"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/

Hate Speech & Insult Law with Jason Oberman

On air discussion with Jason Oberman addressing their three part series #Inciting #Hatred and #Slinging #Insults: Exploring the #Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The #Left #Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an #anti-zionist #Ashkenazi #Jewish #American based in Zürich. A #musician, #composer, #songwriter and #rogue #scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason #researches, #lectures and #writes on Jewish identity, #Zionism, #Palestine and Germany’s weaponization of the “fight against Antisemitism”.

https://www.instagram.com/jason.oberman/

Interview by performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar. Joined by Alex Head and juwelz in the studio.

#theleftberlin #jasonoberman #live #radio

Alt Text: Jason Oberman gave us this wonderful portrait that has been chromo-cast in a way that brings out the ethereal quality of the image in yeloow and grey-black.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/radio-against-repression/id1873380913?i=1000747722018

Budget eats: Discover culinary gems on the French and Italian Rivieras

Old roads lead to classic…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchculinary ##eats #And #budget #cheap #cuisine #culinary #culinarytraditions #discover #easily #emms #francais #france #French #FrenchCulinary #Frenchculinarytraditions #Gems #Italian #know #Look #navigate #on #Rivieras #stephen #the #their #where #writes
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2236100/budget-eats-discover-culinary-gems-on-the-french-and-italian-rivieras/

‘Deeply regret’: Winston Peters writes to United Nations after David Seymour letter

“We … understand that you did not directly receive the letter to you by my colleague [REDACTED –…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #breakdown #caused #david #deeply #deputy #diplomatic #expressed #Foreign #imbroglio #incident #letter #minister #minor #nations #NewZealand #NZ #official #peters #prime #protocol #regret #seymour #seymours #that #to #united #winston #writes
https://www.newsbeep.com/53271/

Relax in luxury at Ayana Bali, the island’s unrivalled 5-star tropical resort

Ocean Beach Pool. Photo / AYANA Resort BaliDine at dozens of eateries With more than 30 eateries, you…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #5star #at #ayana #bali #cliffside #cocktails #cultural #cvitanovich #every #from #immersion #in #islands #kind #Luxury #NewZealand #NZ #offers #Paradise #relax #resort #Scarlett #slice #the #traveller #tropical #unrivalled #writes
https://www.newsbeep.com/51871/

#WritersCoffeeClub 19. What is the difference between a writer and a person who writes?

The same as the difference between 'breather' and 'one who breathes,' or 'dancer' and 'one who dances.'

I'm comic-relief untalented when it comes to dancing, but I can have fun doing it anyway.

Anyone who #writes is a writer. Some people do a lot more of it than others, and some people are better at it than others, but I don't see the point of gatekeeping.

@bamboombibbitybop @maulanahirzan yeah, the only think Im aware of w.r.t. the "health" of solid state storage is how many wornout cells are being marked or some indication of TB written / MFG TBW. And its temperature, but in most cases they have a heatsink - AND they self throttle performance wise if they're hot. etc.

Since utils like Crystal Disk info only report SMART things like writes and mfgrs total writes (before failure), Im assuming that's what OP's util is showing: 1-#writes/tbw