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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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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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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 but we ask that they listen more than speak. No...
by Navy Vet Terp
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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I was recently reminded of a wonderful old Jewish tale that explains atheists. This version is from Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim: A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally...
by Mark Ira Kaufman
390 comments
on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 03:47 AM PDT
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My family was not religious, but we were always aware that we were Jews. Until I was 12, we were the only Jewish family in a Catholic neighborhood. Some families wouldn’t let their children play with us. My parents sent us to Hebrew School, to get in...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 01:03 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 ...
by Eccaba
31 comments
on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 05:00 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 ...
by Eccaba
19 comments
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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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
14 comments
on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 04:33 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
22 comments
on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 09:08 AM 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
24 comments
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
35 comments
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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To quote Robert Burns: "O, wad some Power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Growing up in my argumentative Jewish family, I remember most political and cultural issues were subjected, at some point, to the question: but is it good...
by AliceT4
542 comments
on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM 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
60 comments
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 03:57 PM PST
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People like me When I was in elementary school, I was the only Jewish kid in my school, and one day out of the blue a classmate on the playground called me “Jew boy.” I was shocked. I knew about antisemitism, about Jewish history, but I’d never...
by Rob in Vermont
51 comments
on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 01:34 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
19 comments
on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 04:01 PM PST
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