Take a wild guess which country's flag @FadahJassem, Twitter's new Editorial Curation Lead for MENA [Middle East and North Africa countries] "inadvertently" left out of her tweet.....
"It seems I've inadvertently caused a flag flutter because I forgot to add some flags"
I'm sure that tweet was just an isolated mistake....
Well that's fair enough, @FadahJassem was a whole *6 months younger* when she made her last anti-Israel tweet in May 2021, a mere child.....
My issue is not with @FadahJassem herself, who is entitled to publicly express her denial of Israel's legitimacy and her enthusiastic endorsement of the words of a Jew-hater like Farrakhan, as millions of others do - it's with @Twitter and @jack appointing her to this position.
.... and to the 200 or so anti-semites and Jew-haters who've blocked or unfollowed me (so far) today because of this thread... don't let the door hit you on the tuchus on the way out.
"you've probably been raised on anne frankly"
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The real commercial value of most 18/19th cent. torah scrolls is $500-$1000 if bought individually, half that if bought in bulk. There are 1000s available for sale at any time. Why does the IRS routinely grant tax deductions of well over $10k per scroll? reiss-sohn.de/en/lots/9454-A…
The scroll shown above was deservedly unsold on the last Reiss auction at a reserve of EUR 1500. It's incomplete (missing the first part of Genesis), but it's an Ashkenazi tradition scroll, which is vastly less common than the more usually found Sephardic ones from North Africa.
The wildly inflated valuations for these scrolls that the IRS have accepted - coupled with the vast numbers bought by a handful of wealthy Christian collectors & institutions - effectively means the US taxpayer has subsidized a small group of evangelical Christian billionaires.
This circa 1665 painting of the Annunciation by the relatively obscure Dutch genre painter Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706) gets something exactly right, that almost all other artists - including many far more famous than Schalcken - get wrong. Can you see what it is? 1/
Here is Godfried Schalcken's version vs El Greco's..... 2/
And here is his version vs Titian's. Can you see the key difference yet? 3/
I'm trying to identify the writer of these notes on a Coptic ostracon, most likely an Austrian papyrologist or coptologist. The paper and ink suggests a date between the 1930s and 1950s, but it could be earlier or later than that.
Does anyone here recognize the handwriting?
A comment was made by @V_Feuerstein that the German handwriting looked older, more like 1890-1910. This is perfectly possible and I'd welcome more comments on this from German speakers - are there particular features in the handwriting that indicate an earlier date range to you?
Some very interesting and useful replies so far, thank you to @V_Feuerstein, @madcynic and @sista_ray. In case it helps, here is another sample of the handwriting.
Come for the posture, stay for the trousers: Captain Godfrey Rodrigues' "Correct Posture - It's Meaning and It's Results", printed in Chicago, 1925. Our hero, Capt Rodrigues, was apparently known as "The Tsar of Posture", although not, alas, as "The Tsar of The Possessive Its"...
The book recounts the philosophy of physical health (basically, don't overstrain, but take lots of long country walks while holding in your stomach) of Captain Rodrigues, who is, as you'd expect, featured prominently in all his *HAWT* glory...
To add spice though, various other muscled athletic men are shown, also shirtless of course - with dire warnings that they all died young due to excessive exercise and their failure to adopt Captain Rodrigues's rules of good posture...
In which country's households are you most likely to find a copy of the Talmud? Surprisingly, the answer is probably not Israel.
The country where the Talmud is ubiquitous, where it's quoted by sports stars & celebrities, where it's sold at station kiosks, is... SOUTH KOREA. 1/
Across all editions, the Talmud may be the single bestselling book title in Korea, behind only the Bible.
More than 800 different books, from more than 300 publishers, are returned when you search for “Talmud” in the National Digital Library of Korea. 2/
In 2011, the Korean Ambassador to Israel, was interviewed on Israeli TV. “I want to show you this,” he told the host. It was a paperback book with “Talmud” written in Korean and English on the cover, along with a cartoon sketch of a Biblical character with a robe & staff. 3/