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But uh. Point me to a Christian church like that? I'm not even being snide – legitimately point me to them; they sound cool and I'd love to get to know them.

To be clear, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is a shul tune, and it should be a shul tune, and Jewish synagogues should absolutely use it. I'm not saying it shouldn't be used in a religious context. Quite the opposite, in fact!

I've seen so many Christians make a huge thing about how "it's not about religion, it's about sex" and like... the fact that Christians see those two things as opposed is rather at the heart of the problem, isn't it? Even the comments on this very post were headed in that direction before OP turned them off.

If you're struggling to understand this, maybe consider that when Jews in shul use a tune from a song which was written by a Jew, and which has unambiguously sexual themes, perhaps the reason is because, wait for it... our liturgy has those themes already. We're not using the tune without thinking of the words because we have some sort of weird Pavlovian reaction to the word "Hallelujah." We're singing Lecha Dodi to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

...because Lecha Dodi is already a liturgical erotic poem:

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/28530?lang=bi

If you hate Jews, you're not allowed to say anything about the hostages. If you ever tore down a poster of the hostages, you're not allowed to say anything about the hostages. If you believed the posters were "Zionist propaganda," if you laughed at swastikas drawn on them, you're not allowed to talk about them.

If you ever told us they weren't important, that they deserve it, that they should die, you cannot talk about them. If you mocked their appearance, if you thought Hamas was nice for baking a cake, if you thought people should get over it, if you didn't believe them, if you rooted for their destruction, you cannot talk about them.

If you took our word, twisted it, and used Zionist as an insult, Zionazi, Zio (a term popularized by David Duke), if you started seeing sense with David Duke, Osama bin Laden, Sinwar, Hitler, because they were "anti-Zionist" You aren't allowed in our spaces. If you don't listen to us when we say anti-Zionism is jew hatred, if the only Jews you care about are JVP and Neturei Karta, you're not allowed in our spaces.

If you thought October 7th was justified, if you want to globalize the intifada, if you shouted From the river to the sea at us, if you put Sinwar and Hamas on a pedestal, if you don't acknowledge Hamas, and Hezbollah, and the Houthis, or any other terrorist group is a terrorist group, stay away from us. If you did a Nazi salute, drew swastikas, use the red triangle (a symbol used for marking which houses were going to be attacked on October 7), called for the final solution, praised Hamas for trying to finish what Hitler started, if you told us to go back to Europe (we know what you meant), if you saw any of this and you didn't say anything, stay away from us, and admit you're a Jew hater.

And if you're Islamophobic or believe Palestinians don't deserve rights, you can also shut up.

All of these are things I've actually seen, by the way.