Jeffrey Smith

Tonight
Marin Marais
Third Book of Pieces for Viol
First of four CDs
Francois Joubert-Caillet bass viol
With the ensemble known as L'Acheron

I suggest this is his masterpiece

Now that I think of it, my mother used to hang a raw onion around my neck when I was sick. She never explained how it was supposed to work (I don't know if she knew) and she stopped doing it when I was about six or seven.

The opening chapter of Potok's The Chosen is beeping in my head at the moment.
"See, look how American we are! Look at how we make sure we're physically fit like all potential soldiers should be!"

He's there. I just clinked the link in your first post and it brought up an active account.

You never will.
My mother gets snail mail appeals from charities I've never heard of.
She passed away in 2012.

That world exists. Just remember that having as little as possible contact with other cultures is a vital element of some white cultures.

Wikipedia says his uncle Eliezer Zev also lives in Borough Park.
Of course, the same family tree chart can't decide if it's Borough Park or Boro Park...

Artist Rigoberto Gonzalez
www.utrgv.edu/claa/exhibit...

The progressive man of the hour not only volunteered to help the US imperialize Iraq, but would have also volunteered to help imperialize the Philippines, Haiti, and Central America, and to help genocide and displace Indigenous Americans.
And thought little wars are fun.

@pymundgenealogy.com

Some of our favorite people are fighting on the other place
(And to complete the picture, Susan A might have been caught in the crossfire.)

There is a real theory that a lot of early Muslim law and practice was originated by Jews who converted but still kept a lot of halacha. Tom Holland pushed it in his book about Islam.

Combine this with the "Jews doing Talmudic rituals", and you get "Jews and Muslims doing Talmudic rituals" and Christians must feel left out.

But if there was intentional act by some entity, then that happened unintentionally: by random chance; our universe's apparent order is just a fluke, no real order or system underlying it. There might be a creator creating unintentionally, but not an ordered system with no orderer.

Thank you. But would you mind having a little chat with those Irish (there seems to be a whole bunch of them) who actively cheer for Hamas?

If you don't accept what I called the central premise, you have to accept the possibility of God's existence.
That randomness is the only possible alternative to Creation should be obvious.

The central premise of atheism is an unprovable assumption: that nothing exists which can not be experienced directly or indirectly by the human senses.
It also renders science meaningless. No creation=everything is utterly random, our local order being a random bubble in universal randomness.

Atheism is a faith based religion.

You need to learn economic history.
For instance, the Roman state was not the only source of currency back then.
And since banks did not exist then, it was impossible to rely on bank loans.

A Naxos recording of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia still in shrinkwrap with a price label from Borders Bookstores, which went out of business in 2011

Received this from an Amazon MP dealer.

I'm always astonished at posters obstensibly addressed to non-English audiences that prioritize English--as here, where the Italian is only the bottom part and doesn't include the 2 main slogans, and the signs in the background photo are in English.

I don't know if you can call it abusive...but Puccini had a really lousy marriage.
Haydn hated his wife. There's not enough evidence to say he abused her however.
And what Strauss did to his wife with Intermezzo probably deserves its own category.

For the Global South not to be subordinate would require some part of the Global South be able to balance/challenge any would be hegemon, whether that hegemon be China or the US or another country. But who could do that? India?Brazil? Any other candidates?

The lead-up is bonkers too. "Why are tax collections down?"
"This rabbi is giving lectures and all the Jewish farmers go listen to him instead of working on their farms."
"That's a problem! Arrest him!"

Art for the day (and new banner)
Gouzy: Zola Before The Mob

In all seriousness, Ramban is the commentator I'll be studying for the weekly parshah this coming year (in the Chavel translation--I want the juicy stuff). First time with him. (It's been a rotation of Rashi/Sforno/Steinsaltz up until now.)

Or the Amoraim R. Ezra HaLevi and R. Ezra HaKatan.

I've been on it, when it paid a call to Miami. I had no idea of its history (I just assumed it was a US built ship.)

Two things can be true at once:
You can recognize that a person actively worked to make our world a worse place.
You can recognize that nothing justifies violence against that person, and nothing good can result from their death.

I was brought up to think that mass killing was bad, no matter who does it or who it's done to or what technical term is used to describe it. The fact that it was done to Jews in the past does not set up any special obligation on my part or make it more bad.