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Greetings folks! � Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews ...
by Eccaba
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by Eccaba
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 04:03 PM PDT
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, by Avi Shlaim, tells how the Oxford historian left Iraq at the age of 5 in 1950 to live in Israel and eventually England. Importantly, the book offers a perspective on Arab Jews that is often forgotten today but...
by ybruti
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 03:33 PM PDT
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Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by Eccaba
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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In the Spanish town of León, locals toast Easter with a ‘Kill Jews’ cocktail The Holy Week before Easter is Spain’s paramount religious period. Celebrations in the ancient northwestern city of León — population about 124,000 now — offer a...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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I am a presenter on netrootsradio.com, and a Jew. Not a very observant one, but nonetheless, a Jew. With the horror going on between Hamas & Israel, remember, Hamas doesn’t wear uniforms, so they are complicit in the deaths of 1,000s of Gaza civilians,...
by theRoaringGirl
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 02:37 PM PDT
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“Songs of Zion” weekly posts are meant to provide a Jewish safe space. Please take any arguments outside. Purim is coming (3/24-25) so please accept this reminder to get your break-fasts, goody bags (shlach manot), costumes, Megillah readings and...
by prgst
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 04:29 PM PDT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrqNzRn4DE Greetings and welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 04:36 PM PDT
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Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by Eccaba
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 04:39 PM PST
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Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by Eccaba
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 04:08 PM PST
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Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily KOS. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by Eccaba
48 comments
on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 04:13 PM PST
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Happy Thursday once again everyone! Today’s Parsha is a pretty famous one- Va’era from Exodus. For a refresher: The Parsha starts out with a reluctant Moshe informing the Israelites that G-d will soon free them. They are skeptical. Moshe’s next job is...
by Eccaba
60 comments
on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 04:01 PM PST
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Did you know that there was a refugee camp in upstate New York during WWII? It housed 982 refugees from Europe, almost all of them Jews. It was the only one of its kind. I didn't know about the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter before I moved to...
by wasplover
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 03:57 PM PST
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Good evening folks. Tonight I will be discussing my current woes, since I am too drained for much else. My partner’s family is Christian, and his mother is very religious so it’s important to him that we go see them during this time. The problem? This...
by Eccaba
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 04:01 PM PST
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Cross-posted to my Substack, The Janovsky Report Today is the anniversary of the death of my great uncle, Dr. Iliazar Israel Schaechter, (above, c. 1930), so I am lighting a Jewish Memorial (Yahrzeit) candle in his memory. He was a hero physician in...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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Wanda Landowska was born in Warsaw Poland in 1879. She was born to an upper secular family who had converted to Christianity from Judaism during her grandparents’ generation. Her parents started her on piano lessons at the age of four. Landowska took...
by Eccaba
48 comments
on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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MAIN STORY: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-accused-planning-mass-shooting-ohio-synagogue-ordered-write-book-rcna130401 I was there when Columbine happened — less than ½ mile away at my girlfriend’s parent’s house when it was actively going...
by itwasniceknowingyouamerica
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 09:43 AM PST
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an attack on Israel from Gaza in which 1139 were killed, at least 8,730 were injured and an estimated 240 hostages were forced into captivity in Gaza, of which as many as 136 remain as prisoners in Gaza. Brutality of...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 02:41 PM PST
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Happy final night of Hannukah folks! Hope ya’ll have been able to enjoy the light and warmth of the holiday. Did you get any presents? Did you give some? Anything you really loved? Today I thought we’d celebrate this final night by enjoying some...
by Eccaba
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 04:01 PM PST
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Last night we lit five candles. The fifth night is special for many reasons. Because of the intricacies of the Jewish calendar, based on a resolution of both the lunar and solar cycles, the fifth night can never fall on the Sabbath, even while Chanukah...
by thewavethatiam
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 10:01 AM PST
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