Is marijuana kosher? Yes, of course it is!
If I am going to get higher than high, isn’t there some useful traditional guidance about how best to do so?
Cannabis Chassidis, The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs (A Memoir) by Yoseph Leib Ibn Mardachya
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Into My Garden, Poems by David Caplan
As if New Jersey were Babylon, an Argentine
and an Israeli argue in Aramaic, Styrofoam cups
of instant coffee warm in their hands.
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An Added Soul, Poems for a New Old Religion (bilingual English/Hebrew edition) by Herbert J. Levine
“There’s much to atone for in how I manage my world:
The absence of a god is no excuse.”
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This is 91: Edward Pomerantz Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
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Today we remember the birthday of Hersh Smolar, author of Jews Without Yellow Stars stories of Jewish partisan fighters in Nazi-occupied Belarus (translated from the Yiddish by Ruth Murphy)
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Open My Lips, Prayers and Poems by Rachel Barenblat
Here are poems for weekday and Shabbat, festival seasons (including the Days of Awe and Passover), and psalms of grief and praise.
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There is No Place Without You, poems by Maya Bernstein
The new moon rises. I look beyond the windowsill, return
my gaze to God. Somewhere, a Shofar wails its cry, a shrill “Return!”
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Everything Thaws, A poetic cycle by R. B. Lemberg
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Oh I really liked the first one! Spread the word about the second one -
A dark brown illustration on a cream-colored background. 3 women are here: Shifra and Puah, the Hebrew midwives who fooled the Pharaoh in Exodus, and Miriam the Prophet (Moses’ sister), who is often associated with the 2 midwives, and who is considered a metaphorical midwife to the nation of Israel’s “birth.” In fact, the crossing of the sea is a giant birth metaphor, with Miriam at the end acting as a guide and a midwife – including providing the Israelites with water in the wilderness. The two women wear long garments and head coverings. The woman on the left looks behind, and the one on the right looks forward. They are large and overlook the sea, which is split into two walls with a path in the center. Miriam holds up her timbrel at the point where the sides of the sea converge with the pathway. At the start of the split, a column of fire comes down in the form of “tzedek tzedek tirdof” with the verses that tell of the midwives resisting the Pharaoh when he told them to kill the male Hebrew babies. The text consists of verses that talk about Judaism’s relationship to abortion. Even the most stringent Jewish opinions allow for abortion of the fetus to save the life of the mother, because her life takes precedent. On the border is a floral ornamentation that is by no means random. This is Common Rue, which is not only a known abortifacient herb, but also has history as a protective amulet in Kaballah. This second meaning is a coincidence. I was looking for an abortifacient herb to use as the ornament, and common rue has not only been studied and shown to have those properties, but was visually really interesting and easily adapted to a border. That it has a presence in Jewish folklore is a big bonus.
The bottom right corner, close up. Leaves from the common rue floral border flank "Miriam" in Hebrew. Verses from Rashi, Proverbs, and others are close up. My signature is stylized as a common rue blossom.
The center of the illustration showing a closeup of Miriam's hand with the timbrel. Hebrew and English calligraphy is flowing forth.
Closeup of the hand of one of the women. The flowers of the border can be seen in close up as well.
Did you know - the Portland Frog is not my first Passover-themed illustration?
I made "The Midwives of Israel" after SCOTUS overturned Roe. Miriam, Shifra, and Puah guide the way through the split sea, buttressed by Jewish texts that support and indeed prescribe abortion. More info in the alt.
Allow me to translate: "Jew-pilled."
The Times will speak plainly about antisemitism if detected in the speech of a Muslim, but won't speak plainly about it when it's given voice in broad daylight by a "conservative."
kay kay.
Dear Christians who like to appropriate Judaism: Jesus did NOT have a Passover seder, (that developed after the fall of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE) but he WAS commanded to clean leaven from his house, so if you want the fun! parts of being a Jew, you can enjoy scrubbing your fridge like I am now 💕
Last chance to get your Haggadah for Passover! We have priority mail shipping options for orders placed through Monday afternoon to reach you by Wednesday before your seder.
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Trump’s current DOJ released by mistaken a document showing that Jack Smith had established a motive for Trump’s stealing of government secrets in 2021. That motive was related to his business interests.
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Should be filmed live, as in one take.
Rubio openly saying that western civilization is *christian* culture exclusively while dog-whistling to the German far right seems like a danger sign for Jewish ppl? maybe?
too bad the adl has decided that you can't be antisemitic as long as you support the genocide of Palestinians.
On Feb 19th, from 7-8:30 pm, two of our Ben Yehdua Press authors, Julia Knobloch and David Caplan, are participating in JCC Buffalo's Virtual Jewish Poetry Reading Series.
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Can Judaism Be Saved? Its Future After Gaza by Arthur Green
Can Judaism Be Saved? invites readers to engage in a bold and necessary conversation about the future of Jewish identity, the role of Israel, and the moral responsibilities of the Jewish people.
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Visions of Past and Future: A Review of “Zion Square”
Maxim D. Shrayer’s new poetry collection “Zion Square” contains the pain and dreams of a Jew with his heart in Israel, roots in Europe, and branches in the Unites States.
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Ben Yehuda Press has a special sale for Jewish Poetry Month. But 2 get 1 free!
We have a special focus today on poetry in translation
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Watch a discussion of the new bilingual Yiddish-English translation of Hersh Smolar's Yidn on gele lates — Jews Without Yellow Stars. Panelists included Dr. Gennady Estraikh, together with the book's translator Ruth Murphy and editor Catherine Madsen.
Read this new book review of “As the Story Goes: Funny, Strange and Serious Stories of Yiddishland’s Jews” Compiled by Mordekhai Lipson Translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin
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Ben Yehuda Press has a special buy 2 get 1 free for Jewish Poetry Month
Check out these historical-themed poetry books:
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incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Sometimes I hear people say, “whatever happened to the party of Reagan?” with the implication being that the GOP has only recently incorporated bigotry into its core principles.
"Central U.S. case agent: I was working an undercover operation on a neo-Nazi group with a long history of criminal activity. The F.B.I.’s niche in the federal law enforcement community is these specialized investigations, and now we’re being pulled away from those. If I’d wanted to be a cop, I would have just done that. When I resigned from the F.B.I., I was told they’d have to close the investigation — there was no one else around to pick it up."
The Trump administration's FBI shut down a big investigation into a neo-Nazi group so all the agents could be reassigned to immigration enforcement.
You know, in case you took this administration seriously when they claimed to be "fighting antisemitism." (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
Or more broadly, telling your most committed constituents that they are an anchor, a liability, a problem for you -- that, by caring about anything more than what a non-college middle-PA swing voter cares about, they are fucking everything up for you.
That's the constant message.
Hey, people whose German is better than mine and have access to Hegel's "Der Geist des Christentums" in the original: when, in "The Spirit of Judaism" he describes the flood as "a deep distraction" and says Noah built "the distracted world"--what's being translated as "distraction/distracted?"
Well I’m not a senator, so my powers of calling it into question are pretty much limited to writing and protest. But you could make an issue of it on the US Senate floor every legislative day.
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.