Gil Student
@GilStudent
Links, random thoughts and opinions on Torah, books & politics
My author copies of the book finally arrived and the book looks great! I’m very excited about this publication. I recently did a Q&A with the newspaper, The Jewish Vues. Links to order the book and read the Q&A to follow
Read our latest article: Meaningful Mourning: Helping Kids Connect With Tishah B’Av Mourning the Beit Hamikdash can feel so abstract to kids (and adults too!). First of all, what’s the Beit Hamkidash? And also, for many kids unfamiliar with grie… jewishaction.com/web-exclusive/…
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I'm fine with expressing concern about civilian casualties, war, and hoping the war ends. But Pope Leo's statement basically accepts the Hamas version of events wholesale, and I'm not sure why.
Hey @grok, who's the most famous X account to interact with mine?
So - can everyone recognize and affirm that this war continues for the same reason it started: because Hamas wants it to. Because Hamas is, tragically, committed to death and suffering.
BREAKING Israeli negotiating team is returning from Qatar after Hamas rejected the latest ceasefire proposal. "We appreciated the efforts of the mediators Qatar and Egypt and the efforts of [U.S.] Envoy Witkoff to bring a breakthrough in the talks," Netanyahu's office said.
Uber becomes Chasidish
UBER announces new option where women customers will soon be able to request women drivers This is long overdue Nobody wants their female loved one alone in a strange man’s car at night Especially when Uber’s background checks are so bad
This outrageous story of a Kansas City government owned grocery store - with empty shelves, rotten food, high crime, and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars - is coming soon to NY City under a Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
BREAKING: City-funded grocery store trial in Kansas City has already failed. Shelves are completely empty, food rotten, theft.
At this point, it’s obvious the Torah will win – and how. The only question is who will be with it when it does.
At this point, it’s obvious the Torah will win – and how. The only question is who will be with it when it does.
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I swear I am the last person on this cursed site to understand the difference between "less" and "fewer"
In either a felicitous coincidence or a coordinated effort, Tradition Journal has opened up my Spring 2025 article on R, Aharon Lichtenstein's approach to ethics & Halacha (by way of his classical article on the topic) to open access. Enjoy! traditiononline.org/recognizing-ra…
People say Orthodoxy is obsessed with rules. But rules are how love shows up every day. You don’t pray three times a day because you’re a robot. You do it because you care enough to keep showing up, even when it’s hard.
When an ice cream truck drives by playing a capella music because it’s the Three Weeks, you know it’s Cholov Yisroel
Rav Kook was criticized very strongly for participating and speaking at the ceremony celebrating the opening of Hebrew University in 1925. HaMa’ayan journal recently published a letter by Rav Kook where he responds to Rav Shlomo Yosef Markowitz of Romania on this matter.
In this article, R Shlomo Zuckier pushes back against those who rewrite Rav Aharon Lichtenstein as some sort of progressive antinomian. In reality, he wasn't left or right. He was an open-minded traditionalist who held tight to the halachic process torahmusings.com/2025/07/saving…
There are so few Jews in Brooklyn that this morning, in addition to the early minyan where I davened, I served as the tenth man in two other shuls and arrived as the eleventh in a fourth shul that had been looking. Three hours of Shacharis on a Sunday morning!
New podcast episode: • Listen Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sef… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5VaWMM… @moshetaragin @inthegush
Odd spelling for Gushnikim
c*******ns are so weird bc like how do you read tanach without mefarshim
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
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Every few years we rediscover that learning is hard work and effortful in the short term. Then we spend the next few years trying to make it fun and effortless again.
“2025 will go down in history as the greatest year for school choice in the history of the United States of America” Senator @tedcruz at Agudah Israel’s Federal Advocacy Summit