Judaism and Nice Things

This is a safe space for everyone - anything unpleasant should be marked with 'trigger warning' and then the subject matter.

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[istodayajewishholiday]

I don’t know if you’d consider this s religious purpose or not, but what time sunset will be for Friday?

That depends on where you live. For me, it’s around 8. Chabad has a tool which lets you search by location here: https://www.chabad.org/calendar/candlelighting_cdo/aid/6226/jewish/Shabbat-Candle-Lighting-Times.htm

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In case you didn’t know about Wrapunzel, they have terrific tutorials and great products! I stumbled on their tutorials when I was looking for ways to improve my tichel technique and have been a fan ever since!

This is a very simple tichel that even the most inexperienced wrapper can manage. Plus, it’s super easy to add a sash or secondary scarf, and/or some accessories to!

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I’ve found the lightest, most simple, and quickest way to tie a tichel; take a cotton handkerchief and tie it as you would your typical square scarf. 

Probably something a lot of ladies have been doing already, but it only just struck me today to do it because of the hot weather! 

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God says to Israel, “My children, whenever you give sustenance to the poor, I impute it to you as though you gave sustenance to Me.” Does God then eat and drink? No, but whenever you give food to the poor, God accounts it to you as if you gave food to God.

Midrash Tannaim on Numbers 28:2

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Troja loves the snow

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Jewish weddings around the world

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Ukrainian Jewish Girls, 1910s

[betterbemeta]

You have a thing at 2:00 PM so you set a reminder for 1:00 PM because you don’t want to be late, but you should eat by 12:00 PM. That means you should start preparing food by 11:30 AM, but you want to double check or confirm the appointment before 11:00 AM before everyone goes to lunch. So if you want to finish your other tasks by 10:00 AM, you ought to start at 8:00 AM, which means you’ve got to wake up at 7:30 AM and you may as well get ready to go out then ahead of time, and that’s how something that starts at 2:00 PM effectively starts at 7:30 AM and lasts the entire day.

[myworldinboxes]

ME. ME. ME.

[starlightomatic]

Where as I’m like “oh it’s 1:50 I should start getting ready for the thing… OH WAIT I’m six hours late so now I can’t go!!”

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Portraits of African Jews.

Photographs of Jewish life thriving in Africa. From Uganda to Ghana, and Botswana to Tunisia, Jewish life can be found to be thriving, in a stunning and beautiful way. 

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Yemenite Israelis in home for aged dancing to celebrate Lag B’Omer

(via LIFE – Israel 1960 by Paul Schutzer)

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Captain America knows what’s good.

[thehobbitranger]

STAY WOKE

[bottle-of-bucky]

This is the Captain America we need in 2017.

[gehayi]

Let’s hear Cap’s entire speech:

“Listen to me– all of you out there! You were told by this man– your hero– that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people– that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was – how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!

“Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals– its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing! And the only reason you’re not less then nothing– is that it’s still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!”

–Captain America, “What If (Captain America Were Not Revived Until Today)?” Volume 1 #44 (Peter Gillis, writer), April 1984 

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Wow. This was undoubtedly aimed at Ronald Reagan, but it’s like he was talking about Trump and Republicans. Note that he’s calling out the use of fear of “the other” and blind nationalism. 

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This is the Captain America the world actually needs right now

I wonder how it feels for Nick Spencer, who likes to think his writing is so very topical, that a comic from over twenty years ago has a more relevant and important take on Steve Rogers than anything he’s written about the character in his entire time working at Marvel

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Infinity War + Ao3 Tags (1/?)

[taken from infinity war fanfics]

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WHAT.

[spiroandthelacktones]

This is fucking vile it gives cops an excuse to act like everyone with a cell phone has a gun, this is going to lead to soooooo many more murders that cops get to walk away from and they fucking know that… and not only that but it’s going to make recording the police on a phone that much harder too… again, they aren’t stupid, they know these things, they also know that creating the idea that anyone’s cellphone could be a gun is a good way to stoke the paranoia that they use to sell people guns in the name of self defense, it’s a sickeningly calculated move