Rabbi Ariel Stone

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The prophets were right: if we don't care for the vulnerable we're all going to hell right here. Student of Torah. Images: closeup from L'Intervention des Sabines, lawn sign PDX 🏳️‍🌈🍷✡️↙️↙️↙️ imparo Italiano

the opposite of despair is not hope; it is commitment Moshe Halbertal
The Egyptologist knows that never was there a race more fond of life, more light-hearted, or more gay. A lovable trait is the evident equality of the sexes: both in the reliefs and in the statues the wife is seen clasping her husband round the waist, and the little daughter is represented with the same tenderness as the little son. -Sir Alain Gardner' O what miserable and perfect copies have they grown to be of Egyptian ways! For there the men sit at home and weave while their wives go out to win the daily bread. —Oedipus despairing over his sons in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Half the world menstruates. The other half exists because of it. And yet, the world still treats it like some dirty secret, like something to be ashamed of.
Call me woke, but I really want my tax dollars to help prevent and track explosive diarrhea parasites in our food.
Tip Use per instead of per before musica for for music.
Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring Wu-Men Translated from the Chinese by Stephen Mitchell Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
a rock painted with seven eyes (three visible) and Hebrew handwriting quoting Zekharyah 3.9
mind haven I told my therapist: "If I actually tell them 'no,' it's going to ruin the peace in the family." She looked dead at me and said: "If the "peace' only exists because you are suffering in silence, that isn't peace. That's a hostage situation." I've been staring at the ceiling for an hour.
i don't care how you were raised, unlearn that shit @women_make_the_world_go_round
taylormcastaneda Everyone that rooted for Mexico for the World Cup PLEASE go that hard for Mexicans when ICE shows up.
"The Ben-Gvir-ization of Israel," says this 40-year-old Haifa resident, "is starting to remind me of my youth in Ukraine when I lived in fear of right-wing nationalists. It feels like this story is repeating itself here." Kupinska works as a barista and holds a master's degree in Holocaust studies from the University of Haifa
A protest marking 1,000 days since October 7, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday. Credit: Moti Milrod At protest marking 1,000 days of war, images that seemingly belonged to the past were displayed, but for the families of those killed and the hostages, October 2023 never ended. Meanwhile, members of the government continued to make cruel statements
AMERICA 250 US politics "The wheels are coming off': readers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the American experiment Against a backdrop of sweeping rollbacks of civil rights and deteriorating relations with allies, many are feeling cynical
That work is far from finished. We refuse to retreat into cynicism and accept injustice as inevitable. At the Oregon Justice Resource Center, we remain focused ending mass incarceration and defending civil rights. We have faith that Oregonians have the courage and the imagination necessary to close the gap between our present reality and our highest ideals. On this July 4th while many will celebrate with the traditional pageantry of the holiday, we will "more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over what was wrong...and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled." We recommit ourselves to the unfinished task of building an Oregon - and an America - that is protective of the rights and dignity of everyone.
Trump hijacked US's 250 anniversary to serve 'political ideology and pet projects', congressional report says 3h ago • US politics live Anger as report says Trump hijacked US anniversary to serve own agenda
Description of liquid soap that is completely nonsensical
Bird, on a cold day, warming itself by perching on a horse’s mane
'Not an Act of Retaliation Against Turkey' • Israeli Government Approves Armenian Genocide Recognition Pending Knesset Vote The recognition is set to be brought for a Knesset vote, after years of inconsistency regarding Israel's stance on the matter • The recognition emphasizes that Israel will condemn any attempt to deny, minimize or distort the late-Ottoman Empire period genocide
Of late, I find plenty of evidence to support Obama's view that Americans truly "want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away." The fight to define America will be won not by embittered, decaying bullies frantically racing to rewrite the past and savage other Americans. It will be won by a multigenerational movement dedicated to constructing the most inclusive, values-based democracy possible. The future belongs to Chicago and Minnesota, not to Versailles and Mar-a-Lago.
POETRY FOUNDATION This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
Father Today you would be ninety-seven if you had lived, and we would all be miserable, you and your children, driving from clinic to clinic, an ancient fearful hypochondriac and his fretful son and daughter, asking directions, trying to read the complicated, fading map of cures. But with your dignity intact you have been gone for twenty years, and I am glad for all of us, although I miss you every day—the heartbeat under your necktie, the hand cupped on the back of my neck, Old Spice in the air, your voice delighted with stories. On this day each year you loved to relate that the moment of your birth your mother glanced out the window and saw lilacs in bloom. Well, today lilacs are blooming in side yards all over lowa, still welcoming you. from Delights & Shadows, Copper Canyon P
Close-up of small house plant start traditionally named the wandering Jew now renamed the wandering dude
New York Ex-NYC comptroller Brad Lander to stand trial after arrest at immigration court Brad Lander and 10 other elected officials were arrested by federal agents at ICE facility last September Victoria Bekiempis in New York
dravonrangel • The greatest gaslighting in history may be convincing the source of life that she came second. 10,450 likes • 130 replies
People stand next to part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central West Bank, 8 June, 2026 i Photograph: Naama Stern/Reuters