I spoke with Emmy-winning comedy writer Rob Kutner about his new book, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting.
#Books #Jewish #comedy #humor
https://buttondown.com/DanielleSATM/archive/rob-kutner-talks-the-jews-5000-years-and-counting/
New from Solzy at the Movies: The World Will Tremble: Lior Geller, Jeremy Neumark Jones Discuss Film
#TheWorldWillTremble #Holocaust #Jewish #film #movies
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/03/24/the-world-will-tremble/
City: Colmar, France
Point of interest: Synagogue
What's the most romantic sightseeing spot you've visited?
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#France #Building #Heritage #Jewish #Religion #Colmar #PlaceOfWorship #Sights #Amenity #Travel #Sightseeing #Synagogue
A Jewish name can take a number of different forms, and each has its own shade of meaning. #Jewish #names https://buff.ly/JQjE4Ng
"In ‘Everyday #Jews’ I have tried to unpick the reasons why Jews are often so diffident about representing the everyday doing of #Jewish life. Part of the reason is that Jews are so often associated with the extraordinary, with the significant, that it is difficult to square that with the undeniable existence of the ordinary and the insignificant.
That makes it much easier for writers and artists to focus on what it is to feel Jewish – which is often to feel extraordinary and angst-ridden – rather than the myriad actions that make up Jewish life.
Since October 7th 2023 it was become ever more difficult for Jews to show our mundane side. It is much easier for Jews – of whatever opinion – to show how we are emoting, suffering and protesting, than to admit that everyday life is still continuing."
Today, I'm thinking about #Jewish #Genealogy. According to retail genetic testing, I'm 99% to 100% Jewish Ashkenazi.)Every human who is currently alive is, AT MOST, a 40th cousin to every other human who is currently alive. In comparison, Ashkenazi humans are 6th cousins to each other. AT MOST.
#Columbia #university expels #Jewish student for #protesting #Israel’s #genocide
At the festive Seder meal on the Jewish holiday of Passover, some of the matzoh is hidden, it is called the afikomen. Children try to find it and get a prize. Also available in pink lettering.
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A Zionist Jew and an anti Zionist Jew walk into a bar.
The bartender says “We don’t serve Jews here.”
"#YIVO, which turns 100 this month, is forever associated with #Vilna (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania) and Eastern Europe, but it was originally supposed to be based in Berlin.
The idea for the institute came at a unique inflection point in history. After World War I, #diaspora nationalist movements anticipated new government resources from minority treaties, international agreements granting rights to minority populations in countries looking to join the League of Nations. There was an urgency to documenting a way of life that seemed to be fading."
“The First World War really had a huge impact in the level of destruction in the areas of densest #Jewish settlement in the world, which were the #Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe,” Cecile Kuznetz, author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation, told me."
https://forward.com/culture/705433/yivo-institute-for-jewish-research-100-years-yiddish/
https://www.europesays.com/1934899/ ‘Türkiye is a very important partner of ours’: Hungarian foreign minister #AnadoluAjansı #ceasefire #EnergySecurity #Europe'sSecurity #Gaza #GrainDealOnTheBlackSea #hír #HungarianForeignMinister #hungary #icc #Jewish #Magyarország #Netanyahu #Peace #PéterSzijjártó #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #Türkiye #TürkiyeHungaryRelations #TradeVolume #transit
In 1919, #ColumbiaUniversity President #NicholasButler amended the admissions process to limit the number of #Jewish students admitted. In the 1920s, #Butler became an admirer of #Mussolini and praised #Italian #fascism. In the 1930s, he expelled a student for leading an anti-Nazi protest on campus.
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
SATURDAY, APRIL 5 • 1pm • Washington D.C.
[Sponsors include #Palestinian Youth Movement, #Jewish Voice for Peace, and others]
"For over 16 months, #Gaza has endured a brutal, ongoing genocide carried out by #Israel with the full backing and support of the US government. Israel continued to violate the terms of the ceasefire reached on January 19th, breaking it over 980 times...
The movement against genocide in North America has risen time and time again in support of Gaza and will not rest now. The #Trump administration, building on the tactics of the Biden administration, is now increasing its attempts to silence pro- #Palestine, anti-genocide voices. "
https://marchforpalestine.org/
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news @palestine
Today in Labor History March 22, 1943: The Nazi-affiliated Schutzmannschaft Battalion burnt alive everyone from the village of Khatyn, Belarus, near Minsk. They did it in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans. Himmler created Schutzmannschaft police units in 1941. By 1942, they had over 300,000 members. They slaughtered Jews throughout the Baltics, Ukraine and Belarus. They also served as guards at forced labor camps. In total, Nazis and Nazi collaborators slaughtered over 2 million people just in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation. This was nearly 25% of the entire population. Of these, 800,000 were Jews, or about 90% of the Jewish population.
No matter how you spell the bread of affliction, Passover is coming!
Matzoh is the unleavened bread that Jews eat during Passover. We eat matzoh and matza and matzo and matzah to remind us that our ancestors who were slaves in Egypt were freed and had no time for the bread to rise when they left. This funny Jewish Passover design makes a perfect gift!
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#Starmer targeting Jewish people in war on #FreeSpeech, #protest rights about #Palestine, #Israel
Protesters cheered & embraced 87yo #Jewish #Holocaust #survivor Stephen #Kapos arriving at #police station
Police summoned him for questioning over a #peaceful #anti-genocide march
Police falsely claim forced its way through police lines. But video evidence shows he was invited through
"Jews without Yellow Stars" from #BenYehudaPress Review: It's a truly wonderful book, which focused on Belarus during the Nazi #Holocaust that has 3 main parts:
1. How the information/stories were collected
2. The stories themselves
3. Mini biographies of some of the main storied people.
It's really a wonderful book, for all those 3 elements, each of which would hold up decently as a work unto itself to my opinion but together they form this wonderful tapestry.
As a Jew of mostly Belarusian heritage, with 2 of my 4 grandparents having been born in said country, I think of this as something I'll definitely be sharing with the children I look forward to having. When they're 8-12 they'll just get the war stories, with some of the mini biographies, then as they reach highschool age, they'll get the methods/research elements.
"Ever flipped through your #history book and wondered “Why are all the #Jews wearing these funny #hats?”
You find it all over #Christian #art from stained glass windows to manuscripts, the #Judenhat (“#Jewish #hat”) can be traced back to #medieval #Europe.
You can even find it in the Bird’s Head Haggadah and some other Jewish books of the time! Originally a marker of eastern learning, antiquity and authority, and even fashionable with 12th century aristocracy, things took a dark turn as Jews were depicted wearing the hat while killing #Jesus. Paired with a “Jewish nose”, the hat can even sometimes still be seen in #Antisemitic depictions of Jews today."
https://unpacked.media/the-weird-jewish-hats-of-medieval-art-antisemitic-trope-or-fashion-statement/
City: Colmar, France POI: Synagogue
Have you ever taken a virtual sightseeing tour?
Get ready for an adventure in Colmar: https://visitsights.com/sights/France/Colmar
#PlaceOfWorship #Religion #Building #Sights #Amenity #Synagogue #France #Jewish #Heritage #Sightseeing #Travel #Colmar
