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hope all is well. your blog is a bright spot in this world.
All is good!! I am MIA because of a rather intensive internship, but will hopefully get back to regular programming soon! The internship is going wonderfully. It's the mix of a learning experience, genuinely helpful things for a community, and pretty life-changing stuff.
thank you for checking in and hope all is well with you :)))
My local minyan takes intentions for brachas, and I submitted the request for my glasses to be found as a joke.
I now have three grandparents emailing me everyday, right after prayer , asking --"so did it work yet? Did you find them? We won't stop till they're found."
Update -- I found them! In the fridge .
My local minyan takes intentions for brachas, and I submitted the request for my glasses to be found as a joke.
I now have three grandparents emailing me everyday, right after prayer , asking --"so did it work yet? Did you find them? We won't stop till they're found."
I have been dealing with a lot of grief.
From a college friend who died in the middle of the semester to a high school peer at the end.
And-- what I've learned about it is that their memories truly are a blessing.
I'm honored that I get to remember my friend's idiosyncrasies. He was such a kind person who made mistakes, who was awkward at points but entirely sincere. What a privilege it is that I don't know him as a blank slate angel. That I can clearly remember his voice and the last conversation we had..
And that boy I knew who passed? He annoyed me so much in high school. And that's the G-d given right of any teenage boy. To be clunky and over the top. To make the overly serious girl upset that you're disrupting culinary class. I look back now and see how he was being funny and truly enjoying himself. And isn't that something to learn?
What an honor I got to know them,
May their memories be a blessing in whatever form.
A boy I graduated high school with died. This comes two months after a college friend did. I'm listless. I don't even know how to begin understanding this.
Apollo 17 vs Artemis II
Despite everything, it's still you.
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Also prev tags:
That's really cool actually
#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry
@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.
We just knew.
As a reminder, this is what she looks like:
Also I hope everyone knows that Miette was fostered before she was adopted, and her foster mom loved that little kitten so much and always hoped she’d gone to a good home. this tweet got so popular that she recognized Miette and reached out to her current mom, and was able to share previously unseen baby pictures
You mean, she saw Miette was kicked like the football and did nothing to help put Mother in jail for a thousand years? I am appalled.
her!!!
Baby Miette!!!
Babe wake up new Miette lore just dropped
IT’S MIETTE!!!!
I volunteer at an elementary school through a school club. For the end of year party, I was discussing the logistics with the organization's president when she broke the news that there'd be no pizza.
"Aw, shucks!" Was my response. "You couldn't order it from a school approved vendor? Even with our funds?
"Basically," she groaned. "The usual place isn't open that day and I wasn't going to order from the other one."
"What was the other one?" I asked.
"It's" she wrinkled her face and whispered. "A kosher pizzeria."
I waited for the follow up. It didn't come. I repeated her words. "because it's kosher ? "
"Yeah." She sighed. "I just can't endorse that. With global politics."
"You can't endorse a local restaurant so you're not getting pizza for 8 year olds?"
"Yeah. And I bet that their stuff isn't that good -"
"Actually," I interrupted. "That place is fantastic. I love their pizza."
I couldn't tell you her response because I walked away from that conversation. But I am still reeling. This is just the many ways antisemitism shows up and we are all lesser for it.
On a funny note, I ran into two of my rabbis and told them this story. They then got into an incredibly intense argument on if that kosher pizzeria was even that good.
One insisted it was the best and the other hated it, fighting for another spot.
I interrupted-- "guys, what about the antisemitism?"
They turned to me, consoling. "Listen, antisemitism is always going to be there. But at the same time, we can have standards."
And promptly got back to their debate.
"sir this is a wendy's" = "I have no idea why you're here for that but this is possibly the LEAST relevant place for you to be right now"
"ma'am this is a map store" = "this is an even more relevant place for you to be than you know yet"
I know this is a deeply American thing to say but I am begging everyone to stay the fuck away from military recruiters. Especially high school kids. You are going to be seeing an unholy amount of them in schools or around schools or literally anywhere kids are known to congregate. THIS INCLUDES ALL FORMS OF ROTC. Stay the fuck away from military recruiters. As someone who’s familiar with entirely too many branches through entirely too many friends and family, including my partner, recruiters are authorized to say literally any fucking thing they think will make you sign on that line. They cannot and will not deliver on those promises. They need bodies for the war they’re pretending is only now starting up again. That’s all you are. A body. Stay the FUCK away from the military.
Reiterating because this cannot be overstated:
RECRUITERS CAN AND WILL LIE TO GET YOU TO JOIN. THEY ARE ENCOURAGED TO SAY WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET MORE ENLISTMENTS.
Not only that, this country has a long and storied history of veterans having to fight tooth and nail to get the benefits they are owed by the American government. There’s a reason there are so many homeless veterans.
UK here. My friend's older sister told me that back in 2009, she sat through a careers fair where the visiting army propagandist said "Whatever career you want to do, you can do it in the army!", e.g, "we need entertainers and cooks, too!"
Never work for the military.
I volunteer at an elementary school through a school club. For the end of year party, I was discussing the logistics with the organization's president when she broke the news that there'd be no pizza.
"Aw, shucks!" Was my response. "You couldn't order it from a school approved vendor? Even with our funds?
"Basically," she groaned. "The usual place isn't open that day and I wasn't going to order from the other one."
"What was the other one?" I asked.
"It's" she wrinkled her face and whispered. "A kosher pizzeria."
I waited for the follow up. It didn't come. I repeated her words. "because it's kosher ? "
"Yeah." She sighed. "I just can't endorse that. With global politics."
"You can't endorse a local restaurant so you're not getting pizza for 8 year olds?"
"Yeah. And I bet that their stuff isn't that good -"
"Actually," I interrupted. "That place is fantastic. I love their pizza."
I couldn't tell you her response because I walked away from that conversation. But I am still reeling. This is just the many ways antisemitism shows up and we are all lesser for it.
Catherine Ostler’s new book explores the fate of the children in the painter’s famous work Pink and Blue, one of whom was murdered at Auschw
The 1881 portrait of two little girls rendered in pink and blue silk by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is, at face value, a society portrait of the daughters of French aristocracy. But the story behind the painting – and what became of the Jewish girls it depicts – is much darker.
Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d’Anvers, the subjects of the Impressionist painter’s famous portrait Pink and Blue and the younger daughters of a French banking dynasty, were immortalised as youthful members of the “haute Juiverie”: glamorous, upper-class Jews of Europe at the height of the Belle Époque. Their older sister Irène was also the subject of a famous Renoir painting several years earlier, depicted with a ribbon in her flowing red hair against a lush green backdrop.
Nothing in the portraits of the young sisters gives any indication that, 60 years later, Alice would be hiding from German bombers in a ditch in Normandy and Elisabeth, the blonde child with a blue sash in Pink and Blue, would be boarding a one-way train to Auschwitz.
The Renoir Girls traces the path of the three Cahen d’Anvers sisters from their shimmering days in Belle Époque Paris – yachting on the Côte d’Azur, trips to the opera, salons, summer retreats, and dancing the night away at opulent balls – to their little-known struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied France.
Ostler, former editor of Tatler magazine, first heard of the three Jewish sisters from Edmund de Waal’s memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which explores the once gilded lives of de Waal’s own Parisian Jewish banking family during the 19th and 20th centuries. His relative Charles Ephrussi, a Jewish art patron who had an affair with matriarch Louise Cahen d’Anvers - and who was rumoured to be the actual father of Alice – persuaded Louise to have her daughters painted by Renoir.
“Impressionism rises up after the Franco-Prussian War, and there's a whole new way of looking at art. There’s a lot of stuff to buy and a lot of stuff to commission and a market for it and the result is an incredibly creative period,” says Ostler, adding that Louise was an “extraordinary” art collector herself with “a hold over all the French writers and artists of the day.”
One line in de Waal’s book came as a punch to the stomach: Elisabeth was murdered at Auschwitz.
Despite the Cahen d’Anvers family’s abiding love for France, their generous artistic patronage and sacrifices during the First World War – the sons fought for France, the women were nurses, with Alice winning the Croix de guerre for bravery at the front – they were of course not spared the growing antisemitism of France that culminated in the Vichy regime. As their family friend Marcel Proust wrote at the time, the “social kaleidoscope was in the act of turning… the Dreyfus case was shortly to relegate the Jews to the lowest rung of the social ladder.”
Elisabeth, in what may have been a bid for self-preservation, converted to Catholicism in 1895 and remained a practising Catholic for the rest of her life. In 1944 at the age of 70, just months from the Allied liberation of Paris, she was betrayed by a local mayor and Vichy collaborator “who insisted on reminding everybody that she was actually Jewish, even though she converted to Catholicism before she was 20 and had been married twice, both times to Catholic men,” Ostler says.
France's attitude to its Jews in this the era is illustrated by the Nazis’ seizure of the Cahen d’Anvers’ Paris townhouse which they used as a place to hold and torture Jews awaiting deportation.
“Antisemitism is one of those things that I've always been aware of, but it is a shapeshifter,” said Ostler, who is not Jewish herself. “It's this monstrosity, and I partly feel there is an enormous amount of ignorance about it. It overlaps with so many conspiracy theories and the darkest urges of human nature.”
She hopes The Renoir Girls will be received by British Jews as a book of support, a reminder of the immense contributions Jews have made to their societies over the past centuries.
"The Jewish community is incredibly important to this country,” Ostler said. “It's written out of respect to their strengths and creativity and generosity and the whole beauty of the culture that Jewish community can create and encourage.”
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War and Betrayal by Catherine Ostler is published by Simon & Schuster. Ostler will be in conversation with James McAuley at Hatchards Bookshop in London on 14 April
the road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got
The end of the year is coming up, and university club elections are starting. It turns out that I crash enough events for the food that I qualify to vote for positions in
the Jewish club (where I run a dictatorship)
the Hindu association
Muslim Student association.
the Catholic Org.
The protestant group
The Sikh club
This was not my intention but I take my multi-religious civic duty seriously.
The other thing is that people from each club have been reaching out to ME to help with senior gifts (tokens for the people finishing their studies)
1) insane thing to take on for six clubs.
2) I'll probably do it.
3) does this imply that I'll get 6!??? Senior gifts when I graduate next year!?? What about chords for graduation!???
The end of the year is coming up, and university club elections are starting. It turns out that I crash enough events for the food that I qualify to vote for positions in
the Jewish club (where I run a dictatorship)
the Hindu association
Muslim Student association.
the Catholic Org.
The protestant group
The Sikh club
This was not my intention but I take my multi-religious civic duty seriously.
“I want drama” “I want tea” ok girl go look up the crazy drama between Michelangelo, the Pope, and the Medici family
