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highly principled invertebrate"Jews without Yellow Stars" from <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BenYehudaPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenYehudaPress</a> Review: It's a truly wonderful book, which focused on Belarus during the Nazi <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holocaust</a> that has 3 main parts: 1. How the information/stories were collected2. The stories themselves 3. Mini biographies of some of the main storied people.It's really a wonderful book, for all those 3 elements, each of which would hold up decently as a work unto itself to my opinion but together they form this wonderful tapestry.As a Jew of mostly Belarusian heritage, with 2 of my 4 grandparents having been born in said country, I think of this as something I'll definitely be sharing with the children I look forward to having. When they're 8-12 they'll just get the war stories, with some of the mini biographies, then as they reach highschool age, they'll get the methods/research elements.<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Belarus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belarus</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Legacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Legacy</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

highly principled invertebrateGoing to read a good deal more this coming shabbat, as I've a few physical books from <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BenYehudaPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenYehudaPress</a> that I've been looking forward to getting to & it's looking like it'll be warm enough in here on Saturday to get through & enjoy at least a solid chunk, if not all of one of them. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>*that ebook I panned, I didn't have high hopes for & it delivered in being awful.

highly principled invertebrate<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BenYehudaPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenYehudaPress</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> I just read through about the first half of "Just Jewish: How to engage millennials and build a vibrant Jewish future" which minimally should get a revised title of "how to nickel & dime middle class & up in income citiot Zionist Jewish millennials in your engagement efforts", because that's at best what this felt like to me. I'm an economically poor Jewish millennial who's got at least a moderate level of formalized Jewish education & really wants to be a part of a synagogue & other Jewish organizations but keeps basically feeling smacked away. Mostly it's over money I don't have to give, but sometimes it's also over my either being too doctrinally religious to fit with the congregation, they're Zionist which is definitely unacceptable to me or they're just too far away for me to really be "of their community" & I won't do virtual services.The kind of behavior of outreach people were taught by books like this is I think the mainstay of why I've not been a regular synagogue attendee in about 20 years now. I don't want my synagogue to feel like a specialized social club, I want it to be a place I can pray & discuss my observance issues as a rural kosher keeping Jew!

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