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Theodore H. Epp - Why Do Christians Suffer? - Back To The Bible - 1970

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PLEASE VOTE. IT MATTERS.

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Portrait of a Rabbi with a Young Pupil, Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921), Hungarian.

oil on panel

21 by 26.7 cm

The sensitive Portrait of a Rabbi with a Young Pupil reflects the deep respect and admiration that Isidor Kaufmann felt for Jewish life and religious figures whom he encountered during his summer visits to the shtetls in the Pale of Settlement in the early 1900s.

In the present work, a dignified young Rabbi and his pupil are posed before an embroidered Torah Ark curtain. The closeness of the two figures, the child leaning slightly in towards the older man, suggest that they are possibly a father and son. Behind them, the beige and crimson velvet curtain embroidered in silver and gold thread, envelopes the two figures in an atmosphere of intense holiness. Both the solemn Rabbi and the young child gaze downwards in a moment of intense spirituality. The embroidered letters Kaf Tav (Keter Torah, Crown of Torah) are precisely centered above the two figures, symbolizing their devotion to a life based on Jewish faith and religious practice. The luster of the painting is enhanced by the richly embroidered collar of the man’s Tallit, the Atara, which stands out from the cream-colored fabric of the Tallit itself. Details such as this, as well as the exquisite portrayal of the soft skin tones, the texture of the Rabbi’s dark beard, and the majestic fur shtreimels, create a remarkable sense of realism. In another second, we expect the Rabbi to lift his eyes and begin to speak.

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Does anyone remember the actual genocide perpetrated against the Yazidis? I do.

The taking of Yazidi girls and women as sex slaves by ISIS terrorists, radical Islamists, was a particularly horrifying part of that crime against that ethno-religious group.

We got some good news for Rosh Ha'Shana:

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.

"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders

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I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.

"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders

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I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.

"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders

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I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.

"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders

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it's so annoying seeing posts about Jewish culture—cutesy posts about fighting with g-d that appeal to Christian atheists' religious trauma, posts with Jewish music, posts with pictures of beautiful Jews—getting tens or even hundreds of thousands of notes, but the moment someone makes a post about antisemitism—about how it's built in to Western society, about how it's insidious and creeping, about how you've probably internalized it, about the difficulties we face and the grief we feel—they fail to break jumblr containment. Don't get me wrong, I love that goyim are celebrating Jewish culture as something beautiful and wonderful, but that can't be all we are to you. We're real people with real problems that you can't just ignore in favor of reblogging posts about bagels or whatever

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Tibetan women, Tibet/China, by Kin Chan Coedel

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Today is the anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in the Gregorian calendar. It happened in 2018, not that long ago, almost yesterday in Jewish time, but so many more horrific things have rocked our community since then, that it seems to have been overlooked. And it's devastating. It's devastating that in the six years since that day, hundreds more Jews have been killed for the sole reason that they were Jews, for the same ancient hatred that fueled Robert Bowers to open fire in a synagogue on Shabbat and kill eleven Jews. We can't let it be forgotten. It was forgotten by the rest of the world almost as soon as soon as it happened, but we can't let it be forgotten amongst us Jews. Our memory is what keeps us going.

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You can't say "I love Jews" and then say "I hope Israel is bombed to glass." You cannot claim to love a group of people and then hope that half of them die. That's not how love works.

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"DNI: Standard DNI criteria" is so funny, like anyone checking if they should interact is gonna be familiar enough with dni's to know the standard redundant options. really exposes the purpose of them, they signal an in-group to other people with the same DNI rather than actually being a warning for potentially unwanted interactions.

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Sally Rooney, Arundhati Roy and Percival Everett are among almost 400 authors preparing to call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that they claim are “complicit in genocide”.

The authors of Normal People, The God of Small Things and James respectively have signed a pledge promising to boycott Israeli publishers, book festivals and literary agencies that have not spoken out against their country’s role in the war in Gaza.

However, the move has caused alarm among other literary figures, with one prominent agent warning that it effectively amounts to a “cultural ban of all Israeli voices”.

Lee Child, the bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels, urged fellow writers not to “attack the very people whose hearts are still in the right place”, adding that Israeli creatives are the “nation’s only voices for peace and common sense”.

I want to understand how these leftist authors/creatives don’t seem to comprehend that this is the kind of censorship imposed by authoritarians and doesn’t actually help anyone, but could do serious harm to voices working to create change. it doesn’t make sense. do they have no grasp of historical context or what this makes them sound like?

the rest of this is under the cut, but it concludes, “The target of their ire is just wrong because the people who will suffer from this will be Israelis who are on the left and anti-Netanyahu. There is no wisdom for this boycott which is born out of hatred and antisemitism.”

Signatories of the unpublished letter, leaked to The Times, consider that silence from the unnamed cultural institutions indicates that they are “complicit in the ongoing occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine”.

The campaign has been organised by the Palestine Festival of Literature, which holds an annual Palfest festival in cities in the West Bank, supported by one-off events in London and New York. It is understood that a list of signatories to the campaign will be unveiled on Monday.

The call for signatories is being supported by the Fossil Free Books pressure group, which has shared the letter with its members having campaigned for major UK book festivals to cut ties with sponsors such as Baillie Gifford this year.

A number of authors shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize have agreed to sign the pledge, including the favourite, Everett, and Rachel Kushner. Roy, the former Booker winner and Abdulrazak Gurnah, a British-based Nobel laureate have also signed the letter.

The letter states that Israel has made Gaza “unlivable” [sic] and its “genocide … is the biggest war on children this century”.

“Culture has played an integral role in normalising these injustices. Israeli cultural institutions, often working directly with the state, have been crucial in obfuscating, disguising and art-washing the dispossession and oppression of millions of Palestinians for decades,” it added.

“We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement.”

It drew comparisons to a cultural boycott by authors against South African apartheid in the Eighties.

“We will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians,” it said.

“We will not co-operate with Israeli institutions including publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications that are complicit in violating Palestinian rights.”

In response, Child said a “hugely important” lesson was being ignored: “Don’t attack the very people whose hearts are still in the right place — Israel’s creatives and intellectuals, who are that nation’s only voices for peace and common sense.

“They are firm allies in the struggle for an equitable outcome, and to demonise them is to shoot the Palestinian cause in the foot. Personally I support a full two-state solution, and I’m a pragmatic person, so my instinct is to partner with Israelis who think the same way. Building bridges with them is the way to go. Cancelling them is nuts.”

Larry Finlay, a former publishing chief at Penguin’s Transworld books with 40 years’ experience, warned that the move could severely damage the Israeli literary industry.

“The target of their ire is just wrong because the people who will suffer from this will be Israelis who are on the left and anti-Netanyahu,” he said. “There is no wisdom for this boycott which is born out of hatred and antisemitism.”

The Palestine Festival of Literature has been approached for comment.

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Poll time 🪄

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In the comment section of a post about plurality (person in the screenshot is a self claimed terf)

[Image ID 1: A Tumblr textpost that reads "The block button is right there. You're actively spreading mental illness on the internet on a site full of impressionable children. /end ID 1]

[Image ID 2: A Tumblr texpost htat reads "You're just you. There is no we. The rest of it is demons. Please get help" /end ID 2]

Oh my god ??? That's such an awful thing to say to someone :(( I'm tired of people (cough cough ableists) telling people that they're faking their mental illnesses. YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHO HAS WHAT.

Anyways, to my systems, you're all valid. Just because some random stranger on the internet is deciding to be a piece of shit, it doesn't mean that you're faking it. 🫂

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its amazing how much I say "I think Zionism was by and large a mistake" and yet people still think I'm a zionist just because I a) don't throw Israelis under the bus and b) also think that the current antizionist movement was a mistake

y'all know binaries are fake and there are options besides "yes" and "no" in most things right

I can, in fact, oppose both zionism and antizionism. because I do. after much research, interactions with both communities, study, and just general pondering.

I am also extremely up front about what I believe and who I am, so "crypto zionist" is not only inaccurate, it's just embarrassing