ludmirermoyd : Got myself a copy of Nahum Stutchkoff’s Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Sprakh — that lovely, 933-page thesaurus of verbs, nouns, proverbs, expressions, and curses he compiled. Here you can see a (blurry) page for the entry “hit”, a selection of which I put up some time ago. Read More »

” Nu-zhe, kum-zhe, ikh un du, Ven der ovnt shteyt uf kegn dem himl Vi a leymener goylm af Tisha b’Av Lomir geyn zikh Durkh geselakh vos dreyen zikh Vi di bord fun dem rov Oy, Bashe, freg nisht keyn kashe, A dayge dir Oyf der vant fun dem koshern Read More »

Do ligt a yid, a posheter,Geshribn yidish-taytsh far vayber,Un farn prostn folk hot erGevena humorist a shrayber.Dos gantse lebn oysgelakht,Geshlogn mit der velt kapores. Read More »

“Miracles occur, but food is rarely provided by them.” – Nahman b. Jacob, Talmud, Shabbat, 53b. Read More »

Why, for example, were American anthropologists, many of them Jewish, unable to constitute Jews as an anthropological subject until after the Holocaust? In a word, the answer resides with the Jewish body. Read More »

onegirlrhumba : the ebook file-sharing portal library.nu, along with filelocker ifile.it, were forced to shut down following an injunction filed against the sites by a coalition of publishing companies. as a graduate student who used library. Read More »

strastnayagirl : (http: //www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-mormons-apology-wiesenthal-idUSTRE81E03S20120215 ) Right, so Mormon PR is on the scene, saying sorry for a member’s violation of a 1995 agreement that the Mormon Church wouldn’t baptize Holocaust victims anymore. Read More »

!וויסן זאל זיין פריי! אלע קעגן דעם קאפיטאליזערונג פון ביכערLibrary.nu, a site which made exorbitantly priced academic material available for free, has been shut down . Read More »

Found on the internet : “It is interesting that Liel raises the “Han shot first” ruckus without mentioning that al pi Halakha what Han did was absolutely moral. Greedo came to collect a debt. Han, a shomer sakhar in Jabba’s employ, was forced to jetison the cargo he was delivering for Jabba. Read More »

jojothemodern : “Secure an egg laid on a Thursday by a jet-black hen which has never laid an egg before, and on the same day, after sunset, bury it at a crossroads. Read More »

“No bird can fly over itself.” – Heinrich Heine, Pictures of Travel Read More »

rishonan : A really fascinating film; I hope that it stays on YouTube! aw, poor gerim. gonna watch this while i eat some treyf. so glad i was “born” Jewish. feel free to skip the parts about Messianics (no, i do not deign to add the word “Jew” to that appellation). Read More »

“The methods of formal analysis are necessary, but insufficient. You may count up the alliterations in popular proverbs, classify metaphors, count up the number of vowels and consonants in a wedding song. Read More »

bb-goose : [x] I’m kinda speechless right now In a good way No regrets tbh Yeah i had seen these earlier but didnt put em on tumblr for some reason. They make no sense but i adore them. Read More »

“Poor is the generation whose leader is a woman.”—Midrash Tehillim, 22.20 (on Psalm 22: 6)“Everything will be changed once woman gives woman to the other woman.”—Cixous, “Laugh of the Medusa”A key feminist tool, a tool not of the master’s house, for dismantling patriarchy (and capitalism) is the building of new relationships. Read More »

The Curse of Millhaven: So my last anti-circumcision post was misunderstood as being anti Judaism for some reason… Read More »

glompkitty : glompkitty : I always feel this movie is relevant. Always and forever. **Trigger Warning: this is a film examining privilege. So there is quite a bit of talk of racism, and people stating some pretty racist things. Read More »

“When the sages went into the Vineyard at Yavneh, they said: The time will come when a man will seek a matter of Torah but he will not find it. He will seek a matter of the scribes, but he will not find it… . They said: Let us begin with [the teachings] of Hillel and Shammai.” – (T. Read More »

A Very Nerdy Nerd: This is also probably why I shouldn’t do unpopular opinion memes? : glompkitty : lazersilberstein : glompkitty : This is also probably why I shouldn’t do unpopular opinion memes? I’m only reblogging/answering Lane because he is one of my BFFs, and we do indeed respect each other and all that jazz. Read More »

i still do not know how to operate tumblr i hate tumblr Read More »