September 2011
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“L’chai Oylamim”, “To the...
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The Curse of Millhaven: Hello Jewish folk →
bb-goose:
lazersilberstein:
bb-goose:
I’m looking for opinions of M.O.T.’s on women’s “feminizing” traditional ritual garb (i.e., a tallit with pink stripes, beading or flowers on kippot). Is it counterproductive to an egalitarian service to alter a traditional object, as though there needs to be a “female” version of it (which will…
I know this is coming from a good place, but it...
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The Curse of Millhaven: Hello Jewish folk →
bb-goose:
I’m looking for opinions of M.O.T.’s on women’s “feminizing” traditional ritual garb (i.e., a tallit with pink stripes, beading or flowers on kippot). Is it counterproductive to an egalitarian service to alter a traditional object, as though there needs to be a “female” version of it (which will…
I know this is coming from a good place, but it reinforces the gender binary.
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a quick note on politics, insults, and...
onegirlrhumba:
i lost a friend today after heated debates and an egregious insult on facebook today. she holds extremely conservative political and religious views, which i usually abstain from engaging with for the sake of my mental well-being and blood pressure levels, but i found it difficult to resist commenting on a status update that consisted of a condescending “story” comparing abortion...
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“You have to become one with the shofar,” Mr.... →
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I straight up don’t trust white men with generic, honkey-ass names any more. And I’m white! (But Jewish).
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“אבינו מלכנו כלה כל צר ומשטין מעלינו”
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5772, the year i told my alma mater they were a...
“Dear Members of the New College Community, Deeply embedded in New College’s institutional DNA is a commitment to mutual respect and tolerance, regardless of a person’s background. This commitment informs the design of our academic program, our commitment to a self-regulating style of student life, and the College’s engagement with the surrounding community. While our...
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I don’t know what kind of politics I like, but I do know what I don’t like: anything that has ever existed. “We only knew liberty the moment at which it was taken from us” (Marx). I don’t need to have a goal in order to see and criticize all this extant oppression.
Just as the mind is separate from the body, so is the political spirit separate from the body...
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” -John Steinbeck
Yes, clearly this post is critiquing the desires of poor people, rather than, ya know, critiquing how those desires arose in the first place. Ugh. So sad to see old friends becoming conservative. At least read a Steinbeck novel!!
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Never felt like more of a minority group before than with this talk about Obama and the Jewish vote. Manufactured News.
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“Let’s assume that, God forbid, there is no God…So what? Then His...”
– Bashevis, “Zeidlus the Pope”
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אלע כוחות פון דער וועלט האבן שוין מודה זיין
“All the powers of the world have already admitted…”
The crackdown on the protests reveals the West’s unease with anything that questions the status quo, thereby granting revolutionaries untold strength.
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“Listen!
From the breast
wrapped in ancient fear,
from shivering, chattering...”
– David Hofstein, “My Indifference”
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WatchOmg. Chabad would do this.
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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn (via babyvomit-)
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Tea Party Crashes ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest,... →
suzyxisntreal:
Up until now, there has been virtually no press coverage for the event. Just a smattering on some news outlets, with a little more coverage on liberal news outlets such as MSNBC and Current. However in recent days, a group of five Tea Party members have set up a lawn chairs directly across the street from the Wall Street protesters, so that they can protest “this liberal agenda...
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“The process of liberation is never innocent. It starts out from an ideology and...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Impossible Exchange
the new colonialism: eliminate all suffering, destroy all misunderstanding, maximize all pleasure, to infinity
(via judaizers)
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“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.”
– The Talmud (via lailatov)
When you quote the Talmud, you have to cite where the quote comes from!!!!
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“What did you eat?”
“The fragrance of your body, the glow of your...”
– Bashevis, “The Mirror”
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“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen....”
– Franz Kafka, from the fourth of The Blue Octavo Notebooks, translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (via confusionis)
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W. W. Norton: Faulkner? Never heard of him. →
wwnorton:
It is said that Faulkner wrote his second novel, Mosquitoes, “for the sake of writing because it was fun.” Read this passage from the book, proof he was feeling playful, wherein Faulkner has his characters talk about…well, Faulkner. It seems he didn’t leave much of an impression on them:
“He was a white man, except he was awful sunburned and kind of shabby dressed—no necktie and hat....
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My national and religious ancestors instilled within me a process of thought influenced by both rationality and spirituality. That an ostensibly religious country could, in 2011, depart so far from even ancient (and still binding) interpretations of the Bible which held that the taking of a matured life should never happen…well…may God have mercy on your souls.
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I went to the UN today.
yerushalayimshelzahav:
Well I didnt actually go in I was just protesting the palestinian statehood in front with a whole bunch of other people. It was a fun experience :)
Can I ask why you went? Are you an anarchist? Are you going to go tomorrow to protest Ahmedinejad?
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“If you need riot police outside the building where justice is being served,...”
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Regression
Any action that impedes the move towards a stateless, non-hierarchical, non-othering society is by definition regressive. There is no such thing as a rightful claim to land. Making borders only makes enemies. Land is treated as capital, and is therefore used to alienate.
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“I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he...”
– Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles of Faith (via dalsibaby)
yisraellior-deactivated20111002 asked: Does it matter if I'm married? The person I was referring to is five years older than me, it's hardly as though he's in his forties. Do you know the person I am referring to? If not, don't act like you do. The reason I condemned him was because he was sending sexual comments to and flirting with my fiancé. What, should I just ignore it? Can you show me where I have...
yisraellior-deactivated20111002 asked: In response to your note on my post about the world needing Moshiach. 1.) I am a queer myself therefore don't talk to me about somehow supporting their oppression. 2.) The thing I was referring to which disgusted me was the fact that a married man was going behind his wife's back to flirt and through about sexual comments with another man. In my book, doing that behind your wife's...
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Zionism and the Roads Not Taken →
“Today, Zionism is understood as a national movement whose primary historical goal was the establishment of a Jewish state. However, Zionism’s association with national sovereignty was not foreordained. Zionism and the Roads Not Taken uncovers the thought of three key interwar Jewish intellectuals who defined Zionism’s central mission as challenging the model of a sovereign...
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Damn. This world needs Moshiach. I mean, what sort...
What the fuck is wrong with you? Have you absolutely no understanding about sexual repression created by our culture and why queers are closeted?
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Is it OK to highlight/underline in the Torah?
kitty-meir:
kendra-aliza:
I’ve heard both yes and no and just want to get some more opinion.
I never highlight in the Torah, but that’s just me.
there’re these great things called bookmarks and stickynotes, guys
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“Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one...”
– Emma Goldman (via ivegotsoul)
Quote from the “most dangerous woman in the United States” in the late 19th century. :] rock on homegirl!
(via queerinsurrection)
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Jews and Pork
Man, this site, “Pork Memoirs”, is awesome, and this article about it is too, and I am actually eating pork right now! Perfection. However, I am sick and tired of hearing stories about Jews who, when the shit hit the fan, still wouldn’t eat treyf. The guy who runs “Pork Memoirs” says how he keeps kosher because his grandparents, who were slave laborers in Siberia,...
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ugh, today is already full of fail
first i read this essentializing, anti-semitic piece, published by a jewish magazine, no less. at least they’re keeping with the precedent they set by publishing david horowitz. then i saw a blog called “jewesses with attitude.” great. internalized sexism. or, at the very least, semiotic and historical ignorance. guys, read my new blog. gonna call it “kikes with...
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“I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of...”
– Albert Einstein, From a speech in New York City, April 17, 1938 (via freedomforfalasteen)
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“Neither civic nor ethnic typologies, the two emerging possibilities for defining...”
– Zionism and the Roads not Taken, Noam Pianko, p. 17-18
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Yerushalayim Shel Zahav: Judea and Samaria →
yerushalayimshelzahav:
The mountains of Judea are first named in the Book of Joshua, in the account of the conquering of Canaan by the Israelites during the creation of the Land of Israel. From that time to the present, more than 3,000 years, the name Judea has been consistently used to describe the territory from…
Nonetheless, Judea and Samaria have been (re)usurped by right-wing...
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“Covenant defeats the law of entropy that says that all systems lose energy over...”
– Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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The PA is stupid
The PA is turning into Israel. First, the bid for statehood will alienate the Palestinian diaspora, and obviously impede a one-state solution, then chief politicians essentially call for Judenrein (Jew-free) land, echoing the right-wing of Israel. And of course everyone is acting like there’s an actual relationship between Hamas and Fatah. Goddamn.
