Juicy Cake Of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ

No state or municipal coordination with ICE! #RebuildSanctuary (2/2)

This event was organized by @truahrabbis, @the-rac, and @jalsaboston
Photos credits: Mira Whiting, Mark Schafer, and Shayna Solomon

Yesterday, 450 Jewish community members from over 30 congregations & organizations spent Tisha B'Av afternoon calling to end ICE raids and rebuild sanctuary.

We showed up outside of ICE HQ in Burlington, MA, to demand elected officials pass the #DignityNotDeportations Act. (1/2)

Whoops. Forgot to say this image, which warms my bookish heart, is via @tedgioia.bsky.social .

Myles Werntz (@myleswerntz) This is a picture of people lining up around the block for a new Barnes and Noble opening. 10 am on a Wednesday. Cheers erupted when it opened. It was glorious to see people walking around with arms...

Line waiting outside for the opening day of a new Barnes & Noble bookstore in Abilene, Texas, on July 23. substack.com/profile/1330...

In English, if something is suspicious or amiss you could say either “I smell a rat” or “something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” In Denmark, however, you could say der er ugler i mosen. It means “there are owls in the bog.”

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one…

A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

I love Ashby. I don't think I've seen that particular album though.

Hornelund Brooches: Viking age gold ornaments mysteriously buried in Denmark 1,000 years ago Two brooches from Denmark are unique examples of Viking Age goldwork that includes Christian and Norse designs.

This week's astonishing artifact is a set of Viking Age gold brooches. They were found over a century ago, but researchers are still trying to work out exactly where they were found so that they can do some more digging and get more info on them. 🧪🏺

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

The California Post will be obscenely racist and nobody should buy it.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

As I have said over and over again. Netanyahu is not Israel. The men speaking here carry great weight.

Just to reiterate, Black & Jewish voters came in strong for Vice President Harris for President 2024. Now that's Alliance.

Black and Jewish people have a long history together fighting discrimination.

92% Black Women
80% Black Men
80% Jewish voters.
We must always stand with the Jewish people👊

Tikvah, a US Jewish educational nonprofit, helped Benjamin Netanyahu publish his autobiography two weeks before he won reelection Tikvah said Netanyahu’s ‘My Story’ would ‘advance understanding about the practice of statesmanship’

Breaking my never-sharing-substacks principle because this story is that important:

The billionaire-driven Tikvah fund drives a ton of (conservative, duh) stuff in the US Jewish universe. -- Tablet, Mosaic, Azure, fellowships, funds orgs etc.

I hope the implications of this for US Jewry MATTER.

Probably.

I assume it was a reference to both "The Birds" and "Strangers On A Train".

Pink Fairy Armadillo

Pink Fairy Armadillo. 💖

One of the truly un-delightful things in this era is just how *many* existential threats we've got going *at one time.* Plastic! Microplastics! Trash! Climate change! All the fascism and authoritarianism! Widening inequality! Billionaires! Tech-billionaires! Their insertion of AI into everything!

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

In a first, Orthodox rabbinical school ordains an out gay rabbi Yeshivat Chovevei Torah's Tadhg Cleary became the first out gay man to receive ordination from an Orthodox rabbinical school in the U.S.

forward.com/news/759799/...

Oh, this is good. This feels very good.

Also feels very Jewish, despite an AME audience.

Jerusalem Artichokes - 1880 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9306

Yes but nobody cares about educated people losing work

If PBS and NPR stations survive the shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, then they no longer have to give a shit if the federal government is upset with their coverage.

‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ Will Get 50th Anniversary Theatrical Re-Release in 2027 Disney will re-release 'Star Wars: A New Hope' in theaters in 2027 in honor of its 50th anniversary.

Star Wars: A New Hope will return to the big screen on April 30, 2027, to mark the film’s 50th anniversary.

One month before the release of Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter, which is scheduled to open in theaters on May 28, 2027 - three days after the 50th anniversary of Star Wars.

Um, obvious?

You don't want to die you just wish it didn't take every ounce of strength to stay alive

good for pritzker and any texas democrat who risks arrest to deny texas republicans the quorum they need to rig the federal legislature

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

It seems as if the writers are deviating from the Consuelo Vanderbilt storyline with Gladys and the Duke. It looks like they may have a "happily ever after"??? #TheGildedAge