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Poet, prose writer, translator of #Yiddish poetry, tanguera, Leonard Cohen enthusiast. #NEAarts fellow "From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press www.maiaevrona.com
I hope no lefty dude bro ever quotes Chomsky at me again.
Who would guess that a guy who can happily deny war crimes also happily denies the scale of men’s violence against women
Not asking the President about allegations that a 13 year old girl was forced to perform oral sex on him is a choice.
Unpopular opinion: I think one of the reasons people often don't mention Jews on Holocaust Memorial Day is because they are uncomfortable referring to Jews as Jews, or even Jewish people.
I missed this when it was first published two years ago but it is sadly perhaps even more relevant than it was the day it was published.
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“I really feel in many cases that I’ve made it possible for a book to succeed and also made it possible for a writer to go on writing,” Mr. Borchardt said in The Paris Review interview. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights."
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
I keep waiting for the day blue states just stop sending money to the federal government.
The U.S. attack on Venezuela has led to a surge in antisemitic rhetoric online, as we’ve seen waves of antisemitism after most major news stories for years.
What separates this is not the occurrence, but the incredibly high engagement we're seeing online. Take this post with nearly 2 million views:
I love Stephen Colbert and don't want to see him go. But it's a bit disturbing that after Trump invades a foreign country and kidnaps its dictator without alerting congress, his first featured guest still has to be an actor, and not the journalist he has on later...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KZ...
🚩 Israeli and Foreign Banks Block Aid to Gaza, Pushing Donors Into Crypto
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵
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No one has told me to move to Israel, I do hear plenty of people telling Jews to go back to Poland though.
It's funny how opinion pieces like this give away the particular bubbles their writers live in.
When Jews face violence, seemingly everyone in most of *my* circles says it's not only Israel's fault, but the fault of Jews for moving to Israel in the first place....
forward.com/opinion/7942...
Does seem like quite a bit of work….
After an academic mentor’s unwanted sexual advances, I stayed silent for decades. Now, I’m speaking out | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
My Chanukah/khanike poem, published a few years ago in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium:
He was also a bit wrong on Jews in the Arab/Muslim world not having their own languages.
But there's a opportunity there for anyone working in co-existence efforts. There's a nice initiative in Barcelona called Shalom/Salaam, maybe we could do something like Sholem aleykhem-aleykum salam....The writer of the first article here was almost heading there but preconceptions got in the way.
It's funny, because if these articles were not so factually incorrect, I don't think anyone would think twice about the Hebrew in Yiddish and its being evidence of enduring Jewish ties to the land of Israel even in the diaspora. They're drawing attention to that connection by trying to erase it.
The problem with Yiddish for these writers is that they want to use it to prove the Europeanness of Ashkenazi Jews, when in fact, the Hebrew and Aramaic within Yiddish prove that even Ashkenazi Jews do originate from what is now Israel, and have always been connected to other Jewish groups.
It reminds me of an article in Al Jazeera, on the word "chutzpah," that defined Yiddish as a fusion of German and Russian. I wanted to ask the writer to share whether he thought chutzpah came from the Russian or the German root...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
"For two languages with roots so different, there’s a surprising vocabulary overlap"
What?!
Their roots are not that different, the vocabulary overlap is not surprising. Yiddish is not a dialect of German, it's a fusion of Hebrew and German. "Hello" in Yiddish and Arabic is essentially the same!
I just came across this article from 2021 on Yiddish and Arabic, linked to on twitter by someone who just wrote a book on the Bund no less. It's incredibly frustrating that people can just publish whatever they want about Yiddish. People assume there are no experts.
newlinesmag.com/essays/yiddi...
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.
Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
This is your democracy.
Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
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I am pretty sure they were able to find other reasons not to hire Naomi Wolf than her skin color.
If you thought Paris, Texas was great and a great name for a town, today I learned that there is an Odessa, Texas. (Town, not film…At least not yet!)
