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In the deep end of the diaspora (West Coast BC), a certified professional #translator, enjoying the wonderful connections and sites and threads I’m discovering on #Mastodon. Interests include
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Ketzeleh is a day late to celebrate #TongueOutTuesday but that’s okay. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Ketzeleh #Catstodon #Miaolings

I’m ready for the Hot Summer of Justice. I predict it starts with more announcements and indictments from Jack Smith, and then DA Fani Willis will show us some more justice Atlanta style.

CAPS will lock. Ketchup will fly.

Author Milan Kundera, who was most famous for his 1984 novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," died yesterday at the age of 94. Here are some of his most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over his long career.

https://flip.it/M..jJH

#Books #Bookstodon #MilanKundera

‘To be a writer means to discover a truth’: Milan Kundera – a life in quotes

The Czech author has died at the age of 94. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over the course of his career

The Guardian

There is no such thing as "Haftorah."

The word "#Torah" comes from the word #teaching. A teacher is "Morah," and a parent is "Horeh." Parents are often the ones who teach us Torah.

#Haftarah comes from a completely different #Hebrew word. It means "additional," and is related to the word Maftir, the additional Torah reading.

To English ears, Haftarah and Torah sound similar. That leads to the common misspelling and mispronunciation, "Haftorah."

@toddo I’m not sure of the context it’s used in in your case, but I’ve seen it refer to a comment not supposed to be heard as in “off mic” when some politician says something that was not intended for the public. I imagine there are other uses.

Wishing everyone a good #Shabbos, #Shabbat Shalom, and a pleasant weekend!

#GoodShabbos #ShabbatShalom

I'm visiting highbrow cultural museums while traveling out west. For instance...

Today in Fiddler on the Roof mis-quotes:

"May G-d bless and keep the Meta tsar...far away from us!"

😗

https://youtu.be/8jZFnKZcids

#Threads

May God bless and keep the Czar far away from us! Fiddler On The Roof

YouTube

@guerrillarain @avibenavi @raf @kjr

> so they started accusing her and her entire instance of being zionists

There are so many gross thing that antisemites do when it comes to Jews. This is one of them.

On Twitter, I often saw the phrases like "the Talmudic Jews". The idea is that then "Talmudic" becomes a sort of slur that one must deny being.

Similarly, the idea that being a Zionist is something to be "accused of" is highly offensive.

Most Jews are Zionist, and some Jews are not. But using Zionist as a slur is antisemitism, and it's a form of antisemitism that I see regularly, both online and out in the world.

@Tinu Right?!? They're like "Oh no a dimebag" but for 4 years the person-woman-man-camera-tv guy had his finger on the nuke button.