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Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.

Saying we don’t want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.

-Him insisting on including the Philadelphi Corridor & not ending the war already

-Thus delaying a deal in may that included the recently murdered hostages and many other hostages (women, children,elderly, injured…)

Everyone has been saying this- Hostages’ families, Israeli & us officials, other Members of the knesset…

*I’m honestly surprised you asked considering it’s all over the news .

there are a lot of reasons why bibi keeps being selected as prime minister. his party is the most popular, having received 1.1 million votes in the most recent election and holding 32 seats in the knesset. he's steadily gone further and further right when it comes to the parties he'll work with and imo the standards for who the far right will consider working with are much more relaxed than the standards that left-wing parties will hold. on top of that...other israelis like @homochadensistm would be able to explain better than me how he's sort of "bought out" the haredi voting bloc lol

israel also doesn't have ranked choice voting, so if a party you vote for doesn't meet the electoral threshold then your votes are essentially thrown out. in the most recent election, i think around 325,000 votes between two left wing parties, meretz and labor, were thrown out because they failed to reach the electoral threshold. for some perspective, Shas (right-wing haredi political party), the third largest party in the knesset with 11 seats, received ~393,000 votes. i think it was the leaders of meretz who refused to sign an electoral agreement with labor which would have allowed them to share votes, and they faced a lot of criticism for this decision after the election.

Here's an old costume swap I've been meaning to redo for years! Tzipporah from DreamWorks "The Prince of Egypt" and Esmeralda from Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame," in each other's clothes.

For a bonus, here's Tzipporah in Moses's clothes. (Inspired by @godohelp's amazing Disney Costume Swap series.)

The two Tzipporah pictures are oldies that I touched out. Esmeralda's is newer (the old picture of her as Tzip was just too crappy to salvage). I reused the body from my 1920s Esmeralda, which you can find on my blog @prohibitionprincesses.

From Movie Web:

"My Pillow: the Story of Mike Lindell" is set to debut on Pure Flix this Easter. Staring as the titular My Pillow Guy is Chris Evans, best known as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the director's seat is Mel Gibson, director of "Passion of the Christ" (2004).

I love the way Jewish astrology looks at the month of Adar. The sign is the fish, and it’s the only month in the zodiac that is always talked about in the plural. I was thinking about that duality while I was drawing this, especially the idea that there’s always two sides to our joy, internal and external.

Because fish live entirely under the water, there’s this beautiful tradition that they’re the only sign completely immune to the evil eye. They’re protected by the very thing that keeps them hidden from the rest of the world. It’s a perfect reminder for this month that our luck and our miracles don’t always have to be loud or visible to be real. Sometimes the most beautiful growth is taking shape in the deep where no one else can see it.

Our luck is at its healthiest and most resilient during Adar. It’s the month where we’re encouraged to intentionally increase our joy, which feels like the perfect excuse to just lean into the flow and trust the process.

Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov 🐟🧿🩵

I keep thinking about Miriam’s Well and how the legends say it followed the women through the sand for years, causing plants to bloom wherever it went. In my head, that water was made of starlight. It was the only thing keeping everyone’s spirits up when the world felt so bleak.

Shabbat shalom 🤍

- pushed out of homeland

- don't really have a homeland

- ancestry all over the world

- mixed languages: Yiddish, yeshivish, michif punki...

- can't always tell by looking at someone

- sometimes not poc enough but sometimes not white enough

- awesome music

- associated with fiddles

- really good egg bread if you're in the right Jewish or Métis community

- people pretend to be part of the communities (messianics, pretindians)

- traditional religion associated with the community but a lot of people don't subscribe to it (or not in the typical way)

- traumatized by Christians

- celebrate by fasting or feasting

- genocide, denial of existence, assimilation, etc

- expected to be like the communities were in history (thinking Judaism from before the year 70ce, or Métis to be exactly half and half)

- despite belonging there—blamed for pushing a people out of their home, but it's also a valid argument

- strong community (usually)

- people hid the fact that they were Jewish or Métis, often pretending to be a good old white family

- often overlooked or forgotten

- not just based on ethnicity but also on community

- love a good party

- delicious flatbreads

Do you see what I mean? I'm sure I have more examples but I can't think of any at the moment. I want more Jewish Métis solidarity. (Then again, there isn't much of a Jewish community in Canada. Even in some of the biggest metropolitan areas in Canada, you can't get three rabbis together in the same place.) I just... I want to share. "Look at that! Twins! We should hang out sometime!" That's how I feel Métis and Jewish people should act. Two people wearing the same band on a shirt getting together in excitement. An orchestra member meeting a concert band member. Even two people showing off bullet scars in different places. "Look, look, you're like me, I'm like you!"

hi there 👋🏼

i really don’t know anything about the Métis community, but i can definitely see your point!

though living in the most jewish place on earth, any jew could relate to that feeling of jewish loneliness, if it’s from “just” scrolling online or even traveling. i’m sorry you feel so alone where you live and hope you find some of thay sense of community and family-hood online 🤍

this is the first time in over ten years that there are no israeli hostages held in gaza. that is fucking incomprehensible to me. yes, i can take the tag off as they’re all home now. but i don’t want people to forget. i don’t want them to downplay or deny the suffering of our family stolen from us, some only to return as bodies in bags.

Fawzia Amin Sido

The Yazidi Genocide by Hamas's ally ISIS

Hamas's treatment of Palestinians in general

The Baha'i, and why their religious headquarters are in Israel

The Zoroastrians, and how so many of them ended up in India

Women and girls in Afghanistan now bared from speaking any words outside their homes, not to mention no Healthcare period

The Buddhas of Bamiyan

The Kurds, and why so many of them support Israel

The "morality police" in Iran

The anti-Black genocide in Sudan, where the results are visible from space

[Image ID: A series of screenshots capturing a long tweet by Fara Kaufman (@ justfara), which reads

“So, I spoke to people getting food at a food bank and here are some things I learned from those in need:

1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They can rarely use it because it needs milk and butter which is hard to get from regular food banks.

2. Boxed milk is a treasure, as kids need it for cereal which they also get a lot of.

3. Everyone donates pasta sauce and spaghetti noodles.

4. They cannot eat all the awesome canned veggies and soup unless you put a can opener in too or buy pop tops.

5. Oil is a luxury but needed for Rice a-Roni which they also get a lot of.

6. Spices or salt and pepper would be a real Christmas gift.

7. Tea bags and coffee make them feel like you care.

8. Sugar and flour are treats.

9. They fawn over fresh produce donated by farmers and grocery stores.

10. Seeds are cool in Spring and Summer because growing can be easy for some.

11. They rarely get fresh meat.

12. Tuna and crackers make a good lunch.

13. Hamburger Helper goes nowhere without ground beef.

14. They get lots of peanut butter and jelly but usually not sandwich bread.

15. Butter or margarine is nice too.

16. Eggs are a real commodity.

17. Cake mix and frosting makes it possible to make a child's birthday cake.

18. Dishwashing detergent is very expensive and is always appreciated.

19. Feminine hygiene products are a luxury and women will cry over that.

20. Everyone loves Stove Top Stuffing.

In all the years I have donated food at the Holidays, I bought what I thought they wanted, but have never asked. I am glad I did. If you are helping a Family this Christmas, maybe this can help you tailor it more. It does for me!

At the bottom is a photo of a shelf at a food bank. Items on display include dry noodles, boxed stuffing mix, vegetable oil, dry beans, gravy mix, and various canned goods. Each item has a sign below it that reads “limit 1” or “limit 2”.

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Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:

1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.

2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!

3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!

Every food bank worker/ donations collector I’ve ever spoken to on this is unanimous. Watch any of the big names discussing food assistance in the US and the workers are out in droves in the comments begging for donations of funds so they can buy up the glut of produce harvest happening now instead of getting a bunch of cans or prepackaged foods that aren’t the best use of the cash and won’t result in nearly as much food for the people in need.

When you give stuff, the volunteers have to work significantly more to physically move it around, find storage for unpredictable objects, sort it. Money is virtual and easy for them to manage and HOLDS VALUE if they happen to run out of space. Money doesn’t make them turn away an offered corporate donation of fresh milk because they have no room left.

When you give money, they can buy TEN TO TWENTY TIMES AS MUCH FOOD and/or hygiene products and/or whatever their particular bank needs that wasn’t donated as a physical good, e.g. by a business by the palletload. They have access to pricing that makes Costco look like Erewhon.

If you just happen to have a ton of food you maybe found you had an allergy to, or you stocked up on pads before getting a ute yeet, or someone in your family had a ton of unopened packages of diapers before the kid spontaneously potty-trained overnight, great, that’s a wonderful donation. But do not go out and buy food for the food pantry - give them the money.

Trust the people who do this work to know what is most needed and how best to get it to as many people as possible with the best nutritional profile.

For US folks: