Yesterday was a very special day! Not because Cesare updated twice in less than six months (well, also), but because my grandma called upon me to make hamentaschen with her.

For those of you unfamiliar, the hamentasch is a type of food singular to the Jewish holiday Purim. It’s a pastry filled with poppy seed, chocolate, dried fruits or what-have- ( Read more... )

New Palestinian city to be built in the West Bank.
Sitting on a hilltop among the olive trees of the West Bank is a new town, carefully designed... This is not a new Israeli settlement but an image of what might soon be Rawabi, the first planned Palestinian city and a sign of fresh hope for economic recovery in the occupied West Bank.
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Holy gosh, it's an update! Like I've suddenly become an online presence again.

Spent the day browsing reference pictures at the Art Renewal Center and ogling female nudes, which is basically the same thing, once you get down to it. All for my finals project in Art! \o/ I will not say too much, for the sake of surprise, but so's you get the idea: ( Read more... )

LISTEN UP GUYS. I am putting up all kinds of awesome stuff for sale as part of the help_haiti charity auction (a wondrous community you should visit anyway). Check it out! A bunch of gorgeous books which I am very reluctant to part with, but, you know, it's for charity. Click to see!


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So, I'm (1) super-stressed, (2) lagging on my Yuletide fic, and (3) not in the AI8 fandom. In fact, I'm not really in any of the fandoms mentioned below, but this is apparently immaterial. What can I say? My friends are incredibly persuasive and I am a Good Jewish Girl. Therefore:

EIGHT DAYS OF LAMBERKKAH

Co-written by roga, sabrina_il, and miarr.
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HAPPY JEW YEAR, HEATHENS.

That's right, today is Rosh ha'Shana-the Jewish New Year! I'm just coming from a big family dinner full of fish and chicken and soup and quiche and a thousand, thousand salads. I'm not even kidding. Every relative brought some kind of vegetable homage; I think our combined forces buckled the agricultural market. Surely ( Read more... )

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I should really be studying up for the upcoming History exam, but honestly, I just couldn't resist. Check out this Feministe post in response to Israel's 60th anniversary. The debate is interesting and thoughtful, except for one dumbass troll coming in and yelling "LOL I LURV JEWS BUT THEY'RE ALL ASS BASTARDS RLY". I even took it upon myself to ( Read more... )

HAPPY PASSOVER, WEIRDOS!

I'm off to glut myself on matzabrite and play the part of Bambi in Aramic. (No, really.) Good times, good times. Everyone have an awesome Seder! Further updates may or may not be forthcoming later, depending on how the 34875398th glass of ceremonial wine goes down.

Meanwhile, I leave you with ( this )