If Not Now, When?

By Sam / @wax_and_bones on IG

- The Kotzker Rebbe

— Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern, the Kotzker Rebbe

Jewish tombstones at Balassagyarmat (Hungary) Photograph by Váli Dezső (1985), from the collection of the Museum of Ethnography

From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography.

Chevra Kadisha book feom Bonyhád, Hungary (1825)

This Haggadah is illustrated throughout with depictions of Passover rites and biblical episodes related to the Exodus as well as to the lives of Moses, the Patriarchs, and other figures. The numerous scenes, which are mostly based on midrashic sources, are accompanied by rhymed inscriptions, usually set within scrolls. The same artist, whose identity has not yet been discovered, decorated another similar Haggadah, and both are filled with outstanding illustrations.

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Hey friends it's pride month, I found some more of my patches I made a few years ago.. They feel even more resonant for me than they did when I made them before. If you'd like one, or just wanna support another queer Jew's work this pride month, my work is all here. Thank you

Central Synagogue of Buenos Aires, Argentina

According to the museum: "Such snuff boxes were used at Sabbath and festival synagogue prayers. During long hours of prayer, snuff boxes were passed around to the participants as a stimulant to maintain alertness and concentration. This was a regular custom by the Jews of Morocco, but the making of such a box from gold is very unusual. These snuff boxes were almost exclusively used by Jews and were made by the almost exclusively Jewish jewelry makers of Morocco. The decorative pattern used on this box is similar to a gold amulet and two silver amulets thought to be from Ouezzan. The initials of the owner, AB, are inscribed on the cover."

The Great Synagogue or The Sephardic Synagogue is the main synagogue of the Jewish community of Tbilisi, Georgia

bukharian jewish women in jerusalem, 1906

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

Antique Jewish Folk Chest, Eastern Europe 

Shavuot (Jewish holiday, also called the Feast of Weeks), 1985, paper cut out by Yehoshua Grossbard ( 1902-1992)