids are Jewish.
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