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https://www.europesays.com/iran/298617/ Why Israel is losing its friends #antisemitism #ColdWar #Europe #ForeignPolicy #Israel #Judaism #MiddleEast #MikeHuckabee #palestinians #UnitedKingdom

Associated Press: New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums. “Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the […]

Associated Press: New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums. “Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the […]

Associated Press: New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums. “Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the […]

Associated Press: New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums. “Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the […]

Associated Press: New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums. “Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the […]

Yom Kippur 2026: How Israel went from tearing itself apart on October 7 to now

It is a Yom Kippur that will long be etched in Israel’s collective memory. No, not October 1973,…
#Israel #News #2026Israelielections #gendersegregation #israelis #Judaism #Politics #protests #Religión #telaviv #TheOctober7Massacre #YomKippur
https://www.europesays.com/3259554/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/297734/ Yom Kippur 2026: How Israel went from tearing itself apart on October 7 to now #2026IsraeliElections #GenderSegregation #Israel #Israelis #Judaism #Politics #protests #Religion #TheOctober7Massacre #YomKippur

Come join the #SpinozaHavurah for a time of study and discussion on Yom Kippur facilitated by James M. Branum. We will be looking together at the Unetanneh Tokef, an evocative and troubling text of the traditional liturgy, which sparked the famous song "Who by fire" by Leonard Cohen.

The session will happen at 1:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm UK.on Monday, September 21st.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XaHJk5x5Qe2cjxCGgSS5KQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #UnetannehTokef #Liturgy #HumanisticJudaism #JewishLiturgy #Jewish

Come join the #SpinozaHavurah for a time of study and discussion on Yom Kippur facilitated by James M. Branum. We will be looking together at the Unetanneh Tokef, an evocative and troubling text of the traditional liturgy, which sparked the famous song "Who by fire" by Leonard Cohen.

The session will happen at 1:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm UK.on Monday, September 21st.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XaHJk5x5Qe2cjxCGgSS5KQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #UnetannehTokef #Liturgy #HumanisticJudaism #JewishLiturgy #Jewish

Come join the #SpinozaHavurah for a time of study and discussion on Yom Kippur facilitated by James M. Branum. We will be looking together at the Unetanneh Tokef, an evocative and troubling text of the traditional liturgy, which sparked the famous song "Who by fire" by Leonard Cohen.

The session will happen at 1:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm UK.on Monday, September 21st.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XaHJk5x5Qe2cjxCGgSS5KQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #UnetannehTokef #Liturgy #HumanisticJudaism #JewishLiturgy #Jewish

Come join the #SpinozaHavurah for a time of study and discussion on Yom Kippur facilitated by James M. Branum. We will be looking together at the Unetanneh Tokef, an evocative and troubling text of the traditional liturgy, which sparked the famous song "Who by fire" by Leonard Cohen.

The session will happen at 1:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm UK.on Monday, September 21st.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XaHJk5x5Qe2cjxCGgSS5KQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #UnetannehTokef #Liturgy #HumanisticJudaism #JewishLiturgy #Jewish

Come join the #SpinozaHavurah for a time of study and discussion on Yom Kippur facilitated by James M. Branum. We will be looking together at the Unetanneh Tokef, an evocative and troubling text of the traditional liturgy, which sparked the famous song "Who by fire" by Leonard Cohen.

The session will happen at 1:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm UK.on Monday, September 21st.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XaHJk5x5Qe2cjxCGgSS5KQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #UnetannehTokef #Liturgy #HumanisticJudaism #JewishLiturgy #Jewish

Whale watching in the Philippines brings to mind Jonah’s ‘leviathan’

A crucial part of the Book of Jonah, which we read during the afternoon service on Yom Kippur,…
#Israel #News #Bible #jerusalem #Judaism #Phillipines #travel #whale #YomKippur
https://www.europesays.com/3258296/

Tracing the Priestly Blessing

For the start of the academic year, I got to teach a two-hour introduction class to try and persuade freshmen in Leiden’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme (where I just started a permanent position 🥳) to pick the Hebrew and Aramaic track. I thought the topic would make for a nice blog post too, especially now during the High Holy Days, which in Ashkenazi practice are the main occasion for performing:

The Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim)

Check out this beautiful clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlUJ3yPdQI

The text that the Kohanim—patrilineal descendants of the ancient Jewish priests—recite here is from Numbers 6:24-26. Obviously, it’s very old. But how old exactly?

As it turns out, we find traces of this text from the very beginning of the Hebrew epigraphic record. Join me on a condensed journey that will, incidentally, give you a great overview of the kind of subjects we study in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme, which you and your college-aged friends and relatives should all enroll in.

First stop: Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, ca. 800 BCE

Kuntillet ‘Ajrud is an early first-millennium BCE site in the Sinai Desert, located near a major trade route from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean coast. I’ve written about it before.

Together with the Samaria Ostraca from the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, Kuntillet ‘Ajrud furnishes us with the earliest attestations of what is unmistakably Hebrew. Some of these are famous for the mention of “YHWH of” different places and “his Asherah”. But for our purposes, let’s focus on a few other phrases that occur in inscription 3.6, apparently an exercise in opening formulae for a polite letter:

The big thing to note here is the combination of the verbs b-r-k ‘to bless’ and š-m-r ‘to keep’. Both are very frequent in Biblical Hebrew, but it is only in the Priestly Blessing that we find them combined in this way. The mention of šlm ‘wellbeing’ at the very end of the blessing formula in this inscription and in the Priestly Blessing further supports that we are dealing with similar traditions here. But this differs enough from the text in Numbers to unambiguously take it as a quotation or reference. We get something a lot closer to the canonical text if we fast-forward two centuries to:

The Ketef Hinnom amulets, ca. 600 BCE

Two tiny (27×97 mm and 11×39 mm) silver amulets from what is now part of Jerusalem contain what is often called the earliest attestation of a Biblical text, together with some other, clearly non-Biblical texts.

Here’s the relevant part from the smaller Amulet 2:

Details aside, this is practically identical to the text in Numbers, with one big difference. The text on the amulet skips from the first half of v. 25 to the second half of v. 26. On Amulet 1, we have the text up to the first half of v. 25 as well, but the amulet breaks off at that point, so we can’t tell how it continues.

Which version of the text is older? The part of Numbers that is missing from Amulet 2 is a bit repetitive, so we could imagine it was added secondarily. On the other hand, it would be easy for a scribe or reciter to skip from v. 25a to the end of v. 26a, both of which end with “his face towards you”.

So this could be a quote of the text as we find it Numbers, with a scribal error, or an older version of the text, or maybe there were variant versions circulating at the same time. No hard evidence for the existence of the full Priestly Blessing at this point. Maybe we will find some if we turn to the era of what are uncontroversially the oldest preserved Biblical Texts:

The Dead Sea Scrolls, first centuries (B)CE

From the caves near Qumran (on the Dead Sea), we have Biblical manuscripts from the latter part of the Second Temple Period. Unfortunately, many of them look like this:

Especially in the case of less popular books like Numbers, whether a certain passage is attested at Qumran or not comes down to luck. In the case of the Priestly Blessing, we are out of luck. No Qumran text of that exact passage has come down to us.

But the Qumran caves have also yielded other, non-Biblical texts. Some of these, like Jubilees or Enoch, circulated more widely in Roman Judea. Others seem particularly relevant to the religious community that inhabited the site of Qumran itself and were probably composed locally. One of the most interesting of these sectarian texts is the Community Rule, which details, well, the community’s rules. And look what we find there:

This is clearly riffing on the text as we have it in Numbers. We have almost all the same verbs—b-r-k ‘to bless’, š-m-r ‘to keep’, ʾ-w-r ‘to shine’, ḥ–n-n ‘to favour’, and n-ś–ʾ ‘to lift’—we have the ‘face’, and we have the ‘wellbeing’. But this version of the blessing makes everything more explicit. It spells out how God is supposed to bless you, from what he is supposed to keep you, what the mysterious shining entails, and so forth. This kind of explanatory, exegetical response to Biblical texts that had now taken center stage in Jewish religion is typical of many texts we find at Qumran and of a lot of Jewish literary activity around the same time in general. Notably, whoever wrote this did feel the liberty to diverge from the text, something we also see a lot in other Dead Sea Scrolls. While our Biblical texts almost certainly existed by this time (even where they are not attested), the exact wording was not yet set in stone.

In conclusion

For the sake of completeness, here is what our passage looks like in the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE), the most commonly studied manuscript of the Masoretic Text:

Vowels, accents, Masoretic notes: it’s all there, ready for recitation.

So, how old is this text? In one sense, about one thousand years; in another, maybe three thousand. Like the Hebrew Bible as a whole, it’s a text with a history. And that interplay between text and history is exactly what we’re interested in, here in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme. Enroll today.

If you’re interested, here are my other High Holy Days posts to date:

• Some shofar etymologies
• Kol Nidrei

And to end with a very much epigraphically unattested wish: 𐤁𐤎𐤐𐤓𐤟𐤇𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤕𐤇𐤕𐤌𐤅, may you all be sealed in the Book of Life.

Tracing the Priestly Blessing

For the start of the academic year, I got to teach a two-hour introduction class to try and persuade freshmen in Leiden’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme (where I just started a permanent position 🥳) to pick the Hebrew and Aramaic track. I thought the topic would make for a nice blog post too, especially now during the High Holy Days, which in Ashkenazi practice are the main occasion for performing:

The Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim)

Check out this beautiful clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlUJ3yPdQI

The text that the Kohanim—patrilineal descendants of the ancient Jewish priests—recite here is from Numbers 6:24-26. Obviously, it’s very old. But how old exactly?

As it turns out, we find traces of this text from the very beginning of the Hebrew epigraphic record. Join me on a condensed journey that will, incidentally, give you a great overview of the kind of subjects we study in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme, which you and your college-aged friends and relatives should all enroll in.

First stop: Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, ca. 800 BCE

Kuntillet ‘Ajrud is an early first-millennium BCE site in the Sinai Desert, located near a major trade route from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean coast. I’ve written about it before.

Together with the Samaria Ostraca from the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, Kuntillet ‘Ajrud furnishes us with the earliest attestations of what is unmistakably Hebrew. Some of these are famous for the mention of “YHWH of” different places and “his Asherah”. But for our purposes, let’s focus on a few other phrases that occur in inscription 3.6, apparently an exercise in opening formulae for a polite letter:

The big thing to note here is the combination of the verbs b-r-k ‘to bless’ and š-m-r ‘to keep’. Both are very frequent in Biblical Hebrew, but it is only in the Priestly Blessing that we find them combined in this way. The mention of šlm ‘wellbeing’ at the very end of the blessing formula in this inscription and in the Priestly Blessing further supports that we are dealing with similar traditions here. But this differs enough from the text in Numbers to unambiguously take it as a quotation or reference. We get something a lot closer to the canonical text if we fast-forward two centuries to:

The Ketef Hinnom amulets, ca. 600 BCE

Two tiny (27×97 mm and 11×39 mm) silver amulets from what is now part of Jerusalem contain what is often called the earliest attestation of a Biblical text, together with some other, clearly non-Biblical texts.

Here’s the relevant part from the smaller Amulet 2:

Details aside, this is practically identical to the text in Numbers, with one big difference. The text on the amulet skips from the first half of v. 25 to the second half of v. 26. On Amulet 1, we have the text up to the first half of v. 25 as well, but the amulet breaks off at that point, so we can’t tell how it continues.

Which version of the text is older? The part of Numbers that is missing from Amulet 2 is a bit repetitive, so we could imagine it was added secondarily. On the other hand, it would be easy for a scribe or reciter to skip from v. 25a to the end of v. 26a, both of which end with “his face towards you”.

So this could be a quote of the text as we find it Numbers, with a scribal error, or an older version of the text, or maybe there were variant versions circulating at the same time. No hard evidence for the existence of the full Priestly Blessing at this point. Maybe we will find some if we turn to the era of what are uncontroversially the oldest preserved Biblical Texts:

The Dead Sea Scrolls, first centuries (B)CE

From the caves near Qumran (on the Dead Sea), we have Biblical manuscripts from the latter part of the Second Temple Period. Unfortunately, many of them look like this:

Especially in the case of less popular books like Numbers, whether a certain passage is attested at Qumran or not comes down to luck. In the case of the Priestly Blessing, we are out of luck. No Qumran text of that exact passage has come down to us.

But the Qumran caves have also yielded other, non-Biblical texts. Some of these, like Jubilees or Enoch, circulated more widely in Roman Judea. Others seem particularly relevant to the religious community that inhabited the site of Qumran itself and were probably composed locally. One of the most interesting of these sectarian texts is the Community Rule, which details, well, the community’s rules. And look what we find there:

This is clearly riffing on the text as we have it in Numbers. We have almost all the same verbs—b-r-k ‘to bless’, š-m-r ‘to keep’, ʾ-w-r ‘to shine’, ḥ–n-n ‘to favour’, and n-ś–ʾ ‘to lift’—we have the ‘face’, and we have the ‘wellbeing’. But this version of the blessing makes everything more explicit. It spells out how God is supposed to bless you, from what he is supposed to keep you, what the mysterious shining entails, and so forth. This kind of explanatory, exegetical response to Biblical texts that had now taken center stage in Jewish religion is typical of many texts we find at Qumran and of a lot of Jewish literary activity around the same time in general. Notably, whoever wrote this did feel the liberty to diverge from the text, something we also see a lot in other Dead Sea Scrolls. While our Biblical texts almost certainly existed by this time (even where they are not attested), the exact wording was not yet set in stone.

In conclusion

For the sake of completeness, here is what our passage looks like in the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE), the most commonly studied manuscript of the Masoretic Text:

Vowels, accents, Masoretic notes: it’s all there, ready for recitation.

So, how old is this text? In one sense, about one thousand years; in another, maybe three thousand. Like the Hebrew Bible as a whole, it’s a text with a history. And that interplay between text and history is exactly what we’re interested in, here in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme. Enroll today.

If you’re interested, here are my other High Holy Days posts to date:

• Some shofar etymologies
• Kol Nidrei

And to end with a very much epigraphically unattested wish: 𐤁𐤎𐤐𐤓𐤟𐤇𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤕𐤇𐤕𐤌𐤅, may you all be sealed in the Book of Life.

Tracing the Priestly Blessing

For the start of the academic year, I got to teach a two-hour introduction class to try and persuade freshmen in Leiden’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme (where I just started a permanent position 🥳) to pick the Hebrew and Aramaic track. I thought the topic would make for a nice blog post too, especially now during the High Holy Days, which in Ashkenazi practice are the main occasion for performing:

The Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim)

Check out this beautiful clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlUJ3yPdQI

The text that the Kohanim—patrilineal descendants of the ancient Jewish priests—recite here is from Numbers 6:24-26. Obviously, it’s very old. But how old exactly?

As it turns out, we find traces of this text from the very beginning of the Hebrew epigraphic record. Join me on a condensed journey that will, incidentally, give you a great overview of the kind of subjects we study in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme, which you and your college-aged friends and relatives should all enroll in.

First stop: Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, ca. 800 BCE

Kuntillet ‘Ajrud is an early first-millennium BCE site in the Sinai Desert, located near a major trade route from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean coast. I’ve written about it before.

Together with the Samaria Ostraca from the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, Kuntillet ‘Ajrud furnishes us with the earliest attestations of what is unmistakably Hebrew. Some of these are famous for the mention of “YHWH of” different places and “his Asherah”. But for our purposes, let’s focus on a few other phrases that occur in inscription 3.6, apparently an exercise in opening formulae for a polite letter:

The big thing to note here is the combination of the verbs b-r-k ‘to bless’ and š-m-r ‘to keep’. Both are very frequent in Biblical Hebrew, but it is only in the Priestly Blessing that we find them combined in this way. The mention of šlm ‘wellbeing’ at the very end of the blessing formula in this inscription and in the Priestly Blessing further supports that we are dealing with similar traditions here. But this differs enough from the text in Numbers to unambiguously take it as a quotation or reference. We get something a lot closer to the canonical text if we fast-forward two centuries to:

The Ketef Hinnom amulets, ca. 600 BCE

Two tiny (27×97 mm and 11×39 mm) silver amulets from what is now part of Jerusalem contain what is often called the earliest attestation of a Biblical text, together with some other, clearly non-Biblical texts.

Here’s the relevant part from the smaller Amulet 2:

Details aside, this is practically identical to the text in Numbers, with one big difference. The text on the amulet skips from the first half of v. 25 to the second half of v. 26. On Amulet 1, we have the text up to the first half of v. 25 as well, but the amulet breaks off at that point, so we can’t tell how it continues.

Which version of the text is older? The part of Numbers that is missing from Amulet 2 is a bit repetitive, so we could imagine it was added secondarily. On the other hand, it would be easy for a scribe or reciter to skip from v. 25a to the end of v. 26a, both of which end with “his face towards you”.

So this could be a quote of the text as we find it Numbers, with a scribal error, or an older version of the text, or maybe there were variant versions circulating at the same time. No hard evidence for the existence of the full Priestly Blessing at this point. Maybe we will find some if we turn to the era of what are uncontroversially the oldest preserved Biblical Texts:

The Dead Sea Scrolls, first centuries (B)CE

From the caves near Qumran (on the Dead Sea), we have Biblical manuscripts from the latter part of the Second Temple Period. Unfortunately, many of them look like this:

Especially in the case of less popular books like Numbers, whether a certain passage is attested at Qumran or not comes down to luck. In the case of the Priestly Blessing, we are out of luck. No Qumran text of that exact passage has come down to us.

But the Qumran caves have also yielded other, non-Biblical texts. Some of these, like Jubilees or Enoch, circulated more widely in Roman Judea. Others seem particularly relevant to the religious community that inhabited the site of Qumran itself and were probably composed locally. One of the most interesting of these sectarian texts is the Community Rule, which details, well, the community’s rules. And look what we find there:

This is clearly riffing on the text as we have it in Numbers. We have almost all the same verbs—b-r-k ‘to bless’, š-m-r ‘to keep’, ʾ-w-r ‘to shine’, ḥ–n-n ‘to favour’, and n-ś–ʾ ‘to lift’—we have the ‘face’, and we have the ‘wellbeing’. But this version of the blessing makes everything more explicit. It spells out how God is supposed to bless you, from what he is supposed to keep you, what the mysterious shining entails, and so forth. This kind of explanatory, exegetical response to Biblical texts that had now taken center stage in Jewish religion is typical of many texts we find at Qumran and of a lot of Jewish literary activity around the same time in general. Notably, whoever wrote this did feel the liberty to diverge from the text, something we also see a lot in other Dead Sea Scrolls. While our Biblical texts almost certainly existed by this time (even where they are not attested), the exact wording was not yet set in stone.

In conclusion

For the sake of completeness, here is what our passage looks like in the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE), the most commonly studied manuscript of the Masoretic Text:

Vowels, accents, Masoretic notes: it’s all there, ready for recitation.

So, how old is this text? In one sense, about one thousand years; in another, maybe three thousand. Like the Hebrew Bible as a whole, it’s a text with a history. And that interplay between text and history is exactly what we’re interested in, here in the Hebrew and Aramaic track of Leiden University’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme. Enroll today.

If you’re interested, here are my other High Holy Days posts to date:

• Some shofar etymologies
• Kol Nidrei

And to end with a very much epigraphically unattested wish: 𐤁𐤎𐤐𐤓𐤟𐤇𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤕𐤇𐤕𐤌𐤅, may you all be sealed in the Book of Life.

Alon Mizrahi, fled/emigrated anti-zionist Israeli Jew worte a genealogy of colonial Christianity on his substack. One very interesting quote is the following:

"Having a kind of Christianity around that is not colonial in nature - namely one that does not see itself as a continuation of the Jewish self-story,_ feels like an embarrassment_; the existence of such Christianity, which lives in harmony with its past (as its origins are not laced with murder and theft) and can engage with the political present (as it seeks to exist, not to violently expand) sheds a very unflattering light on colonial Christianity. _They want it eradicated so as to stay as the only true belief._

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-bible-and-the-fabricated

#Christianity #judaism #colonialism #zionism #AlonMizrahi

Alon Mizrahi, fled/emigrated anti-zionist Israeli Jew worte a genealogy of colonial Christianity on his substack. One very interesting quote is the following:

"Having a kind of Christianity around that is not colonial in nature - namely one that does not see itself as a continuation of the Jewish self-story,_ feels like an embarrassment_; the existence of such Christianity, which lives in harmony with its past (as its origins are not laced with murder and theft) and can engage with the political present (as it seeks to exist, not to violently expand) sheds a very unflattering light on colonial Christianity. _They want it eradicated so as to stay as the only true belief._

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-bible-and-the-fabricated

#Christianity #judaism #colonialism #zionism #AlonMizrahi

Alon Mizrahi, fled/emigrated anti-zionist Israeli Jew worte a genealogy of colonial Christianity on his substack. One very interesting quote is the following:

"Having a kind of Christianity around that is not colonial in nature - namely one that does not see itself as a continuation of the Jewish self-story,_ feels like an embarrassment_; the existence of such Christianity, which lives in harmony with its past (as its origins are not laced with murder and theft) and can engage with the political present (as it seeks to exist, not to violently expand) sheds a very unflattering light on colonial Christianity. _They want it eradicated so as to stay as the only true belief._

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-bible-and-the-fabricated

#Christianity #judaism #colonialism #zionism #AlonMizrahi

Alon Mizrahi, fled/emigrated anti-zionist Israeli Jew worte a genealogy of colonial Christianity on his substack. One very interesting quote is the following:

"Having a kind of Christianity around that is not colonial in nature - namely one that does not see itself as a continuation of the Jewish self-story,_ feels like an embarrassment_; the existence of such Christianity, which lives in harmony with its past (as its origins are not laced with murder and theft) and can engage with the political present (as it seeks to exist, not to violently expand) sheds a very unflattering light on colonial Christianity. _They want it eradicated so as to stay as the only true belief._

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-bible-and-the-fabricated

#Christianity #judaism #colonialism #zionism #AlonMizrahi

Alon Mizrahi, fled/emigrated anti-zionist Israeli Jew worte a genealogy of colonial Christianity on his substack. One very interesting quote is the following:

"Having a kind of Christianity around that is not colonial in nature - namely one that does not see itself as a continuation of the Jewish self-story,_ feels like an embarrassment_; the existence of such Christianity, which lives in harmony with its past (as its origins are not laced with murder and theft) and can engage with the political present (as it seeks to exist, not to violently expand) sheds a very unflattering light on colonial Christianity. _They want it eradicated so as to stay as the only true belief._

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-bible-and-the-fabricated

#Christianity #judaism #colonialism #zionism #AlonMizrahi

https://www.europesays.com/iran/297266/ Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old mikveh in southern Israel #archaeology #Israel #Judaism #Mikveh

https://www.europesays.com/iran/297174/ Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US #CandleLighting #Israel #Judaism #Shabbat #ShabbatTimes

Discovery of Mikveh Reveals Unknown Ancient Jewish Settlement in Southern Israel

There you are, all set to build a new neighborhood in southern Israel, but a 2,000-year-old ritual bath…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Israel #Israelarchaeology #Jewishlaw #Judaism #Negev
https://www.newsbeep.com/735959/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/296705/ Discovery of Mikveh Reveals Unknown Ancient Jewish Settlement in Southern Israel #Israel #IsraelArchaeology #JewishLaw #Judaism #Negev

Attention: Freethinkers and Jewish radicals

You're invited to the
First Annual
Emma Goldman Memorial
Virtual Yom Kippur Picnic

Monday, September 21, 2026
3 pm Eastern

At our "picnic" we will hear more about the life of Emma Goldman (and her notorious Yom Kippur picnic of 1907), but also have some space for music, poetry, dancing and ideally some noshing (for those who aren't fasting). There is no need to dress fancy (unless you want to), but following the example of Emma, we do welcome folks being n costume.

This event is organized by Shalom V'Tzedek, a home for Unbound Humanistic Jewish Learning with a focus on Peace & Social Justice

The original Yom Kippur picnic of 1907 (hosted by Emma herself) charged a 25 cent admission fee. We won't charge an admission fee today, but we do encourage attendees to make a donation to a cause of social justice in the amount of $8.88 (the value in today's money of 25 cents in 1907) to an organization working for peace and social justice.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jA1JMfVlQqqtnITm75LmXQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #EmmaGoldman #Anarchism #Leftism #YomKippurPicnic #HumansticJudaism #UnboundJudaism

Attention: Freethinkers and Jewish radicals

You're invited to the
First Annual
Emma Goldman Memorial
Virtual Yom Kippur Picnic

Monday, September 21, 2026
3 pm Eastern

At our "picnic" we will hear more about the life of Emma Goldman (and her notorious Yom Kippur picnic of 1907), but also have some space for music, poetry, dancing and ideally some noshing (for those who aren't fasting). There is no need to dress fancy (unless you want to), but following the example of Emma, we do welcome folks being n costume.

This event is organized by Shalom V'Tzedek, a home for Unbound Humanistic Jewish Learning with a focus on Peace & Social Justice

The original Yom Kippur picnic of 1907 (hosted by Emma herself) charged a 25 cent admission fee. We won't charge an admission fee today, but we do encourage attendees to make a donation to a cause of social justice in the amount of $8.88 (the value in today's money of 25 cents in 1907) to an organization working for peace and social justice.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jA1JMfVlQqqtnITm75LmXQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #EmmaGoldman #Anarchism #Leftism #YomKippurPicnic #HumansticJudaism #UnboundJudaism

Attention: Freethinkers and Jewish radicals

You're invited to the
First Annual
Emma Goldman Memorial
Virtual Yom Kippur Picnic

Monday, September 21, 2026
3 pm Eastern

At our "picnic" we will hear more about the life of Emma Goldman (and her notorious Yom Kippur picnic of 1907), but also have some space for music, poetry, dancing and ideally some noshing (for those who aren't fasting). There is no need to dress fancy (unless you want to), but following the example of Emma, we do welcome folks being n costume.

This event is organized by Shalom V'Tzedek, a home for Unbound Humanistic Jewish Learning with a focus on Peace & Social Justice

The original Yom Kippur picnic of 1907 (hosted by Emma herself) charged a 25 cent admission fee. We won't charge an admission fee today, but we do encourage attendees to make a donation to a cause of social justice in the amount of $8.88 (the value in today's money of 25 cents in 1907) to an organization working for peace and social justice.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jA1JMfVlQqqtnITm75LmXQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #EmmaGoldman #Anarchism #Leftism #YomKippurPicnic #HumansticJudaism #UnboundJudaism

Attention: Freethinkers and Jewish radicals

You're invited to the
First Annual
Emma Goldman Memorial
Virtual Yom Kippur Picnic

Monday, September 21, 2026
3 pm Eastern

At our "picnic" we will hear more about the life of Emma Goldman (and her notorious Yom Kippur picnic of 1907), but also have some space for music, poetry, dancing and ideally some noshing (for those who aren't fasting). There is no need to dress fancy (unless you want to), but following the example of Emma, we do welcome folks being n costume.

This event is organized by Shalom V'Tzedek, a home for Unbound Humanistic Jewish Learning with a focus on Peace & Social Justice

The original Yom Kippur picnic of 1907 (hosted by Emma herself) charged a 25 cent admission fee. We won't charge an admission fee today, but we do encourage attendees to make a donation to a cause of social justice in the amount of $8.88 (the value in today's money of 25 cents in 1907) to an organization working for peace and social justice.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jA1JMfVlQqqtnITm75LmXQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #EmmaGoldman #Anarchism #Leftism #YomKippurPicnic #HumansticJudaism #UnboundJudaism

Attention: Freethinkers and Jewish radicals

You're invited to the
First Annual
Emma Goldman Memorial
Virtual Yom Kippur Picnic

Monday, September 21, 2026
3 pm Eastern

At our "picnic" we will hear more about the life of Emma Goldman (and her notorious Yom Kippur picnic of 1907), but also have some space for music, poetry, dancing and ideally some noshing (for those who aren't fasting). There is no need to dress fancy (unless you want to), but following the example of Emma, we do welcome folks being n costume.

This event is organized by Shalom V'Tzedek, a home for Unbound Humanistic Jewish Learning with a focus on Peace & Social Justice

The original Yom Kippur picnic of 1907 (hosted by Emma herself) charged a 25 cent admission fee. We won't charge an admission fee today, but we do encourage attendees to make a donation to a cause of social justice in the amount of $8.88 (the value in today's money of 25 cents in 1907) to an organization working for peace and social justice.

To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jA1JMfVlQqqtnITm75LmXQ

#Mazeldon #Judaism #YomKippur #EmmaGoldman #Anarchism #Leftism #YomKippurPicnic #HumansticJudaism #UnboundJudaism

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