Vayishlach
Hello! I am once again exhausted. But I did find many links already yesterday and today, and chanukah is coming (light the first candle on the 10th!).
First, a skelehamsa from jewish artist Mike Wirth.
and a nice chanukah thing from daveed diggs
and at 5pm EST/2pm PST RV Dougherty does a pre-shabbat radio show
Now that we’ve covered the fun stuff you can read Rebecca Pierce discuss Jewish selective memory about the holocaust and why it is, in fact, appropriate to compare US government today to the nazis.
Also on the less fun part of twitter, people on the internet were antisemitic in new and exciting ways but other people like Rabbi Abby Stein pushed back on it.
I also saw a thread going around lately about Faye Schulman, a photographer who captured Jewish resistance to the shoah.
There’s a really cool thing on opensiddur where someone put together a periodic table of the alef bet though. Nice things do exist on the internet.
Events! There’s so many this time of year.
UW’s annual ladino day is 12/6, and focuses on how technologies (“from the printing press to the smartphone”) affect the language. Apparently there’s a uTalk ladino/judezmo module, among other resources for learning.
Also 12/6 at 1pm, Pączki & Poetry - A Yiddishkayt Pre-Hanukka Virtual Salon. It will be available on facebook and youtube afterwards.
On 12/8 Jewish Activism Summer School has On Histories of Jewish Anarchism. “Join us for a complementary session to the double webinar about Anarcho-Judaism. This webinar will explore some of the literature and culture of Jewish anarchist movements, spanning the 1880s to 1930s in Europe and North America.” Register here.
12/10 A Hanukkah Queernucopia, all LGBTQ jews, all the time. Or at one time, I suppose.
12/6-12/14 Cornell’s Jewish Studies program has a series of webinars on Di Linke: the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War
It’s a good time for cute little book shaped things, too. There’s a new Chanukah zine from Judaism On Our Own Terms, an alternative to hillel. Brivele’s Antifa Kugelbook is available on bandcamp also.
The Jewish Pet of the Week is Kitty Pryde (the cat, not the fictional human/mutant). Look at that faaaaace.
