Category Archives: politics

Pass the Anti-Lynching Bill!

Posted on 2020/08/17 by davka

Leo Frank Today, August 17, 2020 marks the 105th anniver­sary of the lynch­ing of Leo Frank לְהַבדִיל — l’havdil — to dis­tin­guish Yes­ter­day I learned about “Sup­per­time”, a deeply mov­ing song writ­ten by Irv­ing Berlin in 1933. The song tells of a far … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Plagues Suck (or: Passover in a time of plague)

Posted on 2020/04/08 by davka

A friend called me the oth­er day won­der­ing why the Hebrew word ״מַכּוֹת״ in the phrase: “אֵלּוּ עֶשֶׂר מַכּוֹת שֶׁהֵבִיא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עַל הַמִּצְרִים בְּמִצְרַיִם, וְאֵלּוּ הֵן:” is trans­lat­ed as “plagues”. He, an Israeli whose orig­i­nal lan­guage is Hebrew … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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