June 2012
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Nonviolent and Community Action Produces Results... →
This week, two totally different cases saw real progress towards resolution due to persistence, focus on achievable results and the use of nonviolent means. Palestinian prisoners and supporters of their just and reasonable requests in Palestine, the Arab world, and the international community saw a successful resolution of their demands. The end of administrative detentions was the aim when...
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First female village chief in Afghanistan defies... →
muslimwomeninhistory:
After being ridiculed by male villagers for wanting to occupy political office, Zarifa Qazizadah, the mother of 15 children, managed to become the mayor of Naw Abad, a village in the northern Balkh province. Qazizadah’s political ambition started in 2004 when she told her mocking fellow villagers that she wanted to represent them and promised to supply Naw Abad with...
May 2012
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Thank you for the follows, Kittymeir, themediaphile, and Timirsho!
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Eishes Chayil
girloverhere:
I love the dignity and power the Torah and Judaism gives women. Life can seem impossible, the situation unbearable, inconceivable even! These are the challenges that women are given to overcome in the Torah. Our matriarchs in the Torah spoke and were heard! Rather they embraced their role as the backbone of the home and family, understanding this as a serious and vtial role....
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Notice to left-wing Christian preachers as a...
protectorateandcircuit:
It is possible and desirable to make points about Jesus, the radical and unprecedented nature of His love and His ministry and His sacrifice, and the character of most of it as unexpected in the context of the religious practise of the time without painting the entire Old Testament with a broad black brush or by implication demonising Jewish theology or Jewish culture.
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Hamas-Run Schools Set Out to Teach ‘the Language... →
themediaphile:
Students in Gaza will soon have the option of taking Hebrew classes for the first time in nearly two decades.
Call me naive, but I can see this tactic backfiring. Rather than encouraging children to “look at Israel as an enemy,” teaching them Hebrew could lead to empathy and a greater sense of understanding of Israel and Jewish culture.
Growing up, I learned a little Italian...
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readyokaygo:
zaataronpita replied to your post: Why do you stand with terrorists in jail? I don’t care if they are refused rights, they tried to kill people. Of course, there may be a few innocent, and i’m all for their release, but you cannot tell me every single one is innocent. feel like you will not be happy until there is no more Jewish state.
Good to know.
Let it be known, and I’m sure...
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“When you slam Orthodox Jews because you think you’re defending or somehow...”
– What Women’s Media Needs to Know About Chassidic Women | xoJane (via yesterdayschild)
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marioncranevampirehunter:
Starting this July, women will be able to wear hijab during FIFA matches.
This shouldn’t have to be a big deal. But it is. And it’s a good one.
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Criticism of Israel is NOT anti-semitism.
anticapitalist:
Good god, Zionists are pieces of shit.
Good G-d, painting everyone who believes in a Jewish homeland in the State of Israel as pieces of shit, regardless of their actual political beliefs (many of which may actually be pro-Palestinian), is a shitty thing to do.
See, I agree - criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism. That doesn’t make me any less of a Zionist, though.
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A shanda fur die goyim.
thecakesokay:
That article about the reality for Chassidishe women makes a lot of sense, it really does. Mainstream media does paint Chassidic women, and any woman who is religious really, as inherently oppressed BECAUSE of their religiousness. As if in secular society women are completely equal to men in all aspects of life.
However.
I think that the sexual abuse scandal is on a completely...
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tributary asked: i'm always wary of that sort of thing--well, anything from israel-facts, since they've been very wrong before. "death to arabs" is a racist chant that some say, yes, but it's not an "israeli nationalist chant" (like "am yisrael chai.") i just feel that that's a nuance very often swept under the rug.
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taqwaacore:
iamnotharaam:
shootmethenleave’s answer:
In an ideal world I would like to say that being a gay muslim is no different from being a straight muslim. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. To say it’s difficult is an understatement. You grow up and you realise that you are different. You grow up and slowly realise that these feeling that you’ve felt since you were a child mean that...
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zaataronpita:
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oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
hint: you can draw muhammad all you want but i can call you an asshole for it. free speech does not mean that you can’t be criticized for drawing a racist caricature of a man just to piss off the monstrous muslims
I have absolutely no desire to draw. At all. But...
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zaataronpita:
stoopidtallkid:
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
hint: you can draw muhammad all you want but i can call you an asshole for it. free speech does not mean that you can’t be criticized for drawing a racist caricature of a man just to piss off the monstrous muslims
I have absolutely no desire to draw. At all. But if someone threatens to kill me for saying something, then I will...
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
hint: you can draw muhammad all you want but i can call you an asshole for it. free speech does not mean that you can’t be criticized for drawing a racist caricature of a man just to piss off the monstrous muslims
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[Israel-Palestine] The Parents Circle Families... →
akio:
Parents Circle - Families Forum (PCFF) is a grassroots organization of bereaved Palestinians and Israelis.
The PCFF promotes reconciliation as an alternative to hatred and revenge.
The name of the org is - also known as “Families Forum”? -
And -
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Oppressed Brown Girls Doing Things is back! →
testosterone-saurus-rex:
mehreenkasana:
Because, obviously, we brown women are so oppressed. Follow us to see our oppression.
THIS BLOG. IT IS SO GREAT.
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On the Nakba, Jewish identity and memory, Lisa... →
akio:
In 1950, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson narrated a 30-minute newsreel-style documentary about the Palestinian refugees, with footage and facts that I saw and heard for the first time when I watched it a few months ago. The film is called The Sands of Sorrow and I’ve embedded it below. It includes some odd orientalist commentary here and there, but the overall effect is powerful;...
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1971, Ben Gurion [Israel's 1st Prime Minister]...
Ben-Gurion Urges Israelis to Withdraw From Most Conquered Arab Territory
(NEW YORK AP, March 25 1971, Times Daily)
David Ben-Gurion Israel’s first prime minister is urging withdrawal from all conquered Arab territory except East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
The patriarchal Ben-Gurion now 84 and a legendary figure of Israel’s struggle for independence is quoted as saying that the hour of...
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“הוא היה אומר, אם אין אני לי, מי לי; וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני; ואם לא עכשיו, אימתיי...”
– .פרקי אבות - פרק ראשון יד
Pirkei Avos - Chapter 1:14.
(via ylsw)
The ‘he’ in this quote is Rabbi Hillel.
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chosenbyjudaism started following you
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Kavanah tip of the day
ylsw:
In a previous tip, you were instructed to listen to music before davening. Today, incorporate music into the davening itself. At various points in the davening, sing one sentence/pasuk quietly to yourself with a tune, either with a popular tune for that line, one you’ve heard elsewhere that you want to apply, or any tune you make up on your own. Think about how Carlebach minyanim...
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Netanyahu ordered evacuation of Hebron home over... →
akio:
However, in a meeting between Netanyahu, Barak, and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on the morning of the evacuation, the AG reportedly presented his legal opinion, according to which a lack of strict adherence to the law on the matter could complicate Israel in an international legal crisis.
Weinstein reportedly told Netanyahu and Barak that the expropriation of Palestinian land and...
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Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike as... →
akio:
Haaretz reporting on details of mediation process - for resolving Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike.
Especially large roles played by Egyptians.
Israel Prison Services reported on Monday that Palestinian prisoners have agreed to end their hunger strike. Senior sources within the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club told Haaretz that an agreement was forged between the Israel Prison Services...
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