Things That Are Awesome: Jewish Tartan

There is now an official Jewish tartan!

After 300 years of Jewish presence in Scotland, Scottish Jews now have an official tartan to call their own, thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Jacobs, a Scottish-born rabbi.

From the New York Jewish week article:

The main colors are blue and white, for both the Israeli and Scottish flags. Stripes of gold represent the Ark of the Covenant, while silver stripes reflect decorations for the Torah scroll and deep red stripes recall kiddush wine. The striping sequence runs in threes and sevens, three for the three fathers of Judaism and the three rabbis of a bet din, and seven for the idea of wholeness, Rabbi Jacobs said.

Pretty awesome. I may have to choose between this and the Antarctic tartan for my kilt-skirt now...


(You can buy Jewish tartan kilts, tablecloths, and of course yarmulkes at jewishtartan.com. And yes, they're kosher. Hee!)

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Things That Are Awesome: Chicken Chicken Chicken

This made me cry with laughter.

Make sure you watch all the way to the end!

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Fat Rant 3!

Joy Nash came out with a new Fat Rant! Hurrah!

The original Fat Rant:



And today's new edition, "Fat Rant 3: Staircase Wit":



I'm pretty sure the original Fat Rant video was how I wandered into Fat Acceptance in the first place. I think. It's been a while.

Joy is talented, gorgeous, and a powerful voice for fat acceptance. The first Fat Rant was watched by more than a million people, and was probably the first view of FA for most of those people as well. Kudos to her for being brave enough to put herself out there and for making such a great video.

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Zombie Blog

Okay, I know it's been a while since I updated anything, but that's about to change.

I'm starting to comment more often at various blogs I read, and I think I'm going to start leaving this blog as my website name-link. That means, I need to put more here than just some random youtube clips and Antarctica pictures.

So what will be here? Well, most of the blogs I read at the moment deal with social justice issues -- anti-racism, fat acceptance, and feminism in particular. So while the Things That Are Awesome series will certainly continue, so will Misogyny Watch, and probably a Things That Are Annoying series as well.

My experience with social justice issues is tiny, so I'm sure I'm going to make mistakes and show my ass, but hopefully I'll learn something doing it.

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