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Hated “Avatar The Way Of Water” – Here Is Why!
Just watched the James Cameron movie Avatar The Way of Water (for some, like me, this is Avatar 2). My reaction is, admittedly, an expected big disappointment, and I’ll tell you why…. I am a fan of some of the greatest written science fiction stories ever put to paper (and some of those have been…
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A Quick Thought About Island Jews Of Hawaii
Aloha v’shalom (love and peace)! I have a story to share about island Jews. Or as we would say in our island creole: Like talk stori with u bout da hana butta dayz! Can o wot? In the hana butta dayz (the days of youth, childhood), ka’u kumu (chachami, my rabbi) was fond of saying,…
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Size Matters, Perspective Matters, Indigenous Nations
Did you know that the most contested real estate on this planet Earth – Judea-Samaria, the land of our Indigenous nation of Israel – is 12 times smaller than the Māori Indigenous islands of New Zealand? Let this Colonial Arab-European obsession for USA “Reservation”-size Israel sink in for a moment. Jews only want our #landback…
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Zaghrouta Tsahalulim Ululation, It’s All The Same Thing!
One of the weirdest anti-Indigenous hate tropes that I’ve personally seen online has to do with ululation – a celebratory long, tongue wavering, high-pitched vocal sound that resembles “a howl with a trilling quality”. In the case of Jews with ancestry in the Western diasporas (in Europe and “America”), the ululo (the ancient Latin word…
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A Digital Afterlife For Those Of Us “Online” Before the “Internet”?!
I remember a world of computers and of humans interconnecting in “online” share groups before there was a thing called “Google” or “Yahoo” or “Bing”. Yes, I am growing old, now, but it wasn’t that long ago! When I was a teen, my first experience with “the computer” was drawing stick line figures onto a…