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the other day your bubbe was kibitzing about some black guy who sings in yiddish. it's still me. he/him - half of yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider - Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow 2023-25 - afrojudeopessoptimist anthonyrussellbass.com
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what I believe the french call “crackpot-en-titre”

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I'm (F154) a four-act opera written by Giuseppe Verdi and set in ancient Egypt. I've been performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera more than 1,100 times since 1886. AIDA?

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wait the president is taking advice on the security council from someone who pissed themselves in front of the twitter offices seven years ago???

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You should read this great personal essay on music, nostalgia, Zionism, and American Jewish identity which my fantastic colleague at Sarah Lawrence published today: therevealer.org/son-of-safam/

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welp at least I know what kind of jazz tune they’re going to be playing on NPR’s Marketplace for the foreseeable future and it ain’t gonna be the jaunty one

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don’t know what a switch 2 is but watch me switch 2 muting that particular construction of the english language in my bsky settings

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shlimiel/shlimazl discourse, film at 11

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it’s nice to know that there some things even “the richest man in the world” can’t buy

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The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

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special episode of Reacher where he apprehends people's Passover dishes without the assistance of a step stool

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Freedom fries in darkness

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[laughs uproariously in yiddish]

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that’s me in the background

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“Shabes Queen??? What do they call you all the other days of the week?” gut shabes/buen shabat/shabbat shalom

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reposting, because...gorgeous picture

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We've known the direction in which things were going for a long time now... Excerpt, "Likhtelekh" by Tsvey Brider (2016)

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I'm glad someone likes this and comes by that like honestly, because...I don't. If you come up to me after an hour of singing in poetic, high-toned Yiddish asking about the etymology of spatula, I will throw a hardbound copy of Weinreich at your head.

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it’s already shitty enough that this ghibli gpt thing exists in the first place, can y’all at least stop disseminating countless images produced by it in the past few hours in your performative disgust posts, please

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a memory from the Kennedy Center in happier times: "Wandering Stars: Three Generations of European Jewish Song", March 2016

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hardly anyone is going to read this anyway, and there's the distinct inevitability that this has been better stated elsewhere, but here goes: social media runs on an economy of diversion, whether it's brain rot memes on one end or highly episodic threads of scandal and denunciation on the other.

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IF WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS SO RIGHTEOUS WHY DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR FACES?

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When costume design is good, an entire parallel narrative courses underneath words and actions of characters. In Hester Street (1976), the costumes *are* the actions, and reactions, to the challenge of assimilation, as beautifully evoked here by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social for @bwdr.bsky.social:

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Stand up when you see this stuff. Will it be scary? Of course. But would you want people to just turn away, if you were the one being dragged off?

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pardon me while I skip this very special episode of the moth radio hour

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journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

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te deum/tedium

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Join us for an unforgettable Third Seder on Sunday, April 6, at 1:00 PM ET— an afternoon of music, dancing, and celebration rooted in our shared commitment to justice and liberation. Let’s raise our voices and lift our spirits, for a better world, together! #passover #yiddishculture #jewishtradition

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somewhere out there, there’s a little gentile boy named Kohen Guddle.

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there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

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