David/Dovid Bashevkin
@DBashIdeas
Rejected from many prestigious fellowships • Educator @YUNews • Talmud @tabletmag • PhD @thenewschool • Founder @18_forty • I read over Shabbos @ShabbosReads
Welcome, friend! Twitter is my public diary—a mix of narishkeit, ideas, and opinions. Thanks for visiting. Some writing things I’m proud of: 📖 on sin and failure: amazon.com/Sinagogue-Fail… 📖 on Jewish humor: israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/Top-5… 💡academia page: yeshiva.academia.edu/DavidBashevkin
Important @WSJopinion by Avi Shafran. The clearest articulation of the relationship of the American Yeshiva world to Zionism.
Am I a Zionist? Yes and no. Either answer is true. The word, something of a war cry these days, seems to have lost a clear meaning, writes Avi Shafran on.wsj.com/3IIi40y
Incredible final episode on @18_forty!!!! 18 Qs 40 Israeli Thinkers w/ @DrMichaelOren youtu.be/r7Hv1DwEcVA?si…
“The belief that Jews are inherently satanic is hardwired into Western civilization.” @DrMichaelOren on how medieval antisemitic tropes still echo in today’s media coverage of Israel.
Rav Yoseph Sholom Elyashiv ztl giving a shiur in his shul 1987 Photo by M.D.Yarmish @DailyYahrzeits
Black Shabbos, featuring Ozzy Bashevis Singer. 1989
David Bashevkin: "wHy dOeS tHe yEsHiVisH oHLaM dEsPiSe mE? wHy aM i tHe wEdGiE oF kLaL yIsRoEl?" Also David Bashevkin:
In memory of Ozzy’s passing I dug up my concert ticket from Black Sabbath reunion tour in 1999. Hearing Crazy Train live was unreal. It’s also funny for me that one of the guys I went to the concert w is still learning in Kollel 🙌
Crazy that @ezraklein could not engage with a single young Zionist Jew.
I think @ezraklein should engage more seriously with Orthodox Jewish communities before writing articles like this.
Gotta love them Jews! A family from NYC who I don’t know (no name with the letter) had a few winning lottery tickets from their visit to Montana last week…mailed them to our Chabad Center and I picked up $54 in cash today… It’s not the money, it’s the thought and…
I find it genuinely moving that my friends reach out to me when they visit my rebbe. ❤️
For those at home not familiar with it, Site: bavli.genizah.org Android app: apkpure.com/hachi-garsinan…
Can’t decide if this is holy or sacrilegious.
please enjoy my shelf where i store my unfinished books
Dovid Bashevkins brain just exploded
please enjoy my shelf where i store my unfinished books