August 2011
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“We shall therefore not view Judaism’s past as the past of a community to...”
– Buber, On Judaism, 20
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“It is not the rejection of a dogma that would sever us from the Bible but the...”
– Heschel, God in Search of Man, 246
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“Fel Shara” is a Sephardic Turkish...
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With friends like Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann, who needs anti-Semitism?
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“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At...”
– The Hunger Games, vol. 2
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“It’s simple: how can there be a religious/secular binary in Judaism when...”
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“Dear friends, known and unknown to me,
my dear compatriots and all people of...”
– Yuri Gagarin, moments before lifting off on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961 (via ninestories)
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“They’re funny birds and something of a slap in the face to the Capitol. During...”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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belajasmert:
sephielya:
‘Who is your mother and who is your father?’
A young pupil replies, ‘My mother is Russia and my father is Stalin.’
The teacher says ‘Very good. And what would you like to be when you grow up?’
‘An orphan.’
Oh god. I feel like I am betraying something by laughing at this. xD
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“The Jewish faith [has] not been refuted by science or by history…. one...”
– Leo Strauss
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“Another reason why most cis, straight men, see being hit on as flattering, not...”
– Libractivist (from the comments)
Shakesville: Feminism 101: Helpful Hints for Dudes, Part 6
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wrote a song
dedicated to derek black, the motherfucking neo nazi at my alma mater
“just hung out with jewish commies.
fuck you
fuck you, nazi”
that’s all. kinda drunk.
no but seriously, i just fundraised for slutwalk (that is, in order to fight oppression) while chumps still talk about untermenschen.
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Fiddler on the Roof
Lebisch: Rabbi! May I ask you a question?
Rabbi: Certainly, Lebisch!
Lebisch: Is there a proper blessing... for the Tsar?
Rabbi: A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar... far away from us!
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“What does Kabbalah mean? It means opening oneself to the entirety of Judaism, in...”
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Obsessed with this right now.
Seymour Rechtzeit: ...
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A Snapshot of Prewar Berlin →
<“Living Room,” which opened at the museum July 31, is an audiovisual installation composed of four large-scale, computer-generated images showing a Jewish family’s apartment in 1930s Berlin. It is Zack’s reconstruction of the home of Manfred Nomburg, a German-born Jew who fled Nazi Germany for Israel in 1938, leaving behind his parents and a younger brother.>
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Deborah Feldman: Fashion, the Old-Fashioned way: A... →
deborahfeldman:
When I got married at the age of seventeen I knew very little about my prospective husband, but if there was anything I could be sure of, it was that he knew how to dress. At the wedding he wore a shtreimel as tall as two beer bottles stacked on top of each other. It was fashionable to…
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Kahlo
loneberry:
“You don’t have even the slightest idea of what kind of old cockroach Breton is, along with almost all those in the surrealists’ group.” —Frida Kahlo
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“My point is that feminists are not biological determinists. Feminists are the...”
– ‘Feminists are Sexist’ - Features - The F-Word (via periodp00ps)
YES. YES.YES.YEAHZZZZZZZZZ
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Hay, I have this book.
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Yes fucking THANK YOU
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