I thought that was one giant menorah at for and was slightly confused! Hag Urim Sameach!

While I’m at it—my family wasn’t eating latkes until fairly recently, in the grand scheme of things. I still love them, and love sharing them with my kids

Yorkshire Pudding at Thanksgiving? Happened when my mom was a kid. Eggnog? We started that three years ago in my family. A nice whiskey for Friday nights? I only started doing that in 2016 or so. And every one makes those moments all the more special.

Still thinking on @rachelbgross.bsky.social’s point. There’s something lovely about a certain kind of innovation, one made intentionally to enhance a tradition. Many of my favorite traditions became traditions within living memory!

My research was doing a lot of necessary corrections! That’s why it was so hard to leave it behind.

Nice to be seen! We’re doing well. Still near Boston, still plodding along through life!

I’d have to write it first! Iirc, I was just starting to outline it when I gave up on academia. Maybe one day!

The Jewish Class Trade Union and TsYShO were Bund-Zionists collaborations. And they were awesome!

However, when Zionism was expressed in a way that vibed with the Bund’s revolutionary socialist ideals (ie Labor Zionism), they get along as often as not! Don’t get me wrong—they weren’t trading Do Shvue for Hatikva. But, they made it work!

When I was living in the sources, I was struck that the Bund’s hostility towards Zionism was a) specific to the WZO and b) rooted in the WZO’s imperial and capitalist connections. Makes sense for a party that was anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist

Somewhere in my laptop is the beginning of an article arguing that the Bund was not—by today’s standards at least—anti-Zionist.

How many sons of Latakia did Assad sacrifice to stay in power?

But cultural power doesn’t equal material conditions.

It’s hard for me not to see academia as middle class. Salaried, white collar, etc—yet I’m also not sure we really know what middle class is, precisely because it is not and has never been middle income.

But has class ever been purely about material conditions? In Poland, one had peasants wealthier than the poorer nobles. And a largely Jewish middle class bit healthier and poorer than either the aristocracy and the peasantry (wealthy arrendators/merchants vs petty traders and artisans)

My body is a temple! Currently, to Dionysus!

Growing up on the DC area, I spent a lot of my childhood visiting the Civil War battlefields. I was always struck by how beautiful they consistently were. There’s…a lot there

Yup. In MD, those crabs would never have made it off the train

I’m praying for your liver, friend. The movie does not deserve your health!

Honestly, after Брат Два, there isn’t much left to riff