Category Archives: Personal Reflections
Jacob Glatstein and the Magic Mountain of Yiddish – Tablet Magazine
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Oh why not. My Jewish cat!
Ever have a strong desire to post something but no motivation to put in actual effort? Well that’s me right now so I give you cat photos instead.
We love our cat daughter Sonia though her naughtiness can get somewhat frustrating. She’s so darn cute though so we forgive too much 🙂
Here’s Sonia in our front window doing her “Where are you going mommy?”
And of course, cuddle up to dad thoughtful look.
The ” I want to play Destiny 2, daddy!” Look
Post grocery store trip ” I must play and hide in all the bags” mania.
We love our little gorgeous nut if it’s not obvious.
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FBI: Jews Subject to 54% of Religiously Motivated Hate Crimes in 2016, Despite Being Just 2% of U.S. Population – Tablet Magazine
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Photographing Eastern Europe’s Fading Jewish Architecture – Tablet Magazine
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Ugh, world history-off topical The Family Romanov
Seriously for anyone romanticizing the Romanov dynasty, please do some actual research. The tsars treated their subjects (read the poor-serfs and later “liberated” peasants) like absolutely less than human. That’s what being an autocrat means. Oh and they and especially Nicholas II who is now considered a martyr, were profoundly and violently anti-Semitic. The Black Hundreds who pogromed the hell out of Jews in 1905-06 were financed by the Tsar for the “good of Russia.” Frankly and this will likely be an unpopular opinion, I don’t blame the Bolsheviks for executing him in 1918. I’m entirely opposed to the murders of their children and servants but he and his wife were evil, racist anti-Semites and I’m just not ok with people seeing them as some kind of holy victims.
That’s what I get for reading history after straight six book fluff reading.
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New Bio of Sabina Spielrein: Raped By Carl Jung, Then Murdered by the Nazis – Tablet Magazine
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I’m Hungarian, American, and Jewish, but It’s Hard To Be All Three at Once – Tablet Magazine
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Jewish Books Are Awesome 