That feeling when you have just a bit of ink in your pen, and it's been so long that you feel you should give your pen a full clean (not just a flush).
You have the energy now but you have enough ink and want to save that work for Friday afternoon and make it "a thing".
Town: Budapest, Hungary
POI: Rumbach utcai zsinagóga
What is your favorite sightseeing destination and why?
These free walking tours are waiting for you in Budapest: https://visitsights.com/sightseeing-tours/Hungary/Budapest
#PlaceOfWorship #Hungary #Tourism #Budapest #Attraction #Amenity #Jewish #Sightseeing #Religion #Building #Synagogue #Sights #Travel
"As was the case last year, there also is intense concern in some countries about a high level of #antisemitic incidents.
More than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the #UnitedStates were reported between #Oct7, 2023, and Sept. 24, 2024 — the most ever recorded by the Anti-Defamation League.
The Secure Community Network, which provides security and safety resources to hundreds of #Jewish organizations and institutions across #NorthAmerica, has been issuing frequent advisories ahead of #Passover.
Specifically, the group has warned of possible threats from white extremist groups, including some organizing along the U.S.-Canada border. SCN said key extremist anniversaries, including #Hitler’s birthday on April 20, coincide with the holiday, raising concerns about the risk of #violence targeting Jewish communities."
In search of Tzimmes recipes. Please send your best!
I don’t think I posted my review of this Chanukah book (just in time for Pesach). I gave it five stars because it is really perfect for what it is: pure joy and fun, striking all the right notes for Chanukah but not being an instruction manual on the holiday like some children’s books try to be. #MiaoReads #Chanukah #Mazeldon #Bookstodon #BookReview #Books #Book #Jewish
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/412bdaac-551b-41f7-bc20-fbc59d791e33
"As we learned more about #Christian #seders, it quickly became clear that not all of the seders are alike. In this #seder tutorial, Pastor Scott Stewart of Agape Church of Little Rock, Ark., explains how to celebrate #Passover, with barely any recognition that this is a #Jewish holiday. It felt like Stewart was even telling #Jews the proper way to lead a Passover seder.
However, other Christian seders focus on exploring the Jewish roots of #Christianity. For example, in this recording, Pastor Tom Holladay of Saddleback #Church teaches his congregants about how #Jesus, who was a #Jew, and his followers would have celebrated Passover in their time."
https://unpacked.media/why-are-christians-celebrating-passover-and-hosting-non-jewish-seders/
This puts the Op in Propaganda
"By the time we arrive at the scene of #Jesus flipping the merchants’ tables in the Temple, #Jews are firmly established as the villains. “My house should be a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves,” Jesus shouts at the #Pharisees after he ransacks the Temple market.
That quote is straight from the #gospels, just as much canon as Judas and the Pharisees turning Jesus in; the story is what it is. But the villainous depiction of the Jews is not part of the text.
Of course, the necessity of presenting Jesus’ teachings as better than the existing #Jewish practices is only mandatory if the show’s aim is to proselytize — which the show’s writers have claimed it is not; they’re just making good #TV, they said. But if the writing choices didn’t make the show’s #Christian mission clear enough, it’s made explicit by the testimonials the show posts from viewers about how the show brought them closer to Jesus."
https://forward.com/culture/710770/the-chosen-last-supper-passover-antisemitism-jewish/
"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."
Today In Labor History April 7, 1870: German-Jewish anarchist and pacifist, Gustav Landauer, was born. He was friends with, and influenced, the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. He served as the Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction during the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, during the German Revolution of 1918–1919, but was killed when the republic was overthrown. He was also the grandfather of film director, Mike Nichols (The Odd Couple, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate).
From Harif UK:
CAN WE PRESERVE JUDEO-ARABIC
FOR THE NEXT GENERATION?
WITH SAMANTHA ELLIS
TUESDAY 22 APRIL 2025
7:30 pm UK/ 11:30 am PT/ 2:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm Europe / 9:30 pm Israel
Samantha Ellis’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture – and when to let it go.
Info: https://www.harif.org/event/can-we-preserve-judeo-arabic-for-the-next-generation/
Available in the UK (so far) or online: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452893/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-ellis-samantha/9781784745028
The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that’s now on the verge of extinction.
She will be in conversation with Lyn Julius about her new book ‘Chopping onions on my heart’ (The Judeo-Arabic equivalent of ‘Rubbing salt in the wound’).
Which charoset do you prefer?
Region: Prague, Czechia Point of interest: Old Jewish Cemetery
Are you planning a trip to this town?
Create unforgettable memories with these free walking tours in Prague: https://visitsights.com/sightseeing-tours/Czechia/Prague
#Sights #Sightseeing #Jewish #Religion #Tourism #Attraction #Prague #Czechia #Travel
American Jews really prefer Jewish Foyer not Jewish Lobby. Occasionally, Jewish Vestibule.
"An outspoken critic of #Israel who has said that the #US is “subjugated by the #Jewish lobby” was reappointed as the #UnitedNations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied #Palestinian Territories.
#FrancescaAlbanese will continue until 2028 after she was confirmed during a United Nations #HumanRights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva on Friday."
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/fury-as-un-investigator-francesca-albanese-keeps-role-pmz3qqih
Excellent article on #DaraHorn's new children's #book and more!
"When are #children ready to encounter a #Jewish #history of persecution and slaughter?
One answer is provided during the seder itself, which often ends with the traditional song “Chad Gadya,” or one little goat in #Aramaic. It’s a “cumulative” song about a baby goat that is eaten by a cat, who’s killed by a dog, who’s beaten with a stick, culminating with the Angel of Death being slain by God. One interpretation is that the goat represents the Jewish people, and the climax of the song signals the redemption of the #Jews. It’s a dark theme smuggled into an upbeat, if macabre, children’s song.
Making light of the #seder’s darker themes is a #Passover tradition all its own, and Horn is on board with it.
“By the time children are old enough to appreciate [the darkness], they own the #story. They’re characters in the story, and they know that about themselves and that this is a story about us,” said Horn."
Shabbat Shalom.
Douglas Murray at the Munk debate:
"The interesting thing about antisemitism is, the Jews can never win. Because historically they've been hated for being rich, and for being poor. They've been hated for integrating, and for not integrating. They've been hated for being stateless, and now they are hated for having a state.
Today the only really acceptable form of antisemitism, tolerated antisemitism, is antizionism."
From the Kabbalah Experience:
We all live within stories, shaped by metaphors and narratives. Sometimes these metaphors serve us well, guiding us toward wisdom and connection. Other times, they hold us back, like a thistle caught in our shoe. How often do we pause to examine these stories? How might we shift our personal and communal narratives to create new, more meaningful ones?
Read more: https://kabbalahexperience.com/we-are-all-storytellers-whats-your-story/
If you need an online place to say Kaddish for your loved ones, join the Nechamah Minyan.
Email to register: https://aleph.org/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=16448&qid=6297817
Eichler was familiar with housing discrimination; there were developers of suburban communities who refused to sell homes to the Jewish middle class, among would-be buyers from other minority groups. He believed, however, that if a buyer was qualified, there was no good reason not to sell them a home. "I really do think Joe may have been motivated by discrimination against Jews back in New York," says Dave Weinstein
"It was common not just in housing, but in society in general." #jewish
https://www.dwell.com/article/joseph-eichler-homes-integration-fair-housing-policy-2cab8157
#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention
"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.
by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025
"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.
"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace
