jewishhenna:

wetwareproblem:

So… Anyone remember when the Hobby Lobby people were busted for smuggling artifacts, and we were all shocked and confused and then forgot about it?

Well, the artifacts they were actually busted for are Mesopotamian clay tablets. But… those aren’t the only artifacts they’ve been dealing in.

I just found out that they have thousands – thousands! – of Torah scrolls, which they then donate to other Evangelicals for financial reasons and political leverage. (In one case, they donated a 16th-century scroll to Liberty University. It was completely unfurled and directly handled in an auditorium. By untrained students.) Almost two thousand of them are sitting in an explicitly Evangelical museum full of supercessionist bullshit, and the text of the largest display talks about how they were “saved” from burial or the genizah.

Saved.

From proper Jewish ritual handling.

By Evangelical Xians.

Who then donate these things to other Evangelicals who mishandle them.

For money.

I… I think I’m going to cry.

I was just about to post this! I even got a little shout-out in the article. 🙂

The notion of “build[ing] a Christian museum on the backs of Jewish items” is, as I’ve come to understand in my research of the history of Judaica collecting, goes back several centuries to the origins of the modern museum itself. But it is particularly disturbing to see how this classically-supersessionist and fossilizing language (“God gave those people [Jews] a job, and they did that job well,” Steven Green explains, referring to the “job” of preserving the Torah text in identical copies so that evangelical Christians could prove the Bible’s unerring nature) is intertwined with corporate capitalism and greedy tax evasion. If only there was something in all those Torah scrolls on the subject…

dovewithscales:

gagasjoanne:

chasers17:

sweepmoon:

Florence and the Machine at last night’s Spotify event in Brooklyn. As Florence began to sing Sky Full of Song a literal storm began to hit, she never faltered and embraced the storm.

Watching this was an ethereal experience

this queen literally summoned a storm during her performance when will your fave ever control the weather with such accuracy

This is fucking awesome.

you can look into their blog for receipts. Seeing as though you’re close to some people that are ace, mainly firebirdscratches, it would seem respectful not to engage with trash like that. But you know, trash is trash.

frostyemma:

Yeah, sorry, I don’t go digging through people’s blogs on the word of someone too cowardly to come off anon.

As for @firebirdscratches, fuck all the way off. She don’t need you to white knight for her in your effort to drag some rando I have no relationship with. She is more than capable of voicing her concerns to me.

Nice concern trolling, but you still ain’t bring the receipts, so no returns for you.

You rang? 

Hey there! Yeah, I’m kinda with frosty on this one. Thanks for being concerned about me, but I hadn’t even seen the post and had no idea who lesbuchanan was…so, I’m all good. LOL.

(Out of curiosity I did do a quick search of their blog for the “ace” and “trans” tag and maybe I just didn’t go deep enough but what I found was a bunch of trans-positive posts and some ace discourse I don’t necessarily agree with, but nothing like, hateful? Again, if you got the tea, spill it.)