tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74611250450034544682024-03-13T11:28:02.606-04:00The Nicole FactorNicole Czarnecki (Nickidewbear from YouTube) blogs here, especially since AOL RED Blogs shut down a while back.Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.comBlogger2556125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-10002514034507188272024-03-12T23:21:00.001-04:002024-03-12T23:21:12.729-04:00Trigger Warning: Depiction and Description of Cambodian Genocide Of 1975-1979<p> Unfortunately, Instagram would not allow me to mark the following painting as “sensitive”. When I began to paint this, I had no idea where it was going. What could I do with a poorly-painted human form that looked like a corpse? Then it clicked: I was eerily reminded that Cambodians were left as nothing on “killing fields” by the Khmer Rouge. I either did not know or remember that the #CambodianGenocide. ended only 45 years ago on January 7th. As I researched and painted, I thought about what the Cambodian Buddhist monk in the painting would think (The painting is at the end of this poem. If you are sensitive, please do not look at the painting.): </p><p><br /></p><p>“As my garment of the monk that I was</p><p>“Blended with the blood that sunk as flies buzz</p><p>“Above me (and my life that penetrated ground </p><p>“(So much that which is cloth of Buddhist robes confound)</p><p>“My soul cries out and wonders if my family</p><p>“Will ever identify what calamity</p><p>“Left of me on the thorn, thistle, and briar.</p><p>“Will I be abandoned with no pyre</p><p>“For what remains of me?</p><p>“My relatives can’t see</p><p>“Or call out my name, or hear—</p><p>“As they, too, have not one bier</p><p>“Or mourner left to carry them—for I perceive </p><p>“The voices of loved ones agonizingly leave</p><p>“The mortal realm and join me among the souls</p><p>“Of the victims of the Khmer Rogue as rolls</p><p>“The field in which my body lays (and in which my eyes</p><p>“(No longer bring forth water, but bring forth what belies</p><p>“Any claim of any wisdom by the Khmer Rouge). </p><p>“As strong waves of red from socket to socket deluge</p><p>“More than the Mekong River ever could flood,</p><p>“The clay of my form softens as if the mud</p><p>“Of a bank it was destined to be</p><p>“Instead of committed properly</p><p>“According to Cambodian tradition—</p><p>“All because of Pol Pot’s dereliction.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgealmPrzXUfbj6-Gbo4-2pTFvym3y-BwGfF8vkTYYXjYu1UqMDJBjFsOqZe2UZWXqNbuRB3171hyphenhyphenAVi7iu0IIjvgrU-LnFwwqFAeZ5tGzx-3e_qVufw4ewyoyxjvY4Be-REUIVnolBbajblDxWw_wdAK6wIPnPzHiqh_Em7zuz1MyPU059pDTNkhrzv-8/s4032/IMG_7952.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgealmPrzXUfbj6-Gbo4-2pTFvym3y-BwGfF8vkTYYXjYu1UqMDJBjFsOqZe2UZWXqNbuRB3171hyphenhyphenAVi7iu0IIjvgrU-LnFwwqFAeZ5tGzx-3e_qVufw4ewyoyxjvY4Be-REUIVnolBbajblDxWw_wdAK6wIPnPzHiqh_Em7zuz1MyPU059pDTNkhrzv-8/s320/IMG_7952.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-11508808909262372522024-03-12T19:10:00.000-04:002024-03-12T19:10:10.258-04:00PS Jonathan Glazer Can Refute God’s Protection All That He Wants—And That’s On Him<p> Through blood-shot eyes and under war-torn skies,</p><p>Through sleepless nights, we must survive and fight</p><p>Just to live another day, and to pray </p><p>That victory will come by El Shadai</p><p>With His mighty hand and outstretched arm</p><p>To defeat the band that seeks to harm</p><p>The chosen nation, to whom the God of ben-Yishai</p><p>Swears His salvation forever—‘Am Yisra’el Chai! </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1RaoKA9aS6hI5QFOOOCO0nxVVlq8qErkaTeej4l5DveuX4UT4YW7ugwQs8JjHgN_t_CHdCKysR7HzyBLt4LXxk30KchZCJ17Df7rBELUVkrEcqcbk62I0-dg9eiSkuxw-oUD7974RiMt3ILa1hIXsTtNn484Pt5nGXrC9kqL1fDcpLtX3fYNlRKHYDk/s4032/IMG_7951.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1RaoKA9aS6hI5QFOOOCO0nxVVlq8qErkaTeej4l5DveuX4UT4YW7ugwQs8JjHgN_t_CHdCKysR7HzyBLt4LXxk30KchZCJ17Df7rBELUVkrEcqcbk62I0-dg9eiSkuxw-oUD7974RiMt3ILa1hIXsTtNn484Pt5nGXrC9kqL1fDcpLtX3fYNlRKHYDk/s320/IMG_7951.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-64171590388912250992024-02-27T01:46:00.002-05:002024-02-27T01:46:42.763-05:00Commentary: Better Sleep, Better Societies?<p> I guess that precisely because I’m up late for multiple reasons, I can ponder on the following: would people in general make better sociocultural (including political and economic) decisions overall if they just got more regular sleep at night? Perhaps part of the reason that American and other societies are failing is that those societies often have all-night, 24/7, etc. gas stations, convenience stores, bars, etc. Of course, to sleep at night (let alone sleep well at night) can be difficult for those of us with chronic conditions such as mental illnesses (e.g., Depression) and Spinal Disk Degeneration (C3-C7 for me). To live within cultures and societies which don’t encourage regular sleep can also make sleeping (let alone well) at night—especially for those of us with chronic and sleep-depriving health conditions—difficult. </p><p>Perhaps American and other societies need to encourage a scaleback to 8-12/6 gas stations, bars, etc.; a lack of late-night TV shows and reruns, and other measures that positively affect <a href="https://youtu.be/pUZvynhxYb4?si=BuTAHp2Px0ROoqBi">proper sleep</a>. After all, only emergency personnel (including EMS professionals and urgent-news reporters) are the only people whom need to be on a 24/7-on-call basis. The rest of us can take (one or) two (melatonin pills or whatever else to help us get to sleep) and answer the calls of societal hustle and bustle in the morning.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-12449101168437151522024-02-20T16:44:00.003-05:002024-02-20T16:44:36.961-05:00Were Secular Names Just Random or Arbitrary? If You Believe That Our Ancestors Were Unintelligent, Yes.<p> TL:DR: our ancestors were not unintelligent, and even calquing “Rachel” with “Rosa” or “Rose” was very specific. </p><p>If you actually read: </p><p>Let’s start with my my own case: I could have taken “ניקול” or “ניכול” as my Hebrew name when I found out that I’m Jewish. I made a concerted effort to look up what a Hebrew name equivalent to my secular name would be. “נצחיה” was already there. As far as my Hebrew middle or second name: </p><p><br /></p><p>1) I don’t want to give out my secular middle name to most people for multiple reasons. </p><p><br /></p><p>2) “מרה-טובה” (good bitterness) describes my life perfectly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone else suggested that I just use “מרתה” (Marta or Martha). I declined that suggestion because: </p><p><br /></p><p>1) That name does not fit with either of my secular names in any way. </p><p><br /></p><p>2) I am not a direct descendant of any Marta or Martha, as far as I know, and I did not know that my paternal grandfather’s aunt Sophie Martha Thomas-Brighton (née Trudnak) existed until after my great-grandmother (ז״ל) died. I also did not know that Great-Grandma herself was a daughter of Crypto-Jews until after she died. Because I did not know Great-Grandaunt Sophie personally and am (as far as I know) not in contact with any of her living descendants, I think that I would actually be insulting Great-Grandaunt Sophie’s memory and her side of our family if I use “Marta”. </p><p><br /></p><p>This isn’t just my view. In Jewish culture, uses and transliterations of names as well as translations of names are actually important. Despite what some might say, many actually tried to keep the Jewish (Hebrew or Hebrew-dialect) and secular (non-Jewish) names as close as possible in some or another form. </p><p>Now to “Rachel” “Rachel” (“Ewe”) and “Rosa” (“rose” or “pink”): while the names indeed correlate partly due to the first letter in Latin lettering, they also correlate because Rachel’s life was seen like the life of a rose. Fragile and thorny was Rachel’s life indeed, no matter the sweetness or blossoming in it. After all, even though she was the favorite wife of Jacob, she wanted to die because of competition against Leah and her own infertility (“Give me children lest I die!” we read that she told Ya’akov avinu). When she finally had biological children (as the sons born to Bilhah were put with Bilhah instead of her when Ya’akov had to divide everybody), she died in childbirth and named her second child “בן-אוני”—“son of my sorrow”.</p><p>Our ancestors understood how thorny, fragile, and bittersweet Rachel’s life was, even if they could read only Hebrew lettering and not—for example—Latin lettering (all of which—despite their various orthographies—the various Romance languages, the Germanic languages, Slavic languages such as Polish and Slovakian, Balkan languages such as Serbian and Croatian, and Magyar use). </p><p>Our ancestors were scattered and often could not even read or write in Hebrew dialects, let alone read and write in the various languages surrounding them in the Exile. Their lack of proficiency in any given language—especially after lack of proficiency was forced by oppressive law—did not equate to a lack of intelligence. Therefore, for instance and as demonstrated, they did not just randomly or cavalierly equate “Rachel” and “Rose”— they understood the correlation between the fragile, thorny, and bittersweet life of a rose and the life of Rachel imeinu—which was fraught with peril, distress, and sorrow even in the joys and suffering in the blessings.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-33052560974327999012024-02-03T19:54:00.007-05:002024-02-03T21:05:54.404-05:00Calling Up the Dead? Not Really, Though Maybe Painting What A Belated Matriarch Looked Like?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN27wu1X3Rr1BNXFcbwslWYnmOIqgHaaWi7HZWhbS2IBtLHrgEDjg5CqOq1pylNMo9ZSq4EP4f33TE4v4a-kAYPCHEHsKsBCbir7E8YYq7s8xRuKu8__NJvjzc7_ApTLikDxkeI8KBMuiclnSabjgITDo2kuv1PB1ybfSnAtTtSFROuVU1Rh2ux79msoA/s4032/IMG_7671.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN27wu1X3Rr1BNXFcbwslWYnmOIqgHaaWi7HZWhbS2IBtLHrgEDjg5CqOq1pylNMo9ZSq4EP4f33TE4v4a-kAYPCHEHsKsBCbir7E8YYq7s8xRuKu8__NJvjzc7_ApTLikDxkeI8KBMuiclnSabjgITDo2kuv1PB1ybfSnAtTtSFROuVU1Rh2ux79msoA/s320/IMG_7671.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0-qye2JYO1uoBryajeW9DnZNDuKek74pFl1p05RhhKyBdttq7mp0uHdRT4OQRbnNqmFgTJClEDfvz2VtnjwOdswiqTAC1rC8tp8n4HwPif7GJw-PETR7ty43h1jI3DGAoNh6S1shI_6Cfz2Yk2EC_ufRjjuvplNbwguMcF3RcAQc1cau2U29T6IExYM/s4032/IMG_7670.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0-qye2JYO1uoBryajeW9DnZNDuKek74pFl1p05RhhKyBdttq7mp0uHdRT4OQRbnNqmFgTJClEDfvz2VtnjwOdswiqTAC1rC8tp8n4HwPif7GJw-PETR7ty43h1jI3DGAoNh6S1shI_6Cfz2Yk2EC_ufRjjuvplNbwguMcF3RcAQc1cau2U29T6IExYM/s320/IMG_7670.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Latest painting: “Middle Eastern (Possibly Egyptian or Jewish) Woman”. If it ended up being a self-portrait, I certainly did not intend that. The woman has black hair, whereas I have brown hair. I did have some ancestors with black hair, as some of my relatives had black hair—i.e., great-granduncles and -aunts, and cousins known to not have inherited or likely inherited black hair from elsewhere. I’ve actually occasionally felt pretty smug about the fact that some of them inherited black hair, as we thankfully often avoided the blond and other hair that could’ve come from Slavs, Balts, Vikings, and Magyars as well as other gentiles in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. </p><p><br /></p><p>The stereotypical brown, red, and black hair thankfully made it difficult for my family whom wanted our Jewish heritage even lost to history within the family. By the way, I take joy in looking Jewish. Other people knew that I was Jewish before I did because I even look Jewish— and that’s literally what someone told me when I told him that I’m Jewish: “I figured that you’re Jewish. You look Jewish.” </p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t shy away from my Jewish looks, and so be if this a self portrait or even an unintentional portrait of a belated ancestor—with, as I will demonstrate in an update, a Gajdosz or Ushinsky matriarch readily coming to mind. </p><p>Update:</p><p>1) <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10031432:6482">Joseph Edmund Gajdos was a brown-eyed brunet and brother of my father’s maternal grandfather</a> (whom identified as “Russian” as the closest way to identity as Jewish—and he absolutely knew the distinction between “Russian” and “Ruthenian”. At least two of his ancestors were Jews in what is now Ukraine and Poland, and the whole of Ukraine by that point was entirely occupied by the Soviet Union. The first known one fled to Upper Hungary as the Russians encroached; and the second one was born “Palin”, “Polin”, or “Palir”.)</p><p>2) I am not aware as to whether his mother had brown eyes. That is what I’m trying to figure out, as <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44033_03_00114-01379?pid=6862175">my great-grandfather had blue eyes</a>.</p><p>3) <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44033_09_00133-00017?pid=5677116">My great-grandfather’s youngest brother was also a brown-eyed brunet.</a> So far, I have not been able to find any physical description of either of their parents except for that their mother was about 5 feet exactly! By the way, her manifest at Philadelphia absolutely disproves that people could not remember on what ship they came to the U.S., as every single immigrant—including ones who lied about somethings or others at the ports of emigration—had a “contract ticket number”.</p><p>4) Impressively, <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44033_10_00126-01880?pid=9061460">my great-granddad maybe was one of the few blue-eyed kids</a>—and maybe the only blue-eyed one, has all of his surviving brothers’ draft cards indicate that they were brown-eyed brunets. Also as I’ve said before, I have simcha in our family’s stereotypically-Jewish features. The gentiles could not take away our Jewish features so easily. Conversely, my father’s paternal grandfather and one of his cousins (Julius/Julian Danilowicz by secular name) were so ashamed of looking Jewish, they even dyed their hair blonde at various times.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-80288956839732515432024-01-31T14:09:00.000-05:002024-01-31T14:09:04.962-05:00#WoofWednesday: Someone Broke Into Camille’s “Jail”!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Szg6XLYnU5A" width="320" youtube-src-id="Szg6XLYnU5A"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-21968155812362075682024-01-28T00:40:00.001-05:002024-01-28T00:40:58.904-05:00A Painting—And Not For Only Six Million<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImLMh781AGmp6TIjRXIp4bVwVQH_COpO41MAHq8UpkJyX3i2Q5mlG4SwAxzWqeuwyGfauI2-YaedVAVJwr-YKEyzCXGiNaSQLVXGNzwjYHqxmC9d0-eGBcAci16DSwOV5xfar-0CbAPciqvM6kGtM2Kcl3D8CsbVBG75VDr4Ncjzavj0jcGcmTyT3Bdw/s4032/IMG_7624.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A daffodil with an Israeli flag—for the more than six million Holocaust victims, including the unrecognized ones" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImLMh781AGmp6TIjRXIp4bVwVQH_COpO41MAHq8UpkJyX3i2Q5mlG4SwAxzWqeuwyGfauI2-YaedVAVJwr-YKEyzCXGiNaSQLVXGNzwjYHqxmC9d0-eGBcAci16DSwOV5xfar-0CbAPciqvM6kGtM2Kcl3D8CsbVBG75VDr4Ncjzavj0jcGcmTyT3Bdw/w300-h400/IMG_7624.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I originally covered up parts of when I accidentally painted two upward triangles on the flag. Then it made me realize that even if the skies should cover any part of the Israeli flag, and should cover part of Israel, Israel will emerge as a light in the darkness. </p><p><br /></p><p>PS Not for just six million, might I add—many Holocaust victims & survivors are apparently too “not halachically Jewish” or too persecuted outside of 1933-1945 Germany to be recognized as Holocaust victims & survivors. Never mind that Stalin culminated his Antisemitic ethnocide with the Soviet-called “The Doctor’s Plot”, and the gulag system did not close until 1960; and never mind that the Islamic Middle East persecuted Jews before and after 1933-1945 🙄. 😡 It makes me sick that, e.g., even the President of Ukraine was tricked into not understanding that his parents who were born in Russia-occupied Ukraine are Holocaust survivors (One was even born right before the perpetration of the Soviet-called “The Doctor’s Plot, and the other was born during it.). </p><p><br /></p><p>Not just six million in 1933-1945 at the hands of the Germans and their accomplices—Jews in the Soviet Union and the Islamic Middle East (including during the Hebron and Aleppo Pogroms) who were victimized (including by the British accomplices of the Arab occupiers of Hebron) were Holocaust victims as well. That doesn’t even take into account the unrecognized “not halachically Jewish” victims of the over-six million in 1933-1945 at the hands of the Germans and their accomplices.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-35868543632266514022024-01-06T18:43:00.002-05:002024-01-06T18:43:29.569-05:00#SillySaturday: Don’t Let Camille Fool Anyone<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pgUqP-r3t34" width="320" youtube-src-id="pgUqP-r3t34"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>I just want to warn everybody about Camille: she hurts Momma on a frequent basis, and steals kisses from me! - Reilly</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-59462696744187141432024-01-02T14:40:00.002-05:002024-01-02T14:40:51.481-05:00Commentary: An Example Of Why Even Records Of Persecuted And Deceased Relatives Matter<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqXj51ULRbVkoOT0TWZxgpe8MnJDcyXPe0I8Nj-q-9MDg3Ji6lCaC74k_uiVf8g6C1u47QpwrjVth730evr89vQ4JE2hjEUEDhiL3gdw1WTwA9xSiytAVOWYUUVxrnw8uXFX6zAIlRASEXMlom1w9CcrUrvsJnBpGaldnkmaDDhDFEdVhCxQ3EDNDY2I/s1242/IMG_7441.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1242" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqXj51ULRbVkoOT0TWZxgpe8MnJDcyXPe0I8Nj-q-9MDg3Ji6lCaC74k_uiVf8g6C1u47QpwrjVth730evr89vQ4JE2hjEUEDhiL3gdw1WTwA9xSiytAVOWYUUVxrnw8uXFX6zAIlRASEXMlom1w9CcrUrvsJnBpGaldnkmaDDhDFEdVhCxQ3EDNDY2I/w400-h393/IMG_7441.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adela Saposnik y Andrelevich de Zelasco was an Andrelevich whom immigrated to Argentina. A few other Andrulevich, Andrelevich, etc. family members also immigrated to South America—some having done so as openly Jewish, though most (as far as I know) did so as Crypto Jews.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This hopefully gives me a clue to what happened to my cousin Rochla Andrelewitz, as perhaps Lila was a sibling of Rochla. I haven’t newly seen any records that I can ascertain are about Rochla, although this discovery absolutely was unexpected and very much needed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of our own branches did use Andrelewicz, Andrelevich, etc.; and there was one instance in which my great-grandaunt Alice gave her mother’s name as “Andrewicz”. More often than not, however, we used “Andrulewicz”, “Andrulevich”, etc.; and we were among the Crypto-Jewish branches (One relative, as I mentioned last year, was betrayed by maternal—Staskiel/“Shackel”—cousins of his when he tried to pass for a Pole. Because of them, as they were witnesses at his naturalization and were among the only ones who could’ve known about it outside of us, he faced employment discrimination.). </p><p><br /></p><p>Even when the discoveries hurt or do not involve relatives whom were living at the time, I feel vindicated seeing that we are Jewish as I discovered—especially since quite a few people have had <i>chutzpah g’dolah</i> to deny my Jewishness to my face, and my family does not need what we endured denied.</p><p>By the way I still do not know what happened to Great-Granddad’s rape-conceived sibling. All that I know is that, that poor child keeps going in and out of the record; and because he or she was among three born and living children when Great-Grandaunt Regina was born, he or she was forcibly conceived in or about September 1907. Great-Grandaunt Regina was born on March 31, 1909; and she is mentioned as one of two born and living children on the 1910 census. </p><p>Great-Grandaunt Alice<span style="font-size: x-small;">**</span> is then mentioned as one of three living children of four born on her birth certificate in June 1910. When Great-Granduncle Stanley is mentioned in November of next year, he is mentioned as one of five children living and born. When Great-Granduncle Jankie (secular name “John”) is mentioned almost two years later, he was mentioned as one of five born and living—and at that point, of course, there should’ve been six mentioned as having been born. </p><p>PS That’s why I also get angry regarding the rabbis whom would deny DNA testing over “<i>mamzerut</i>”. Shlomo HaMelekh was technically a “<i>mamzer</i>”, as his mother was a rape-taken wife whose first child died because of his father’s (David’s) sin. As יהוה has <i>rachamim</i> on the mamzerim and their descendants (including myself, as I have known and ascertained mamzerut in at least one line<span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span>), so can the rabbis.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">*That specifically-referenced mamzerut was such a shame to my mother’s paternal grandmother (Alice Marie Reilly Allen), that she concocted the bubbe meise that the adulterous ancestor (John Allan) was some distant great-granduncle of her children—and her maternal grandfather (João Ferin, later John McCoy) was an <i>Anusi bin hagolim b’Sefarad</i>. As far as I know, her husband (Edgar Joseph Allen) was fully gentile; and she was nonetheless ashamed of his mamzerut (His Conley grandmother was born a Coleman and could’ve been Jewish, although I have not seen evidence that she was even an Irish Huguenot—and some Irish were actually Crypto-Jewish Catholics or Hugenots. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Of course, one DeBoy cousin publicly expressed her anger in a comment on this blog when I found that out about one of our Farrell ancestors, and I publicly in turn responded. As she publicly commented, she could take the public response. If she continues to have a problem with it, perhaps she can talk to יהוה about why Farrells asked that flowers be omitted in their obituaries. I have simcha in being Jewish—and too bad if she doesn’t have any simcha.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">**She was at least in the secular sense named partly for her mother. We are mixed Ashkenazi Sefardi, and finding such <i>minhag l’kanot</i> among us is not unusual.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-84706156477964872692023-12-23T14:36:00.001-05:002023-12-23T14:36:09.273-05:00#SillySaturday: Either way, no silent night if Rei’s too close to Santa Penguin for Cam’s comfort!<p> A few minutes before…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/su2z0hm3OH8" width="320" youtube-src-id="su2z0hm3OH8"></iframe></div><br /><p>Afterward, when Reilly dared to just walk in the family room…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImlofSwijluToV8u2E7DGqiAnXGryKHnSFntkFKztamWL4h3MzlGQ-wJjaHR6mQrFVkLic8DyLaEkOrJkAK18YXL2nnOHgPINQB70ZWnsXlY9YtGlwLcXBJ6zZ5Wcu_kn66CPkVlOO5kBrSvyphlSctjKqarC6H4lqpW-SVhEKLvziSurI_99VkiW1Ak/s4032/IMG_7355.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImlofSwijluToV8u2E7DGqiAnXGryKHnSFntkFKztamWL4h3MzlGQ-wJjaHR6mQrFVkLic8DyLaEkOrJkAK18YXL2nnOHgPINQB70ZWnsXlY9YtGlwLcXBJ6zZ5Wcu_kn66CPkVlOO5kBrSvyphlSctjKqarC6H4lqpW-SVhEKLvziSurI_99VkiW1Ak/s320/IMG_7355.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-40321130680109090162023-12-21T13:27:00.000-05:002023-12-21T13:27:20.376-05:00Commentary: A Few (Among Many) Suggestions For Antifeminist Women <p> Give up all of your property—including your bank accounts and cars—to your husbands, fathers, brothers, adult sons, and/or other men in your lives. Give up your jobs and/or education. Refuse to vote in this year’s elections except for if you vote how your men tell you to vote. </p><p>If you even ever leave your houses again—and not to just vote in person—don’t leave the houses without your men’s permissions. Also don’t do anything that your men forbid (e.g., even undergo medical procedures)—no matter how much your lives would be endangered, and even if your men are abusing you and/or your minor children. Additionally, never leave the house without looking as young, fertile, and healthy as possible. </p><p>Then, either live by your own antifeminist standards or learn to appreciate what you have or—after you lose everything, had—because of the fight by women’s-rights advocates, whom were derided as “feminists” (female supremacists) and took the derisions as badges of honor. By the way, no antifeminist woman is a woman of valor, as women of #valor (נשים החיל ) don’t deride real women’s-rights advocates. In fact, real women of valor pursue justice and judge with righteousness. Real women of valor also plead for the causes of the poor and the needy—which many women even in the West were before the women’s-rights movement occurred.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-41533717705448893512023-11-23T01:16:00.003-05:002023-11-24T01:16:00.444-05:00Thankful For Vindication By יהוה? Let Me Explain Why<p> One thing for which I’m thankful this year: יהוה vindicates in His own time, and I don’t have to defend the people whom were giving me drek when they need someone to defend them. They might get to acutely feel the effects of having driven away people whom would have otherwise spoken up for them when other people were given them drek. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few specific incidents come to mind, with one incident being that someone who frequently wrote k’tav hara against me—a public figure within the genealogy realm—has gotten her Sefardi Jewish heritage questioned (and in quite the passive-aggressive way, too). I don’t know whether she knows about it, and I don’t care to bring it to her attention either way. I thought about speaking up for her, even though she treated me and others similarly, though I just let it go—if she can write k’tav hara, she can read it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I hope that if she ever reads the allegations against her, she feels at least similarly to how I and others felt when she would mistreat us—especially when she encouraged others to gang up on us. </p><p><br /></p><p>PS In case anyone is curious to know who she is, Google “Sephardic Jews in Poland?” </p><p><br /></p><p>The allegations are unfair, wild, and not unlike what she has written about others and me.</p><p>Update: screenshot and quote in case the k’tav hara against the genealogist gets deleted after all (My problem can be that I’m too nice even regarding people whom treat me like drek, and I ended up rebuking the person in question about his allegation once he recently used a different forum to try to gaslight me into thinking he did not know what Jewish DNA is): </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjykAGcRAo93zhz3s4tMXNEW7Ey-on_xg2mWQyeHClUmxd0bUv2bLvCITrulhYzukB6Wkpmi1UwUo9WGNJh6A2UmgR9Wihw_tCZHHg42sfeWZyuVV8TVPAdgYbbpsZacUbGl0snpnu7_Ani_K_ET41h7kiu7J4vkPKoXSP9jbE0nYPZIPRb9WGIktl9w/s2208/IMG_7189.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjykAGcRAo93zhz3s4tMXNEW7Ey-on_xg2mWQyeHClUmxd0bUv2bLvCITrulhYzukB6Wkpmi1UwUo9WGNJh6A2UmgR9Wihw_tCZHHg42sfeWZyuVV8TVPAdgYbbpsZacUbGl0snpnu7_Ani_K_ET41h7kiu7J4vkPKoXSP9jbE0nYPZIPRb9WGIktl9w/w360-h640/IMG_7189.png" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>“<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Generally, the simplest explanation is best. An Ashkenazi genealogist with a large platform claims that their TALALAY ancestors from Mogilev, Belarus, adopted the surname in the 19th Century not from local Slavs called TALALAY but from a similarly named family in 14th Century Catalonia. Allegedly the family crossed Europe from one end to the other, secretly remembering (or misremembering) the surname for 500 years. There is no evidence to support the claim. There is no evidence of equivalent family histories. Anyone is free to mythologise their ancestors like this, but it is not genealogy. Is it more likely a surname was adopted locally or from someone generations and a continent away?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em;">“I think such fantasies contain a belief that Sephardic ancestry is somehow superior to Ashkenazi. It seems to me that the story of how a family reached eastern Europe from the Rhineland, survived the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the horrendous history thereafter, is in every way equally deserving of serious study.”</p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-523149871088471522023-11-16T02:38:00.001-05:002023-11-16T02:38:58.684-05:00Commentary: What Should Humble The Arabs and Us Jews Alike<p>Ishmael was an in-law father of his nephew Esau, and Esau was the twin brother of Jacob. Esau’s and Jacob’s common grandparent with Ishmael’s children (including Esau’s wife Machalat) was Abraham, whose brother Nahor married his niece (Haran’s daughter) Milcah (whom was the mother of Rebecca’s father, Bethuel). Abraham, meanwhile, married his (and Haran’s and Terah’s) sister Sarah.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, think about this: Isaac and Rebecca were primarily once-removed first cousins, and Isaac was also a nephew to his father (Abraham) and to his mother (Sarah). He was a double nephew to Nahor and Haran, and an in-law nephew to his first cousin Milcah. He also was in-law first cousin to his uncle Nahor, and a direct and once-removed first cousin to Bethuel (which also made him a second cousin to Rebecca). </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that this made both Isaac and Rebecca twice-removed first cousins to Jacob and Esau…</p><p><br /></p><p>And I think that ought to humble us Jews and the Arabs a little more. We all are literally descended from a sibling couple (as Abraham and Sarah were children of Terah through different mothers), an avuncular (uncle-niece) couple, a multiethnic couple (It can be assumed that Rebecca’s unnamed mother was Aramean or Syrian, as Bethuel was Hebrew and Numbers describes Jacob as “‘a wandering Aramean’”), and a couple whom were once-removed cousins whom were related in other ways.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-67839459661506599912023-11-12T13:42:00.007-05:002023-11-12T13:42:59.806-05:00A Quick-Enough Update: New Book, My Purpose In Writing, Etc.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7TcWrbHIJNY" width="320" youtube-src-id="7TcWrbHIJNY"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>TL:DW: I will never aggressively promote my books. Nonetheless, I ask others to at least consider them. PS See <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/nicoleczarnecki">https://www.amazon.com/author/nicoleczarnecki</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-44644139182929018442023-11-01T11:36:00.001-04:002023-11-01T11:36:29.877-04:00#WoofWednesday: some pictures from the behind-the-scenes belated Halloween photoshoot<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNQF-RcqxhYtD2q0fnZgA1DXHWbFRFaycPI6GUSRj6IIWxu1GOYdeSJao11bQkM7vXxsyZS2DqkQRanekOwRXIypnkeLMeQZjpE8UjbyaP2Gq3yX2bj6AUf3oeRhxlcQJjsm35i31NNLWtqMiQj7-gzFUjQy_WnGw0hDYQMK-WHjkcpBFQCLU6L7kiYI/s4032/IMG_6988.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNQF-RcqxhYtD2q0fnZgA1DXHWbFRFaycPI6GUSRj6IIWxu1GOYdeSJao11bQkM7vXxsyZS2DqkQRanekOwRXIypnkeLMeQZjpE8UjbyaP2Gq3yX2bj6AUf3oeRhxlcQJjsm35i31NNLWtqMiQj7-gzFUjQy_WnGw0hDYQMK-WHjkcpBFQCLU6L7kiYI/s320/IMG_6988.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-41448766460792223512023-10-31T13:26:00.000-04:002023-10-31T13:26:26.842-04:00Commentary: The Real Reformation Day (Partly Originally A Twitter Thread)<p> The real Reformation Day is February 19. February 19, 1377 was the day that John Wycliffe (ז״ל) was first officially persecuted by the state. October 31, 1517, by contrast, was the day that Martin Luther (ימ״ש) made a mockery of the martyrdoms of Wycliffe (whom persecution eventually fatally wore down) and Jan Hus (ז״ל, and whom would be directly martyred at the hands of a Germanic state). This mockery would culminate in an Antisemitic pamphlet through which Luther would incite violence from subsequent pogroms in Germanic states (including the pogroms during the German part of the Holocaust) to the violence that necessitated Israel’s self-defensive Simchat Torah War. After all, Luther “doubly hated God” once he read Scripture and was not willing to die for his professed faith. </p><p>Luther (ימ״ש) (and Calvin, ימ״ש) also eventually moved to turn the Germanic states (and the city of Geneva) into “Christian” (Pseudo-Christian) theocracies (and their “theo” was not יהוה). He was therefore (along with Calvin) one of the first “Christian” (Pseudo-Christian) nationalists in modern history. Real reformers like Wycliffe and Hus (ז״ל וה״י״ד) would not be again until people like Tyndale and Lopez (ז״ל וה״י״ד, and the latter of whom was a Jewish Christian of converso birth). </p><p>Many who walk in the path of Luther (ימ״ש) (and Calvin, ימ״ש) therefore fail to realize that Luther (along with Calvin) was among the “Reformer” wolves in sheep’s clothing whom were well versed enough in Scripture to deceive even the elect about what they were. Others who walk in the Lutheran (and Calvinist) path fully realize what the Pseudo Reformers were and even aspire to be elect-deceiving wolves (Among those wolves are Eric Conn and Doug Wilson). Whether simply misguidedly or full maliciously, then, they might as well be celebrating Samhain if they’re going to celebrate October 31st as Reformation Day.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-54309796988229551192023-10-30T14:43:00.000-04:002023-10-30T14:43:03.082-04:00An Unpopular Observation (Partly Originally A Comment On YouTube)<p> As unpopular as observing the following is, I am observing that Matthew Perry will ultimately have the legacy of having been an actor whom starred in the show that promoted licentiousness as comedic. At the end of the day, he really did not do anything to help others. In fact, he even wished death on Keanu Reeves and bragged about his adulterous relationship with Valerie Bertinelli. </p><p>Who does wishing death on anyone and bragging about adultery help—especially when the adultery was committed with the spouse of a fellow person whom was in the throes of drug addiction? This is not to mention that even the rehab center which he formed from his residence shut down in 2015. Who did shutting down such a rehab center help, and who did having such a residence in the first place help? After all, Matthew Perry wasn’t a woman with a spikenard-and-alabaster jar whom was anointing Jesus’ head.</p><p>When God gives you a platform such as Matthew Perry had, you’re supposed to use the platform to serve God and really help others instead of use the platform for your own gain and cloak your hedonism in a thin veneer of fearing God. Matthew Perry used his platform for the promotion of licentiousness and hedonistic self enrichment. As a result, he leaves behind (among the people whom could have benefited from help like his and did not receive it) multiple unhelped fellow people with addictions. He also leaves behind $1M from each episode of “F.R.I.E.N.D.S.”, and every single one of those $236M testifies against him how it was not used to really help anybody.</p><p>What is gaining the world, especially at the expense of others, to lose your soul and having others ask of you, “Who needs enemies with friends like him?”</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-52481310901848003302023-10-19T22:29:00.006-04:002023-10-19T22:29:58.340-04:00More of “When Are They Anusim?”<p> (Originally a Facebook comment. More detail here.)</p><p>If you suspect that something in your family indicates Crypto-Jewish heritage, it definitely could. My father’s family often did similarly when they became or had been Crypto Jews—if they, e.g., could avoid the predominant denomination (Russian Orthodox in Poland) and even put off any rites, they did. For example, one matriarch (“Katarzyna” Danilowicz Czerniecki) was not forcibly baptized until she was five, and one patriarch (Mihály Trudnyak né Nagy) in Hungary was “illegitmate” because his parents refused to marry in a Roman Catholic church—both of his siblings (Zsuzana and Mária) were “illegitimate” as well, and they lived in a different house when each sibling was born. They wanted to avoid an Austrohungarian inquisition.</p><p><br /></p><p> They also denomination switched like it didn’t matter to them when they did because it didn’t matter to them—one, as I recall, Morgiewicz or Margiewicz even became a Congregationalist! It held no religious significance for them (and if you think that I’m going to be able to link to every record at every moment, you’re—to put it politely—being meshugah on purpose. I have other things to do, including to manage my ADD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, as well as to help fellow Jew avoid equivalents of inquisitions by other fellow Jews. Anyway, about the denomination switching…)</p><p>Even if it had a religious significance, the ethnic Jewishness was kept in the family—unless gentile cousins spoke about it when they weren’t supposed to do so (which two Shackel/Staskiel cousins of one of my Andrulewicz cousins did, and a note about him being a “JEW” was made in the payroll sections of his employment cards twice. One card reads “44-JEW” and “44-JEW-1”). </p><p><br /></p><p>It also came out in small hints left by family—e.g., to this day, I don’t think that many family members appreciate that my great-grandaunt Helen Rusnak Ropel left the wonderful gift of giving her father‘s Hebrew name when she died. As it clicked when I realized what she left for the burial records to hold, my paternal grandmother’s maternal grandfather used “Stef” or “Stephen” (or variants thereof) to calque for “Yosef”. I thought that there was a mistake at first. Then I realized how brave Great-Grandaunt Helen was. Even though she couldn’t give it in life, she was going to make sure that she could give her fathers name as ”Joseph Rusnak” before she left this life. </p><p>(By the way, on the secular calendar, she died on my 18th birthday. I was able to confirm that I’m Jewish on another side in the July of that year.). </p><p>Be prepared, by the way, to have family treat you horribly over finding out that you’re Jewish.  I actually, e.g., fell out with one maternal cousin because he or she was not happy that I found out that we are mixed-blooded Jews on one particular side (i.e., Lehr-Pundt, and I will give no more hints as to what cousin. I have multiple cousins on that side across generations, and I don’t want to dox anybody or give any other attention—whether positive or negative—to anyone whom hates me that much. If he or she happens to read this—and he or she knows who he or she is—he or she can deal with the fact that I was able to confirm with a Lehr cousin that we are Jewish. Of course, ironically, that cousin of mine fell out with me over political differences—and differences which are not good for the Jewish people as a whole, might I add).</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-68322432393065485352023-10-10T12:41:00.001-04:002023-10-10T12:41:02.405-04:00Excerpt From My Upcoming Book: “Dafne Rochle”<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">“I don’t care what name you use, and I don’t need an explanation about your other name. Just take a number, and have a seat.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Having previously had a family tree made by an intimidator did not help, and having seen correspondence published by one archivist (and a possible relative at that) on Facebook also did not help. Getting to this archive, then, maybe also did not help. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Damned if she did, and damned if she did not—not finding a way to this archive, then, also did not help. Over 15 overall-wasted years did not help, despite what information and help Dafna had finding it came about for her. She could not commit suicide, though, even notwithstanding that doing so would help her go to the Source of all information (Yehovah Himself). She also could not continue to live being in her way and apparently everyone else’s way, and she yet could not give Hamas a victory by committing suicide—even though she would be away from Hamas and everyone else whom hated her, and she would (if suicide did not send her permanently to Gehenna) be with Yehovah (and the indignity of being forever consigned to the same place as Antisemites would be too much to bear—especially because Antisemitism caused her suicidal ideation to flare up).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Damned if she did, and damned if she did not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">“*Loud chime.* C122007, sign in to the archives. C122007, sign in to the archives. “*Loud chime.* C122007, sign in to the archives. C122007, sign in to the archives.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Damned if she did, and damned if she did not. Dafna signed in to the archives—and whether “C122007, sign in to the archives” was yet another sign of ultimate failure was up to Yehovah. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">“Name: Dafna Maratovah Zernetzky—alias ‘Dafne Rochle’. Number: C122007. <span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">✔️</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I agree to the laws, rules, and regulations as pertain to this archival building and the archival information held therein (See ‘Laws, Rules, and Regulations Pertaining To This Archive’) on the next page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“Signature in English and Hebrew or Yiddish (Print signature valid, although cursive preferred): Dafna Zernetzky; </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">דפנה צרנצכי. </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Date (English and Hebrew—do not use the Karaite date unless you have received an exemption from using the Hebrew date): 25 Tishri 5784.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Dafna knew that the real Hebrew (“Karaite”) date was 24 Tishri 5783—and at this rate, days and dates did not make a difference to her except for the fact that Yehovah gave the <i>mitzvah </i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">to begin the year in Aviv-Nisan. The day on which Yehovah would give her success without failure (that is, long-term success that would not ultimately turn into failure) would be the first day in a long time that made a difference to her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-4726854740281049662023-10-08T18:39:00.004-04:002023-10-08T18:39:41.789-04:00A (Sort-Of-)Quick Update, Etc.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R0ILCnvh9DE" width="320" youtube-src-id="R0ILCnvh9DE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The TL:DW is in YouTube description.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-54090470183368505332023-10-07T21:03:00.002-04:002023-10-07T21:03:38.482-04:00Introduction To My Upcoming Book, “Trying To Recover” (Draft)<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">I’ve entertained the idea that Rochla Andrelewitz may’ve indeed posed as her mother or her sister, with her mother (not “father”) or her grandfather (or perhaps her grandmother) being “Gitla”. My great-great-grandmother Katherine Gaydos née Ushinsky certainly posed as her mother “Maria Uscianski” (although she also had a sister named “Maria”), and she claimed that her uncle was her “brother”.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Because of what </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">she did</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">, I was thrown off and to thinking th</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">at the Haslinskzys were maternal (“half”) siblings of hers. A Krempaszky cousin corrected me (and, from what I understand, I am related to her in more ways than one—as my father’s father was a Krempaszky, and one of his cousins married a Haslinskzy. Either way, we Crypto Jews from what is now Slovakia, Hungary, etc. stuck together as much as our ancestors in Spain, Portugal, etc. stuck together.).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">In turn<span lang="X-NONE">, I had the opportunity to correct her when she tried to say that my great</span>-<span lang="X-NONE">grandfather Michael</span> Gaydos meant that we were Ruthenian. <span lang="X-NONE">As I explained to her in a</span> message in some form<span lang="X-NONE">, </span>Great-Gramddad Gaydos knew exactly what he was saying when he said, “We’re Russian!” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Great-Granddad was formally uneducated (because he had to drop out of school after eighth grade), not unintelligent in any way. It therefore didn’t work when my dad dismissed him by saying that he said that only because he worked for the Russian Orthodox Church (It was a Slovakian Catholic one), and it didn’t work to deny that he knew the difference between “Russian“ and “Ruthenian”. (My cousin seems to have taken the hint, given that she eventually <span lang="X-NONE">made her family tree public again</span>). <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="X-NONE">I have written this elsewhere</span>, and wish that I could simply copy and paste what I have already written. I type with one finger on each hand, anyway,<span lang="X-NONE"> and I try to make sure what I say is consistent</span>regardless of whether I write (or type) it or speak it<span lang="X-NONE">. This is because I am </span>trying to recover an identity that almost went to the grave with past generations (My paternal grandmother is my last surviving grandparent, and my father is still not happy that I found out about our Jewishness). Had someone in the current generations neither knew nor cared to recover it, it would have more than likely been irrecoverable in future generations<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">As you may have guessed, the protagonist of “Trying to Recover” has autobiographical elements and other elements that are based on the fact that I’m still trying to recover what I began to recover in 2008 (I began doing genealogy research in the prior year, and I figured out that I’m Jewish just months before I was able to confirm it.). I might take at least another 15 years to fully recover it—and that includes that I’m still working to recover what past generations almost took to the grave about Rochla Andrelewitz. Unlike my Krempaszky cousin whom came forward about Great-Great-Grandma Gaydos (although I first reached out to her), anyone who knows what happened to Rochla or which Andrelewitz “Rochla” really was has yet to come forward (and I do credit my Krempaszky cousin for replying when I reached out and conceding that Great-Granddad Gaydos identified with Jews in the Soviet Union, albe cryptically, for a reason).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; direction: rtl; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="HE">נצחיה בת אביגדור הלוי צהרנצקי </span><span dir="LTR"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; direction: rtl; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR">(Nicole Czarnecki)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">PS Even though it is actually the eighth day of Sukkot on the Biblical calendar today, Hamas (<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ימ״ש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) and their supporters (<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ימ״ש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) still tried to take away the <i>simchat Torah. </i><span lang="ES">S</span>abras and olim were thankfully able to fight back, although the pain that Hamas (<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ימ״ש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) and their supporters (<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ימ״ש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) caused will have ripple effects for at least a generation—even among Jews like me whom are not recognized as Jewish by fellow Jews.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">PPS I prefer to render my surname as “<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">צהרנצקי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>”, as it’s closer to the “Zernetzky”/“Chernetski”/“Czerniecki” that we were forced to take (and corrupted to “Czarniecki” and variants thereof to conceal our Jewish heritage).<o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-81511151226474152132023-10-06T18:59:00.003-04:002023-10-06T18:59:29.824-04:00Commentary: The 60-Year-Old Quinceañera (Originally Facebook Comments and Replies)<p> A 60-year-old <i><a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/60-year-celebrates-birthday-tiana-themed-quinceanera-103573340?fbclid=IwAR3hYgmEhMUIm5ldm5ZNkGtHpbvsBHHn9UGFCSZIPqb-KFh4xTftoER2OvY_aem_AVntp4pS02uzuFwGtZoiNfsGGsLP49-YSeYNSnt_pfluvLAejkvaaBEheDKG3AwaGM0">madre y abuela</a> </i>officially celebrated having come of age three <i>quinces </i>of milestones later—<i>which her día de su quinceañera</i> and the adult-quinceañera celebration being the bookends to the three <i>quinces</i>. Before anyone makes fun of her, I offer a little cultural context for people whom might not otherwise get it: a quinceañera celebration in traditional Hispanic culture is equivalent to a bar- or bat-mitzvah celebration in traditional Jewish culture. In Aztec culture, it did (and it marked when a girl was considered of marriageable age by the Aztecs). When the Spanish colonized Mexico, quinceañeras quickly blended into the Aztec-Catholic syncretism. Eventually, the celebration of quinceañeras (and <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quinceaneras-aren-t-just-for-girls-869448802.html#:~:text=The%20Quincea%C3%B1ero%20has%20the%20same,the%20boy's%20journey%20into%20adulthood">quinceañeros</a>) became a pan-Hispanic celebration. By the way, boys subsequently celebrated being quinceañeros in the same way that Judith Eisenstein (née Kaplan) celebrated the first known bat-mitzvah ceremony. (I was actually surprised to find out that celebrations of quinceañeros are actually as ancient of a tradition as celebrations of quinceañeras, as they are not emphasized enough in formal education or other sources re quinceañeras. One source actually talks about 15-year-old Aztec boys being considered quinceañeros and therefore old enough to fight for the Méxica people). </p><p>To make fun of a woman for having an adult quinceañera celebration (or as Art Ocasio on Facebook put it, a “four times the fun” quinceañera celebration at 60) is culturally insensitive at best. Besides, in Jewish culture, there’s the equivalent 13 + 70 = 83 for second b’nai-mitzvah celebrations. It usually is done for Holocaust survivors (many of whom are still denied recognition, having been persecuted by the Soviet and Arabized governments instead of the Germans and their accomplices). </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-73885647570878291592023-09-27T14:29:00.000-04:002023-09-27T14:29:04.041-04:00Commentary: LGB+ People Aren’t the Modern-Day “Sodomites”. So, Who Are—And How Do We Respond Like (And Also Unlike) Lot?<p> When I saw the following thread and the comments, who the modern-day Sodomites and Gommorahns are clicked. LGB+ people (except for LGB+ people who support transgenderism) don’t want to take over bathrooms and locker rooms, sports and entertainment, and other things that women had to fight to gain for women. Transgenderists want to take from women what women—including LBA+ women—had to fight to gain. Besides, many LGB+ people (despite the thorns in the flesh that are homosexuality and bisexuality) either remain celibate or enter “lavender marriages” for the sake of God; and most LGB+ people absolutely resent being lumped in with transgender-identifying people—especially as transgenderists prey on people with gender dysmorphia and other people whom could be deceived into believing that one can change one’s gender.</p><p>In short, as I responded to the following thread—the first part which is screenshot which my reply: </p><p></p><blockquote>“The misogynists are modern-day Sodomites & Gomorrahns, and worse. They want a completely-womanless society (as Lot’s daughters & wife were implied as the only women in Sodom), and they attack men whom defend women (Lot unfortunately was not willing to defend his daughters).”</blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpKnDX4Q9pvk9e4RC5zr_Gn4XutCrTC0sGzs_TLLCL9vaBWCQnxkRTjyM-aDRNfavKMTjeXmttMov03TPnD4Bp_jR4pHI7wN3TCq8SbSE-syBxD6XawXABheAH7XWhJxzwEh_O0EYiBeqT7EwGsYXz-kMCAQzdLMM75uV3T3bxICysPpMgvoBi4VxcIE/s1688/IMG_6771.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpKnDX4Q9pvk9e4RC5zr_Gn4XutCrTC0sGzs_TLLCL9vaBWCQnxkRTjyM-aDRNfavKMTjeXmttMov03TPnD4Bp_jR4pHI7wN3TCq8SbSE-syBxD6XawXABheAH7XWhJxzwEh_O0EYiBeqT7EwGsYXz-kMCAQzdLMM75uV3T3bxICysPpMgvoBi4VxcIE/s320/IMG_6771.jpeg" width="235" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Look at the relevant passage from Bereshit (Genesis, JPS 1917 translation):</p><p><span style="background-color: white;">“<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And they called unto Lot, and said unto him: 'Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.' </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.' </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And they said: 'Stand back.' And they said: 'This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs play the judge; now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.' And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"></span></p><p>Of course, we respond like Lot did by speaking out against sin and leaving God to bring about ultimate judgement. We respond unlike Lot did by not adding sin upon sin. By the way, notice that HaSefer Bereshit does not condone either what Lot did to his daughters or his daughters did to him (I also wonder if they heard of what their father considered and did what they did partly as revenge. That would make the prohibition on revenge more pertinent.).</p><p>In other words, we speak out against transgenderism and ultimately leave God to bring judgement upon transgenderists. We do not engage in <a href="https://thenicolefactor.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-tradchad-culture-quickly-is.html">“red-pill” (black-and-white pill) pushing</a>, “Christian” nationalism, or other misogyny or other bigotry. Unlike Lot, we leave God to fight fire (e.g., licentiousness and misogyny—including transgenderism) with fire (Lot’s offering of his daughters to be raped was an attempt to fight destruction with destruction, and only God can fight fire with fire and destruction with destruction). </p><p>Like Lot, we speak the truth as though it is water against fire (as—like the Sodomites and Gommorahns, and even worsely—transgenderists are intent on femicide, harm against LGB+ women and men, and harm against men whom stand up for women’s rights. </p><p>(We also do not take revenge on misogynists of any kind—and misandry is a fire-against-fire kind of revenge that only ends up hurting all women as well as the non-misogynistic men).</p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-17389710864649996972023-09-21T16:10:00.001-04:002023-09-21T16:17:07.394-04:00A Comment(ary) That Became Too Long For Instagram: Los Idiomas de Mis Padres y Madres<p> In reply to @vertigo5110: especially my Jewish family is the same way. The gentile languages that they spoke or speak include: </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>English</li><li> Irish (as the Farrells were conversos—and a certain cousin got mad when I found out!) </li><li>German</li><li>Slovakian¹</li><li>Only the Magyar that everyone in the Hungarys (including what was then Upper Hungary) was forced to speak (and the ones who are in what was and is Hungary Proper speak)</li><li>Polish (with some going as far to pretend that they were Polish and Lithuanian Catholics)</li><li>Portuguese (João Enrique Ferin de Lisboa later took “John Henry McCoy” and, as a converso, had an ugly divorce from his <i>tsores-in-di-tuches</i> wife). </li></ol><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The closet thing that João’s great-grandson (my grandfather) Francis X. Allen had to Ladino was Yiddish (which my mother has never learned or showed interest in learning). My father’s paternal grandparents, meanwhile, somehow communicated in mutually-unintelligible Polish and Slovakian (They either learned from each other or, more likely, spoke in Yiddish. Besides, two of my paternal grandfather‘s paternal uncles—Jankie and Susi—were lucky enough to have Yiddish names that they used openly as nicknames within the family.). On the flip side, the father of Dad’s paternal grandmother would have successfully hidden his Hebrew name if his daughter Helen Ropel didn’t give it away before she died <span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>הערה</sup></span>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I myself: </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>am working on learning and/or continuing to learn Hebrew, Yiddish, Esperanto, Polish, and Ukrainian (with the latter two for genealogical purposes), and <i>yo todavía estudio el idioma de español</i>. </li><li>am also working on learning Portuguese (primarily for genealogy along with Polish and Ukranian).</li><li>was additionally learning Russian to speak with a friend whom grew up under Soviet oppression. I nonetheless stopped Duolingo lessons on Russian shortly after the Russian invasion into Ukraine, and I am learning Ukrainian in solidarity with Ukraine as well as acknowledgement of how both of my paternal grandfather’s parents had roots in Ukraine<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>²<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> </li></ol><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>¹<span style="font-size: x-small;">With Mihály Trudnyak né Nagy and Anna Munková going as far as to pretend that they were born in Poland and as Polish or Slovakian Catholics. Mihály was born as an “illegitimate” Nagy to parents in Budapest with no foot in Kacwin. As for Anna Munková, she was passed off as a forcibly-baptized sister in Levoča and not Łapsze Niżne.</span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>הערה</sup>I should’ve known that he used “Stephen” and “Stef” to calque for “Yosef” or—as she gave it—“Joseph”. The misspelling “Fosco”, as in “Joseph and Julia Fosco Rusnak”, may have been a mistake. “Joseph”, as I quickly figured out, was conversely not a mistake. As far as I know, Julia Rusnak née Foczko (Fosko) rarely or never used “Fosco” in her lifetime, although she did have relatives in Romania. By contrast, Joseph “Andrew Steven”/ “Andrew Stef” Rusnak even invented a brother named “Stephen” to cover up his Jewish origins—as he and all of his siblings were born to Crypto-Jewish parents and forcibly baptized. His paternal grandparents even had to go through a dispensation in order to get married, and his grandfather was living in Austrohungarian-occupied Chiuzbaia at the time.</span></p><div><br /></div><div>²<span style="font-size: x-small;">My</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">grandfather’s father was born in Tsuman’ on the day of the Kyiv pogrom—October 23, 1904. His mother—whom was in route to visit, as I later learned, a recently-widowed cousin in Buzhanka—quickly had to turn back to Szumowo called “Shumeve”, and she had to register his birth and have him baptized there. She herself had become a Crypto Jew after the Farber-Kogan incident that occurred in Białystok only weeks before the Kyiv Pogrom, and she and Great-Granddad—as well as an unknown child—barely survived the Bialystok Pogrom and its fallout in Shumeve—and I don’t call her being raped and with a child whom noticeably goes in and out of the records as really having “survived”.</span></div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">As for the paternal family of Pop-Pop’s maternal grandfather, they were Jews and Trudnyakovs from Odesa long before they ended up as “Trudynaks” in Kežmarok and Budapest.</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461125045003454468.post-29387205707231117122023-09-19T18:09:00.001-04:002023-09-19T18:09:08.593-04:00Midyear/High Holy Days Resolutions<p> <a href="https://thenicolefactor.blogspot.com/2018/09/commentary-why-does-yehovah-give-us-yom.html">During the High Holy Days</a> of 5783, I resolve to:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Do more of what I asked others to do (e.g., pursue<i> tzedek v’shalom</i>) in my commentary for <a href="https://thenicolefactor.blogspot.com/2023/09/commentary-reflections-on-yom-teruah.html">Yom Teru’ah</a>. </li><li>Do more anaerobic exercise—even if doing so can be a little difficult due to an albe-friendly puppy named Reilly exercising her apparent right to kiss the inside of “Momma”’s nostrils (which can hurt and make breathing through her nose difficult)!</li><li>Be a better “Momma” to Reilly—including by doing a better job with making holiday and other special-occasion cards with Reilly.</li><li>Write more.</li><li>Respond to messages, emails, etc. more, and be more socially interactive in general.</li><li>Manage my ADD, OCD/Anxiety, Depression, and Anxiety better.</li><li>Read both the parashot and the haftarot more (as I read the <i>parashot</i> and <i>haftarot</i> only once a week), and read Tanakh and <a href="https://thenicolefactor.blogspot.com/2015/12/brit-chadashah-doesnt-necessarily-work.html">Yigdal (the B’rit Chadashah)</a> in general more.</li><li>Take abuse, intentional and unintentional, less personally. For me, abuse is ultimately about the abuser.</li><li>Be more forgiving and less prone to holding grudges, and be more trusting of יהוה in general (including in that יהוה will ultimately bring tzedek, even if not in this lifetime and in this age).</li><li>Walk more in the ways of יהוה, and not let myself be affected by what people whom don’t fear or dread (even if they claim to fear and dread) יהוה think.</li></ol><p></p><p>PS If you’re interested in letting me know about your own midyear and High Holy Days resolutions, please let me. Also keep in mind that I moderate comments on my blog, and that no spam or <i>k’tav hara </i>becomes a part of the comments section. In fact, both spam and k’tav hara get deleted or even reported to Google. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">©2013-2019. Nicole Czarnecki ("Nickidewbear", "The Nicole Factor"). All rights reserved. Posts may be reused and/or linked to per the Fair Use Doctrine of United States Copyright Law (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html.).</div>Nickidewbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.com0