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shot by leonard nimoy in american photo magazine september/october 2002
The museum at my undergrad hosted a photography exhibit by Leonard Nimoy around 2002 or 2003 featuring photographs from his Shekhina series (which is the series the above pic comes from). It's a gorgeous and powerful series.
He was a very talented photographer. If you're curious about his photography, check out this page over at R. Michelson Galleries:
it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao
like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.
"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality
"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"
2020:
people during the black plague also didnt want to inoculate against it bc Jesus and chose to risk their lives and the lives of other bc of it. our problems are not any different from what they've ever been, we just have more access to see it openly and publically now (and thats also part of the problem, at least as far as this insanity is going political climate wise cos everyones got the brain rot, the performative look at me rot or the deranged 3am presidental crash out rot)
The first proto-vaccine was invented in 1796. There was no germ theory of disease until the mid-1800s, and ghe guy who came up with it was institutionalized. People legitimately did not know how disease spread. The leading theory for a while was "miasma," essentially dirty air, because people saw that disease spread quickly in densely-packed, poor areas and didn't know why. Plague doctors famously wore masks full of herbs to protect against miasma, which coincidentally worked by filtering out germs.
People did not not "want to inoculate against it because Jesus," they wanted to find any way they could to survive without an understanding of how disease spreads. You're just completely projecting a modern social dynamic onto something that happened nearly 700 years ago. (For reference, that's 200 years before even the Protestant reformation.) This is just a bizarrely uninformed take.
Ketubah from Isfahan, Persia. 1818.
Bride: Rivka, daughter of David Groom: Abba, son of Asher Witnesses: Yitzhak son of Yaakov, Yeshu’a son of Shmuel, and Rahamin Binyamin
A popular symbol of Persia, the motif of the lions in front of the rising sun featured on this ketubah reflects the national pride of the Jews of Isfahan, who believed they were the oldest Jewish community in the country.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I don’t want to talk about antisemitism. It is by far the least interesting thing about being Jewish. I would rather talk about literally anything else. But, I also don’t want to die. You see the predicament.
Hanukkah lamp, western Ukraine, 19th century
While I couldn't have everything ready before the holidays..
Kippot!!! They'll be ready for the shop soon!! A last peek of them 😊 At least I can re-bump them around Chanukah, but I'm really happy with them. The white ones have a golden yellow cotton inner lining, I thought white lining would be very hard to maintain.
really though, I'm very excited about judaism right now. my wife and I moved to the city we plan to settle in, so now we actually belong to a synagogue. I went to Rosh Hashana morning services for the first time, leaving a book in the car in case I couldn't take it, and I didn't think about the time at all. it was sort of bittersweet when it ended. I just felt so at peace in a way that I've never experienced before. I am actually EXCITED for Yom Kippur, which is just hilarious as a sentiment. there is so much to learn and so much to read and so much to do and I'm only sorry that I can't do it all at once!
I've been really limiting my time on Tumblr lately (which I regret to inform has had a massive positive impact on my mental health) but I may sneak back onto this blog for Jewish purposes... recently obsessed w the work of Rabbi Harold Kushner (z"l) and I'm actually formally beginning the conversion process? so I may be around sharing readings that resonated w me and et cetera
I think now would be a good time to stop pretending that the radical left and the radical right operate entirely separately.
every time I see the tetragrammaton in the wild (tattoos, on Pinterest for some reason, tumblr ads, etc) it’s such a jumpscare 💀😭
(bonus points for wacky spellings outside of the one most common in gentile circles, you know the one.)
Okay but in Hebrew or Latin alphabet, because I once saw a picture of someone's full on yud kay vav kay tattoo and was like!!!!?????
I regret to inform you that someone on r/Hebrew recently shared that they knew a Christian woman who tattooed the ineffable name, IN Hebrew, on the sole of her foot. She thought it was a nice reminder that God walks with her. 💀
Is that extra levels of blasphemy? Literally treading on the Name, or something like that?
Literally YES like hmmm how can I honor my god? Oh! I'll tattoo the holiest name on the dirtiest part of my body, so it's in constant contact with the ground!
every time I see the tetragrammaton in the wild (tattoos, on Pinterest for some reason, tumblr ads, etc) it’s such a jumpscare 💀😭
(bonus points for wacky spellings outside of the one most common in gentile circles, you know the one.)
Okay but in Hebrew or Latin alphabet, because I once saw a picture of someone's full on yud kay vav kay tattoo and was like!!!!?????
I regret to inform you that someone on r/Hebrew recently shared that they knew a Christian woman who tattooed the ineffable name, IN Hebrew, on the sole of her foot. She thought it was a nice reminder that God walks with her. 💀
This is going to sound so "oldie yells at cloud" of me but the radicalisation of the young into black and white, zero shades of grey thinking, both in the media they consume and in real life situations, is genuinely terrifying.
The world is complex. The world is grey. There is infinite nuance in everything. No amount of trying to shove it all into neatly labeled boxes is ever going to work.
My eyes just rolled so far back in my head I saw my brain. Way to miss the entire fucking point 🙄
my wife was annoyed this morning because she saw a post in which someone wrote Israel in quotation marks... leading me to realize that she's never seen that before? and has never seen "isntreal"? I have been moving away from spending time online lately and this was VERY eye opening lol
“i wish i could go out braless but-“ “i wish i didn’t have to shave but-“ “i wish i didn’t have to wear makeup but-“ STAND UPPPP FUCKING STAND UP JUST DO WHAT YOU WANT. NOBODY IS GOING TO SHOOT YOU OR ARREST YOU FOR BEING A LITTLE “UGLY” UOU WILL LIVE AND REALIZE THAT YOUVE BEEN IN A prison largely of your own making THIS WHOLE TIME
Uh, actually, um, they might get shot or arrested, actually. Especially if they're not white. Especially if they get mistaken for trans women.
what the fuck are you talking about
I mean that woman who don't perform feminity correctly are likely to get shot and arrested, at least here in America. Maybe the same can't be said for other countries. However, I have since retracted this statement, realizing that making people live in fear is exactly what the shitty, current government wants.
I'm sorry, "likely?"
Women are so unlikely to be shot by police that a lot of the available data on police shootings doesn't allow you to filter by gender. I was able to find this WP database, which is both interactive on the website and allows you to download the data (nerd swoon).
Women comprised less than 5% of victims of fatal police shootings over the past decade. Of the 4% of women killed by police from 2015-2024, 8% (42 individuals) were unarmed.
The rate of men killed by police is 52 per 100k (slightly lower than unintentional injuries at 64:100k), versus 3 per 100k for women (one quarter the rate of fatal car accidents at 13:100k).
Between 2017 and 2021, 5 trans people were killed by police. Not 5 per 100k, 5 total.
Too many Americans are killed by police, period. But that in no way means that anyone is likely to be killed by police. Even for black men, the rate is 96:100k -- again, unacceptable and horrifyingly disproportionate, but still just under a 0.1% chance.
I don't mean to downplay police violence at all, but the fact is that most people actually overestimate the frequency by orders of magnitude.
By no stretch of the imagination are women likely to be shot for eschewing traditional femininity. Even if it increases their odds by ten times (this is hypothetical! I don't have data on this), your risk would still go from 0.003% to 0.03%.
this one is so dumb I had to screencap it I’m sorry
Leftists in hell: there must be some mistake, i clearly don't belong here!
satan: you literally simped for a terrorist organization
Leftists in this life: *literally the most cultural Christian exvangelical shit you can imagine*
i guess i gotta go back to being good about putting my phone on shabbat mode so I stop doomscrolling lmfao. sorry for being absent from this blog in between crises. the push and pull of wanting to protect my mental health vs wanting to commune w jews and correct misinformation that gets people killed.
