Good slop this week. Lots of talk about Representations of Jewish masculinity

a secret-Jew tricked his captors into allowing him to celebrate the holiday, imprisoned by the Inquisition in 1600s Mexico.

While I'm skeptical of the emphasis on haplotypes, I think it's really interesting how remains have been identified as belonging to Jewish people from a historical event, as well as dating the genetic "bottleneck" that occured.

"According to the Talmud, at the World-to-Come Diaspora Jews will roll through tunnels to be resurrected at Mount Olive."

Under the words "Emma Earns Her Punishment," this cartoon shows Goldman being led into prison by a police officer. The figure at the right is labeled a "sweat-shop boss," and the paper at Goldman's feet reads: "Lecture: How to protect from too many children." The caption at the bottom has the sweat-shop boss saying: "Hear this scandal! I need kids to work and she preaches against children! To prison with her!"

Interesting discussion from a text-based, Orthodox perspective, ranging from “Flags rule” to “Flags are idolatry.”

Saturday Night the holiday of Shavuot begins. It celebrates early agricultural produce, and the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. It occurs after a counting of 7 weeks (Sheva is the word for 7, and Shavuot is Weeks) following Passover.

The holiday has several observances: Staying up late learning and studying, eating dairy foods, making cringeworthy jokes about lactose intolerance, reading the book of Ruth (which has special significance for Jews by choice). In the 19th century, the Reform movement replaced the Bar Mitzvah at age 13 with confirmation at 16, and confirmations were often celebrated on this holiday as well.

Rather than reply to a banned poster about anti-Palestinian violence at the "Flag March", I'll just point out that "Jerusalem Day" is a political holiday attempting to masquerade as a religious one. It over-emphasizes the role of religious sites (The Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Khalil/Hebron) in what was a war of territorial expansion by the secular zionist government.

"Jerusalem Day" ostensibly celebrates the "unification" of Jerusalem. While this did allow Jewish worship and tourism in the old city, it also began the colonial project in the West Bank, Golan, Sinai and Gaza. For the most part, Jerusalem Day isn't celebrated by Jewish communities in the diaspora.

I picked up a previously loved copy of The Holy Scriptures today because I want to know what the big deal is. For some reason I was expecting it to be a lot smaller. Before diving into all 1624 pages, I was wondering if there's a recommended approach to reading the text in full. Is there a particular order to chapters/books that's better, or some stuff that can be skipped or skimmed over? Are there any particularly spicy bits I should focus on?

Oscar Isaac. Adam Driver. Jason Biggs. Dee Snyder.

One large, one adult, one fail, and one who does not know how to avoid bad takes.

The bird's head Haggadah is the oldest (ca. 1300) surviving Ashkenazi manuscript for leading the Passover Seder. Many theories for the symbolism of the illustrations.

Your Grandparents who you avoid on Facebook can now lead a Passover Seder which has the levels of discussion and nuance of a Youtube comments section

Fascinating article about programming the "Trope Trainer," a word by word guide to an ancient chanting system for the Torah, Prophets, and Scrolls.

Purim is a Jewish holiday whose practices involve reading the book of Esther, dressing in costume (including a long tradition of cross-dressing), intoxication, delicious triangular cookies, giving gifts to your neighbors, and charity to the poor. The holiday begins Wednesday night.

-Misfit Torah

-Valley Beit Midrash- On the worship of money

-American Prestige- A history of Modern Palestine

-On the Nose- the Black- Jewish relations industrial complex

“Judaism from the Ground up” sounds like a promising new project. He slips into Judeo-English a few times if anyone needs explanation/ translation. The older episodes were good, but required a strong basis of Jewish religious knowledge.