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Hibiscus is very good for blood pressure. The optional inclusion of rum also helps. Of course, for medicinal purposes.

We do.

It is Jamaican drink made from hibiscus.

It’s more than a drink; it's a testament to resilience and joy. 🇯🇲✡️
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Move over, Manischewitz. This Passover, we are swapping out the usual for the extraordinary: vibrant Sorrel as our drink. Its bold, spiced flavor is the perfect ode to liberation, blending the sweetness of freedom with the fiery spirit of our roots.
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It’s more than a drink; it's a testament to resilience and joy. 🇯🇲✡️
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Move over, Manischewitz. This Passover, we are swapping out the usual for the extraordinary: vibrant Sorrel as our drink. Its bold, spiced flavor is the perfect ode to liberation, blending the sweetness of freedom with the fiery spirit of our roots.
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History made it. Prejudice and antisemitism kept it. We are still cleaning up the mess and dealing with the impact.

It is something to acknowledge when opining on antisemitism as a form of racism.
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Centuries later, the stereotype lives on, brought to you by bad laws and worse history lessons. Centuries later, the trope is still hanging around like that one medieval law no one bothered to repeal.
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And, because humans love a good scapegoat, the forced‑into‑moneylending thing somehow morphed into “Jews love money,” a stereotype built entirely by the same societies that created the conditions.
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Christians had religious bans on usury. Jews were legally excluded from land ownership, many trades, and most guilds. Moneylending was one of the few permitted, and very risky, ways to survive.

It was just structural constraints doing what structural constraints do.
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Medieval Europe said: “Christians can’t charge interest, Jews can’t own land, join most guilds, or do half the jobs in town… so let’s force them into moneylending and then get mad about it.”

It was peak policy genius.
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There is a pattern of using the term ‘Zionists’ as a coded way to mean Jews. Many Jewish people experience this even if they do not define themselves as such or not Zionist at all. Yet, there are *significantly more* Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists globally.

Erasing and belittling the living experiences and realities of racism *including* antisemitism when it is *not* your experience, and never will be, is the hyper-privilege that harms. It eradicates the allyship you attempt to pursue. Even academic credentials will not save you.

The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism.

This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.

Change.

It sounds like having a Black Jewish female, such as me, in the room would have blown their minds.

We have just had Holocaust Memorial Day which emphasises the moral obligation to speak up against injustice, fight oppression, and uphold human dignity.

No one should ever be a bystander.

When something bad is happening to any group anywhere, including if it resonates with your or the experience of those around you, we should take always a stand and speak up.

Deuteronomy: Tzedek, tzedek tirdof or Justice, justice shall you pursue.
Isaiah: Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Leviticus: Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbour.
Talmud: silence is consent

The Twitter and Bluesky algorithms are quite stark. Twitter is awash with discussion about the Epstein fallout for Mandelson. On Bluesky, the Epstein fallout generally feels quieter.

Both are significant. Memorial and Remembrance Days honour those who were persecuted, sacrificed, and shaped our freedoms. They invite us to pause, reflect, and recommit to peace, gratitude, and collective memory, ensuring their stories guide the world we build next.

There is a difference between International Holocaust Rememberance Day and Yom HaShoah.

One recognises Jews murdered during the Holocaust *alongside* the people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and in more recent recognised genocides including Dafur.

Oy vey. I am glad you are safe.

Once again, Little Blew said he is leaving home.

Once again, I said that is fine and he can take anything that he bought with his own money with him.

What is happening?

I see what you did there.

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How Stephen Miller Abandoned the Lessons of His Jewish Ancestors

"Psychodrama" is something different to it's recent use.

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Arsenal, come on chaps. Pull your finger out.