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Decided to do a thread of tweets by year. I didn't go back past 1099, so.
Fred MacDowell
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Fred MacDowell
@onthemainline
שמעוניהודאליבשטיינמעצ
- In 1979 the NY Times asked Isaac Bashevis Singer (and 47 others) if they were going to watch the Super Bowl.
- Replying to @BriAltStation @jacobkornbluh and 2 othersNo one is surprised by that. "Were better than a lot of Jews" is an antisemitic take, that's the point.
- Replying to @hannahofhamelnHe employs both aggressive aggression, and passive aggression. Masterful!
- The hairspray shtreimel era implies a coming grunge shtreimel era
- There are people who won't even eat garlic on Pesach because of [obscure issue centuries ago]. The point is, people take their ancestral Pesach minhagim seriously. Eliminating those cans seems like a dangerous game that Manischewitz is playing.
- Einstein's Theory of Special and General Relativity in Yiddish, with a bonus: great design.
- The Hebrew on the grave of Ferdinand III, king of Castile (1201-1252).
- Some pics of this fantastic megillah written by 13 year old Luna Tamah Amron in 1767.
