May 2013
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Away for a few days!
*This post is queued (omg that’s such a weird word) because I don’t know if I’ll actually get on the tumblah today.*
Anyway, I’m driving down to New York tomorrow to pop by my bubbie and zayde for a day and then head over to Long Island to attend Keshet’s Inclusion Training Institute. I’m out of town until next Wednesday and I’m not sure what my internet...
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Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their... →
Society pressures men to initiate sexual relationships, yet punishes them when they’re candid about their desires. So how can a man express his sexual needs without being tarred as a creep?
NO
NO NO NO
NO
STILL NO
NOPE
A THOUSAND TIMES NO
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Exercise doesn't help depression, study concludes →
therapsida:
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tooyoungforthelivingdead:
A study into whether physical activity alleviates the symptoms of depression has found there is no benefit. Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that adding a physical activity intervention to usual care did not reduce symptoms of depression more than usual care alone. This contrasts with current clinical guidance...
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CHEESECAKE!!!
Catch ya on the flipside, yehudim.
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Dudes: I know you have this unwritten rule about not using the the urinal next to someone if there’s a whole row open.
Newsflash: I have that same rule for the ellipticals so why would you get on the one right next to me when there are plenty of others open.
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Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now →
“One vocal complaint in recent years is that the Bloomberg administration’s global city ambitions have left New York feeling very little like New York. Although Ms. Quinlan’s film is wistful for what was, it simultaneously conveys how enduring a certain version of authenticity is. Early in the film we meet a young sanitation worker named Ben Lee of Staten Island. He tells a story about...
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Jew Dancy: cartographicbird: All the heroes are really the villains:…
conversationsonthecouch:
Wow—this is such a great analysis of some of the dynamics of antisemitism and how the word is deployed. Can I ask a question? What do you think of the appropriateness of using the term for pre-modern acts of Jewish hatred like medieval blood libels or passages in the Gospel of John?...
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How a 1976 Exhibit Changed the Way We Think About... →
“Taken together, the photographic material enlarged, complicated and unsettled American Jewry’s relationship to its Eastern European past. At a time when that relationship took its cue from “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Image” offered a counter-narrative rooted in history rather than in sentiment.
Here, Jews came in multiples instead of in stereotypes: women in smartly styled flapper dresses,...
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lazersilberstein asked: Btw i think about Paris's assimilation on the regular bc i lovehate gilmore girls
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Jewish characters and representation on Gilmore...
So I’ve been on an epic “Gilmore Girls” rewatch and today I finished up S2. I’ve been mildly amused/annoyed by some of the “Stars Hollow Confessions” blog submissions and I wanted to write something about Rory’s relationships, but I first want to say something about the problematic representation of Judaism and Jewishness on the show.
I think Gilmore...
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“Nail polish is probably a chatzita for tefillin, but since I started putting...”
– #immodestjewishgirlproblems (via immodestjewishgirlproblems)
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“This year, Quvenzhané Wallis took the world by storm with her staggering...”
– My Racist Encounter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
It is not my job to convince you to distinguish me from the violent sociopaths that claim to be Muslims, whose terrorism I neither support, nor condone. It is your job. Just like when a disturbed young white man shoots up a movie...
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Student: Are you on the Chabad texting list? Because not only will they text you Shabbat times, but when the Mashiach comes, they'll send you text.
Me: REALLY?
Student: I KNOW!
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onegirlrhumba:
when push comes to shove, i could not give less of a shit about what men have to say about feminism.
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“The tale of Charlemagne’s daughter Bertha, carrying her lover Angilbert...”
– Janet L Nelson, Gendering courts in the early medieval west
Hidden gems in academic articles: or, why history is rarely as boring as textbooks would have you believe.
(via possiblythreefourthspeahen)
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The Oppressor Class
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Phoebe Maltz nails it, discussing the creation of a late 19th century German colony established, in part, to keep good Aryans away from those meddlesome Jews:
Anti-Semites weren’t - aren’t - just people who think they’re better than Jews. They’re people who think they’re being oppressed by Jews.
This is part of the reason why anti-Semitism so...
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The 10-Step Guide to alienating your audience and...
Apparently, my community’s definition of “community collaboration” is:
I try, unsuccessfully, for two years to set up a meeting of people doing young adult programming at shuls, JCCs, etc., so that we can be better aware of each other’s programs as well as support each other’s programs.
New lady at the Federation comes in to specifically do young adult programming.
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Tonight we dressed up and went for drinks and dinner and then to the symphony because we are real grownups.
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me: quick! summarize Iron Man 2 for me so I can go see 3!
sister: oh my GOD.
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On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash... →
1. Ignoring the question of how Princess Leia could possibly know where the trash compactor is, or that the vent she blasts open leads to a good hiding place for the rescue crew, why are there vents leading down there at all? Would not vents leading into any garbage-disposal system allow the fetid smell of rotting garbage, spores, molds, etc., to seep up into the rest of the Death Star? Would not...
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Joba’s on the DL, too?
lololololololololololololol
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
i think i died
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