31 de dezembro de 2017
30 de dezembro de 2017
Labour
"Whitewashed: Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party"
Premiere Panel - Howard Jacobson & David Hirsh
J-TV presents a new powerful documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism
in the UK's Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. The
film gives a voice to those who felt ignored in Chakrabarti Report on
anti-Semitism. Presented by Sociology Lecturer of Goldsmiths University -
David Hirsh.
28 de dezembro de 2017
27 de dezembro de 2017
26 de dezembro de 2017
Barbra Streisand
"Cry me a river" (1967)
Now you say you're lonely
You cried the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
You drove me,
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me
Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried over you
You drove me
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me...
And now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do...
Come on! Come on!
Cry me a river...
Cry me a river...
I cried a river over you
I cried a river over you...
25 de dezembro de 2017
Lou Reed
"Stephanie says", Velvet Underground
Stephanie says that she wants to know
Why she's given half her life, to people she hates now
Stephanie says when answering the phone
What country shall I say is calling from across the world
But she's not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska
Between worlds so the people ask her 'cause it's all in her mind
It's all in her mind
Stephanie says that she wants to know
Why it is thought she's the door She can't be the room
Stephanie says but doesn't hang up the phone
What sea shell sea is calling from across the world
But she's not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska
Between worlds so the people ask her 'cause it's all in her mind
It's all in her mind
She asks you is it good or bad
It's such an icy feeling it's so cold in Alaska,
it's so cold in Alaska, it's so cold in Alaska
23 de dezembro de 2017
21 de dezembro de 2017
Why the Terms CE and BCE Replaced AD and BC, and Why Jews Care About It
It’s not why you think.
Viktor Kappel, a reader of Mosaic, writes:
I am a Christian who happens to believe that the Jewish people are indeed God-chosen. Please explain to me, though, why it has become so important to a part of this people to replace AD and BC with CE and BCE. I believe that this is not helpful to the Jewish cause.
As a Jew, I must say that I sympathize with the Jew in the story who,
while reciting the words “Thou has chosen us among all people” in the
holiday kiddush, stops, raises his arms to heaven, and asks in
exasperation, “Why don’t You pick on someone else for a change?” Still, I
welcome Mr. Kappel’s question. Since, between this column and my next,
2017 CE or AD will become 2018 AD or CE, it couldn’t have been timelier.
In replying, however, it is first necessary to correct the common
assumption that the substitution of CE for AD originated (a) in recent
times as (b) a non-Christian refusal, in the giving of dates, to use the
initials of the early-medieval Latin term anno Domini, “in the year of the Lord.” That isn’t so.
The English term “Common Era,” whose initials are “CE,” goes back to
the early 18th century; its first recorded appearance is in the 1708
bibliographical almanac The History of the Works of the Learned, Or, An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe. Moreover, in the form of “Vulgar Era,” it can be found in a 1635 English translation of the Latin phrase vulgaris aerae in the astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Ecclogae chronicae, written in 1615 and dealing with the chronology of the life of Jesus.
“Vulgar” in early-17th-century English, as in Kepler’s Latin, did not have the sense that it does today. It came from Latin vulgus, the
people or the multitude, and meant common or ordinary, and Kepler, who
referred to the Christian counting of time in other ways as well (one of
them being aerae Christianae, “the Christian era”), used it
because he believed that the latter count, though universally accepted
in the Christian world, was inaccurate and that Jesus was born four
years earlier than commonly supposed. Since this made Jesus four years
old in the Year of Our Lord 1, Kepler thought anno Domini a misnomer to be abstained from, though he continued to refer to dates before Jesus’ birth as ante Christum, “before Christ.” (Why English retained the AD of Latin anno Domini while Anglicizing the AC of Latin ante Christum as BC is unclear.)
Along with his revised chronology,
Kepler’s term “Vulgar Era” came to be accepted by many Christian
scholars. In English, meanwhile, the word “vulgar” took on the secondary
meaning of “lacking in refinement” or “tawdry.” (The Oxford English Dictionary dates
the first evidence of this to 1643.) Gradually, as this replaced the
primary meaning, “Common Era” pushed out “Vulgar Era.” In the
transitional stage, however, the two terms were sometimes used
interchangeably, as they were by the American New Testament scholar and
Christian reformer Alexander Campbell in his Living Oracles, a new translation of the New Testament published in 1835. There we find such sentences as this:
The fact that our Lord was born in the fourth year before the vulgar era, called anno Domini, thus making (for example) the 42nd year from his birth to correspond with the 38th year of the common era, has contributed something to perplex the mind of the most diligent inquirer in deciding, on ancient documents, the precise time when certain incidents transpired.
Things didn’t evolve simply after that, either. As “Vulgar Era”
disappeared and “Common Era” or “CE” took its place in parts of the
scholarly world, “AD” continued to hold its ground in general usage. And
to complicate matters still further, the term “Christian Era,” whose
initials were also “CE,” gained traction as well. This left readers who
encountered CE or BCE confused as to whether they were the initials of
“Common Era” and “Before the Common Era” or “Christian Era” and “Before
the Christian Era.” The confusion has persisted to this day. Ask the
average English speaker what CE and BCE stand for and you are likely to
get both replies, sometimes from the same puzzled person.
It is only at this point, indeed, that
Mr. Kappel’s question has relevance. Although Jews had nothing to do
with the origins of the term “Common Era,” or with its initial spread,
it may be that in our own times they helped tilt the scales in its
favor. It is certainly true that Jewish historians, intellectuals, and
rabbis have long made a point of saying CE and BCE rather than AD and
BC, and of interpreting the “C” in the first pair to stand for “Common”
rather than “Christian”—just as it is true that these usages have
concomitantly made great inroads in the non-Jewish world as well. In
countries like the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia,
school textbooks and media stylesheets have increasingly adopted the
CE/BCE notation and the “Common” rather than “Christian” reading of it.
Nevertheless, quite apart from whether or not this development is
“helpful to the Jewish cause”—Mr. Kappel, I take it, fears it will cause
an anti-Jewish Christian backlash, which strikes me as implausible—I
wouldn’t jump to hasty conclusions about the Jewish role in it.
Additional factors have been in play, too, such as the sensitivities of
non-Christian groups other than Jews and the multicultural outlook of
our times, which judges it objectionable to date all of human history by
the beliefs of one religion. Had there been no Jewish influence on the
process at all, CE and BCE might have prevailed anyway.
Speaking for myself once again as a Jew, I would be willing to meet
Mr. Kappel halfway. Obviously, I can’t be expected to say, even in the
form of initials, that the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed “in the
year 70 of the Lord,” or that King David reigned “in the 10th century
before Christ.” (Greek christos, after all, is a translation of Hebrew mashiaḥ, the
“anointed one” or messiah.) CE and BCE are something that—at least in
my own speech and writing—I have to insist on. But why should I mind
referring to the “Christian Era” rather than to the “Common Era”? That
doesn’t make me a Christian; it simply acknowledges that our system of
dating has Christian origins. Calling it “Common” sounds—and here Mr.
Kappel has a point—as though one were trying to efface those origins.
“But”—others may counter—“you yourself said that ‘Common Era’ started
out as a Christian term!” Indeed it did. Yet for those who used it
then, “Common” and “Christian” were the same thing. They lived in a
Christian world, and when they said that something was common to
everyone, they meant it was common to all Christians. They weren’t
thinking of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or Chinese, all of whom
had their own ways of dating the age of the world. These ways still
exist, but for everyday purposes, the one used everywhere today is
Christianity’s. What’s wrong with saying so?
Have a happy 2018!https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2017/12/why-the-terms-ce-and-bce-replaced-ad-and-bc-and-why-jews-care-about-it/
20 de dezembro de 2017
19 de dezembro de 2017
Ferrara
The future National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), located in the city of Ferrara, Italy
18 de dezembro de 2017
Lou Reed
"Pale Blue Eyes", Velvet Underground
Sometimes I feel so happy,
Sometimes I feel so sad.
Sometimes I feel so happy,
But mostly you just make me mad.
Baby, you just make me mad.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Thought of you as my mountain top,
Thought of you as my peak.
Thought of you as everything,
I've had but couldn't keep.
I've had but couldn't keep.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see,
I'd put you in the mirror,
I put in front of me.
I put in front of me.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Skip a life completely.
Stuff it in a cup.
She said, Money is like us in time,
It lies, but can't stand up.
Down for you is up."
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
It was good what we did yesterday.
And I'd do it once again.
The fact that you are married,
Only proves, you're my best friend.
But it's truly, truly a sin.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.
17 de dezembro de 2017
16 de dezembro de 2017
Porto
Igreja de Santo Ildefonso
Around 11,000 azulejo tiles cover the outside of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso.
The church was built in the 18th century but the tiles, painted by the artist Jorge Colaço, were only added in 1932.
They are now in dire need of renovation.
Totalitarismo
"True Believers: collaboration and opposition under totalitarian regimes", Anne Applebaum
Yad Vashem
Memorial to Jewish partisans and soldiers who fought in World War II, at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum
14 de dezembro de 2017
13 de dezembro de 2017
12 de dezembro de 2017
11 de dezembro de 2017
Vida
Vegetation covered in thick volcanic dust following the eruption of Mount Agung in Bali, Indonesia
10 de dezembro de 2017
Oświęcim
A colorized photo of the Great Synagogue, left, which dominated the ‘Jewish street’ in Oswiecim, Poland, prior to its destruction by the Nazis in 1939
9 de dezembro de 2017
7 de dezembro de 2017
Vida
A baby Sumatran elephant plays with her mother at Elephant Flying Squad Camp, in Riau, Indonesia
6 de dezembro de 2017
Lei
"Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law Inaugural Event",
with Daniel Boyarin and Christine Hayes:
"Nomos as Torah: Is there Jewish Law?", Daniel Boyarin
"Divining the Law: Jews and Greeks and the Search for Solid Ground", Christine Hayes
Oświęcim
Ritual objects from the Great Synagogue of Oswiecim in Poland, on display at the Auschwitz Jewish Center (October 2017)
The Great Synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis in 1939, and these artifacts were uncovered during excavations in 2004
5 de dezembro de 2017
Manuscritos do Mar Morto
"The Dead Sea Scrolls: Judaism on the Eve of Christianity", Lawrence H. Schiffman
4 de dezembro de 2017
3 de dezembro de 2017
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