Hello little_details! Got a fantasy novel taking place in Venice in the 1730-40s ( Read more... )

I'm writing about two men from New York, starting in the Great Depression and WWII, and ending in the 21st century, and I'm trying to develop some background for them to use across two separate stories, possibly even more ( Read more... )

I'm working on a potential script that involves several characters of religious backgrounds I don't share responding to a monster attack. I figured I'd sound out Little Details for potentially more accurate religious responses for my characters. (I'm not 100% sure this question fits within community rules, but I think it's close?) I didn't really ( Read more... )

I've been trying to find out whether you could be an officer in the British Army if you were Jewish during this era ( Read more... )

Location: US, possibly the southeast, modern day
searches: none, couldn't really think of what to search
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EDIT BY MOD: When I posted this, I initially misread the question and put that the bio mom was Jewish in the subject line. Corrected now. On to the post!Setting is modern-day US ( Read more... )

I have a modern-day American Reform rabbi who's saying goodbye to some people she cares about (both Jewish and not) who're going off to fight with the forces of the Big Bad. Is there some sort of goodbye/do good things/try not to get killed blessing she would say to them? I've been looking at Hebrew blessings and farewells, but I haven't been able ( Read more... )

What sort of response would a trans boy (who until now everyone thought was a girl) who was transitioning and starting to present as male get at a fairly large Reform synagogue in a major US city? Setting is modern day. There are several gay and lesbian couples in the congregation, and most people are OK with that, but obviously just because people ( Read more... )

Would Modern Orthodox parents living in the US in the early seventies be most likely to give their daughter the legal name Eve, Hava, or Chava for her first name? They're fairly middle-of-the road by MO standards: more liberal than average in some things, more conservative in others ( Read more... )

When: January 1950, slightly alternate history ( Read more... )