Members of the Bar Giora group, a #Jewish paramilitary defense organization dedicated to protecting pioneering #zionist towns, posing for a photo near #Rehovot - c. 1908
The Bar Giora group would eventually turn into HaShomer and later be absorbed into the Haganah
They'll whine about "religious freedom". #ReligiousFreedom is not implicated here: teach whatever you want, as long as you also teach math, science, #history. (If anything, forbearance would offend religious freedom by privileging religion over all other compelling state interests, a violation of the #EstablishmentClause.)
They'll whine that those subjects are adequately addressed in their #Jewish studies. Nonsense. Kids graduating these "#schools" have been shown to be severely deficient in English and other subjects.
The schools and their supporters are lying; and what's more: they know it.
Today in Labor History July 3, 1883: Franz Kafka was born. He died at age 40, of tuberculosis, before any of his major works were published. He was born to a middle-class, German-Czech Jewish family, but declared himself an atheist by the time he was a teen. As a young man, he participated in the Klub mladých, a Czech anarchist, anti-militarist, and anti-clerical organization. Supposedly, he wore a red carnation to school to show his support for socialism. Much of his fiction explores themes of alienation, guilt and power, and is often characterized by protagonists faced with bizarre and often incomprehensible bureaucratic nightmares. His own life was filled with anxiety and self-doubt that provoked him to burn roughly 90% of his own manuscripts, and much of the 10% that survived was lost or never published. In his will, he instructed his friend, and fellow writer, Max Brod, to destroy his work. Brod ignored this request and helped get “The Trial,” “The Castle,” and “America” published.
#Jewish men buying Skhakh (s5a5), used to build the roof of the Sukkah (religious hut) for the holiday of Sukkot, from other #Arab residents in #Jerusalem c. 1930s
I work for New York State, also have an Etsy gift store, with constantly growing offerings (190+), mostly cute mugs and a couple of angry political T-shirts.
For those coming in from the #TwitterMigration, if you're interested in radical #Jewish#Queer artwork as well as humorous comics, give me a follow. My work is at https://emilyk.art. Opinions are mine and also probably not for everyone. But they're never boring. I at least have that. #introduction#comics#webcomics
Hi #TwitterMigration! If you’re #Jewish or an ally, @babka is a great place to join! It’s a relatively small server that takes moderation and defederation seriously. If you already joined a server, you can move! #Mazeldon
I love how #Judaism has the transitive property of kissing. Can't kiss the Torah directly? Kiss a book then touch the Torah with it. Can't kiss your (shared) #kippah directly? Kiss your hand then touch the kippah. Being #Jewish means that your kisses can go anywhere.