"Everyone knew Beyle…

People felt weird around her, as though they were neither male nor female…

She was recommended to see a noted professor and under his supervision, Beyle became a man…

And they were no longer Beyle, but Berl"

Trans people have always been here, even in the shtetl

No matter how you spell the bread of affliction, Passover is coming!

Matzoh is the unleavened bread that Jews eat during Passover. We eat matzoh and matza and matzo and matzah to remind us that our ancestors who were slaves in Egypt were freed and had no time for the bread to rise when they left. This funny Jewish Passover design makes a perfect gift!

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Two questions about #Talmud:

1. As this was an oral tradition, there must have been a tradition of leyning the text? Do we know anything abut this? Are there any versions with the leyning marks recorded?

2. Augh, the first question was so exciting I forgot the second one! My substitute question is Does anyone happen to know the paper from the early to mid 90s that compares hypertext to talmud layout?

Share your favourite thought / fact / idea about talmud.

Happy Purrrrim!

Jewish Genre Reading Challenge 2025

“The Jewish Genre Challenge is a reading journey through the incredible diversity of Jewish existence, from the sexy feminist heroine of The Roommate to the hardboiled detective of Redemption Street, from the space warriors of the Metzada Mercenary Corps to the badass queer Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire. Find Jewish characters living in the genres you already read and love, or use the challenge as a chance to broaden your reading horizons.” #Bookstodon #Mazeldon

https://www.readjewishly.com/

Sharing this despite the involvement of known grifters and wreckers ANSWER and PSL because fuck it, ignore and overwhelm them, steal their moment for once this is watershed shit, all hands on deck

#FreePalestine #FuckColumbia #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Fascism #FightFascism #antifa #mazeldon #jewdiverse #FreeMahmoudKhalil #MahmoudKhalil #NYC #USpol #antifascism #BecomeUngovernable

via: @raph

Well isn’t this fucking perfect:

“State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews”

https://forward.com/news/702427/mccarran-walter-act-state-department-plan-deport-pro-hamas-students/

#jewdiverse #mazeldon #antisemitism

#AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism but McCarthyism sure as fuck was and maybe just maybe Jews shouldn’t be in the business of promoting and/or applauding the revival of its methods for use against Palestinians and their allies?

Thanks to @MiriamAnzovin, I learned about how Ashmodai is a throwing sheyd ("sheyd" meaning demon and he yeets King Solomon 400 miles).

Thanks for the D'var in the Bar!

#Jewish #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjX1vvlFDSs

From the ACLU: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is composed of unvetted outsiders who have forced their way into the government’s most protected systems without care or consideration for the safeguards created by Congress to keep our data safe.

The Trump Administration is giving DOGE unrestricted access to Americans’ personal data, including our finances, health records, and social security data. This leaves every one of us vulnerable to data breaches, mass surveillance, politically motivated attacks, and worse.

Tell your representatives to do their job and hold the Trump administration accountable when they violate our civil rights and civil liberties.

Sign: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/keep-doge-out-our-data

Question for anyone who is fluent in the #Cherokee (aka #TsaLaGi) language:

I'm looking for the words for Jew, Jewish, and Judaism. I've struck out with all of the standard dictionaries and lexicons, so instead I turned to the Cherokee New Testament (translated more than 100 years ago, so it has many words that aren't listed in dictionaries, and looked at some of the verses that use the word "Jew," in the hopes of figuring out which word is the right word.

I think I may have found it, but would appreciate if any Cherokee fluent folks could confirm this for me.

So anyway I think the word in Cherokee syllabary is: "ᎠᏧᏏ" but in phoenetics, it would be: "A-tsu-si"

Be Happy! It's Adar!

Also, that means Purim is two weeks away!

This is not a drill! Figure out your costumes now!

Ich freue mich sehr über einen weiteren Artikel über „Letters to Fred“ –#NeverAgainIsNow!

„Im Zentrum des Auftragswerks steht Fred Herzberg, der 1939 durch einen Kindertransport nach England gerettet wurde, während seine Eltern und seine Schwester in Auschwitz ermordet wurden.“

Vielen Dank, Sven Koch und Lippische Landes-Zeitung!

https://www.lz.de/lippe/detmold/24050956_Darmstaedter-Theater-vertont-Letters-to-Fred-und-erinnert-an-Detmolder-Familie-Herzberg.html

For the past 3 years, the Jews of Ukraine have endured endless attacks. They spend cold days and long nights in bomb shelters, they face extreme financial hardship, they are separated from loved ones, and they are afraid and anxious. Thousands of people lack sufficient food, warm clothing, and medical care. Parents are forced to choose between heat for their home and medicine for their children. The Jews in Ukraine need help today, in order to survive.

Donate: https://jewishreliefnetworkofukraine-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1350571

Please make a one-time gift for emergency assistance — to provide food, medicine, heating fuel, and blankets. Your donation will mean the difference between life and death."

Living in the Jewish diaspora*

* south of Eglinton

LETTERS TO FRED

„Zwei Liedprogramme an einem Tag spannten einen Bogen von Lebenslust, Poesie und gerechtem Zorn am Vormittag zu trauerndem Andenken am Abend. Zwei Freundinnen erlebten dies gemeinsam, Megan Marie Hart auf den Bühnen, Joanne Herzberg im Publikum.“

Vielen Dank, lieber Detlef Obens & @opernmagazin!

https://opernmagazin.de/letters-to-fred-urauffuehrung-des-liederzyklus-von-bracha-bdil/

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LETTERS TO FRED: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Song Cycle by Bracha Bdil

The terrible brutality of the Holocaust is so incomprehensible in its extent that it can only be understood on the basis of individual fates. This song cycle quotes from letters to the only survivor of the #Herzberg family from #Detmold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04

I'm enjoying teaching the #Holocaust course at UMass (it was kind of them to invite me again to fill in for a colleague who is away).

I assigned the text they normally use, which is accessible and popular. But it has its quirks.

Weirdest metaphor for #antisemitism ever?

@histodons @worldwarshistory #mazeldon

Do I know any Jews in the Boston area that do Kiddush Levana (the sanctification of the new moon)?

I've been thinking about the verse:

« Just as I leap toward you and cannot touch you,
so may my enemies be unable to touch me for harm. »

Thanks to the buyer of our Am Yisrael Chai hoodie

This is the rallying cry to fight antisemitism as it means in Hebrew that The Nation of Israel Lives

also available in pink lettering