Here's to @BrooklynBagelCo on 8th St. Best bagels _and_ open on Christmas Day for hungry Yiddish & Klezmer lovers @YiddishNewYork

@Jeremiah Lockwood’s new project/label, Chazones Unbound 2 album releases 2night, #yny yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299M2/... #chazones #khazones #yiddishnewyork

Nice article on the @klezmerinstitute.bsky.social in @forward.com: forward.com/culture/musi... #klezmer #yiddish #yiddishculture

Nice article on the @klezmerinstitute.bsky.social in @forward.com: forward.com/culture/musi... #klezmer #yiddish #yiddishculture

Reminder: Elissa Sampson 11:15 (in eng) YNY (and so much more): yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/ea30f0... #yiddish #resistance #yny #yiddishnewyork

Coming up this afternoon at Yiddish New York: yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299OD/... - Elissa Sampson - if you aren't here already, come on down! #yiddishnewYork #resistance #theresistance #yiddish #yiddishculture

After a brilliant lunch concert yesterday by Brivele, enjoying getting the _context_ of new songs from the band at a late am session, Yiddish New York: yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299QI/... #yiddishmusic #antifascistmusic #yiddish #yiddishculture #brivele

Yiddish New York, this afternoon, 2:30, HUC, NYC Boyarins - big fun lecture yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299On/... #jewishculture

Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building - the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" inc Ben Shahn murals - c.org/xsV8P8jHrB #resistance

Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building - the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" inc Ben Shahn murals - c.org/xsV8P8jHrB #resistance

Fascinating new book, Elissa Sampson / From Popular Front to Cold War, www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... the story of the Int'l Wrkrs Order (IWO), an org est 1930 to provide life, burial, & health ins to its & it's pol mileau #leftyjews (and other lefties!) #linke #arbeiterring

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

#bvocal #nokings

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.

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.

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 #yiddish #uyip

Happy "Independent Bookstore Day"

“All who are hungry for justice, come and stand with us.”

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

keep on going booker! 💙 @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

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

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.

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 no longer available cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1GGG5597...

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.

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.

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

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

🌐🎙️ “The Internet’s Librarian” Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, joins the California Sun podcast to discuss preserving knowledge in the digital age & his vision for universal access to all knowledge. 🎧 www.californiasun.co/podcast/brew... #Preservation @brewster.kahle.org

The annual State of the World convo started on Jan. 1 and is ongoing for two weeks. No paywall, non-members can comment by email to inkwell (at) well.com. Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025 tinyurl.com/sotw-2025

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

Anyone else following up this past November by picking up Marshall Ganz' new "People Power Change?" Loved learning from him at JOIN (www.joinforjustice.org). #organize #resistance Just digging in now, but would love to hear from other readers.

Over the holidays, I read Joe Boyd's new "The roots of rhythm remain," about global music - many of my favorite world music bands from the '80s and '90s, and the hundred years of interaction that led to that moment and beyond. Musicology. History. Sociology. Bio. #worldmusic we are all so connected!

Listening to "facts" just discovered on the Internet from the BiL. Just because someone posted it....

20 minute summary about the pedagogy and use of social media I developed over 10 years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbQ...

First night of Khanike, time to listen to faves like hip hop hoodies, flory jagoda, Frank London, Jeremiah lockwood, and, of course, the LeeVees and Adam Sandler

Over on FB, I've launched my annual year-end fundraiser for Oil Change International, the brilliant climate group on whose board I've served since 2017. The fundraising apparatus isn't available here, but if you're so moved oilchange.org and thank you!

Bennett Falk was the third co-founder of the WELL’s GD conference. We’re still there, still having high-quality conversations with no ads, no porn, no data mining. Contact me if you’d like to check it out. well.com

Yes, it's the Moishe Other Chanukah party! Live, at the Somerville Armory. Khanike comes late this year. Couldn't wait that long. #khanike #klezmer

Amazing Knanike party at the Somerville Armory. Got to meet the amazing Ladino singer, Lily Henley www.lilyhenley.com with her songs, Ladino Khanike songs, and more. Klezmer next....