Jenny Rae Rappaport

@jennyrae.bsky.social

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Writer of SFF stories. Published in Nature, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. Member of Codex. Genealogist, too. All opinions are my own. She/her. www.jennyrae.com

A closeup of many, many three-toed dinosaur track fossils in sandstone.
A large pointed skull with many, many teeth, grinning at you from a blue tablecloth.
A sign on a maroon awning, which says Modern Apizza. Otherwise known as delicious pizza in New Haven, CT.
P. 75, P. 76 - Flood Comes There is mention of flooding in Vermont in 1811, though not specifically in Weybridge. Anna Kingman, Charity’s sister, did tragically die in 1811, leaving behind her husband, Henry Kingman, and seven children: Cyrus, Freeman, Mary Howard, Anna Maria, Lysander, Sally, and Abel. She was 40 years old. The letter mentioned by Silence is real, I’ve read it and transcribed it at the Henry Sheldon Museum. Here is the full text: My dear and only sister Long have I anxiously wished to write to
A crowd of people in the foreground, with a spotlight on a stage, which is empty of all but instruments.
A newspaper article, which says: WATER FRONT NEWS. Titanic Wreckage Is Seen From Graf Waldersee. Men on Schooner J. S. Lamprey Have Nerve-Racking Passage. Wreckage from the steamship Titanic was seen 10 miles north of where the big liner foundered by the officers of the Hamburg-American Liner Graf Wal-dersee, in yesterday from Hamburg. According to the log of the Waldersee the steamer passed eight monster icebergs on last Thursday. between lat 11° 18' N. lon 47° 10 W and lat 41° 51' N, Ion 19° 52 W. Capt Froehlich and his oficers said that chairs, life-buoys, broken wood and other drifting matter stretched over a great area. No bodies were seen, however. The Graf Waldersee came well north of the point where the Titanic went to the bottom. She called at Halitax where she landed 1332 steerage passengers, principally immigrants destined for the Canadian Northwest. Two passengers were barred at Hall-fax and taken back to Hamburg. The Graf Waldersee is the largest steamer of the line to visit this port. Her gross tonnages 03,192bound 2000 accommodations steerage passengers, besides capacity for an immense amourt of cargo. She brought 8000 tons of cargo. About 5000 tons is consigned to Boston importers. The balance of the cargo will be taken to Baltiinore.
Steamed veggie dumplings.
An app screen which says : There are no trains in your vicinity at this time. We recommend using the Stations tab to select your station and next available departing or arriving train.
A closeup of the Artemis II capsule floating in the ocean on my TV, and a stuffed orange tabby being held up to the TV to "bat" at it, by a 9 year old's hand.
A plate of penne a la vodka with a silver fork in the middle. It is very delicious and not made of matzo.
A colorful plate with a piece of mina on it. It has a potato showing, as well as mushy matzo and ground lamb with onions in it.
A closeup of a half-eaten piece of flourless chocolate cake, which is rich and brown, and covered in a luscious chocolate ganache.
A shiny silver Seder plate, with tiny Japanese dishes, holding an egg, a bone, radishes, parsley, charoses, and a clementine.
A closeup of colorful clementine slices with black olive slices and green scallions and parsley.
A stainless steel bowl of charoses, which is chopped apples, walnuts, cinnamon, and kosher wine, swirled together into an amorphous brown mass. It is delicious.
A closeup of a golden brown potato kugel with crispy brown edges.
A NY Times headline that reads: Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn
A white crockpot filled with round, brown meatballs and tomato sauce.
A partially-unlaced figure skate, white, with crystal decoration on the laces.
A black and white photo of five sailors, smiling in uniform.
A video of a mass of NJ Transit commuters in Penn Station at rush hour.
A picture of my highest window in the dark, with the snow falling so fast that it's getting picked up as lines by the camera!
An empty shelf at ShopRite with signs for Portuguese rolls and brioche among other bread items.
A screenshot of an index, which says: Property Hersch Kneidel 1883 SCAN
A breakdown of my charges, which says the yearbook is $140, I have a discount code of $5, but hey, wait, there's now a $7.99 service fee that doesn't show up until you hit the checkout stage! For a grand order total of $142.99.
An open notebook, which says, in large colored numbers, "2026", with a large flourish underneath. Underneath that, it says "More Than Halfway Through This Decade". 🙂
A woman wearing jeans, blue boots, a gray coat, and a purple hat stands in front of a brick building with an arch and the name of the shul in Yiddish. It's very snowy all around her.
A screenshot of the dictionary gif that says “joyous”.
A excerpt of a Peruvian police register for immigrants that entered the country in 1933.
A. Silver and blue menorah with nine colorful candles in it. It sits on a metal tray on a blue tablecloth, and there are children’s drawings visible in the background.
A menorah made of challah with nine hotdogs as candles.
A silver and blue menorah with eight colorful Hanukkah candles in it.
A blue and silver menorah with seven colorful Hanukkah candles in it, in the foreground. Behind it, two white Shabbos candles, in crystal candlesticks. The stove is adorned with candle bits.
A blue and silver menorah with five, colorful candles burning.
A blue and silver menorah is filled with five multicolored Hanukkah candles in shades of rust, orange, and yellow. It stands in front of a tan and blue tiled backsplash.
A silver and blue menorah with four Hanukkah candles in it, purple for the shamas, and then red, yellow, and purple candles.
The Map of Cat Land, clearly drawn by a child, which is backlit against a window. It traces a meandering, red path from a bright green Cat Hill to a deep blue Cat Lake and finally, ends at an adorable gray rendering of Pusheen.
A blue and silver menorah with three purple candles on it, perched atop a messy, stainless steel, electric stove.
Two silver menorahs with orange and purple candles in them for the first night of Hanukkah. A majestic squishmallow deer sits behind them, waiting for latkes. 🙂
Assignment that wants you to make a colorful country flag in a hexagon to represent culture. 🙄
A Worldcat screenshot showing that the closest libraries with the book are in Australia and New Zealand, more than 8000 miles away.
A screenshot of an excel spreadsheet of public data about marriage certificates from Brooklyn, in the year 1924, with every woman named Giuseppina.
A pie: light brown baked banana custard surrounded by crispy, golden phyllo dough on an ancient baking sheet.
A bouncy, beautiful loaf of bread cooling in a gold loaf pan. It's brown and gold and nicely egg-washed.
A golden pot-full of simmering turkey parts, herbs, and vegetables.
A green text bubble that says: 1. Fresh turkey 2. One of those turkey breasts you can cook from frozen 3. Duck because I like duck and don't care that my father doesn't like it. 4. One to two plump chickens, not frozen. 5. A giant ceremonial macaroni and cheese that we can pretend is a turkey.
A middle-aged woman with brown curly hair, wearing a navy dress with colorful dinosaurs on it.
The pink and feeen northern lights!
A picture of a page from MEET THE LATKES, which features a wooden dreidel on wheels with bees hiding inside it. There's a cheerful latke next to it.
A text message in all caps that says "For the love of God you need to see the musical and not the movie."
A display of new library books at my library, featuring Marty Cahill's new book!
A small mason jar of golden-brown apple jam sitting on a green towel. There are chunks of apples barely visible in the jar.
Rapoport in Yiddish script.
Rapoport in Hebrew/Yiddish.
This story is dedicated to those who work in our fast-disappearing public libraries. All of whom are, in my experience, equal to everything and anything the world can hurl at them. Dead dogs, exploding holes, temperamental urinals, first-aid emergencies, floods, stupid facilities managers getting themselves wedged in the wheel arch of a mobile library (yes, that has happened), readers demanding the book they had last year with the red cover – it’s all in a day’s work for library staff.
The beginning of a prenuptial agreement in Polish from 1830, which has my relatives in it.
A workbook page that says "Color the shin [hebrew letter]". Underneath is a shin, colored in a variety of colors and patterns. It is very colorful with purple, yellow, red, blue, and orange used on it.