This week's review roundup features intimate heartbreak, overcoming trauma, and bawdy Yiddish poetry.

Madi Diaz
Brye
Ira Khonen Temple

http://rainbowrodeomag.com/review-roundup-madi-diaz-brye-ira-khonen-temple/

#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lgbtq #trans #transgender #Yiddish #YiddishKeit #klezmer #mazeldon

I've been struggling between two world views.

I'm an Ashkenazi and proud of it, and while I believe in the right of Jews for self-determination, I have chosen to live my life in the diaspora.

I'm also a proud, but secular Jew.

Those things would generally be described as Yiddishkeit.

At the same time, I've seen some things in the Yiddishkeit movement that deeply concern me. Ashkecentrism makes sennse, but I'm seeing some anti-Sephardi racism.

I also see bigotry in anti-Israeli, not merely against the current government, but an erasure or gatekeeping of Israelis, even those who have chosen to live in the diaspora.

I also worry as I see it become disconnected from secular Jewish life to "Humanist Jewish Life", a movement that I do not resonate with.

With all of this, I find the movement does not connect with me and I find pushes me away.

I'm curious to others views, especially Jews of Color and non-Americans.

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Jews #Yiddishkeit

Just in time for May Day, the radical duo Brivele gift us with Yiddish folk to fight back against fascism.

https://rainbowrodeomag.com/brivele-khaveyrim-zayt-greyt/

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Some beautiful #music for troubled times...

"... this poem was not like the others. This was a poem written by Zeitlin, presumably in response to the pogroms of 1918-20 in which more than 100,000 Jews were murdered. A poem called Mistorim – Hidden Places. It is a poem in which Zeitlin asks God to weep tears of molten rage in order to destroy the devil’s kingdom and save His children from pain and suffering..."

#Yiddish #Yiddishkeit

#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

#BringThemHomeNOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfQUclEvj-o