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pro-peace   kvetch

[victusinveritas]

"Springtime for Hitler" and the Producers as a whole did more damage to Neonazis than most antifascist actions of the 70s put together. (I have zero data to support this.)

[dikleyt]

new yiddish curse just dropped

זאָל דזשיי די ווענס שטיצן דײַן צוועק.

zol dzhey di vens shtitsn dayn tsvek.

May JD Vance support your cause.

[kuttithevangu]

In honor of Rudy Giuliani being run over by a truck let’s remember his biblical exegesis

[kibitzing]

what about the child who is tired and doesn't want to be yelled at about israel

[eameschairs]

—rabbi tarfon

[jellybeanium124]

there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

[draconym]

お握り

[titimylove]

lol some weird onigiri

[draconym]

[despazito]

Everybody shut up and look at the Cincinnati zoo Hanukkah otter

[70sscifiart]

Happy Hanukkah from Jack Kirby!

[kuttithevangu]

I didn’t know the Jewish high priest was covered in bells. The kohen jingled miserably across the floor

[avantegarda]

emergency poll because i'm thinking about fiddler on the roof again

which of the three male love interests do you want to get with the most

who is your boyfriend

motel (the adorkable boy next door)

perchik (the woke king)

fyedka (the Not Like Other Russians tm)

Voting ended onDec 19, 2025

[pureanonofficial]

More people need to know about the movie-original cut love song they wrote for Perchik—it's PEAK socialist romance, far superior to his stage song, and every day I mourn that it was cut. More people need to know about it.

[avantegarda]

emergency poll because i'm thinking about fiddler on the roof again

which of the three male love interests do you want to get with the most

who is your boyfriend

motel (the adorkable boy next door)

perchik (the woke king)

fyedka (the Not Like Other Russians tm)

Voting ended onDec 19, 2025

[amarguerite]

@pilferingapples what is it like to be so right all the time

[theprofessorofdesire]

Creatures from the Kennicott Bible, an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in A Coruña, Spain in 1476 by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah and illuminated by Joseph ibn Hayyim 🔮🦇👼🏼🐉🐻🐊🐒🦚🪞

It is regarded as one of the most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew and one of the most lavishly illuminated Sephardic manuscript of the 15th century. According to the historian Cecil Roth, one of the most outstanding aspects of this copy is the close collaboration it shows between the calligrapher and the illuminator, rare in this type of work.

In 1476, Isaac, a Jewish silversmith from Coruña, son of Salomón de Braga, commissioned an illuminated Bible from the scribe Moses ibn Zabarah who lived in Coruña with his family on behalf of his patron. He spent ten months to scribe the Bible, writing two folios on a daily basis. Illumination of the manuscript was the responsibility of Joseph ibn Hayyim, who is remembered thanks to this work.

The first documentation of the Jewish presence dates to 1375. Jewish population in A Coruña grew rapidly throughout the Late Middle Ages. It is thought that after the persecution of Jews in Castile, a large number of Jewish people took refuge in Galicia. The Jewish community in Coruña traded with Castile and Aragon, and in 1451 they contributed to the rescue of the Murcian Jews with a large sum of money, which could demonstrate the prosperity of the community.

[upennmanuscripts]

See the whole thing on the Internet Archive! (With plenty of info and a link to the record at the Bodleian Library, where the Kennicott Bible lives now. You can also download a PDF)

[marithlizard]

This is the best thing I've seen all week and I had to share. (source) Explanation in the alt text:

Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

[bobemajses]

Papercut inscribed with the Ushpizin blessings for Sukkot, attributed to Zev Leib Hazanof from Kelmė, Lithuania, mid-19th century

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

Yom Kippur meme. Photo and text by my dad, putting them together by me.

[slyandthefamilybook]

So this guy, Moshe, is pretty down on his luck. He starts praying every night, "Hashem please! Let me win the lottery!" He prays for three nights, "Hashem, I need to win the lottery!" And on the third night he hears a voice from heaven say, "Moishele. My love. Meet me halfway. Buy a ticket."