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I hope she finds peace in a galaxy far, far away. 🌠 • • She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra. As she would’ve wanted it to be reported :) ~ • It’s…2:40am…I was so busy today but I really wanted to do something, even if it’s just a bit late. I thought it was appropriate to draw her on my daily sketchbook which I hadn’t opened in months, for December 27th. I hope my cold doesn’t get worse….💦💦 compromised my health a little bit here, whoops @-@;;;;~

Did you know that November 30 was designated this year by Israel as an official “Mizrahi Day of Remembrance” to honour Jewish refugees from North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia?

I may not agree with all of the political implications behind “Mizrahi Remembrance Day” but I applaud the move to include non-Ashkenazi Judaism in educational and cultural programming. It’s been seven years since I began studying the history and culture of Jews in the Islamic world and I am so inspired every day to continue.

I thought I’d share some of my favourite photos of hennaed Jews from the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa, and South/Central Asia). As always, my research on Jewish henna traditions is available on my website and blog.

1. A Jewish girl from western Iranian Kurdistan, shortly after her wedding, with hennaed nails, circa 1875 (photo by Antoin Sevruguin). 2. Jewish Amazigh musicians in Tissint, southern Morocco, with hennaed hands, circa 1934 (photo by Jean Besancenot). 3. Hennaed Jewish couple after the first of three henna ceremonies, San'a, Yemen, circa 1930 (photo by Yehiel Haibi). 4. Jewish woman with hennaed hands in a pattern unique to Tunisian Jews, Djerba, 1955 (photo by Frank Scherschel). 5. Jewish bride with hennaed hands, shortly after ‘aliya from Central Yemen, circa 1950. 6. Jewish woman dressed in holiday clothes with hennaed hands and feet, Hamadan, Iran, circa 1893. 7. Jewish couple from the Hadramaut, with the typical henna pattern of Habbani Jews, shortly after ‘aliya, circa 1950. 8. Jewish bride having her index finger hennaed, a Bene Israel tradition, Karachi, circa 1959. 9. Jewish couple at henna ceremony with paper-wrapped hennaed fingertips, Baghdad, circa 1950. 10. Jewish groom and bride, wearing l-keswa l-kbira [the grand dress], with hennaed hands in the style of northern Morocco, Rabat, circa 1911 (photo by Jean-Baptiste Morana).

This was going to be a fun enamel pin design but I was too busy to get around to it before Halloween. But if anyone’s interested I might still make it #halloween #anime #illustration #instaart #sachinteng

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A Note About “Witch Face”

So I’m seeing confusion about what is and isn’t offensive, so here it is:

We’re rolling up on October very quickly and I’m getting asked again (and I love it, because you remember from last year, because you care), so I’m bringing this post back again. The pointy hat has origins that are debated, and it may be a reference to old Scottish women, or to Jewish people, but my reasoning is that its so separate in time that it has lost its meaning. The green face does have racist connotations, meant to refer to “olive skinned” people, and specifically Jewish people. I give it a pass, though, because people do not (generally) know this, and they don’t associate it with us, they associate it with the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wizard of Oz. It has been stripped of its meaning. I still stand firm on the nose issue. 

DO NOT USE THE WITCH NOSE THIS HALLOWEEN, ITS ANTISEMITIC. DO NOT DO THAT THING.

Inktober Day 31 - Celebration. Belongs to Mairi. 

“Living people, dead people and mediums celebrating their links and shared love in the night, under the full moon.”

Inktober is over and it was a really nice experience :D I hope my pictures touched you somehow and I can’t wait for the next year to draw new pictures. Take care <3 

Meant to finish this piece for halloween but took longer than I thought it would haha

The last ten minutes of shul on Yom Kippur

We talking the sloths or the people waiting in line in the DMV? :P

Avinu Malkeinu

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Prayer for the Souls of the Departed for the Victims of September 11th, 2001

via: @MyShtender

(in Hebrew and English).

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