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I am a #GenX #Jewish Midwesterner in exurban #Nashville, #Tennessee, USA.
[he/him or they/them]
I have a PhD in #philosophy (history of philosophy & social/political), but I’m not using it.
Politics: #Utopian #socialist.
Brain complaints: #ADHD, Delayed Sleep Phase Symdrome (#DSPS), #Depression, #Dysthymia, and #Anxiety
Subjects favored: #Soccer, #cooking, #gardening, #reading old books, and “the ruthless criticism of everything existing”.
Also, #cats
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Today’s edition of Steve Sheffey’s weekly Sunday email newsletter for American #Jews is definitely worth your time for a read, for the commentary and relevant article links. I’ve been a subscriber for years, and can’t recommend it enough. Free sub and paywall-free. #Jewish
“#Antisemitism Unawareness”
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Antisemitism-Unawareness.html?soid=1103590106844&aid=3ladB-28f1k
"Sacred #Jewish texts almost always refer to God using masculine imagery and grammar. God is routinely referred to with #male metaphors — Father, Lord, King — and with male pronouns. #Hebrew being a #gendered #language, references to God are nearly always conjugated with masculine verbs and pronouns. The standard formulation for a Jewish blessing, Barukh atah adonai (Blessed are you God), uses the male form of you (atah) and refers to God as melekh (king). Some texts even explicitly refer to God as a man, perhaps most famously Exodus 15:3: “God is a man of war.” This is true despite the fact that mainstream Jewish #theology does not believe God has a body or a #gender.
In recent decades, Jewish #feminists have argued that not only is this language inconsistent with the Jewish understanding of what God is (and is not), but it also reifies the second-class status #women have long occupied in Jewish life."
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/alternatives-to-masculine-god-language/
Ummmm... they released a statement on Saturday?
"#Jewish leaders around the world expressed outrage this weekend after the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a major figure in Jewish history and mysticism, was desecrated in #Damascus, #Syria.
The Alliance of #Rabbis in #Islamic Countries, an umbrella group representing rabbis from Jewish communities across #Muslim-majority nations, condemned the vandalism in a statement released Saturday."
I had to instruct my 17yo son today that if he got a text message or email asking him whether he’s #Jewish or not to delete and block. Why? Because that 
MFer is making Jew lists. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/24/2318529/-Team-Trump-is-making-a-list-of-Jews-what-could-go-wrong
“With ‘The Tomb of the Broken Amulet,’ I wanted to put a classical mummy story in a #Passover setting,” said Shorr, who enjoys blending #Jewish elements with popular #folklore. “The story isn’t just a fun genre mash-up. It’s about a post-#Oct7 family contending with loss, finding courage and learning that like the Passover #seder, our stories don’t truly end until we’ve found what’s missing.”
https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/380984/powerful-jewish-stories-in-comic-book-form/
"Yael and Schwab dig into one of the most fascinating artifacts of #Jewish antiquity: the #Babylonian incantation bowls. These 5th–6th century earthenware bowls, found primarily in modern-day #Iraq, were used by #Jews—and their neighbors—as #magical #amulets to ward off #demons, secure love, boost fertility, and protect homes. The conversation explores how these artifacts reflect the everyday concerns of Jews in late antiquity, how they blur the line between #halacha and #magic, and what they reveal about cultural exchange across ancient religions. Whether you’re into Jewish magic, #rabbinic #history, or just want to know how to trap a #demon in your cereal bowl, this episode has you covered."
https://unpacked.media/buried-secrets-jewish-magic-demons-and-the-babylonian-incantation-bowls/
"Employees from #Barnard #College received text messages this week from the federally run Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (#EEOC) on their personal phones linking to a voluntary survey asking recipients if they are #Jewish or #Israeli and whether they have been subjected to harassment or #antisemitism." 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/barnard-college-texts-jewish-faculty
In my latest newsletter, I discuss Yom HaShoah and much more.
#Holocaust #Antisemitism #Jewish #Baseball #MLB #Sports #politics
https://buttondown.com/DanielleSATM/archive/yom-hashoah-and-more/
#Holocaust / On how Zionist leaders blocked refugee havens for German and Austrian Jews to prioritize Palestine colonization
Israel appropriating and weaponizing the holocaust and #antisemitism against the Palestinians is cynical and indefensible. Zionist leadership’s ignorance of reports about the extermination of European Jews until November 23, 1942, the refusal to create an organizational infrastructure dedicated to rescue, and the earlier opposition to plans for settling Jewish refugees in territories other than Palestine, were all consequences of what Dr. Avi-ram Tzoreff calls "Post-Uganda Zionism."
[…] The agreement of countries participating in the conference [Évian Conference of 1938] to accept Jewish refugees was not seen as a point in their favor, but rather as an obstacle to achieving Zionist goals. In another meeting of Zionist leadership held after Kristallnacht, Moshe Sharett determined that the Jewish Agency cannot "participate in action for immigration to other countries" but only "increase pressure on the government to increase immigration to Palestine."
[…] Despite this, most governments that committed to this stood by their commitments and absorbed about 200,000 Jewish refugees during 1938 and early 1939. If initially the Zionist movement merely avoided cooperation with these trends, the enthusiastic agreement of the Dominican Republic to accept about 100,000 Jewish refugees—an agreement that remained in effect even with the beginning of the war throughout 1940-1941—was met with actual opposition from the Zionist movement, as well as from the Joint Distribution Committee. This was, again, due to the same concern, as described by Arieh Tartakower, who was involved in immigration affairs, in an interview conducted with him by Beit-Zvi—"that any plan for Jewish settlement is directed against settlement in the Land of Israel." This opposition was expressed through colonial-racist rhetoric, which saw in the plan also a danger of Jews changing from white to colored, a process that was claimed to be the fate of white populations in the Caribbean islands."
Tzoreff notes that these policies established the pattern of creating dependency between #Jewish rescue and the exclusive #Zionist territorial project in #Palestine that continued throughout the #Holocaust period. This dependence became formalized in the 1942 Biltmore Program, which insisted on a Jewish state in Palestine as the only solution to Jewish persecution.
Dr. Avi-ram Tzoreff is a historian specializing in modern Jewish history, with a particular focus on the cultural and political history of Jews in Late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Ottoman Iraq, and Habsburg Galicia. His research explores the intersections of religion and secularism, colonialism, nationalism, sovereignty, and subjectivity.
The Évian Conference of 1938 mentioned in the article was convened to discuss the fate of Jewish refugees (both actual and potential) from #Germany and #Austria, who numbered around 500,000 people at that time.
@histodons
@palestine
@israel
#zionism #holocaust #neveragain
#racism #colorism
New from Solzy at the Movies: UnBroken: The Weber Family and the Holocaust
#UnBroken #Jewish #Holocaust #film #movies #documentary
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/04/23/unbroken-the-weber-family-and-the-holocaust/
New from Solzy at the Movies: The Children of October 7 Is Essential Viewing
#TheChildrenOfOctober7 #October7 #Jewish #Israel #film #movies #documentary #ParamountPlus #streaming
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/04/23/the-children-of-october-7/
Confirmed --- Nazis!!
You know, how people will wrongfully call someone a Nazi, and it almost seems like the word has lost meaning to some?
Well, The Donald John Trump regime is now looking to see who is or is not Jewish, before hiring them. That appears to be a disqualification for the job.
They are, indeed, Nazis.
#Nazis #Facisim #Jewish #HateGroup #DonaldTrump #UnitedStates
RE: https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/114388819157534596
“It’s not about banning a book. It’s about a parent being able to decide what they want for their own child,” John Dubbler, a 67-year-old from St. Mary’s County in the southern part of the state, told HuffPost.
Yeah, it is about banning a book. Also, #SCOTUS, will you now defend the rights of #Jewish, #Muslim, and #atheist children who refuse to attend school because of exposure to Christianity?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-religious-lgbtq-books_n_6807f81ce4b00081c708cb04
New from Solzy at the Movies: America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
#Holocaust #Antisemitism #Jewish #film #movies #documentary
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/04/23/america-and-the-holocaust/
The grants sent millions of dollars to organizations that support #intervention programs for #nonviolent youth offenders; programs to avert #opioid-related deaths in #Newark; programs aimed at identifying community-based approaches to preventing #HateCrimes against #Arab, #Jewish & #Asian Americans; & a confidential hotline run by the National Center for #Victims of #Crime to inform crime victims about their rights.
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That e-mail made my day! The Yad Vashem database contains an entry on Emilie Goldberger who was one of Clara Schumann's first pupils in Frankfurt/Main. Now they also know about my memorial website for Emilie Goldberger 
But a photo or pic of her is still missing...
#holocaust #research #jewish #history #herstory #musichistory #emiliegoldberger #claraschumann #yadvashem
https://goldberger.susanne-wosnitzka.de
We have a new publication in our Iranian Studies Monographs (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik) series! "Hybrid Judeo-Persian and Arabic Correspondence: Eight Documents from the Cairo Genizah" provides new editions of critical historic documents.
The Cairo Genizah contains many thousands of documents from the Egyptian Jewish community produced over the centuries: some of the more difficult parts of the collection are documents in Arabic (sometimes Arabic written in Hebrew script), and Judeo-Persian written in Hebrew script. This book publishes new editions of eight documents in this category from around 1000AD, showing elements of mercantile life in Cairo a millennium ago and how different languages were used and interacted.
More details at:
https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/hybrid-judeo-persian-and-arabic-correspondence/99200916
