Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Backyard photos

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Wildfire's orange sun during a late afternoon thunderstorm in Ithaca

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This morning, when I got up and looked out my window to the east, I saw an orange sun against clouds and haze. The smoke from wildfires in C...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Anti-Zionism in women's and gender studies departments and programs

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"The national effort to organize an entire academic discipline around anti-Zionism represents a new and dangerous phase in the politici...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Each person is an entire world

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When will the hideous war between Israel and Hamas end? I read story after story of whole families in Gaza being destroyed by Israeli bombin...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Yom Ha-Shoah - Mordekhai Falkon (originally published on April 25, 2006)

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(Originally published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006) Since today is Yom Ha-Shoah - the day of remembrance of the Holocaust - I thought I would ...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Half a million Americans have died of Covid since last February

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Monday, January 04, 2021

Each person's death diminishes me

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Every day I check the website of the Tompkins County Health Department to read the latest report on Covid in this area. I check the number ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Ithaca, New York

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Jupiter and Saturn in conjunction. Tonight is the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the sky, as viewed from the Earth. They look re...
Friday, December 11, 2020

A song for Hanukkah, for our current darkness and fear

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The Israeli children's Hanukkah song Banu Hoshech Le-garesh , as performed by  Divahn  (led by Galeet Dardashti), on their latest albu...

Shabbat Shalom and Happy Hanukkah!

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Happy Hanukkah!

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חג אורים שמח!  
Wednesday, December 09, 2020

296,698 people have died of Covid-19 in the United States, as of today.

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Today (December 9) it is reported that at least 3,243 people died of Coronavirus in the United States, according to Worldometer. In each of ...
Sunday, December 06, 2020

Andromeda Galaxy

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Saturday, December 05, 2020

The Helix Nebula

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Looking like a great celestial eye, this is  the Helix Nebula. Discovered 200 years ago, it is a planetary nebula located in the constellati...

Pottery masks for sale - Ithaca, New York

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In January of 2016 I started to make pottery. I had made pottery when I was a teenager, along with other crafts, but stopped when I graduate...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Biden Beats Trump NY Times front page of Sunday, November 8

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 A little tardy, I know...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Trump denounces the "globalists" once again at the end of the 2020 campaign

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Another reminder of the 2016 election - the globalists...communists...socialists...wealthy liberals. And who are they?  Jews, just as in his...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Headstones in Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids, MI covered with "Trump" and "MAGA" graffiti today

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For those who remember the end of the election campaign in 2016, there are some horrifyingly similar incidents happening now.  A Jewish ceme...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Halloween in Fall Creek, Ithaca

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The Fall Creek neighborhood is usually the epicenter of Halloween celebrations in Ithaca. Hundreds of families from other neighborhoods and ...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Suspect in antisemitic hate crimes arrested in Ithaca.

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The police today arrested a person whom they suspect of antisemitic harassment in Ithaca in the last couple of weeks. When they searched his...