#chicago coffee shop

[laputalashline]

[lucyslenses]

Lost in conversation.

Shot on Kodak Portra 400 Color Film.

[ellebelles-world]

One of my favorite coffee shops in Chicago! The sweet potato latte is a must try in the fall 🍂🍁☕️

[eretzyisrael]

By Seth J. Frantzman

A number of disturbing news stories over the past week about anti-Jewish incidents in the US.

A Jewish man walking to synagogue was shot in Chicago.

A Jewish man was slashed in Brooklyn.

A Jewish man and his five year old son were harassed and told to leave a coffee shop because he had a Star of David on in Oakland.

These incidents are part of the rising wave of hatred directed at Jews in the United States. These are not just random attacks. They target people who look "visibly Jewish" meaning they might be in a Jewish neighborhood or dressed like an Orthodox Jew, or have a symbol, such as a Star of David.

It reminds me when I first moved to Jerusalem to study, I got to know a number of people who went on to do volunteer work or study abroad or work in other countries. Many of them were Jewish and wore Jewish symbols, such as a Star of David necklace. I remember hearing again and again how they were told by programs they worked for or NGOs that they couldn't wear anything Jewish in Jordan, Yemen, Egypt...and even in the UK.

It was interesting to me this Nazi-like hatred of any symbol or even the mention of being Jewish throughout many countries in the region. Make no mistake, this is Nazi-like hatred, this is complete ethnic cleansing of Jews who were indigenous to the region and had lived in places like Yemen or Egypt for thousands of years. These societies have cultivated hatred of Jews as a norm.

Today that zealous hatred and attempt to erase any visible trace of Jewishness and Judaism and Jewish symbols is becoming common in the West. It begins in a slow way, with synagogues all needing armed guards and Jewish schools needing walls and armed guards, and then it proceeds to attacks on people who wear a kippah or a Star of David.

For a long time when Haredi Jews were attacked in Brooklyn or New York, a lot of people would not step up and do anything because it was happening to Orthodox Jews. There were weekly attacks on Orthodox Jews, and almost all of them carried out by other minority groups, and therefore authorities and others preferred not to highlight this. The attack in Chicago is appears to be in the process of being covered up by authorities, a preference for not mentioning the background of the perpetrator.

In essence the quiet and unspoken message is that because most attacks on Jews are carried out by other minorities, the theory is that if you mention who those people are then it might be "racist" against them, meaning it's "racist" to note that people are anti-semitic. This is the new shield that violent anti-Jewish crimes have. To make them acceptable and essentially move the West back towards the 1930s types of hatred that once existed, instead of noting that a lot of the Nazi-like anti-Jewish hate that is common in Yemen-Egypt-Jordan and other places is percolating up in the West, the preference is to simply ignore or deny it

[zuezuesknots]

☕️Allez Cafe

📌Chicago, Il

[hwsforeignrelations]

RANT

[kamryn1963]

This fic is now completed with 4/4 chapters.

[polybiiex]

metropolis, a commission i did for my friend jake. a christmas gift for our mutual friend morgan (who i've actually drawn before), it's a coffee shop they like to hang out at. jake collects vinyl and cds so i made it like a jewel case.

[lattealmond]

Pre concert caffeine

[reorganize-my-life]

oct 16 2023 /// 🎧 : good looking - suki waterhouse

it's getting cozy in here 🍂

[kaesaaurelia]

Just had to gently remind an indignant barista that in fact, New Yorkers are less likely to talk shit about Chicago and more likely to forget it exists.

I then had to defend New Yorkers as not all being assholes who take View of the World from 9th Avenue as accurate geography.

(It is 8:30 am, snowing, and I got like 3 hours of sleep so I wasn't real coherent but let the record show that I tried.)

[lilykitai]

[lucyslenses]

Morning Coffee ☕️

Shot with Nikon D800 & 50mm f1.8

[ellebelles-world]

More fall drinks today for Friday coffee with my bff ☕️ We went to Gallery Cafe today 🎨 I got the poison apple and my bff got the caramel apple butter latte 🍏🎃

[bbybrownbat]

A day in photos 📸

(If anyone lives in Chicago and enjoys Surrealism, I highly recommend checking out the Remedios Varo Art Exhibit currently at the Institute of Art, it’s awesome!👏🏼)

IG: bbybrownbat

[sashastarlight]

The turn out for our Spread the Love LGBTQIA+ event hosted by our cities pride collaboration was AWESOME.🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

So much love and support from my community I've been on the verge of tears for over a day

I want to share more, but I gotta go to work >~<