https://rebeccaglazer.com/editing/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/img_2354.jpegimg_23542024-01-25T15:42:46+00:00weekly0.6https://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/09/25/elul-recommitting-to-imperfection/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_5380.jpegIMG_5380https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_8733.jpegIMG_8733https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_8732.jpegIMG_87322022-09-26T02:30:10+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/08/26/av-a-fresh-start/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_9559.jpgIMG_9559On Cardo Street in the Old City of Jerusalem, an artist has rendered what the Roman-style marketplace might have looked like in the Second Temple Period. "Look no further than where you are," it seems to say. "These columns once belonged to a Golden Age." | Image © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_5050.jpegIMG_5050https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_5019.jpegIMG_5019https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_4958.jpegIMG_4958https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_9667.jpgIMG_9667The Temple Mount—upon which the Temple used to stand—is one of the holiest and most contentious sites in Jerusalem. Prepare to pass through a heavy-duty security checkpoint if you want to pray at the Western Wall. | Image © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_6938-2.jpgIMG_6938 2Do I wish my Ashkenazi ancestors had had a bit more fun with fashion? Sure. But I don't want to lose the food, language, or traditions they fought assimilation to keep. Pictured: my great-great-grandfather Wolf and great-great-grandmother Pearl Lena with four of their children, about ten years after they arrived in America. | I assume the copyright has long expired on a photo from 1902, but we'll say the image of this photo is courtesy of Hannah Spiegelman © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_5445.jpgIMG_5445Olive oil caper brine ice cream wrapped in a rose red velvet shell & sprinkled with pumpernickel "soil." Hand and culinary brilliance belong to @asweethistory. My nails don't look that nice. | Courtesy of Hannah Spiegelman © 20222022-08-27T00:07:10+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/07/29/tammuz-the-hottest-month/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ap21271811785709.webpAP21271811785709Mexico City | Image © Ginnette Riquelme 2021 for AP Photoshttps://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tdp-l-proabortion-protest-20220627-jh-003.webpTDP-L-proabortion-protest-20220627-jh-003Apparently I only took two shaky videos at this protest, so we're making do with a newspaper photo. | Image © Jintak Han 2022 for the Denver Posthttps://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_0328.jpgIMG_0328Inanna also went by the name Ishtar, of gated fame. Why couldn't I have just taken a photo of the whole thing head-on? Idk, I was 17 and trying to be "artsy"? | Image © Rebecca Glazer 20142022-07-30T05:11:35+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/06/23/sivan-the-month-of-listening/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img_4006.jpegIMG_4006This feels like a metaphor or something, right? | Courtesy of Mark Scaggs © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/58352868125__3cd69ab8-7dca-41d7-a02d-0f9422fff0fa.jpg58352868125__3CD69AB8-7DCA-41D7-A02D-0F9422FFF0FAI've aged approximately a decade in the last three years. Look at this infant! Who is she! | Image © Rebecca Glazer 2019https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img_0330.jpegIMG_0330A very small (masked) sample. I love these people to the ends of the earth. | Courtesy of Seton Hill University © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img_6155.jpgIMG_6155Apparently this is the only evidence I've ever climbed before in my life, and I don't know how to feel about that. | Rebecca Glazer © 2018https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img_6954-2.jpgIMG_6954 2https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img_5507.jpgIMG_55072022-06-24T05:19:09+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/05/25/iyar-the-month-of-healing/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_0098.jpgIMG_00982022-05-27T23:52:33+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/05/25/passover-a-feast-of-freedom/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8188-1.jpegIMG_8188https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8255.jpegIMG_8255https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8248.jpegIMG_8248https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8229.jpegIMG_8229https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8212.jpegIMG_8212https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8206.jpegIMG_8206https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_8200.jpegIMG_8200Who needs a sister when you have a cousin like this? 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It bears the name Santa María la Blanca because for almost 500 years it was converted into a church. Is that why it's so well-preserved? ... Maybe. | Photo © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_9310.jpgIMG_9310Again, I'm exaggerating none of this. | Photo © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_9325.jpgIMG_9325Oh, you thought I was joking? | Photo © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_9057.jpgIMG_9057Tiles like these demarcate Toledo's Jewish Quarter. 1492 is the year Jews and Muslims were expelled from Spain by royal decree. | Photo © Rebecca Glazer 2016https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_6821.jpegIMG_6821While I was reading I had to reassure several friends that yes, the author was Jewish, and no, she didn't mean the title that way.2022-04-23T19:12:59+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/03/08/international-womens-day-and-the-uprising-of-the-20000/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/4180a130-1aff-43bd-90e9-445856506b2b.jpeg4180A130-1AFF-43BD-90E9-445856506B2BL'chaim. | Courtesy of Hannah Spiegelman © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ea97e2be-785e-4a96-a96e-7bbe17ec12e4.pngEA97E2BE-785E-4A96-A96E-7BBE17EC12E42022-04-23T19:12:10+00:00monthlyhttps://rebeccaglazer.com/2022/04/04/nissan-the-month-of-freedom/https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_2583.jpegIMG_2583Nothing says spring like laughing into an overpriced iced fruit beverage. | Courtesy of Mark Scaggs © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_4919-preview.jpegIMG_4919-previewI don't want to say I was too busy cooking and enjoying this meal to blog about it, but that's kind of what I'm saying. | Courtesy of Ariana Hatcher © 2022https://rebeccaglazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/img_c5c356e333d9-1.jpegIMG_C5C356E333D9-1Will I ever get tired of seeing my byline under this photo? 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