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Bellevue Hotel in Buitenzorg, modern-day Bogor City, West Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

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Views Along an Alberta Highway into Waterton Lakes National Park by Mark Stevens

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10.4.2023: Bellevue

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A Chabad synagogue in Pomona, New York, burned to the ground on April 17th, along with its three Torah scrolls.

Torah scrolls are hand-written, hand-made, and kept in elaborately decorated cases or wrappings.

Many of them have long histories; my synagogue has two, I think, that were smuggled out of villages being destroyed in pogroms or in Nazi attacks. One of them is the only remaining piece of that village on earth.

Sometimes, the Torah scroll doesn't even belong to the synagogue, but is on loan from a place like the Memorial Scrolls Trust:

There's an entire Jewish holiday just for taking them out and dancing with them: Simchat Torah, "The Joy of Torah."

In fact, that was the holiday on which Hamas's invasion took place.

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So it's a particular tragedy when a Torah is destroyed.

Chabad itself has a page about what goes into making just one Torah scroll:

"An authentic Torah scroll is a mind-boggling masterpiece of labor and skill. Comprising between 62 and 84 sheets of parchment -- cured, tanned, scraped and prepared according to exacting Torah law specifications -- and containing exactly 304,805 letters, the resulting handwritten scroll takes many months to complete.

"An expert pious scribe carefully inks each letter with a feather quill, under the intricate calligraphic guidelines of Ktav Ashurit (Ashurite Script). The sheets of parchment are then sewn together with sinews to form one long scroll. While most Torah scrolls stand around two feet in height and weigh 20-25 pounds, some are huge and quite heavy, while others are doll-sized and lightweight."

I learned all of this on Tumblr.

Once upon time, in people's "punch Nazis" days, I would've been able to find some mention on Tumblr of this synagogue burning.

There is none, so I'm posting about it.

And I'm going to quote Daniel Weiner, Rabbi of Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, Washington, when his own synagogue was vandalized last November:

"It’s horrific and heartbreaking.... [Taking out your feelings about] what's going on in the Middle East by defacing a sacred space of a synagogue -- that’s the very definition of antisemitism."

I'm also posting about the Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue in Toronto, whose windows were broken on Friday, April 19th, by someone who also tried to break the front door down.

And the April 15 graffiti outside a Bangor, Maine synagogue that said, "Nazi Israel 30K murdered," next to a crossed-out Star of David. The same synagogue faced pro-Hamas flyers plastered around it in November.

I was going to include all the synagogues vandalized over the past six months. But there are way too many. Several every week. Lots are swastikas.

I'll go back to just doing attacks on and near synagogues.

Someone has to talk about the 1-year-old who was stabbed outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel (BZBI) synagogue, in Philadelphia, on April 13th.

The foiled terrorist attack on a Moscow synagogue on April 11th.

The man who, on April 9th, screamed at the rabbi at Moldova's Great Synagogue, "What are you doing here? How come no one has finished you off for everything you are doing to the Palestinians?" Just one week after people had vandalized a Holocaust memorial in nearby Soroka, and sprayed "Free Palestine" on it.

The Oldenburg, Germany synagogue that was firebombed on April 5th.

The Florida Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center, which on March 16 burned, but not to the ground. The Torah scrolls were safe, and no one was hurt, but the back of the building was severely damaged.

The planned-but-thwarted-on-March-7th ISIS massacre in a Moscow synagogue.

The stabbing of an Orthodox Jew in Switzerland on March 5th. (He was badly injured, but expected to survive.)

A man leaving a synagogue in Paris was beaten on March 3rd.

People set the courtyard of a synagogue in Sfax, Tunisia on fire on February 27th. Firefighters managed to put the fire out before it consumed the inside of the building.

The synagogue is no longer used; there are no Jews left in its area, and fewer than 1,000 Jews left in Tunisia overall.

(Thousands of Tunisian Jews were sent to work camps during the Holocaust. Antisemitism across the Middle East continued to increase rapidly for decades. By the 1970s, 90% of Tunisian Jews had fled to France or Israel.)

On February 18, an Orthodox Jew leaving Synagogue of Inverrary-Chabad in Lauderhill, Florida, was beaten by an attacker yelling racial slurs.

Someone deliberately chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, to smash all the windows in the front of Sgoolai Israel Synagogue in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick.

On December 29, Turkey arrested 32 people linked to ISIS who were planning attacks on synagogues and churches.

On December 17, a man drove a U-Haul truck up onto the sidewalk between a barrier and the front door of the Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington D.C., got out, and started yelling "Gas the Jews." He also sprayed a foul-smelling substance on two people leaving the synagogue.

December 17 also saw 400 synagogues across the United States receive bomb threats.

On December 11, a man attacked an elderly couple on their way into a synagogue in Los Angeles, screaming, "Give me your earrings, Jew!!" and beating one of them bloody with a belt. (Happily, he chased the guy down the street, and caught him when his pants fell down.)

On December 10, a 16-year-old was arrested in Vienna for planning an attack on a synagogue.

On December 8, on the first night of Hanukkah, 15 synagogues in New York State received bomb threats. And someone screamed, "Free Palestine," and fired shots outside of Temple Israel in Albany, NY. Which has a preschool that was in session.

Meanwhile, the five Jews left in Egypt were canceling public Hanukkah candle-lighting at their synagogue out of fear of reprisals. Particularly after two Israelis in Alexandria had been gunned down by terrorists on October 8. (While Israel was still fighting Hamas in Israel.)

On November 15, a terrorist group set the only synagogue in Armenia on fire.

Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) has a history of working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

(PFLP is part of Hamas's network of groups. Samidoun is their nonprofit arm - which is why Germany banned Samidoun last year, although it's still active in many other countries.

PFLP is also actively supported by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a diaspora nonprofit group, and Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an SJP spinoff in NYC.)

On November 11, halfway through Shabbat services, police asked Central Shul in Melbourne, Australia to evacuate "as a precaution" due to a "pro-Palestinian" protest that had chosen the neighboring park as its gathering place. Australia has seen some very outspoken antisemitism at protests, including the march shortly after October 7 that chanted "Gas the Jews."

Also on November 11, protesters targeted a synagogue along a march route. They sat in their cars, spraying green smoke and shouting at people leaving the synagogue. The march itself featured a record number of horrifying signs and chants.

On November 7th, Congregation Beth Tikvah in Montreal was firebombed, and the back door of the Jewish organization across the street (Federation CJA) was set on fire.

On November 4, protesters chanted "Bomb Israel," and burned an Israeli flag outside the only synagogue in Malmo, Sweden.

During October, there were 501 antisemitic acts under investigation in France in just three weeks, including groups gathering in front of synagogues shouting threats, and graffiti such as the words “killing Jews is a duty” sprayed outside a stadium.

On October 18, people firebombed a synagogue in Berlin after homes all over the neighborhood were graffitied with stars of David.

And also on October 18, hundreds of "pro-Palestine" rioters attacked the Or Zaruah Synagogue, in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa, while worshippers were inside.

Based on the video, they seem to have blocked the synagogue entrance completely, while screaming "Murderous Israel" and waving Palestinian flags. (Melilla is an autonomous zone belonging to Spain. It borders Morocco.)

On October 17, during pro-Palestinian protests, hundreds of rioters set fire to Al Hammah synagogue, an abandoned house of prayer in central Tunisia. They hammered down the building’s walls and raised a Palestinian flag on the building. Police did not intervene.

The Facebook page "Tunigate", which has around 88 thousand followers, published a video of the assault. So did "Radio Bousalem”, with 83 thousand users. The vast majority of comments on these videos welcome these acts. The building was severely damaged and almost completely razed to the ground.

On October 15, bomb threats were sent to many East Coast synagogues. Attleboro synagogue Congregation Agudas-Achim received one of the emails, which read, "The bombs will blow up in a few hours. A lot of people will die. You all deserve to die."

On October 8 -- again, while Hamas was still in Israel -- Madrid’s main synagogue was defaced with graffiti that read “Free Palestine” next to a crossed-out Star of David.

And on October 7, an assailant in Rockland, NY fired a BB gun at two women entering a synagogue. Later in the month, a banner at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in the area was vandalized with the words, “Fuckin kikes."

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Twenty-five years later, she still vividly recalled the distraught young black woman who had told her she was a “homosexual and was taking hormone [sic].” Although Murray always denied being a lesbian, she occasionally admitted to “homosexual tendencies” as the only available descriptor that people would accept. As for the report that she was taking hormones, nothing in her correspondence with doctors supports that claim. She wanted testosterone badly enough, however, that she may well have told the corrections officer that doctors had agreed to give it to her. Barry did not arrest Murray for hitchhiking but rather escorted her to the New York City Police Department, where officers decided to take her to Bus Trouble 81 Bellevue Hospital. There, Murray poured out her story to a psychiatrist, who gave her a diagnosis of “schizophrenia.” In the doctor’s view, she suffered from a delusion: she believed that she was a man. Permitted to call a family member, Murray contacted her “cousin” Mac. The next day, Mac checked her out of Bellevue and, probably on the recommendaation of Dr. Chinn, took her to a private psychiatric facility, Dr. Rogers’s Hospital, at 345 Edgecombe Avenue, on the corner of 150th Street. Murray was lucky. If Mac had not come to her rescue, Bellevue psychiatrists were prepared to seek her commitment to one of the vast, overcrowded state hospitals for the mentally ill.

— Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg

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"But You Painted Me Golden"

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Sypnosis — The little acts they do that make you fall in love with them a little more everyday.

Note — Olivia Benson, Elliot Stabler, Alexandra Cabot, Casey Novak

(Female doctor centered, but no pronouns used.)

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Olivia Benson

• — Olivia absolutely adores playing with your hair.

• — As she grew, she rejected femininity. Growing up in a household where she wasn't taught how to act feminine.

• — How to apply makeup, how to wear dresses, it felt unusual for her. But when she met you, it felt easy. To want to put on a dress, and slip it off.

• — She loves your soft, silky hair. It was probably her favorite part of you, if not everything. The way it ran around your shoulders as she watched you perform surgery from afar. She can’t help but admire you lovingly.

• — When you get home, you’re usually asleep when she whispers, "You’re so beautiful, darling." as you lay on her chest, her gentle hands touching your mane, smiling to herself.

• — Little did she know, you were awake. Listening to how abrupt her heartbeat is, you grin against her sternum.

Elliot Stabler

• — Is Elliot, really Elliot Stabler without playful banter?

• — In highschool, he was the class clown. Been popular for being charming, his beguiling antics was his persona.

• — That was one of the reasons you fell in love with him. When he could make you smile in a bad day, you were so lucky to call him yours.

• — One day, you came home after a busy day at the hospital to Elliot on the couch, going through case files when he meets your eyes. You swear you catched a mischievous glint in his gaze.

• — "What’s cookin’, good lookin’?" He snickers, gesturing for you to sit beside him. You laugh against him, bringing your lips to his. "Eh, me or you?"

• — And suddenly, all the worries left your shoulders the moment you meet his warm embrace that broke your cold barrier.

Alexandra Cabot

• — You find it endearing that she can’t go on a day without kissing you, everywhere really.

• — Your first kiss was when Alex visted you in Bellevue Hospital to pick you up. Just as you were about to leave, a storm brew and both of you were stuck.

• — It was in your office, where you were rapidly ranting about how difficult it is to indoctrinate interns, raving to yourself as you sit in your office chair. All of a sudden, she kissed you, her hands on your cheeks. Let’s just say, you never made it to your apartment that night.

• — Since then, she was all about kissing you. Kisses on your face as you wake up became your alarm, kisses on your shoulder... made you jumpy?

• — "Alexandra! I swear to Go—" she interrupted you with a kiss to your lips, but as usual, you returned the favor. The blonde smiled to herself, "It’s your fault you’re so beautiful, baby."

• — You still blame her that you can’t get anything done without kiss marks all over your collarbones.

Casey Novak

• — She was Cassandra "waist-grabber" Novak, to you.

• — Gosh, she is the clingiest. Despite her reserved and formal attorney ambience, she needs her touch!

• — It was a busy day, and all she wanted was to come home to her favorite person. When she entered your shared apartment, she found you humming to yourself as you wash the dishes.

• — You didn’t feel her presence, not until her soft hands lingered on your waist. "Hey, you." You utter, facing her as you hug her back. Casey’s face was on the crook of you neck, as you kiss her forehead.

• — When she pulls away, she hugs you firmly again. You let out a laugh, patting her auburn hair as she mutters, "You left your sharp surgery stuff in my car, by the way." which made you laugh even more, at her choice of words.

• — "Okay, will you let go of me for a second so I can get my sharp surgery stuff in your car?"

• — "No."

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BELLEVUE, Ky. (WKRC) - Residents in Northern Kentucky are on edge after discovering flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan in several neighborhoods.

The flyers, which have been found over the past few days, have prompted local police to reach out to federal authorities.

Bonnie, who was visiting her sister in Bellevue, said she found one of the flyers next to her car.

"I found it this morning when I came over, and it was literally lying next to my car," Bonnie said.

She noted that there was also one in a neighbor's yard. The flyer read, "Leave now avoid deportation," and included information for KKK groups in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

"It’s very scary to see something like that," Bonnie said.

The flyers have also been reported in Ludlow, Fort Wright, and Fort Mitchell.

"Completely flabbergasted when I saw that. 15 years doing this, and I’ve never seen anything like this," said Bellevue Police Chief Jon McClain.

McClain first heard about the flyers on Monday and has since contacted the FBI.

"I sent an email to the agent in charge of the Covington office to let them know this propaganda is making its rounds," McClain said.

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"Bellevue" Palace Hotel in Abbazia, modern-day Opatija, Croatia

Austrian vintage postcard

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Red Rock Parkway on a Mostly Cloudy Day (\Waterton Lakes National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: From a roadside viewpoint and parking area along Alberta Provincial Highway No. 6 with a view looking to the northwest back to the mountains in Waterton Lakes National Park. The setting is with the Red Rock Parkway and the drive into that portion of the national park.

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22.10.2023 Bellevue

Quelle: Ari Fink Photography

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