Sen. Warren's DC office number: (202) 224-4543
Sen. Markey's DC office number: (202) 224-2742

I love the fact that "challah" and "afikomen" are two foods whose names come from the thing we're *not* supposed to eat.

"...slumbers not nor sleeps," as they say.

Hopefully the new Coolidge has a great green room for you!

Not an April Fool's joke

Karl Ernst Stimpfig About a month before our trip, while I was cleaning up and revisiting my notes and sources, I noticed several sources about Hüttenheim all referenced a book titled “Die Juden im Fürstlich-Schwarzen…

A reminder that I'm still updating my genealogy blog with posts about last month's amazing trip to Germany. Today's post is about an incredible researcher that I discovered just in time. greenealogy.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/k...

Re-upping this in case you missed it. The blog is now once again live and there are two new posts, with more in the pipeline.

I need a tl;dr. Is wordpress.com the good guys, the bad guys ,or neither?

If you want to be a "beta reader" for the blog posts, to help me improve them before I make them public, please let me know and I'll add you to the Google Group that will have access to drafts in Google Docs.

Greenealogy - My Family’s Genealogy

Hello, friends. I am back online after an amazing 4-week journey that included a week of intensive genealogy field work in Ermreuth, Hüttenheim-in-Bayern, and Ichenhausen.

I plan to revive my genealogy blog at greenealogy.wordpress.com and there should be a "subscribe" option there.

I have several hundred pages from the Nuremberg archives on various 18c.-19c. court cases involving my great-great-grandfather, the Parnas (president, sort of) of the Jewish community in Hüttenheim, some in his personal capacity as a businessman, and they are *fascinating*.

This is the first time I've seen one of the solution posts on social media. (Obviously I'm also well behind on the Monday emails.) Oh, well.

Is that a spoiler for last week's puzzle that I haven't opened yet?

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I think it depends on the kind of account the OP is. If it's someone like yourself, with thousands of followers and a large number of replies to a given post, then having a crowd-curated "top 10" list keeps things manageable. If it's an IRL friend, then I want chronological threading.

One of the best things in genealogy is entering a new cousin (in this case a 4c3r) with the birthdate of "today".

Protect the remnant.

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But every one of us has some power here. Amplify what moves you. Create your own memetic structures and build on what others have created. Reward the creators whose works protect the remnant with your attention, your signal-boosting, and (when you can) with your material support.

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The people with the leverage to make this happen at scale are the mass media stars, the studios who produce blockbuster films, the writers on the TV shows that help people define what "normal" behavior looks like.

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But carefully done, humor can turn an obnoxious behavior pattern into an object of ridicule, and redefine it outside the realm of "acceptable". The key here is "carefully")

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(Humor is a real risk here, because so much of it is based on "of course we all know that <group of people> are <stereotype>, that's what makes this funny."...

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... and behaviors that violate those norms never get normalized. I'm talking not about being preachy, but about depicting the world we want to see as being a viable future.

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I'm talking songs, poetry, fiction, visual art. I'm talking about making sure values like "respect people who are different than you" and "everyone should have a roof over their head and enough food" and "don't take advantage of the powerless" stay alive...

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The lesson I take is to focus on preserving the remnant. Yes, we absolutely must fight where we can, take care of ourselves and each other as best we can, but we also need to be thinking about how we encode and propagate our values so the remnant doesn't forget them.

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We are looking at a generation or two before we can envision a full recovery from the coming destruction of the government at all levels in the US. A lot of us are grappling with despair and foreboding.

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(Here and now, in this thread, I'm not discussing the current government of Israel and its actions both domestic and international; I'm focusing on the concept of "protecting the remnant". I'll have much more on that another day)

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But God promised to preserve "the remnant of Israel". Despite all the horrific murders, enough of us survived and passed down our traditions that eventually, we saw "the start of the flowering of our redemption" with the return to Zion that we had prayed for for millennia. [see next post]

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As Jews, we lived for nearly 2,000 years of times we were tolerated and times we were persecuted. Individual Jews often lived hard, miserable lives, or were tortured and killed.

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Here's where I am right now. (A thread)

If you think about corresponding letters between Hebrew and English, both by position and how the letters come from common roots, the transliteration of the Tetragrammaton should actually be JEFE, which @merriamwebster.bsky.social defines as one "who exercises control or authority".