Friend very rudely cancelled our lunch plans because she was “in labor” and “literally having a baby right now.” 🙄

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Never liked how in Yiddish you’d describe a stranger as “fremd” (פֿרעמד) when than person is as far as you can get from being a fremd

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Ahad Ha-Am sits on my shelf, next to other political works such as Che Guevara and Crabapple's recent book on the Bund. the Cultural form of Zionism has been the only one i found most merit in, but still suffers from utopian idealism - one that often overlooks dangers of "cultural revolution".

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The difference between Israel and the US in that regard is that the US has wiped out any pre-existing culture so thoroughly that its Christianity seems neutral. But it required brutal cultural suppression of its indeginous and black populations. Even Catholics were persecuted though not as brutally

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the kugel i made last night is so good 😭 i needed another tub of cottage cheese though. and the top got a little too burnt and crispy... best to have a covering but i was out of foil.

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