Happy Leap Day Everyone!

Happy leap day everyone!

We need to use the day that’s been given to us, as best as we can. Do something you love, even if it’s just something small. I’m laying here reading with jazz in the background and my dog by my side while the rain pours outside. That’s a perfect day in my book 📚

(From “Grapefruit” by Yoko Ono)

Some Yoko instructional art that I love and wanted to share <3 make this day special

The Hamas terror group has published a new propaganda video showing signs of life from three hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

In edited-together clips, the five-minute-long video shows soldiers Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev, and civilian Doron Steinbrecher, identifying themselves and asking the Israeli government to return them home.

Hamas says the video was filmed on day 107 of the war, meaning earlier this week, although it provides no evidence to support the claim.

Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages it is holding, in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare. Most Israeli media does not carry the video clips themselves.

“Auch Adorno hat sein Buch, auf seine Weise, in Fragmenten geschrieben. Ohne offenkundigen Willen zur Fragmentierung, vielmehr, wie mir scheint, infolge einer extrem und beinahe bis zur Unerträglichkeit gespannten Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber dem harte Widerspruch innerhalb jener Dialektik ‘vom Standpunkt des Bewußtseins’ bei Hegel, die alles das ihrer Identität vindiziert, was von ihr differiert. Adorno versucht (ich sage nicht, es gelingt ihm, das gäbe keinen Sinn) nicht etwa, den Widerspruch zu erhalten, sondern den Bruch auszuhalten. Das Negative bei ihm und das Fragment bei Blanchot stellen den Versuch dar, aus dem Meistern eine Probe zu machen.”

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe und Jean-Luc Nancy: Noli me tangere, in: Fragment und Totalität, Frankfurt am Main 1984, S. 70.

אמילי הנד פוגשת את אביה תומאס, לאחר ששוחררה משבי חמאס, 26 בנובמבר, 2023 (צילום: דובר צה"ל)

9-year-old Emily Hand reunites with her father, Thomas, after she was released from hamas captivity. November 26, 2023 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era.

From 1940 to 1945, more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. 90% of them were Jews. All were innocent. Today, we remember

Never Again.

Source: yadvashem.org