User talk:Levivich

Back home

I'm back home now (remember how I said I wouldn't be able to really edit JW stuff for a week?) and I have access to my personal library again, so I'm good whenever you're good to provide feedback. I figured I should let you know. If you're curious, I went on vacation to Victoria, BC. I've never really been on a plane or seen the ocean before so that was exciting. I had a fun time, particularly when it felt like like the universe was giving me signs... I came across an intersection of Clover Ave and Moss Street on a walk out to Clover's Point. I didn't choose the locale knowing of these potential destinations so it was a nice surprise. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on your first flight and seeing the ocean! I hope you snapped a pic of the intersection sign. They have yet to rename any streets after me ☹️ Nevertheless, I'll prob get back to JW this weekend or Monday. Levivich (talk) 04:22, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! We all do what we can when we can. And I did get a photo of that intersection with me by the signs because how could I not? :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disgrace!

With regard to Special:Diff/1220885464, I think at this point the most universal Jewish experience on all sides of the conflict is being called a disgrace to Jews by another Jew. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 14:42, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sad but true. Levivich (talk) 15:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a special case, unique to the experience of being Jewish? I doubt it. An erstwhile Japanese girlfriend was stopped at the airport after some years abroad and roundly upbraided for what a pair of customs officers considered her unJapanese behaviour (her speech patterns lacked the appropriate feminine style of humility before superiors/officials/men), and one often read novels et., where people were taken to task to living up to some abstract concept of Japaneseness. The point is, to what degree can anyone in a community defined ethnially, religiously, culturally or all three make claims about who 'we' are, and rail at others in the community who fail to live up to this perceived standard? (Self-hating Jew, in this case). There are powerful historic grounds for ethnic solidarity, whatever the circumstances among Jews, and the Irish to name but a few, but is takes little to have this ommunitarian defensiveness slip into a 'my ethnoc right or wrong' , thereby transforming fellowship into a kind of emotional coercion. Sorry for the intrusion, but.Nishidani (talk) 22:34, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]