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For everyone protesting tomorrow please be safe, please be smart, please keep your eyes peeled and aware of your surroundings. I know I'm not the only person hearing rumors of agitators and disruptors
...dont let them scare you into sitting out. Signs are done a we are ready

I love this version of Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose." It's on repeat this week.

https://youtu.be/dWUa7aAIfLE?si=fVXtH4Oq2uiAAWSh

#tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude

I am just not vibing with this narrator. I'll have to try again in print another time...

There are some heart wrenching letters in here. But the ones that got me were the ones that hit closest to home.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Series of essays that make a compelling case for her thesis that people love dead Jews and stories of dead Jews more than they care about the lives of the living Jews. Learned a lot (e.g, that last name changes on arrival at Ellis Island is a myth) and thought about unlit I‘d never really had to confront as a non-Jew. I found the narration a little grating, but otherwise a definite pick.

Fifth candle of the #Hanukkahchallenge: Two heroines move in some strange parallel four hundreds years apart and tell a story, reveal the history of people, history of Jews.
I cannot be objective judging these stories, because at some point of my life I have experienced some measure of it all: the awfulness of being addressed "you, the Jewess", the heated discussion of rabbis and the scorching sun at Masada. #reread #iamthatjew

For the first candle of my #Hanukkahchallenge I‘ve picked a book that pushed me towards the idea of celebrating each Hanukkah day by writing about a book about a Jew or written by a Jew. I picked it because I hoped to find an answer to a question: why so many people tear down the portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza while respecting dead Holocaust victims. The book is well written, but I didn‘t like the answer #iamthatjew

Finally reading this book feels like a big accomplishment for me. It's been sitting on my Kindle for a few years and I've always been too intimidated by its length to read it. But I did and it was very good!