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August 21, 2025

Housekeeping

Hi everyone!

This is just a gentle reminder that our community was built to give us a safe space to continue the conversations post-podcast recording, to ask daring questions, and to exchange ideas with like-minded freethinkers. If your posts go against the purpose of this community, I will have to remove the post and remove your account from our community. I would also appreciate it if you could report any post or comment that is spam so that I can keep this space safe for our members.

Thank you so much and hope to see you all on Yasmine's special birthday episode on Saturday!

Sara

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lynsey piccolo

Aug 23

will we be watching it in here or someplace else?

15 days ago

Michael, thank you 🫶

Listening to the episode with Michael Gamal. Two quick thoughts: 1) I recently learned that Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was founded by a non-Jew, which- although I never fully believed the name anyway based on the content of what they say/do- changes the entire picture for me, and 2) this idea of suicidal altruism is important to deconstruct too. Yasmine, as usual, has a way with words and used the word “hacked” to describe what has happened in the Western mind. I am not an expert on Western ideology, but I do know that this is not a Jewish value, and the only thing I can think of is that maybe it’s a Christian concept? Since 10/7 I’ve become fascinated with the idea of the story of the binding of Isaac in the Torah, which I now understand to be a clear lesson AGAINST human sacrifice as an ideal.…

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roukline

Oct 25

There is no notion of altruist suicidal in christianism as far as I know. The notion of sacrifice one self, is related with the situation were the choice is between sacrifice oneself and letting other die, it is to choose to be killed by other (not by oneself, and not as holocaust to a God) in order to save the life of other. according to the grand rabbin Cohn, Jesus choosed to be kill in order not to lie and that the people of Israel should not be repress by Roman army because he would have been taken for the "King of the Jews".

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September 16, 2025

Since 2003 ...

this text that was published by my feministe association and by a famous french feminist , in " Le Monde " ( biggest national news paper in France) in 2003,

22 years ago ..

https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2003/05/29/laicardes-puisque-feministes-par-anne-vigerie-et-anne-zelensky_321962_1819218.html

"Laïcardes", puisque féministes, par Anne Vigerie et Anne Zelensky Le Monde Publié le 29 mai 2003

https://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article662 "Laïcardes", puisque féministes, par Anne Vigerie et Anne Zelensky

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Sara

August 31, 2025

Sheikh Mirza Ismail

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Sheikh Mirza Ismail! We had the privilege of speaking with Sheikh Mirza today about the Yezidi genocide, a conversation that was both deeply moving and heartbreaking (to be released soon). It is truly an honour to have him join our community.

Sheikh Mirza, welcome! We’re grateful to have you here with us.

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Barry

Sep 08

What happened & continues to happen to the Yazidi is a failure of humanity. The ability to ignore it by governments, news media & activists is mind boggling. Looking forward to the interview.