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People run with hands up from the Lindt Cafe during a hostage standoff in Sydney, Australia / Getty Images
My ears perked up when I heard the news about a potential terror attack at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney. "Potential" terror attack, because for a while the nature of the situation was unclear. And then came the now-familiar black flag with white Arabic lettering, and what was murky became just a tiny bit clearer.
For some reason, my thoughts went to what this moment must feel like for the average Muslim living in Australia. Or in London. Or in my own New England city. Because that is an emotion I recognize. Though they had nothing to do with the crime, I imagine that these Muslims experienced that all-too-familiar feeling, that gnawing fear deep in the stomach, that in my house is called, "Oy. Not good for the Jews."
No Jew who has even a passing connection to community can credibly deny it. When something bad happens, you sit and wait, listening to the radio, watching the news, refreshing the screen. And then, they say, we can identify the attacker, name the criminal. And the name flashes across the screen. You read it and think, "Thank God that's not a Jewish name. Could that be a Jewish name? Oh man, that's a Jewish name."
On one level, of course it's utterly ridiculous that the actions of a complete stranger could reflect on me as a person. But the truth is complicated. Because no matter who I am or what I do, there will always be people who associate me with the bad apples. And maybe, in some small way, they have a point.
#illridewithyou is trending as a show of support for Muslim Australians after #sydneysiege http://t.co/zcDEvgFHkI pic.twitter.com/57RlfV1Ir7— ABC News (@abcnews) December 15, 2014
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Jaco Halfon spent the last week of November glued to his computer at home in L.A. Presidential election results were coming in from his homeland of Tunisia. Halfon, a Tunisian citizen, wanted to make sure that he was up-to-date and that readers of his popular Jewish website Harissa got the relevant commentaries.
Tunisian citizens voted in a free and direct presidential election for the first time on November 23. It had been three years since the Jasmin revolution that overthrew ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Following an interim government and October's parliamentary elections, it was time to for Tunisian citizens to vote on who would lead the new democracy.
Among the 11 million citizens living in Tunisia, there is still a tiny Jewish community; it has shrunk from more than 100,000 in 1948 to about 1,800 Jews today, mostly in Tunis and in the southeastern island of Djerba. Most Tunisian Jews have emigrated to Israel and France over the years, while a few thousand have moved to North America.
The new Tunisian election law determines that Tunisian citizens overseas are allowed to vote. Halfon decided not to vote, even though he is entitled to. "I feel a bit [far] away from over there," he said. "We do not intend to go back there so I think it is a Tunisian issue and it's for the people who live there to decide."
Leaving the decision to Tunisia's residents doesn't mean that Halfon doesn't have strong opinions about the elections. Out of the 25 candidates, the two who emerged as the leading candidates were Beji Caid Essebsi and Moncef Marzouki. If Halfon were to vote, he would vote without hesitation for Essebsi — or as he put it, "for democracy."
A Tunisian Jewish family on the island of Djerba / Getty Images
The Tunisian Ambassador to the United Kingdom recently came to the Chabad here in Oxford to give a Shabbat dinner talk. Needless to say, this event was not an ordinary Shabbat dinner by any means. After a meal of traditional Tunisian foods, the ambassador spoke about the need for co-existence, the importance of listening to other narratives, and — most interestingly for me — the status of Tunisian Jewry today. Though only about 1,500-strong today, the community leads a vibrant life — and many of the 80,000 Tunisian Jews across France, Canada and Israel regularly return to Tunisia for visits, even buying property there.
The ambassador painted a very inspiring picture. Yet one lady present was not quite in favor of this interpretation: She continuously interrupted him to claim that Jews were either struggling for survival after being forced to leave Tunisia, complete victims, or that the Israeli side of the story was being completely ignored. What's more, she implied that Jews would only buy property in Tunisia if it were cheap — that there was nothing to see and the country was "dirty" and "barren." As for one Tunisian Jewish community's endorsement of the Islamist Ennahda party, she was completely dismissive.
The ambassador responded eloquently to her claims and kept the discussion from being derailed. And another Moroccan gentleman pointed out the ex-Vichy French and Israeli state roles in the deportation of Jews to Israel. But this lady's outburst made me think: How might the Tunisian Jewish experience shake up some of our (Ashkenazi) assumptions about Mizrahim and Israel?
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Palestinians mark the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba or 'Day of Catastrophe' / Getty Images
Is Israeli society ready to reckon with 1948? On Wednesday, Zochrot, an Israeli organization devoted to raising awareness about the Nakba — when 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled by Jewish forces during Israel's founding war — held its first public "truth commission" featuring the testimonies of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian Bedouins who lived through the events of 1948 and beyond.
The commission, held in a hotel in Beersheba, focused on the Negev from 1948 to 1960. Zochrot was specifically looking at the David Ben Gurion-ordered conquest of the area to oust Egyptian forces in 1948 and the subsequent Israeli army deportation of Negev Bedouin through the 1950s. While Zochrot has taken hours of testimony on the topic in the past, yesterday's event was the first of its kind open to the public, and a rare opportunity to hear from what the organization described as "witnesses."
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As I sit at my desk in a modern office building in lower Manhattan, the chants of angry protestors below grow louder. "I — can't — breathe," they shout, echoing the haunting final words of Eric Garner, whose death by asphyxiation I saw on video the day it occurred.
It was in that very spot, just over two weeks ago, in front of the same computer screen, that I learned of the horrific massacre in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood. The same spot where, also on the day of attack, I saw the photographs of men in blood-drenched prayer shawls sprawled across the reddened floor of a synagogue.
And as the shouts grow stronger, I realize just how similar we are. It has become a cliché in this country to note the disintegration of black-Jewish relations, not to mention its causes, and perhaps even more so to lament it. Gone are the days when Jews and black folks suffer the same discrimination, prohibited from entry to the same restaurants and public pools. But the images of recent weeks trigger the most terrifying episodes in our respective histories, reminding us that it is in the imagery of our past that we have often found commonality.
Salaam-Schalom organizes a Jewish-Muslim human chain event in Neukollen / Ömer Sefa Baysal
This past summer, Armin Langer, a 24-year-old rabbinical student in Berlin, came to speak at the Sehitlik mosque in Neukoelln, a district of the German capital with a large Muslim population. Langer is the co-founder of the Salaam-Schalom Initiative, a Neukoelln-based intercultural dialogue group. His pre-scheduled presentation at the mosque, to announce Salaam-Schalom's new campaign, took place on June 26, just as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians was escalating.
"I thought it was very courageous on his part to go on the stage and introduce himself as a Jewish person," says Denis Mert Mercan, 26, a devout Muslim who lives in Berlin and was at Sehitlik mosque that day. "And I thought it was an amazing idea that the Jews would defend Muslims and Muslims would defend Jews in terms of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia."
The campaign Langer was introducing was a series of posters against anti-Muslim prejudice, to be displayed on the streets of Neukoelln. He explained that the goal of Salaam-Schalom is for Jewish and Muslim Berliners to collaborate, battling all forms of racism at once.
Salaam-Schalom's grassroots attempt to bridge the gap between Jews and Muslims is happening at a time when Germany is experiencing a wave of anti-Semitism that's partly rooted in Muslim communities. This summer, during the Israel-Hamas war, a Palestinian immigrant threw a petrol bomb on a synagogue in the town of Wuppertal, and hate speech against Jews appeared in Berlin demonstrations against Israel's operation in Gaza.
"We are not soldiers standing against each other on the front. We are average people living in the same city," said Langer, a Hungarian Jew who attended a yeshiva in Jerusalem and moved to Berlin to continue his religious studies. "Of course we all feel sorry for what's going on there and we have relatives and friends in Gaza and in Israel and in the West Bank. But maybe we can build up something more peaceful here in Berlin."
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(JTA) Reuven Rivlin just did the one thing Israel's president — a largely ceremonial post — doesn't usually do: He publicly, and vehemently, opposed a specific bill endorsed by the government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Addressing a conference in Eilat, Rivlin lambasted the controversial Nation-State Law, advanced this week by Israel's Cabinet and which seeks to enshrine Israel's Jewish character in law.
Supporters of the law say it merely places the two sides of Israel's "Jewish and democratic" character on equal footing and reinforces the state's Jewishness against its enemies. But the law's opponents say it gives primacy to Israel's Jewish side. They point to the absence of the word "equality" in the bill and note that the bill fails to guarantee collective rights to Israel's minorities.
Rivlin made clear which side of the debate he's on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, such a hierarchical approach, which places Jewishness before democracy, misses the great significance of the [Israeli] Declaration of Independence, which combined the two elements together without separating them," he said. "This is the beating heart of the State of Israel, a state established on two solid foundations: nationhood on the one hand and democracy on the other. The removal of one will bring the whole building down."
It's not surprising that Rivlin opposes the bill; he's long been a crusader for democratic and minority rights. But it is surprising that he came out against the government so publicly. The president's job is to welcome dignitaries, represent the state at such functions as funerals, and guide the formation of a new government following elections.
The president is not a political position, per se, and he's not supposed to get involved in legislative battles. Rivlin himself stressed that point in an interview with the Times of Israel's David Horovitz before he was elected in June. He was responding to a question about his opposition to a Palestinian state.
"I won't intervene in Knesset decisions," he told Horovitz."The president is a bridge to enable debate, to reduce tensions, to alleviate frictions."
So why did he intervene here? A source in the president's office, who wished to remain anonymous, said Rivlin sees this bill as not just any piece of proposed legislation but fears it will affect the core nature of Israel's democracy.
A new proposed bill, supported by senators on both sides of the aisle, will finally define and determine the United States of America as the land of the Protestant People, the largest religious constituency in the U.S. and the group out of which America's founding fathers and ruling leadership emerged.
The new law aims to anchor Protestant values in the laws of the land, inspired by the spirit of the American Constitution. Furthermore, the bill proceeds to state that the U.S. will continue to uphold a fundamentally democratic character. According to the new law, the United States will be fully committed to the foundations of Freedom, Justice, and Peace, in light of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At the same time, the bill suggests, the right to implement a national self-definition will be exclusively reserved for the Protestant People. According to the new bill, Protestant values will serve as inspiration to lawmakers and judges at the different levels of the United States' legislative and judicial branches. In cases where a court of justice encounters difficulties in ruling over issues that have no readily available answers in the Law, in the Christian Canon, or in logical reasoning, it will then rule according to the principles of freedom, justice, integrity and peace stemming from the Protestant heritage.
In addition, the national emblems of the United States, such as its flag and national anthem, will be drawn directly from the tradition of the Protestant Church, and the official calendar of the U.S. will follow the Protestant liturgical year. Finally, the United States will further act to preserve and entrench the Protestant historical and cultural tradition and to cultivate it in the U.S. and abroad.
Any reader who has gotten this far would probably note that such a law could not be passed or even seriously proposed by the United States legislature. In Israel, however, it could become a fundamental law, on a level equivalent to a constitutional amendment in the United States.
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Members of the Israeli government have renewed a push to create a Basic Law enshrining Israel as "the nation-state of the Jewish people." This time, the effort is being spearheaded by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Although his is meant to be a "softer" version of previous similar bills, it's still highly problematic for a number of reasons.
Israel's Basic Laws are meant to serve as the basis for an eventual constitution. In the years immediately after the establishment of the state, Israeli leaders could not agree on whether to write one up, much less what it should look like. In 1950, the Harari proposal was adopted. The Knesset would pass a series of "Basic Laws" as necessary, and each would be issued as a separate chapter, to be combined into a single constitutional document whenever the time came. In 1995, the Supreme Court gave the Basic Laws constitutional status — which means they're higher than regular laws and are meant to guide the adoption of further laws and practices in the country.
The most obvious problem is that enshrining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people makes constitutional the second-class status of Arab citizens. Netanyahu's bill does mention democracy and individual rights, but (unlike the Declaration of Independence) it does not refer to the equality of all Israel's citizens. By tying Israel's identity only to one people, it gives them constitutional privileges no other community can have access to.
(JTA) — Looks like there's another so-called War on Christmas, and this time it's the Muslims, not the Jews, who are being blamed.
The decision by a suburban Washington school district to continue closing for Jewish and Christian holidays — but not label them as such on the school calendar — has ignited a firestorm from right-wing bloggers and commentators.
On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Board of Education voted to remove the religious designations after local Muslims had complained that the district observes Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, but does not offer vacation on any Muslim holidays.
"School Dumps Christmas to Appease Muslims" was how Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio framed the headline.
Describing the issue as "a new battleground in the war on Christmas" and "bad news for you Jews and gentiles out there," Starnes implied that the holidays will be eliminated rather than just not identified on the school calendar. ("That means no more Christmas, no more Easter and no more Yom Kippur," he claimed, later noting that the school board "opted to eliminate all religious holidays.")
In a similar vein, The Blaze wrote "School District Bans Christmas, Easter and Jewish Holidays From Calendar Following Debate Over Muslim Request."
The Examiner, which accompanied its article with a still from the film "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," headlined it "Christmas, Easter, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur stricken from school calendar."
While the outraged headlines may indicate otherwise, the decision seems to have pleased no one, least of all the local Muslim activists. One activist, Zainab Chaudry, told the Washington Post that the school board was willing to ""go so far as to paint themselves as the Grinch who stole Christmas" to avoid granting equal treatment for the Muslim holiday.
"They would remove the Christian holidays and they would remove the Jewish holidays from the calendar before they would consider adding the Muslim holiday to the calendar," she said.
Hubertus Strughold worked for Hitler's Luftwaffe throughout World War II — and was later recruited by the U.S. / U.S. Air Force
I got an email the other day from a Jewish man who saw something in Germany 60 years ago that he can't forget. The man reached out to me after reading my story on Eric Lichtblau's new book about the U.S. government's coverup of its use of former Nazis as spies.
The man has asked that I not use his name, in consideration of promises he made in the 1950s to keep quiet on pain of court martial. Today he is a retired attorney. We'll call him Robert.
Robert was inducted into the U.S. Army in the summer of 1954. Already a law school graduate and a member of the bar, he turned down a commission as an officer and enlisted as a private.
In January of 1955, after completing basic training, Robert boarded a troop ship in Staten Island bound for Germany, where the Army maintained a massive postwar presence. He landed in Bremerhaven and was sent on to a replacement depot to be assigned to a unit.
Robert's assignment was unusual. Of all of the soldiers on his ship, he was the only one sent to a group called the 7807 USAREUR Liaison Detachment.
The name was a cover.
"It was really run by the CIA," Robert said. "I reported to a civilian. A CIA civilian… He never said he was CIA, but he obviously was."
"Car Talk" hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi
It's a stereotype, but Jewish men have an ancient and mostly well-earned reputation for not being able to fix things. (There have been many notable exceptions to this, including my father, who could fix anything).
I have done my best to uphold this proud tradition of our people. Several years ago, I was riding my bicycle and the chain popped off the sprocket. Heartbroken, I proceeded to drag my bike back home. I would have to drive it to the local bike shop where it would be repaired by someone who — you guessed it — never went to Hebrew school.
Except that morning I had heard a brief news item — yes, on National Public Radio. An Israeli Orthodox rabbi had declared that Reform Jews were not really Jews. This was great. I celebrated my sudden loss of Jewish identity. I turned the bike over, put the chain back on the sprocket (and yes, got my hands dirty) and continued on my merry way.
That might have been the last time that I ever fixed anything. For that reason, and many more, I loved NPR's "Car Talk" show. Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click and Clack) had more than four million listeners a week, and I was one of them. That is why I will sorely miss Tom, who died this week of complications of Alzheimers' disease at the age of 77.
"Car Talk" had more listeners than any other program on NPR. What was it about that show that we loved (and continue to love) so much?
It was because the Magliozzi brothers were the real deal — the realest of deals. There was no sham in their show, no pretentions. These were self-made men, in the style of our parents. They grew up working class in East Cambridge, and never shed their working class vowel-less Boston accents — even and especially after they attended MIT. They worked with their hands.
But there was another thing. "Car Talk" had deep Torah in it.
I'm sure you've seen it by now. A video made by the anti-street harassment group Hollaback shows a woman, the Jewish actress Shoshana Roberts, walking around in New York City getting unwanted attention from men.
The video struck me because, when I moved to New York ten years ago, two things happened: street harassment became more and more prevalent in my life, and I became more and more bold about speaking out about it. I read Rebecca Solnit's wonderful book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, which examines the seemingly simple concept of walking from different historical perspectives. The takeaway was that as a woman living in a 21st-century metropolis it is still revolutionary that I can walk, alone, from Point to Point B.
But just because it wasn't illegal for me to walk around alone didn't mean that I could do so without being harassed. That came to a head in 2012, when I was living in a predominantly Satmar Hasidic neighborhood in south Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Frustrated by the fact that street harassment was not only taking place but coming from people within my own community, I began using specifically Jewish responses to the whistles, catcalls and questions about whether I wanted to get in their van. (Spoiler alert: I didn't. Ever.)
The weeks that followed were so interesting, and the men's reactions such a mix of damning and hilarious, that I documented the project for an article in Heeb magazine. The piece got reactions all over the spectrum — some women saying they admired my nerve, a lot of men saying that I wasn't hot enough to get hit on and that the real problem in the world was prejudice against men. There were also charges of anti-Semitism.
After the piece ran, I started getting emails from people suggesting new comebacks and responses I could use the next time a Hasidic man said something inappropriate to me or another woman. Since I ended up moving out of the neighborhood, I didn't get a chance to use too many of them. But since Jewish street harassment is a real and ongoing thing, I present them here for you to use and enjoy.
An Israeli soldier walks past a bus on which suspected Jewish vandals painted graffiti reading 'Gentiles in the land are enemies' / Getty Images
Young Israelis don't want separate bus lines for Palestinians — and they're asking American Jews to ensure segregation never becomes a reality.
That's the nutshelled version of a letter sent today by Young Israeli Labor, the official youth branch of the Labor Party, to the leaders of major American Jewish organizations including Abe Foxman (Anti-Defamation League), Malcolm Hoenlein (Conference of Presidents), Jeremy Ben-Ami (J Street), Eric Fingerhut (Hillel International) and Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Union for Reform Judaism).
The striking thing about this is not just the willingness of Israeli youth to speak out against segregated buses, but the fact that they're turning to American Jewish leaders to appeal, on their behalf, to Israeli leaders — specifically, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ya'alon. The subtext seems to be that they don't feel they can make themselves heard (or heard successfully) in their own country without a powerful intermediary. We can chalk this up partly to their perception that "Ya'alon is caving in to a well-organized campaign of the extreme right, who hold powerful positions inside the Likud party." Here's the rest of their letter:
This unfortunate decision is a disastrous one in any respect. Apart from being a severely miserable decision in every moral aspect, it also adds a very powerful weapon to the arsenal of those seeking to undermine Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
Side by side with you, we, the Young Israeli Labor, the official young branch of the Labor Party, lead an uncompromising struggle on Israel's international standing. Exactly because of our love for Israel, we must at present do whatever it takes to stop this poor decision from realization.
I call upon you to turn to Israel's Prime Minister, MK Netanyahu, and demand that he interferes in this matter and prevents Defense Minister Ya'alon from surrendering to the extremist right-wing in Israel, which is jeopardizing our continuing existence as a Jewish and democratic state.
N.Y. Jews kick off the 'Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn' celebration / Dove Barbanel
In the Grand Army Plaza, at the entrance to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the circle dance threatened to close me in. I had avoided it for some time, but the energy was contagious. I gave in and danced in one of the joyful concentric circles.
This was the third year of "Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn," an outdoor celebration spearheaded by Rabbi Andy Bachman and Cantor Joshua Breitzer of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Over 500 people from over twenty Jewish organizations and synagogues (from the Park Slope Jewish Center to Repair the World: NYC) stopped by over the course of the night to sing, dance and meet friends. Jews of all denominations and ages were present, but the majority of people in the crowd were younger than 40. It was safe to call it a party.
"I think it's important what's going on here, young people coming out and celebrating the Torah," said Rachel Grossman, 24.
A few dancers lugged Torah scrolls around with them as they circled. Cantor Breitzer wore a headlight on his forehead and never left the center circle.
"As you can see," Bachman said, "it's impossible to hold him down."
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Just a few months before he was killed in a 1996 bus bombing, my JTS classmate Matt Eisenfeld held a party in his Jerusalem apartment. It was a Saturday night, but it was hardly a typical Saturday night event. It was a siyyum, a conclusion of study, celebrating his completion of Masechet Kiddushin, a long and difficult tractate of Talmud.
I'll never forget the sense of joy at that party, as Matt taught us a passage from the tractate, and we ate and drank in his honor. It felt like a party with purpose, a party that honored his personal commitment to study, and it inspired me to begin to learn Talmud on my own. I may not finish a whole tractate, I thought at the time, but I can start…and I'll see where it goes.
Since then, I have completed a few tractates of Talmud, and I've always thought of Matt at the concluding ritual.
But when I began to leyn, or chant, from the Torah, it never occurred to me that I could do the same. Jewish tradition doesn't have any ritualized siyyum for reading the whole Torah aloud. So when my cousin told me he had hosted a Kiddush when he finished reading the text, I knew my next move. I started to keep track of the aliyot that I read, and I began to request the ones I hadn't read yet for each next assignment. It got me to synagogue regularly, and it helped me get to know the people in the new communities I was joining. And this past summer, when I read the final aliyah that I had left, I hosted my own Kiddush, which I like to refer to as my Torah party.
With Simchat Torah around the corner, I've been thinking a lot about this Torah party. The thing is, it's not really a thing in the Jewish community. Yet. But I think it should be.
A newly arrived patient suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus sits on the ground at Island Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia./Getty Images
As Jews around the world prepare for Yom Kippur — a day when we pray to be "sealed in the Book of Life" for the year to come — the people of West Africa are struggling to save the lives of their loved ones from the Ebola outbreak, one of the most desperate crises of our day.
In Liberia, the country hardest hit by Ebola and one I last visited just two years ago, people are dying outside overcrowded hospitals. The bodies of those who have succumbed to the virus lie in the streets for days, awaiting burial. Ebola has already claimed the lives of more than 2,600 people in West Africa, and the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other authorities have estimated that it might infect between 20,000 and 1.4 million more before the outbreak is contained. Clearly, the book of life is closing far too early for many West Africans.
The virus is spreading like wildfire, in part because many people don't understand how it is transmitted. Some communities view Ebola as something caused by evil spirits; others think it's a government conspiracy. In some parts of Liberia, Ebola is inadvertently spread by traditional healers.
Fear is also fueling the epidemic. Neighbors are accusing neighbors of inflicting a curse. Not surprisingly, those who fall ill — and the families they leave behind — are marked with stigma and shunned. The epidemic has also sparked violence, as the Liberian government has sent armed soldiers to cordon off slums and impose quarantines — often with no warning.
As Jews, these developments are chilling. We know too much about human suffering as a consequence of panic and fear, dating from Medieval times when Jews were blamed for the spread of the plague—and from Nazi Germany, when we were depicted as vermin-like carriers of illness.
If your signature dish can be mistaken for cat food, you've got a problem.
Or that's what Buzzfeed's most recent experiment would have you believe. They got "random people" (aka non-Jews) to try classic Jewish foods for the first time and recorded their reactions. The response to gefilte fish? Gag. To kugel? Gag. To matzo ball soup? Yum! To chopped liver? "This is poop."
One problem: what Buzzfeed considers to be traditional Jewish food is actually just Ashkenazi food. This is not surprising: America has long made the mistake of thinking "Jewish" is limited to Ashkenazi. From bagels to Woody Allen, Eastern European traditions reign.
And so, as two Sephardic Jews raised on a very full stomach, we humbly present these alternatives — they won't make you gag. Promise.
Fried rolls of meat? 'Nuff said.
This cooked Moroccan salad is really easy to make, if you have three hours to spare watching peppers and tomatoes simmer in oil. The end result is worth it. Trust.
Robert Ransdell's campaign slogan on view in Kentucky / WLWT
"With Jews We Lose"? No, this isn't a poster from Nazi Germany. It's a campaign placard currently on view in Kentucky, where write-in candidate Robert Ransdell is running for U.S. Senate. His party, The White Guard, "seeks to show White people the facts regarding the Jewish role in America's decline as well as highlight the destructive effects that multiculturalism, diversity, and political correctness have had on this country." (He details his whole platform in this incredibly rambly video.)
We here at the "Jew Media," as Ransdell calls it, had a few questions about his views. And so we emailed him. To our surprise, he answered back. Highlights of the interview, which has been edited for style and length, include: his belief that Christian Zionists should relocate to Israel, that no Jews are white, and that there's only one group out there more arrogant than members of the tribe.
Ladies and gentlemen, Robert Ransdell in his own words:
I don't share that view because Jews themselves don't share that view, it is absurd and a fantasy that Jews in America do not make a distinction between Jews and Whites, I won't even bother quoting the numerous statements made by Jews, past and present, that affirm this fact. Most Whites falsely see Jews as White because they are never given an in depth and accurate portrayal of Jewish solidarity, unity, and identity which would go to show, again through the actions and statements of Jews, through the prolific number of Jewish interests organizations, that Jews regard themselves as what they are, a separate group.


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Manuscript Final Edits: Diwata
That's it, folks. I am giving myself until the end of this month to finish up my edits on Diwata, as I have done the major revision, and there is no reason not to finish the thing. It's like going for the final kill. I've been fortunate to have readings here and there in the past few weeks, and have taken the opportunity to again read from Diwata, hear the awkward, tongue twisting, mouthful of peanut butter or metal moments in the work. I've known intuitively that the words and phrases I struggle over when performing would have to be rethought and reworked, that I'd have to honor enjambments and line breaks. It was timely to hear a couple of authors articulate these common sense items, which I think we conveniently forget when we get stubborn about revision and editing.
Sesshu Foster, in his recent City Lights Books reading (this past April or May) answered Oscar's question about his use of the prose poem by saying that he didn't want to be cute about enjambment. When a poet makes that conscious enjambment decision in the writing of the poem, does the poet honor that enjambment in the performance of the poem? If not, then what's the point?
City Lights Books: Sesshu Foster, World Ball Notebook
I am saddened to read this morning about the poetry reading Eileen Tabios recently attended (see her blog post here). Actually, that type of poet, what I'll call the entitled poet, really gets me negative about po-biz and how folks get consumed about it. For more on po-biz, and the importance of each of us controlling our own careers, hence, avoiding its consuming you, do read Guy LeCharles Gonzalez's post here. But po-biz and poetry are two different things, and I am a firm believer in the poem, the work to birth the poem, the body of poems, the book, and the connection made with the reader and audience.
OK, that's my preface to Sesshu Foster's City Lights Books reading from his latest book, World Ball Notebook. This is the second time I've seen Sesshu read; the first was with Small Press Traffic for their evening of fiction which also included R. Zamora Linmark, and so I was very happy to be co-hosting that event. I'm a big fan of his work, having come to City Terrace Field Manual nearly a decade after its release. Still, I realize I came to this book at exactly the right time in my poetics, writing process, ongoing education. At his SPT reading, I picked up Atomik Aztex, which was bloody, surreal, absurd, crazy, and dense, and really very very funny.
Sesshu Foster's ATOMIK AZTEX: Fucking Strange
I just started reading Sesshu Foster's really fucking strange book; I should qualify that the fact that I think it is really strange does not mean that I dislike it. As I am reading I envision Foster really enjoying being indulgent here with the idiosyncratic language in overdrive, of this idiosyncratic character who's become, I think, quite unhinged. In the two realities he occupies in Foster's "omniverse," it's hard to know where to ground myself. Even in the world of 1942 East L.A., which should be relatively familiar to us, the main character/hero Zenzon's perceptions are not reliable to the reader. He's either totally hallucinating, totally exhausted, or so far gone into his own headspace and so self-consumed (with self-pity, self-loathing, self-centeredness). So each section of this omniverse, as Zenzon experiences it, or depicts his experiences of it, is just bizarre to me.
I can also imagine Foster enjoying (sadistically) fucking off literary convention. Like fuck a narrative arc, fuck a character development. Which again is not necessarily a bad thing. Not sure yet what I think of the results.
Hopefully more on ATOMIK AZTEX soon.
Addendum: Something I've just thought of that might help ground me: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The sheer, unrelenting, almost unbearable hallucinatory bizarreness of it. Well, except that in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, we get the progression of time, generally linear even with flashback. But in ATOMIK AZTEX, time's not doing that either.
R. Zamora Linmark and Sesshu Foster
Yesterday evening I co-hosted with Jessica Wickens the Small Press Traffic's Experimental Fiction reading, which meant that yesterday afternoon I was scrambling for online material and dredging my blog to write some lovely introductions for R. Zamora Linmark and Sesshu Foster, both of whom I've admired for various reasons and therefore was very happy to be introducing. Of course, months ago, I found Foster's City Terrace Field Manual quite belatedly, more than a decade after it was first published, and then it subsequently blew my mind (previous blog post is here), as I have been invested in finding API authors (primarily poets or cross-genre authors who do poetry) whose work subverts the expectations for ethnic writers and our handling of artifact, language, and narrative. In case you haven't noticed, I am writing from a position of fan-girl-ism for a couple of my (Flip/API) literary role models.
Items: Pop and Lit
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(1) Sunny had mentioned while at the Journey concert that he didn't want his American Pop blog to become the Arnel Pineda show. I feel him on that, which is why I will forego writing my own lengthy review of this past weekend's show, since my review would be completely peppered with uncritical feelgoodism (and you get it already: I *heart* Arnel Pineda). Instead, let me point you to two local papers' reviews (San Mateo County Times | Sacramento Bee) of the other two Northern California Journey-Heart-Cheap Trick shows. If I am reading these reviews correctly, all of the Northern California shows were sold out. Some perspective: the Police reunion tour and Stevie Wonder did not sell out these amphitheater venues.
Quick thoughts: Sesshu Foster, City Terrace Field Manual
Good Lord this book is dense, spiky, and ferocious. I am actually taking a break from it as we speak, after relishing in and wincing at the details of these broken human bodies; one split open at the ribcage, each half clamped down like butterfly wings "pinned to a sheet," then stapled and sewed back up. This image actually reminds me of a whole raw roasting chicken before and after you cleave it. Another human body has his hand split in two by a stray chain from a chainsaw, his skin flapping aside and revealing yellow fat underneath.
Poetry Books : Weekend Reading : Ongoing Biblio
Found used books at Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue yesterday evening:
- Jimmy Santiago Baca, Black Mesa Poems. New Directions Publishing, 1989.
- Sesshu Foster, City Terrace Field Manual. Kaya Press, 1996. (Excerpts can be found at the Modern American Poetry website here.)
- Haunani-Kay Trask, Light in the Crevice Never Seen. Calyx Books, 1994.
These, along with Andrés Montoya's the iceworker sings and other poems, are my weekend reading. I started Foster's book last night as well, and it's interesting to be reading Foster and Montoya concurrently, as their concepts of City are similar, and challenging my concept of City. Whereas even in the margins of SF, there still is to me this sense of city limits like a corral or pen, Foster and Montoya have sprawl, and certainly, City in Central Valley and Southern California sprawl in terms of geographical space and folk making and/or finding community and work.
Let my discussion on sprawl here not be interpreted as "the opposite of dense"; both poets' bodies of work are dense with concrete details and sharp objects, blood, bullets, drugs/booze, and with poetic speakers who are both in the thick of it and then stepping back ever so slightly to bear witness, to think about perspective. Surprising, scary, violent shit happens in City; you wonder how to prepare for it, whether you really can.
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A good Christian is nothing if not thankful. Our example and savior, Jesus, demonstrated his thankfulness to God through his often prayers (; ; ). The psalmist wrote:
"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds." ()
"Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name." ()
"Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!" ()
To see the goodness of the Lord evokes a need to praise him and thank him for his goodness. One needn't look far to find things to be thankful for. A ship's captain, standing on the bridge of his vessel as the sun began to peek over the distant horizon, was taken aback by the stunning colors sweeping across the sky. "Every morning it's new; it's always brand new" he exclaimed. As David said, "the heavens declare the glory of God" ().
Over 20 years ago, upon returning from Russia, I was stunned at the beauty of my own community. The harsh Russian winter had turned everything into shades of white and gray. But when I returned home in early May I saw the beautiful colors of spring which had been hidden in Russia. What a joy to be home.
Last week as I stood on the plains of Sand Creek, Guyana I rose early and watched the sun rise over the mountains to the east. It was a beautiful sight. The simplicity and solitude of life there was a welcomed change. I was so thankful to be there and to be serving both our Lord and the people of the region. Yet, when time came to return home I was even more thankful for the sights of the USA, the safety of our trip and the faces of my family waiting for me at the airport.
But those are big things. A man would have to be hard indeed not to feel thankful in those situations. It seems that we should also be thankful for the less visible blessings. We must learn to see the hidden goodness that marks our everyday lives. Some suggestions follow.
Let us be thankful for the salvation we have in Jesus. There is no greater blessing than the liberty and freedom found in Jesus. There is also no greater reason to be thankful.
Let us be thankful for our health. Everyone has health problems – everyone. And while our problems are important to us we should remember that there is always another who suffers far worse than we.
Let us be thankful for our families. A family is a gift from God. They are often the ones who challenge us the most. But what a joy to have them!
Let us be thankful for good friends. There is a friend who is closer than a brother says Solomon (). Having someone who always speaks truth and is devoted to your needs is a great blessing.
There are dozens more hidden blessings for which we should be thankful. Seek them out and pour your thankfulness into prayer. Give God the glory for every gift!
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25 At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; (ESV)
21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. (ESV)
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. (ESV)
9:1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. (ESV)
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name. (ESV)
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name! (ESV)
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (ESV)
24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
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At Tonys, 'Kinky Boots' and 'Vanya and Sonia' win
NEW YORK Cyndi Lauper, making her Broadway debut, won a Tony Award on Sunday for writing the 15-song score to "Kinky Boots" and Christopher Durang's comical "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has won the best play Tony.
Lauper thanked her old friend Harvey Fierstein, the book writer for "La Cage aux Folles" and "Newsies," to lure her to Broadway. "Kinky Boots" also won for choreography and two technical awards, and Billy Porter won for leading man in a musical.
Porter beat "Kinky Boots" co-star Stark Sands and told him from the stage: "You are my rock, my sword, my shield. Your grace gives me presence. I share this award with you. I'm gonna keep it at my house! But I share it with you."
Durang, whose other works include the play "Beyond Therapy," was a Tony nominee for "A History of the American Film" and his "Miss Witherspoon" was a Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2006.
Girls were having fun elsewhere as well, as Diane Paulus and Pam MacKinnon both won for directing - a rare time women have won directing Tonys for both a musical and a play in the same year. (It also happened at the 1998 Tonys.)
Paulus won her first Tony for directing the crackling, high-energy revival of the musical "Pippin," which also earned Patina Miller a best leading actress trophy.
MacKinnon won for directing the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," a year after earning her first nomination for helming "Clybourne Park." Her revival of Edward Albee's story of marital strife won the best play revival and earned Tracy Letts his first acting Tony, an upset beating of Tom Hanks.
"The greatest job on Earth. We are the ones who say it to their faces, and we have a unique responsibility," Letts said.
Andrea Martin, 66, who won as featured actress in a musical, plays Pippin's grandmother and sings the music hall favorite "No Time at All," stuns audiences nightly by doing jaw-dropping stunts that would make someone a fraction of her age blanch.
The Tonys are being broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall. Neil Patrick Harris is back for his fourth turn as emcee and leads a show featuring talented children and pulse-pounding musical numbers.
The big, opening number started with Harris simply holding a guitar in a pub like "Once" but quickly morphed into a flashy razzle-dazzle number that showcased performers from almost a dozen musicals - and even ex-boxer Mike Tyson dancing. Harris sang "It's bigger! Tonight it's bigger," jumped through a hoop, vanished from a box and promised a "truly legendary show" before glitter guns went off.
Courtney B. Vance won for best featured actor in a play for portraying a newspaper editor opposite Tom Hanks in "Lucky Guy." He dedicated his award to his mother.
Judith Light won her second featured actress in a play Tony in two years, cementing the former TV star of "One Life to Live" and "Who's the Boss?" as a Broadway star.


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Last week, one day before the Drakes Bay Oyster Co.'s 40-year-lease expired, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar himself told the company that the deal was not going to be renewed. He gave the business 90 days to clear out of the Point Reyes National Seashore estuary in west Marin County.
The oyster company operates on about 1,100 acres of a 2,700-acre plot that Washington wants to return to nature. Salazar, who toured Point Reyes two weeks ago, could have renewed the lease for 10 years.
But pressure from radical environmentalists was too strong. So yet again, humans — at least 30 will lose their livelihoods — yield to someone's definition of the ideal.
If ever there was a business that environmentalists should have supported, it was the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. By all reliable accounts, it was a clean, sustainable source of food for nearly 80 years.
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"A department head in Washington, D.C., shouldn't be able to tell this community it can't eat oysters," said Sarah Cane of San Rafael.
Another local, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was also upset by Salazar's decision. She strongly implied the fix was in. The federal review process was flawed, she said, "with false and misleading science, which was also used in the environmental impact statement."
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A Marin County resident who said at one time she didn't know which side to believe in the ongoing tension between Drakes and the government finally determined that the "National Park Service as well as the Department of the Interior — were not telling the truth."
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Villa | 6 bedrooms | sleeps 12
|Key Info
This splendid villa is found on a 120 hectare organic farming estate boasting some of the lovliest countryside in Marche and wonderful views across the Sibillini Mountains and several national parks.
The property is surrounded by vineyards producing optimum wines using grapes such as merlot, montepulciano and cabernet sauvignon and is reached by a private country lane lined with a mix of cypresses, olives, mulberry trees and oaks. Olive oil and red and white wine are provided free of charge in abundance to all our guests at Casa Carlo!
|Sleeps up to 12, 6 bedrooms
|Car advised
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Private outdoor pool (heated), Jacuzzi or hot tub, Sauna, Log fire, DVD player
|Private outdoor pool (heated)
|Central heating, Air conditioning, TV, Telephone, Pool or snooker table, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms of which 6 En suites
|Double beds (3), Single beds (6), Dining seats for 12, Lounge seats for 14
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Private outdoor pool (heated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ, Bicycles available
|Secure parking
|Further details indoors
- Cots and high chairs available
- Six en suite bedrooms (doubles or twins as requested)
- xbox and games
|Further details outdoors
- Bikes and sun loungers and umbrellas provided down at the coast 15 minutes away at a renowned local beach chalet and seafood restaurant
- Horse riding nearby
- Hot water and electricity provided in part by solar and photovoltaic panels at this environmentally friendly holiday villa
- six mountain bikes at the property and six beach bikes on the coast, where guests also have free use of sun loungers and umbrellas at a locally renowned beach chalet and seafood restaurant in Grottammare
About this location
The Marche region
Even today Marche remains a largely undiscovered gem in the heart of Italy, sandwiched between the stunning Apennine mountains on its western fringes and the beautiful Adriatic coast to the east.
Perhaps because Marche has historically been an isolated region, sheltered as it is from intrusion by its natural mountain borders to the north, south and west and by the Adriatic Sea, it is only slowly gaining rightful recognition.
The region gets comparatively little mention in the travel media, deferring to the wider fame of neighbouring Tuscany and Umbria. Yet it can justifiably claim to be Italy's very own Garden of Eden.
It boasts lush greenery (often a surprise to visitors) and an enchanting mixture of sunflower fields, abundant woodland, many rivers which wind their way down to a beautiful coastline, and stunning mountain scenery.
Bordering both Umbria and Tuscany, as well as Abruzzo, Lazio and Emilia-Romagna, the region has an identity all of its own.
Walkers, trekkers and nature lovers can also find their feet here, with regional and national parks offering an abundance of outdoor activities, including trekking, mountain biking, paragliding, nature trails, hunting and fishing and ski-ing.
Marche has two national parks, the Monti Sibillini National Park and the Gran Sasso Monti Della Laga National Park.
The Monti Sibillini National Park actively promotes and protects wildlife habitats and has played a key role in building a stable population of wolves and other creatures such as the golden eagle. Wild boar abound and with the help of active re-introduction programmes there are also now signs of the return of the Marsicana brown bear from its stronghold in neighbouring Abruzzo. There are even signs of the return of the secretive and shy lynx.
Rising 572m from the sea near Ancona, Monte Conero is one of Marche's best known landmarks. It is home to a regional park and is an excellent place to see birds such as the marsh harrier and long-legged buzzard, while its coastal waters offer beautiful coved beaches and are ideal for organised boat trips.
The other regional park by the sea is the Colle San Bartolo Regional Park near Gabicce, home to wetlands of national importance.
A myriad of fascinating caves form the central attraction of the inland park, Gola della Rossa Frasassi Regional Park, recognised as the most interesting limestone caves in Italy. Special tours lead you through a series of caves complete with small lakes, stalactites, huge stalagmites and onto the truly cavernous Abisso Ancona, a cave from ground to ceiling fully 240m high.
The villa is immersed in some of the most peaceful Marche countryside and is close to three national parks, Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, Maiella and the Monti Sibillini, together providing a total of almost 3,000 sq km of incontaminated countryside and wildlife. Views from the property take in parts of all three of these parks and the mountains of Abruzzo, Marche-Umbria and Lazio.
The property is at the very centre of Italy in an area famed for its "buon vivere," history and culture.
Within 90 minutes drive, over and above the three parks, there are towns and cities of great cultural and historical importance and beauty - with historical figures and legends creating a magical sense of history, among them St Francis of Assisi, the mythical Sybil, Guerrin Meschino, master painter Raffael and poet Giacomo Leopardi of Recanati.
Fine cuisine, good wines and local festivals and sagras are central to this part of Marche and are celebrated all year round, providing the visitor with a varied choice of events to witness and enjoy - some Christian and some pagan in origin but all accompanied by culinary delights.
For music lovers summer events include Umbria Jazz and Pescara Jazz, among the most important jazz festivals in Europe
On the estate itself tranquility is paramount but as well as relaxing by the pool or on the shaded terrace it can also take the form of various acitivities, including trekking on horseback down to the Adriatic Coast.
A little further afield is the 18 hole golf course within an hour's drive.
Also available for touring trips are various classic motorbikes and an 86 year-old 35ft yawl yacht moored at nearby San Benedetto del Tronto and originally owned by the family of Francis Chichester in Glasgow.
Mountain bike excursions can be undertaken and there is some wonderful winter skiing, with the Abruzzo mountains providing some of the heaviest sustained snowfalls in Italy.
And of course the Adriatic Coast just ten minutes drive away provides an enormous choice of beaches - from the secretive sandy coves of the Conero Riviera south of Ancona to the large sandy umbrella-filled beaches popular with Italian holiday makers around San Benedetto and Grottamare.
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