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got to see a wonderful exhibition called Torah: Stitch by Stitch - over 100,000 volunteers are still actively working on cross stitching the entire torah, four pesukim at a time + the option to add designs. they think the project will be completed in late 2020, and you can still sign up for a cross stitching kit to be sent to your house so you can contribute to the project.

i love love love the idea of reclaiming torah through something that is traditionally a feminine activity with about 98% of the volunteers being women - it’s mamash so empowering, and awe inspiring to stand in front of. what an incredible artwork!

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Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, Photo by Sonia Handelman Meyer, c. 1946

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the “sister haggadah” from barcelona, mid-14th century.

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A young couple protesting the Jewish man’s deportation from the United States back to Nazi Germany where he would likely be killed. He was deported to Belgium instead after significant pressure of advocacy groups.

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Regina Spektor performing “Eli, Eli” by Hannah Sensesh

Lord, may it never end,The sand and the sea,The water swishing,The lightning in the sky,The prayer of man. The voice called, and I went.I went, because the voice called.

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Berber Jews of Southern Morocco, religious school, Taznakht, 1954 - Source: Elias Harrus

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Barbra Streisand, 1970. Photograph by Cecil Beaton

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a variety of weird menorahs i found on ebay

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Photo of Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), Jewish painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Solomon’s paintings often explored scenes from the Tanakh or of domestic Jewish life. He was arrested and imprisoned in the 1870s for being gay which destroyed his career, however it also brought him to the attention of famed poet Oscar Wilde who collected his works and referenced him in his final work, De Profundis.

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1. A Decorated Ketubbah from Herat, Afghanistan, 1898

2. A Magnificent decorated Esther Scroll, from Bahgdad ca. 1850

3. An Important Ketubbah from Teheran, 1870

4. A Richly Decorated Marriage Contract from Bukhara, late 1800s

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Two girls at a labor parade in New York wearing banners that say ‘Abolish Child Slavery’ in English and Yiddish; 1909. x

Jewish women in the United States were very active in the labor-rights movement in the turn-of-the-century United States. They organized unions, participated in strikes, and fought for a variety of labor causes including ending child labor, better working conditions, and an 8-hour work day.

Read more about the influential role Jewish women played in the fight for labor rights in the United States here.

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Jewelry amulet made of gold and adorned with Hebrew script

Persia, 18th century

Gold, engraved, punched, and soldered; turquoise and ruby; filigree

Inscribed in Hebrew with “Abag Yatatz…” the ‘42-letter Name’ (a magical name in the tradition of Practical Kabbalah and also an abbreviation of the prayer by Rabbi Nehunia ben ha-Kanah: “By the great power of thy right hand, set the captive free. Revered God, accept thy people’s prayer; strengthen us, cleanse us. Almighty God… accept our prayer, hear our cry, thou who knowest secret thoughts”)