#Jewish American Families

[kick-a-long]

I'm bracing myself for the pro palistine version of sandy hook truthers about the Bibas children and their mother.

I wonder how soon the pro pal mobs of english speaking westeners will be screeching for pictures of those two dead children, just like they slurped up any and every picture of a mangled child's body killed in war regardless of which war? I wonder how soon it will take them to call them all actors? How soon they will look at pictures of those boy's father looking for "clues" to what "real" grief looks like?

Damn the pro palistinians for all they have already done. Damn them twice for all that they will do. Damn them for all time for doing it all for sadistic pleasure.

[rodeodeparis]

trump winning mostly due to channeling the economic concerns of american voters into a better campaign (and probably also a few bomb threats) being blamed by hardline dems on arab/muslim/jewish voter treachery is pretty medieval europe coded i have to say

[starlightandmusings]

one time in a fic i saw that les’s full name was leshem. and that’s canon to me folks

[notsocooljess]

Happy WIP Wednesday!

thanks for the tag @thelettersfromnoone! 🎅🏼

please share your last sentence; or, if you don’t have one, share a plot bunny or idea! (OR sketch for your artwork!)

last one before christmas! here’s a snippet of my everlark christmas drabble (that is of course much longer than i intended)🎄

“So remind me of our menu tonight?”

Peeta went on to describe the feast he had planned, which Katniss was already familiar with since she had helped gather much of the items. Roasted duck, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes. Cheese buns and spinach pastries. Too many types of cookies and apple pie. Normally, Katniss’s mouth would be watering just from the conversation. Currently, the only thing that sounded appetizing was the cheese buns.

“Well if we’re gonna feed the town tonight, shouldn’t we get started?” Katniss asked.

“Soon, but not yet,” Peeta responded.

tagging: @atelierlili & @littlemarianah 🎁

[tabithatwo]

mirrors and reflections in yellowjackets (part one: the pilot)

yellowjackets pilot (2019) / behind the draped mirror by colin dickey (2015) / on dionysus by svetlana kirute (2022) / venus in venice by anne hollander (1998) / venus with a mirror by titian (1555) / aphrodite and mirrors, author unknown (2009)

[chicago-geniza]

At the register and the info desk all day tomorrow. Brainstorming a Cora Levinson backstory fanfiction because assimilated, first-gen upwardly mobile child of nouveau riche parents, with a Jewish immigrant dad and a Midwestern Christian mother, who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio during the Reconstruction Era, is such historian bait to me, specifically, I actually cannot resist the premise

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Chaim Gross, Happy Children, 1973

Website Description:

“Chaim Gross grew up in a large and loving Jewish family with ten brothers and sisters. When he was very young, Gross saw his parents nearly beaten to death for their religious beliefs by Cossack soldiers. As an adult, he compensated for this trauma by sculpting large families, as in Happy Children, which shows two small children emulating the adults who dance with them. The larger figures and the ring of bronze symbolically protect the children, as Gross's parents had been unable to do”.

[kick-a-long]

So I’ve been celebrating Shabbat for a few months (it’s unbelievably amazing btw, I rest, light candles, I limp through Hebrew but I can feel it getting easier to say and understand, have wine, feel like a winner because no one has killed me this week.) but I don’t always want/make bread. I love bread, I love making it, having bread all week, and braiding it but my husband can’t eat it so one loaf is a lot of bread. But I sometimes wonder if challah is the only option. Putting eggs, honey, and butter in a bread reads as a kind of cake to me. It also makes sense to me that cake is fitting for celebration and contemplation about the good in life.

My question is: does jumblr know if I can make babka or rugula instead for Shabbat? Can I make gluten free cookies as long as it has over 1/8th oat flour? Maybe even Cinnamon buns fit a lot of the same ingredients as challah? Not to get all rabbinical, but does the Hebrew for what bread you have on Shabbat specify bread as opposed to cakes (which I don’t think was a separate category of food from bread 3000 years ago? The internet says challah started in 15th century Eastern Europe.

The truth is I’m not following a lot of rules for Shabbat anyway, although I try to get close each Friday. I want it to be Jewish, not just a jew making a type of Shabbat type thing on Fridays. so is this: “in for a penny in for a pound” challah is traditional, it must be bread not cake, or is it: as long as you usually do challah you can make cake and treats every once in a while?

[basingstokemercury]

Serious question what's up with everyone making fun of country nowadays and invoking tropes I don't think I've even seen

"it's backwards and conservative" Do you have any familiarity with Johnny Cash? An activist for Native American rights whose iconic image is the Man In Black as a symbol for the disadvantaged? The songs Folsom Prison Blues? Man In Black? And I know Tumblr loves Dolly Parton as a person, for good reason - 9 To 5, her signature workers' rights protest, isn't quite country, but most of her discography is.

"it's too religious" Fair - several musically excellent songs lean too heavily into Christian themes for me to enjoy as a Jew (though I'm sure Christian audiences love them, progressive ones too). But many of those religious songs evoke more universally applicable ideas of brotherhood, hope, and justice - and are those really things worthy of mockery?

"the emotions are shallow" I See A Darkness is one of the most authentic portrayals of depression in music I know of. Many country songs have themes of love, heartbreak, and drama/tragedy - but those are common to music across nearly all genres, even if specific songs don't land for everyone.

At the end of the day it's just a music genre, yes, but one that does have emotional significance for many people, cultural significance for many others, and as much diversity in content and performer talent as any genre of entertainment.

And it's not very fun to have cherished childhood memories and music that genuinely resonates with you mocked just about everywhere you turn aside from people who are actually fans of it.

[sootyships]

the fact that yankee movies and shows consistently use not-even-light-haired people to play blonds and, like, targaryens, just honestly genuinely gets on my nerves.

like i love orlando bloom as legolas as much as the next person but for fuck's sake you'd have such an easier time if you actually used blonds???? it's not like blonds are cryptids?!?!?!?!?!?!

[garlic-and-cloves]

It just occurred to me how my parents "be a computer scientist or an engineer! It pays really well!" Is just the current iteration of the doctor-or-lawyer stereotype

[chicago-geniza]

The Zamoyski Museum makes videos with historical reenactors in character as the household domestic staff and there is a maid named Stefcia who I think is supposed to be a working-class girl from the 19th century and she speaks Polish with a Ukrainian accent and I have been driving myself insane in an attempt to place the dialect

[via-the-ghoul]

The Wolf siblings are scaremerican

Clawdia is one of them

She’s introduced in Frights Camera Action

She’s unliving in Londoom.

Clawdia Wolf is an Scaremercian Werewolf in Londoom

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Copilovich Siblings, Minnesota c. 1922

[sporkberries]

rewatching an american tail with my little sister atm and its just really interesting to me how the same don bluth who made anastasia made this movie.