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A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights, By Julia Gergely July 8, 2024
"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879
...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault & trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef & come out as lesbian:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140
“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #CrownHeights #Jewish #Judaism #JewishFood
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From Harif, the Association of Jews from the MENA
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3LzH8FDD8
Many complain Israel is "losing the PR war". How can supporters of Israel and Zionism reframe the debate? Featuring journalist and author Lyn Julius.
See Lyn's other video with J-TV on the Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1COVgAM1bRY&t=0s#Mazeldon #Jeniverse #JFedi #JewishHistory #Oct7 #Antisemitism
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Yom Rishon - starting in a few minutes!
Register Free and Join Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuyvpz8tGtZRYhhLyYumMSesEfDn86jq#/registration
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From Ritual Well:
Threading Stones - An Elul Tradition
July 2 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm EDT
Recurring Event - Tuesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2024
Course fee is $250
Prepare yourself for Elul and the High Holy Days by learning an ancient tradition, rarely taught by those who have practice in this tradition.For generations, Jewish women in Eastern Europe utilized threads to measure cemeteries and graves. These threads were used to create special soul candles known as neshome likht, or sometimes as protective bands worn on wrists, ankles, or necks. Typically overseen by skilled women called feldmesterins, activities such as feldmestn (cemetery measuring) and kneytlekh leygn (laying wicks) were most prevalent during Elul to prepare soul candles for Yom Kippur.
See a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5h0E7OSYg
Register here: https://ritualwell.org/event/threading-stones-an-elul-tradition/2024-07-02/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #JewishHistory #Jewish #Judaism #Elul #Yiddish
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From Reboot:
The new album The Golem and Other Tales by Sam Reider is inspired by Isaac Bachevis-Singer’s 1969 novella The Golem, a morally ambiguous take on the ancient Jewish folktale that inspired the creation of Superman. A pianist, accordionist and composer, Reider is touring music from the new album in cities around the country with his all-star acoustic band the Human Hands.The tour features the renowned instrumentalist alongside his all-star acoustic band the Human Hands, featuring Billy Strings’ violinist Alex Hargreaves, Jon Batiste’s alto saxophonist Eddie Barbash, Duncan Wickel on violin, cello, and bouzouki, Molly Tuttle’s mandolinist Dominick Leslie, bassist Andrew Ryan, and guitarist Roy Williams. The music relies on folk, Americana, and jazz at its core.
Watch, listen, and order the vinyl version here: https://rebooting.com/golem/
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From Ritual Well:
We're delighted that poet Hila Ratzabi will bring forward the wisdom of another important Jewish woman: Etty Hillesum, whose life was cut too soon, too short. Her gentle writings, meaningful and thought-provoking, were translated to multiple languages, and are shared worldwide as a source of teaching, comfort and endurance.Read the Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/etty-hillesum-an-interrupted-life-and-letters-from-westerbork-etty-hillesum/630427I did a long commentary on this book and I recommend it highly. It is a blaring warning siren for our time.
Register for the event:
https://ritualwell.org/event/spiritual-resilience-in-a-time-of-war-inspired-by-etty-hillesum/2024-07-10/#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #WWII #Holocaust #JewishHistory #Jewish
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In Jerusalem, a unique hotel offers respite for women who have experienced stillbirth, By Deborah Danan June 25, 2024
"...The center is operated by Yad Sarah, Israel’s largest volunteer organization, and housed on the sixth floor of its Yirmiyahu 33 Rehabilitation and Wellness Hotel at the entrance to Jerusalem, the country’s only fully accessible hotel for people with disabilities. Nightly stays are heavily subsidized and couples pay 350 NIS ($93) per night, which they can then claim back from their health insurance for up to four nights. Since its opening last July, the center has hosted 470 couples, most of whom suffered stillbirths..."
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The Anti-Choice Movement: Bad News For Jews, by Susan Weidman Schneider June 12, 1990
Yes, 1990.
"...The interests of Jews are threatened now because...Jews in particular have a great deal to lose if the wall separating church and state develops any fractures.Jewish law on abortion posits that the life of the mother takes precedence over that of the unborn child. According to halacha...the fetus is potential life only, and its claims are secondary to those of the woman. Halacha regards a fetus as having no...life of its own; life does not begin until birth, and aborting a pregnancy...is not considered murder..."
https://lilith.org/articles/the-anti-choice-movement-bad-news-for-jews/
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Wisdom from the Original Jane Collective by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler February 22, 2023Read about these pioneering women working with the underground railroad for abortion services: https://lilith.org/2023/02/wisdom-from-the-original-jane-collective/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Abortion #WomensRights #JewishWomen #JewishHistory #ReligiousFreedom
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Jewish parents join lawsuit challenging Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in schools, By Jackie Hajdenberg June 25, 2024
"...Jewish families have played leading roles in religious liberty lawsuits challenging recent legislation by conservative state legislatures. Rabbis in a number of states have sued to block restrictions on abortion...arguing that they are based in Christianity and violate the separation of church and state...
In the lawsuit, the parents argued that they believe “that their children will be pressured to observe, venerate, and adopt the state’s preferred religious doctrine and to suppress expression of their own religious backgrounds and views at school.”
Cities and towns without Jewish dayschools or Jewish home-school co-ops are going to find it harder and harder to survive as people move away to places that have one. The Christian Nationalists intend to poach our kids.
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Jewish #Judaism ChristianNationalism
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From Ariele Mortkowitz at SVIVAH:
"...This week I went...to attend a hearing on conflict-related sexual violence & to watch a special screening of the 10/7 documentary, “Screams Before Silence.”
...It’s not enough to just be sad or angry. ...We owe it to all women, everywhere and anywhere women are used as a tool of war. We have to speak up for them. Because they are us. Women victimized in conflict are targeted because they are women. And women are still being victimized today, right now. In Gaza & in so many places around the globe. This isn’t about politics. This is about women standing up for women, for ourselves. To not permit the world to use and abuse women as a tool of war...
So I’m going to ask you to lean in. I will, too. But we have to do something. It’s hard to feel like there’s any way to be useful, but we just have to find something & do it. Some (very) small suggestions..."
Read the Newsletter here:
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102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is Vogue Germany’s latest cover model
By Philissa Cramer June 20, 2024"...About the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, and the spike in antisemitic incidents amid the Israel-Hamas War, Friedländer told the magazine, “I am appalled.”
Friedländer was born and raised in Berlin and hid there after the Nazis rose to power and began deporting and murdering Jews. She was apprehended in April 1944 and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she remained until its liberation a year later. Her entire family had been murdered..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #Holocaust #JewishHistory
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From JIMENA
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa presents:Forgotten Refugees Film - Full length version n Vimeo
"...Directed by Michael Grynszpan and produced by Avi Goldwasser, the Forgotten Refugees won the “Best Featured Documentary” award at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival and the “Best Documentary Film” award at the 2007 Marbella Film Festival.
“The Forgotten Refugees” is an excellent film that seeks not to indoctrinate but to educate. The interviews with many Mizrachi Jews make clear that the question of identity and allegiance is still a troubling one for many of them. The viewer sees the pain of people scorned by their longtime Muslim neighbors. Understandably, these Jews continue to feel a deep connection to their traditional Arabic food, music and language..."
See the movie:
https://vimeo.com/302897354Read the article:
https://www.jimena.org/resources/forgotten-refugees/#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Jewish #Judaism #Sephardi #Mizrahi #JewishHistory #MENA
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We must teach the history of antisemitism in all countries, not just European ones - opinion
There is a moral and academic imperative to teach the components of genocide; It would enable people to discern when to distinguish between actual genocide and misinformation.
By SARAH LEVIN JUNE 20, 2024"...We can no longer ignore or fail to teach our students the Nazi roots of the Muslim Brotherhood – the father organization of Hamas, the historical and violent criminalization of “Zionism” and “Zionists” in the Arab world, and the ongoing belligerent and systemic Holocaust denial by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Expanding Holocaust education to include Jews from North Africa and the Middle East can directly teach students that Jews are a diverse people, shattering some of the insidious stereotypes common among young people today..."
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-806936
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Sephardi #Mizrahi #JewishHistory #MENA #Antisemitism #Jewish #Judaism
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Hebrew Union College to admit and ordain rabbinical students in interfaith relationships, ending longstanding ban, By Philissa Cramer June 20, 2024
"...To replace the intermarriage ban, HUC is adopting a new requirement that students with children pledge to raise them “exclusively as Jews engaged with Jewish religious practice, education, and community.”
The commitment is in line with what Reform rabbis are asked to require of couples they wed and reflects the movement’s stance on determining who is a Jew: While historically Judaism was largely conferred through conversion or matrilineal descent, for four decades, Reform Judaism has considered any child of one Jewish parent to be Jewish as long as they are raised with a “positive and exclusive Jewish identity.”
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Jews are in a moment of broken illusions, but we’re stronger than we think, by Dr. Mijal Bitton June 19, 2024
"...The tension between the idyllic departure and the actual journey [in this week's parashat] mirrors our current experience. We live with nostalgia for eras in which everything was supposedly fine, ignoring the lived experiences of our ancestors. Many of us live with the pain that even today our reality is far from what we want. Almost daily since Oct. 7 I feel visceral pain from my broken illusions, illusions that the world had rid itself of much of its antisemitic hatred, illusions that the evils perpetrated against defenseless Jews were somehow a thing of the past. Today we live with the pain of being in the wilderness — knowing there is a promised land, but stuck wandering in the dense thickets of uncertainty..."
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This Pride, queer Jews are feeling the strain — and sometimes unsafe — over Israel, By Andrew Lapin June 18, 2024
“Individuals and Organizations have targeted our board members, including [with] threats of violence,” Cincinnati Pride said in an Instagram statement.
...Critics say this is creating an atmosphere of antisemitism or Israel-related “litmus tests” for queer Jews, caught between two marginalized identities whose communal politics are growing further apart.
“We’re now in a very, very serious moment when we need all hands on deck,” Ethan Felson, executive director of LGBTQ Jewish group A Wider Bridge, said earlier this month during a Pride-focused community briefing with the Jewish Federations of North America...
Felson said such groups “want to take Pride away from all of us.”
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Antisemitism #Oct7 #LGBTQ #JewishPride #Pride
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Major Jewish event returns to Ukraine, bringing hope amid ongoing war, By Larry Luxner June 18, 2024
"...The May 24-26 event in Uzhhorod, a city of 115,000 near where the borders of Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine meet, marked the first Limmud FSU event on Ukrainian soil since the war with Russia started in February 2022. Limmud FSU is a nonprofit, nondenominational cultural and educational organization designed to foster community and Jewish identity among Jews from the former Soviet Union. It holds events all over the world — including in North America, Europe, the Caucasus, Israel, and Australia.
“We hope that Limmud FSU gatherings truly serve as a light in these dark times,” said Limmud FSU’s founder, Chaim Chesler, during the opening event.
“It is incredibly special to us, and it’s a testament to the strength and spirit of our Ukrainian Jewish community,” co-founder Sandra Cahn added..."
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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87, By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 14, 2024
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If you're thinking there's no way that a war on the other side of the planet can profoundly affect the Jewish Community in a negative way, well, the history of Soviet Jews suggests otherwise...
40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation, By Penny Schwartz December 18, 2018
OBITUARY: David Shrayer-Petrov
January 28, 1936 – June 9, 2024https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/brookline-ma/david-shrayer-petrov-11853446
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #SovietJews #JewishHistory #JewishAuthors
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From Rabbi Sandra Lawson:
Today, the American Jewish community, and our Reconstructionist community in particular, is racially diverse. Many of us have Black family members, and many of us are Black. It is my hope that we bring the celebration of Juneteenth to our synagogues and havurot and participate in its celebrations within our communities. Please consider some of Reconstructing Judaism’s resources and publications on racial justice as you commemorate Juneteenth.Racial Justice Resources: https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/racial-justice/
Rabbi Sandra's message on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CSRGxb9jlY
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Judaism #Jewish #JewsOfColor #Juneteenth #RacialJustice
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CW: Sexual VIolence Against Women
‘We cannot look away,’ Kamala Harris says after White House screening of Sheryl Sandberg documentary on Oct. 7 sexual violence, By Ron Kampeas June 17, 2024
...“Being in captivity means having no control over your mind, body or soul,” she said. “You have absolutely no control over what happens to you. All your basic human rights are taken from you. Even your feelings are completely controlled by someone else.”
Soussana revealed after her release that one of her Hamas captors had assaulted her. “The sexual assault I experienced should never happen to any human being under any circumstances. No one should ever be sexually violated, and there are no justifying circumstances for these crimes,” she said..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Oct7 #Terrorism #VIolenceAgainstWomen #Jewish #Documentary
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Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look
By Luke Tress June 14, 2024"...The issue of abandonment was widespread in the immigrant world of early 1900s New York, common enough that well-known psychics...specialized in divining the whereabouts of missing men. Reasons for leaving families varied, but the most common appeared to be other women. Other reasons recorded by the bureau include criminality, “influence of bad friends,” “Broadway high life,” “to evade military service” and “did not like Baltimore.” Sometimes women left their husbands due to “cruelty” or “barbarity,” a euphemism for domestic violence...
A common denominator among all the cases: the hardship of arriving in a new country. Many immigrants lived in cramped tenement apartments with their families, working long hours, six days a week, and divorce was expensive..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishHistory #Agunah #JewishWomen #Agunot
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What Jewish life looks like for teens from Iceland to Beijing, where the Jewish communities are small and antisemitism is high, By Jacob Gurvis June 13, 2024
"...“People have to seek out to find a group of Jewish people,” Yang said, “Not like the U.S., where I think it’s easier to find Jewish people around you, so people think it’s normal to see someone who’s Jewish..."
It's funny in a way - teens from small towns in foreign lands must think all of the US is like NY or LA. Kids here in flyover country often feel like these kids from small Jewish communities in Europe or Asia - isolated and surrounded by actual or potential hostility.
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One of the most Jewish elections in the country is in Northern Virginia, By Ron Kampeas June 10, 2024
"...Filler-Corn invoked a Jewish idea, tikkun olam, or repairing the world, that has become commonplace among Jewish Democrats. “Tikkun olam is the guiding principle in my life, my family and my politics, and it’s a big part of why I’m running for Congress,” she said. “I believe our world and our nation and its democracy needs repair.”
Asked why they have been upfront with their Jewish identities while campaigning, both Helmer and Filler-Corn identified a factor darker than the pride they express in their heritage: personal experience with antisemitism..."
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Anti-Israel hostility is making deeply needed Pride events less safe for Jews like us, by Nate Looney & Ethan Felson, June 10, 2024
"...The Jewish community is already being overwhelmed by a tide of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Between the terrorist attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 and the end of 2023, ADL counted more than 5,000 antisemitic incidents. That is more than occurred throughout the entire previous year.
More than half of these (2,718) included references to Israel, Zionism or Palestine. In other words, Jews here were targeted and harmed for actions taken by leaders in another country. That’s not OK. It’s no wonder that LGBTQ+ Jews feel anxious coming to Pride this year. .."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #LGBTQ #Pride #Antisemitism #Oct7
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Poll: 42% of Jews have felt unsafe wearing Jewish symbols in public since Oct. 7, study finds, By Ben Sales - June 10, 2024
"...The survey also demonstrates American Jewish discomfort in social settings since Oct. 7. Many American Jews avoid talking or posting about the war. Some say they have ended friendships.
And in a finding that AJC highlighted, 7% say that they have considered leaving the country due to antisemitism. Among those who say they had more education about Israel, AJC reported, that number is higher. In a separate question, 6% of respondents said they had had thoughts of leaving because of antisemitism over the five years prior to Oct. 7..."
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Judaism #Jewish #Oct7 #Antisemitism
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Mourning and Meaning Making -
Someday our current sorrows will be memories, woven into the tapestry of our shared destiny, By Rabbi Shira Koch EpsteinThis article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge on May 18, 2024.
"...This year, that process is more fraught than most. It has been only six months since the massacres of October 7th, and we are still engulfed in a brutal war. How can we engage in acts of ritual remembering when we are living in between “they tried to kill us” and “we prevailed?”
Our processes of mourning and memory can provide some guideposts. ...We gather, share stories and support those in the depths of grief, collectively waiting for the time when we might begin to make meaning. This sharing is the beginning of a narrative process during which memories become stories, eventually burnished into legacy when they motivate our actions..."
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mourning-and-meaning-making/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Omer #Judaism #Jewish #Shavuot #Yahrzeit
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CW: Jewish denominations
The way I think of it (and try to explain it)is that there are people who identify as Palestinian Jews and Arab Jews; that they do exist. But Kanye West also exists and that doesn't make it any less ridiculous to talk about "Black Nazis" as though they are anything more than a barely-more-than-theoretical concept.
For the most part, you have Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, and a smattering of those who self-identify as a specific region: Kurdish Jews, Yemeni, Moroccan, Mexican, Ethiopian, Iraqi, etc, and that any one of those irregular self-descriptors contains more people than identify as Arab Jew or Palestinian Jew, and should be known and understood in the same sense as those: "Jews, like any human, contain multitudes".
#Jewniverse #Jediverse #Mazeldon #ArabJew #Mizrahi #JFedi #Jews #Jewish
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For those geeky friends who are into tech and bionics, you might be interested in the American Technion Society, who supports:
Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology
https://www.ats.orgTechnion is the premier science and tech university in Israel, and the only aerospace studies facility. They're working hard to develop ways to keep people safe and defend against terrorism, cyber-attacks, and learning to provide logistical planning for shelters and emergency supplies, and for defending strategic facilities.
Their Biomechanical Rehabilitation unit created personalized orthotic devices for victims of the Oct 7th massacre, including Neta Portal who was shot in her leg 7 times while escaping hamas.
Please help with their latest fundraising efforts.
https://secure.ats.org/page/67224/donate/1#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Israel #jewish #BringThemHome #Oct7
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Ask the Expert: Can I Sit Shiva For Anyone? Can I sit shiva for someone I'm not obligated to mourn for?
By Rabbi Avigayil Halpern
"...In my own experiences of losing loved ones, I have returned again and again to an article I was assigned to read in rabbinical school, a personal essay entitled “Let’s Bring Back Mourning Clothes.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lets-bring-back-mourning-clothes_b_2743861
The author describes a deep need for her grief to be legible without much explanation, writing that “I don’t want my grief to be private and unobtrusive; I want my grief to be understood without my having to constantly explain it. Everything now feels too loud and too bright.” Jewish mourning practices offer us a way to make our grief understood, and they are not restricted to the realm of obligatory mourning..."
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-can-i-sit-shiva-for-anyone/