Chava Nagila

I’m not sure where to jump into this convo so I’ll start here. As the child of fluent Yiddish speakers/1st gen Americans, I can tell you that many of their gen chose to put the past behind them. Think of the trauma they were fleeing. This was true in Israel as well. They didn’t want the reminder.

Jennifer Mendelsohn (@jennifermendelsohn1) on Threads #resistancegenealogy creator. Recovering journalist. Co-founder, the Holocaust Reunion Project. It's all about receipts. Views expressed are my own. 4.4K Followers.

Public libraries often have free genealogy databases (ours has Ancestry). Also, I follow www.threads.net/@jennifermen...
and she might be a resource. I haven't looked to see if she's here yet.

This is really interesting! What I've come across in my research is "Ellis Island couldn't have changed names because they got names off the ship manifests," or some such. Have you been able to find those? That would maybe make more sense for the Polish spelling. Also, I love "... the yontiff!" 😆

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I wanted an octopus 😭
So freakin’ cute.

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(It’s actually more blue in real life!)

Also, we deserve more than the few mentioned here!

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It’s Mother’s Day Weekend. If you’re someone like me who has a fraught relationship (or no relationship) with your mother because of abuse, neglect, or trauma, I just want you to know you aren’t a bad person, you’re doing great, do something nice for yourself this weekend. 💕

Surely you’re just holding those for someone else!

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Read the room, people. Don't come to my fncking door and try to proselytize me. See the mezuzah? Would I post that if I was ashamed of who I am? Who are the colonizers now, bitch? (Oh wait — the answer hasn't changed in 2000 years!)

50 Completely True Things This is a repost of a list of posts I made to Threads last fall.

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I hope your self care this week is better than mine… which amounts to red wine, matzah, and calorie-burning anxiety. Damn, I had high hopes this week. 💜

Willow looking innocently up at me from under my arm. Willow is a golden-colored doodle who has never had innocent a day in her life.

Serious question:

With the amount of lip-licking a dog does, have you ever seen a dog with chapped lips?

The accuracy of this statement on AI search answers!

We always make a huge bowl of apples, walnuts, cinnamon, Manischewitz, and we NEVER have leftovers so I have no context for how long apples in wine take to go bad. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have 2 ketubot. One I consider kosher because it has my Yiddish name, the other the rabbi considers kosher because he insisted I spell my Yiddish name “correctly”… in Hebrew.

Is Litvish Hebrew: Shabbat vs Shabbos? I grew up hearing the latter but since adulthood only hear the former.

“He enjoys complex and nuanced crimes.” 😋Thanks!

Singing and dancing are so inherently Jewish (even for those who separate genders) that whenever I hear about the “dancing vs non-dancing” Baptists, I always think first that there are those with dancers in their church service vs those with a choir. And then I remember it’s the plot of Footloose.

Just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying Laurent and the Beast. This is the bonkers bad boy/MC/paranormal/time travel/quasi-historical I didn’t know I needed!😍

Thank you!

I’ll take recs! I want to read flawed, dark heroes but not abusive ones!

Two gem themed dragons on a purple chaise in a clinch pose. There is a bowl shaped like Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle slightly blurry in the background

Also #romancelandia, Mr Measured suggested a clinch so please enjoy this unintentionally HILARIOUS picture with a horrified Calcifer in the background. I’m submitting it to the Louvre, obviously

Oct. 7 was what finally cut the cord between me and Twitter after being an incredibly high-traffic user for like 15+ years bc it finally clicked that it wasn’t “this place is making it harder to get good information”, it was “this place is deliberately making it easier to get bad information”

"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying." - Terry Pratchett

OPEN LETTER from Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter) I realize that certain press outlets will probably want to paint this as in-fighting between J.K. Rowling and myself, but that is really not what this is about, nor is it what's important right now. While Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken, as someone who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment. Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I… I am still learning how to be a better ally, so if you want to join me in learning more about transgender and nonbinary identities check out The Trevor Project's Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth…

To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don't entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you. If these books taught you that love is the strongest force in the universe, capable of overcoming anything; if they taught you that strength is found in diversity, and that dogmatic ideas of pureness lead to the oppression of vulnerable groups; if you believe that a particular character is trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid, or that they are gay or bisexual; if you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life - then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred. And in my opinion nobody can touch that. It means to you what it means to you and I hope that these comments will not taint that too much. Love always, Dan

What an absolutely brilliant human being. This is how you stand up for what’s right and speak up for those who have smaller voices for you. This is what being a better person looks like. Love Daniel Radcliffe. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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And, these are landlines! Absolutely not representative of the majority of voters.

FnCK CANCER
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(A friend was diagnosed😢)