Ari Davidow
@aridavidow.bsky.social
Into klezmer and most Jewish music; former Hebrew/Yiddish typographer extraordinaire. Wannabe community organizer and Tikkun olamista. Proud former staffer at https://jwa.org Long-time WELL denizen, https://well.com
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אֲיֻמָּה נִכְתָּרָה | Ayumah Nikhtarah (Lo! the mighty nation), a piyyut for the second night of Shavuot by Isaac ben Meshulam (translated by Elsie Davis) opensiddur.org?p=64269
אֲיֻמָּה נִכְתָּרָה | Ayumah Nikhtarah (Lo! the mighty nation), a piyyut for the second night of Shavuot by Isaac ben Meshulam (translated by Elsie Davis) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּ...
This is the piyyut "Eyumah Nikhtrah (Lo, the Mighty Nation...)" by Isaac ben Meshulam for maariv (after the shema) on the second night of Shavuot, was first published in Adler and Davis's Maḥzor for S...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
אֲיֻמָּה נִכְתָּרָה | Ayumah Nikhtarah (Lo! the mighty nation), a piyyut for the second night of Shavuot by Isaac ben Meshulam (translated by Elsie Davis) opensiddur.org?p=64269
The Honk! festival, part 2, as we tea party on the Boston Commons. No Kings!
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Honk! festival, part 2, as we tea party on the Boston Commons. No Kings!
Interesting question. I think there isn't a "beyond repair" that is useful here. It's not like we can go to the store and get a new one. Most of us have no useful place to relocate to. We're stuck finding a path that leads to something worth evolving towards.
Purely theoretical: if you felt the US were a failed experiment - that it's beyond repair - would you:
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
September 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Interesting question. I think there isn't a "beyond repair" that is useful here. It's not like we can go to the store and get a new one. Most of us have no useful place to relocate to. We're stuck finding a path that leads to something worth evolving towards.
The High Holidays approach. Made it to a Mizrahi Selichot yesterday morning at Temple Beth Zion, Brookline. I love these melodies. No wonder the Sephardic custom is to do a month of this. This cong does only three mornings, a week apart (and not at midnight!) That's enough for moi. #HighHolyDays
September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The High Holidays approach. Made it to a Mizrahi Selichot yesterday morning at Temple Beth Zion, Brookline. I love these melodies. No wonder the Sephardic custom is to do a month of this. This cong does only three mornings, a week apart (and not at midnight!) That's enough for moi. #HighHolyDays
#ShaniAvni reminding us of the craft and knowledge of calligrapher/typographer #IsmarDavid at NY Typophiles luncheon in NYC #GrolierClub. His book on Hebrew Calligraphy is being re-issued.
May 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#ShaniAvni reminding us of the craft and knowledge of calligrapher/typographer #IsmarDavid at NY Typophiles luncheon in NYC #GrolierClub. His book on Hebrew Calligraphy is being re-issued.
1st new entry on the Hebrew Type blog in 10 years: "Heb/Eng type basics - 2025 ed". Still reworking the HTML around it: www.ivritype.com/hebrew/2025/... #hebrewtypography
A Few Hebrew/English Typesetting Basics - 2025 version
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May 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
1st new entry on the Hebrew Type blog in 10 years: "Heb/Eng type basics - 2025 ed". Still reworking the HTML around it: www.ivritype.com/hebrew/2025/... #hebrewtypography
For the 2nd in a few weeks, “Understanding Yiddish Information Processing” dives into encoding some of the unique Yiddish composite characters, how it affects search, etc. Too many type designers know only Hebrew. Find out more, & sub at: uyip.org
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#yiddish #uyip
UYIP: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing
Home Page for UYIP The Mailing List for Understanding Yiddish Information Processing UYIP@THEWORLD.COM To subscribe to UYIP send E-Mail to uyip-request@theworld.com with …
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May 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy "Independent Bookstore Day"
April 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Happy "Independent Bookstore Day"
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“All who are hungry for justice, come and stand with us.”
At the Seder In the Streets with so many in the Jewish community who say: Not In Our Name! We are opposed to the arrests and detentions of students just for speaking up. You don’t have to agree on everything to know we must stand together now! @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“All who are hungry for justice, come and stand with us.”
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500+ Jews show up to stand with our immigrant neighbors in Boston and beyond against illegal deportations this Pesach @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social #SederintheStreets #freeMahmoud #freeRumeysah #freeMohsen
April 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
500+ Jews show up to stand with our immigrant neighbors in Boston and beyond against illegal deportations this Pesach @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social #SederintheStreets #freeMahmoud #freeRumeysah #freeMohsen
Seder in the Streets. Attacking the first amendment and illegally deporting those who speak out does not make Jews safe, nor safer. It endangers us all. #notinourname
April 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Seder in the Streets. Attacking the first amendment and illegally deporting those who speak out does not make Jews safe, nor safer. It endangers us all. #notinourname
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April 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thank you, Wisconsin
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Thank you, Wisconsin
For those who have been following Judith Pinnolis's interviews with women cantors in her new series at the Milken Archive, the essay is now available! www.milkenarchive.org/articles/vie... #jewishmusic #jewishwomen #cantorialmusic
A Historical Look at Jewish Women Sacred Singers
In celebration of fifty years since the first institutional investiture of a woman as a cantor, we take note of a long history and tradition of women singers
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March 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For those who have been following Judith Pinnolis's interviews with women cantors in her new series at the Milken Archive, the essay is now available! www.milkenarchive.org/articles/vie... #jewishmusic #jewishwomen #cantorialmusic
On another subject entirely, there is now a mailing list for Hebrew Typographer: groups.io/g/hebrew-typ... #hebrewtypography #typography
hebrew-typography groups.io Group
Queries and discussion about best practices, usage, and tools, new typefaces, notable archives/collections, relevant events, and anything else that seems appropriate to list participants.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On another subject entirely, there is now a mailing list for Hebrew Typographer: groups.io/g/hebrew-typ... #hebrewtypography #typography
In the middle of procrastinating today, I re-organized some shelves. Poetry is more accessible. Found: Poems in Hebrew by a friend from Jerusalem. Tossed: Poems by an acquaintance in Santa Cruz - I never liked them. I miss the days when I wrote & shared writing with friends. Now I post, and move on.
February 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In the middle of procrastinating today, I re-organized some shelves. Poetry is more accessible. Found: Poems in Hebrew by a friend from Jerusalem. Tossed: Poems by an acquaintance in Santa Cruz - I never liked them. I miss the days when I wrote & shared writing with friends. Now I post, and move on.
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2012-15 I taught college students infotention, word I used for the particular varieties of attention mastery necessary online — here is a clickable concept map (Yahoo Pipes) and other tools are
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Infotention Filters - What combination of mental and online tools can deal with information overload?
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January 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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We have a cease-fire, and steps towards an end to current killing, but continue to rush, head-long, towards the next escalation. No rule of law in the territories. Greater polarization, pain, grievance. Jews & Palestinians must find paths to live together. Without that, more wasted destruction.
January 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We have a cease-fire, and steps towards an end to current killing, but continue to rush, head-long, towards the next escalation. No rule of law in the territories. Greater polarization, pain, grievance. Jews & Palestinians must find paths to live together. Without that, more wasted destruction.
3/3 In thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... author repeats the usual trendy silliness about Israel as a colonial? settler-colonial? enterprise. Most Jews in Israel didn't come from Europe. No homes outside Israel to return to any more than Palestinians do. No peace w/o mutual recognition of humanity.
The Failure of Liberal Zionism | David Klion
Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
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January 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
3/3 In thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... author repeats the usual trendy silliness about Israel as a colonial? settler-colonial? enterprise. Most Jews in Israel didn't come from Europe. No homes outside Israel to return to any more than Palestinians do. No peace w/o mutual recognition of humanity.
2/3 But in thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... the author also whitewashes the atrocities of 10/7 - the murder, the rape, the torture. We have no path to peace or reconciliation with recognizing evil on all sides when there is evil on all sizes. We have no future without that.
The Failure of Liberal Zionism | David Klion
Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
thebaffler.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
2/3 But in thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... the author also whitewashes the atrocities of 10/7 - the murder, the rape, the torture. We have no path to peace or reconciliation with recognizing evil on all sides when there is evil on all sizes. We have no future without that.
1/2 My son shared this article: thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... It's half TRUE - Liberal Zionists (and non-Zionists like me) lacked the courage, in the face of the atrocities of 10/7, to publicly condemn Israel's response - almost 50,000 humans dead in Gaza, most of them civilians.
The Failure of Liberal Zionism | David Klion
Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
thebaffler.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
1/2 My son shared this article: thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... It's half TRUE - Liberal Zionists (and non-Zionists like me) lacked the courage, in the face of the atrocities of 10/7, to publicly condemn Israel's response - almost 50,000 humans dead in Gaza, most of them civilians.
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Kvelling - 1st article up, in a series coming over several months - interviews of women Cantors by @judypinnolis.bsky.social , along w/general articles by her & by Rachel Adelstein covering even more women Cantors. www.milkenarchive.org/articles/vie... #jewishwomen #cantorialmusic #jewishmusic
Voices of Change: 50 Years of Women in the American Cantorate
In acknowledgement of the 50th anniversary of the ordination of America’s first female cantor, the Milken Archive presents a multipart series of articles and
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January 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Kvelling - 1st article up, in a series coming over several months - interviews of women Cantors by @judypinnolis.bsky.social , along w/general articles by her & by Rachel Adelstein covering even more women Cantors. www.milkenarchive.org/articles/vie... #jewishwomen #cantorialmusic #jewishmusic
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The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
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January 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.
I'm having one of those odd spillover moments while reading Paul Joyce's book abt Boston gangs in the 1980s, 1990s, "it started with the hats" & post-gang desistance as part of "life-course theory"; & Arlie Hochschild's newish book on Trumpies, "Stolen Pride." Because, well, gangs. #theresistance
January 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I'm having one of those odd spillover moments while reading Paul Joyce's book abt Boston gangs in the 1980s, 1990s, "it started with the hats" & post-gang desistance as part of "life-course theory"; & Arlie Hochschild's newish book on Trumpies, "Stolen Pride." Because, well, gangs. #theresistance