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נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Among <a href="https://babka.social/tags/artdeco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artdeco</span></a>’s leading practitioners in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> were a number of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/architects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architects</span></a>. These talented <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>, like Emery Roth and Ely Jacques Kahn, built renowned art deco buildings like Essex House, the Film Center Building, the El Dorado apartments and more.</p><p>Keep scrolling to meet seven Jewish architects and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/architectural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architectural</span></a> firms who created some of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a>’s best-known art deco treasures, which have shaped the city’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/skyline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skyline</span></a> for a century."</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/07/21/ny/meet-the-jewish-architects-who-designed-nycs-iconic-art-deco-buildings" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2025/07/21/ny/meet-the</span><span class="invisible">-jewish-architects-who-designed-nycs-iconic-art-deco-buildings</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"In <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a>, where apartments are crowded side-by-side and top-to-bottom like so many Jenga blocks, histories often overlap. I’m standing in front of a stately brownstone in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Harlem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harlem</span></a> that used to house Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, an eatery and jazz joint where Art Tatum used to play, and where Charlie Parker, Malcolm X, and Redd Foxx all worked in the 1940s.</p><p>Today, that very same space is home to Tsion Cafe, the only <a href="https://babka.social/tags/restaurant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restaurant</span></a> in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> City serving <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ethiopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethiopian</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a>. I have an appointment to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/cook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cook</span></a> with the restaurant’s owner, Beejhy Barhany. Her work as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a>, writer, and organizer has taught Americans that the stories of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Africans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africans</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> have done more than coincide over time. They’re inseparable."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/food/755047/beejhy-barhany-tsion-cafe-ethiopian-jewish-food-harlem-gursha/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/food/755047/beejhy</span><span class="invisible">-barhany-tsion-cafe-ethiopian-jewish-food-harlem-gursha/</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Nearly $9m distributed to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors, heirs | JNS <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1212989/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1212989/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AntiJudaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiJudaism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrimesAgainstHumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrimesAgainstHumanity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EthnoreligiousGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthnoreligiousGroups</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GovernmentOfLithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentOfLithuania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HistoryOfTheJewsInLithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfTheJewsInLithuania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HolocaustRestitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HolocaustRestitution</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HolocaustSurvivors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HolocaustSurvivors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JewsAndJudaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewsAndJudaism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JudaismRelatedControversies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudaismRelatedControversies</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/litvaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>litvaks</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaziWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaziWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PersecutionOfJews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersecutionOfJews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticsOfNaziGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticsOfNaziGermany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheHolocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheHolocaust</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldJewishCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldJewishCongress</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldWarII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWarII</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Klezmer</span></a> and Other Displaced <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Musics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musics</span></a> of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir.</p><p>Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ottoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottoman</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> dance and klezmer music. An accomplished <a href="https://babka.social/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musician</span></a> and a respected <a href="https://babka.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East <a href="https://babka.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>.</p><p>“Klezmer was still an obscure term of the Yiddish lexicon,” Feldman writes in his new memoir, “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicked-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicke</span><span class="invisible">d-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Shiv-bat Shiv-lom! </p><p>"Friday evening of began peacefully for ten <a href="https://babka.social/tags/yeshiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeshiva</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> as they walked near <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Lucerne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lucerne</span></a>’s train station. But at around 8:30 p.m., a man approached and asked “Are you <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>?” Before the group could answer, he spat at them.</p><p>The students rushed toward the station’s open plaza. But the man, described by witnesses as Arab, pursued them. Then he pulled out a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/knife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knife</span></a> and pressed it against one student’s stomach, while he shouted pro-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> slogans."</p>
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLY<p>And so I stepped away. </p><p>Volunteering with these folks has been fulfilling and fun but now I can’t/won’t do it anymore. </p><p>The <a href="https://babka.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coalition</span></a> of which <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> have been a mainstay is crumbling due to the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a><br>of the very people with whom we’ve allied for decades. The betrayal is bitter, but the implications are more bitter still. </p><p>If the far left continues to remain ignorant and myopic, insisting on purity tests and axiomatically excluding anyone they believe doesn’t pass, then <a href="https://babka.social/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberals</span></a> as a whole are in serious trouble.</p><p>We can’t afford this bullshit, not now, when we’re faced with pure evil and the imminent demise of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. We have a battle to win, perhaps the most important fight any of us will ever engage in.</p><p>When you’re sharing a foxhole you should be focusing on the enemy, not on the perceived flaws of your brother-in-arms. Shame on the far left for ignoring that rather obvious advice. </p><p>2/</p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Q "You write that you sometimes catch yourself presenting your <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> in a way you’re not comfortable with. Can you say more?"</p><p>A "I think in order to escape persecution, like many minorities, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> have tried to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/assimilate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assimilate</span></a>, to emphasize, “Oh, I’m just like you,” and I’ve sometimes caught myself trying to sand off the edges off my differences, to reassure people I’m not too <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a>—“I’m not one of those really <a href="https://babka.social/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> Jews.” I’ve come to realize that’s almost a statement of self-erasure. I want to make the opposite statement; one of embracing my <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewishness</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/98191-not-that-kind-of-jew-pw-talks-with-sarah-hurwitz.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top</span><span class="invisible">ic/authors/interviews/article/98191-not-that-kind-of-jew-pw-talks-with-sarah-hurwitz.html</span></a></p>
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latinos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latinos</span></a> ( well.. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/venezolanos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>venezolanos</span></a> ) for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p><p>Like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> , at the time</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIHYRDlvZ8r/?igsh=MTc0azF3c2F6czE2ag==" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/reel/DIHYRDlvZ8r</span><span class="invisible">/?igsh=MTc0azF3c2F6czE2ag==</span></a></p>
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latinos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latinos</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>Like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a>, at the time.</p><p>Next will be any non- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a>, or non- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WASP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WASP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLGCCoASEo9/?igsh=eWN1NXdjcXE4bnkw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/reel/DLGCCoASEo9</span><span class="invisible">/?igsh=eWN1NXdjcXE4bnkw</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"The theme of this year’s congress was <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> of the Luso-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spanish</span></a> border and the Spanish-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Portuguese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portuguese</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diaspora</span></a>. The border, known as La Raya (“The Line”), is the longest uninterrupted border within the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> Union. It is the delineation between <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a>, a small portion of which is represented by the Douro River. In that context, research for the congress has been expanded to include the entire Spanish-Portuguese border.</p><p>Previous congresses highlighted that some 30,000 Jews crossed into Portugal from the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Zamora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zamora</span></a> region in 1492, with thousands more crossing from <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Galicia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galicia</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Extremadura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremadura</span></a>, and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Andalucia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andalucia</span></a> (although they were forcibly baptized there in 1496)."</p><p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-861371" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jpost.com/diaspora/article-861</span><span class="invisible">371</span></a></p>
anubis2814<a href="https://youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo</a> Soooo <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Elmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elmo</span></a> 's <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> account got hacked and started calling for death to <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a> . SURE Elmo, SURE it was hacked, that's what they all say. Pretty sure you just went on a sugar bender and let your inside thoughts out<br><a href="https://youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo?si=QM1cXUZf34dCeLBj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Enter a title</a>
Caleb Herbert<p>Met another Jew in my area, which is rare. Very nice.</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Mazeldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mazeldon</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/KansasCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KansasCity</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Missouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Missouri</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Jill Jacobs wrote this? Yikes. Someone’s about to get their cool-kid credentials revoked.</p><p>"When anger about <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> government policy spills over into <a href="https://babka.social/tags/harassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harassment</span></a> or <a href="https://babka.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> directed at <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> in the U.S. or any other country, that’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://religionnews.com/2025/07/16/holding-israel-accountable-isnt-antisemitic-harming-jews-is/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">religionnews.com/2025/07/16/ho</span><span class="invisible">lding-israel-accountable-isnt-antisemitic-harming-jews-is/</span></a></p>
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor<p>What’s everyone <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> right now?</p><p>I just cannot stomach any nonfiction in this moment (though lots of great stuff is out) so I’m currently making my through a two-part <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> anthology. I’ve been wanting to read this for a long time and finally checked it out through interlibrary loan at my local public <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a>. By the way, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> rule. Support yours!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> vs <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zombies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zombies</span></a> &amp; Jews vs Aliens</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"In the second installment of And So It Goes, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/HBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HBO</span></a>’s new two-part <a href="https://babka.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> about <a href="https://babka.social/tags/BillyJoel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillyJoel</span></a>, the Piano Man explains why he wore a yellow <a href="https://babka.social/tags/StarofDavid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarofDavid</span></a> in August 2017, during his residency at Madison Square Garden, in his most extensive filmed account of his family’s experience in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a>.</p><p>“I was angry,” Joel, who wore the star on his jacket in the aftermath of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/UnitetheRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitetheRight</span></a> Rally in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Charlottesville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Charlottesville</span></a>, said in Susan Lacey and Jessica Levin’s documentary, the first part of which debuts July 17. “Here they are marching through an American city saying ‘<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> will not replace us.’ We fought a war to, you know, defeat these people.”</p><p>Joel also called out <a href="https://babka.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> for his infamous remark that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the rally. (<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, some note, said he didn’t mean neo-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/whitesupremacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whitesupremacists</span></a>, but others attending the rally, spearheaded by white supremacists.)"</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/755308/billy-joel-and-so-it-goes-hbo-documentary-holocaust/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/film-tv/75</span><span class="invisible">5308/billy-joel-and-so-it-goes-hbo-documentary-holocaust/</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"We’ve all been there. You’re at a company barbecue when someone hands you a hot dog with a friendly nod. “Don’t worry,” they say. “It’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrew</span></a> National. That’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/kosher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kosher</span></a>, right?”</p><p>To many <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a>, “kosher hot dog” and “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/HebrewNational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HebrewNational</span></a>” are practically synonymous. For over a century, the brand has held a unique place in American culture: proudly <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a>, widely respected, and famous for its clever slogan. But for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> who keep strictly kosher, that assurance usually falls short. Despite the name, the history, and the branding, Hebrew National <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hotdogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hotdogs</span></a> don’t meet the standards that many observant Jews require."</p><p><a href="https://jewinthecity.com/2025/07/most-jews-who-keep-kosher-dont-eat-hebrew-national-hot-dogs-heres-why/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewinthecity.com/2025/07/most-</span><span class="invisible">jews-who-keep-kosher-dont-eat-hebrew-national-hot-dogs-heres-why/</span></a></p>
Rafagas Links<p>"Visualizing Lubartworld" is the story of Jews in a small Polish town from the 1930s to the 1950s, caught between migration and persecution <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a></p><p><a href="https://visualizing-lubartworld.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">visualizing-lubartworld.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"By the 1940s, there were over 4,000 <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> in the city. Several <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> institutions had also been established, including three <a href="https://babka.social/tags/synagogues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synagogues</span></a>, the Jewish Girls’ <a href="https://babka.social/tags/School" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>School</span></a>, and the Jewish Ezra <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hospital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hospital</span></a>. But <a href="https://babka.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> and circumstances reduced <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Calcutta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Calcutta</span></a>’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewry</span></a> to a mere handful.</p><p>"We were a community of five thousand in the 1940s; now we’re just 20 odd members, aged 60 or above,” says Jael Silliman, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/scholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholar</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (2001)."</p><p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/research/the-last-jews-of-calcutta-a-community-on-the-brink-of-disappearance-10127165/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indianexpress.com/article/rese</span><span class="invisible">arch/the-last-jews-of-calcutta-a-community-on-the-brink-of-disappearance-10127165/</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>Netanyahu is the “most dangerous thing” for Jews</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CK7WOSvfUlI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/CK7WOSvfUlI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>American Jewish actor and singer Mandy Patinkin passionately condemns Israel's leadership, calling Benjamin Netanyahu dangerous for Jews globally and denounces Israel’s war on Gaza.</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/MandyPatinkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MandyPatinkin</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Endangering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Endangering</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Civilians</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Unconscionable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unconscionable</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Think" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Think</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Acceptable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acceptable</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrisy</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 14, 1933: the Nazi eugenics program began with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders. The Nazi eugenics program was similar to, and inspired by, the eugenics program in the United States, which had begun in the late 1800s, and included forced sterilization of people deemed inferior, as well as anti-miscegenation laws. Hitler wrote that "There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States," in reference to the U.S. eugenics program. Though the Nazis took their program much further, with the mass extermination of people they thought were inferior, especially Jews, Roma, and anyone else that was not straight, cis and “Aryan,” as well as people with disabilities, communists, socialists and anarchists, both programs were based on the presumptions that certain groups of people were inferior, and that their elimination would improve the genetic stock. Forced sterilization, particularly of African-American women, continued well into the 1970s in many parts of the U.S. Early proponents of eugenics included many liberals, progressives, socialists, and even black activists including: Margaret Sanger, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hellen Keller, Clarence Darrow, George Bernard Shaw, 2-time Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling (including a Nobel peace prize).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nobelprize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nobelprize</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forcedsterilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forcedsterilization</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/roma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roma</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abelism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abelism</span></a></p>