Tag: Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology
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Some Favourite Jewish Movie Recs
I’ve been having a great deal of fun watching The Pitt recently, it’s been wonderful watching a show that’s so joyful and complex not just in its Jewish characters and storylines, but also in its complex approach to ethics and philosophy within a medical workplace. I definitely understand what they mean about intending it as…
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Cold Comfort
Category: M/M, Kink: Knifeplay, Setting: 1920s, Setting: New Jersey, Setting: USA, Theme: Antisemitism, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Crime & Criminals, Theme: Crises of Faith & Belief, Theme: Faith & Religion, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Organised Crime & The Mob, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: Magic BeholdenQueer fiction. A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels. 14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham,…
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Yentl: A Trans Man Studying Talmud is Distracted by Gay Thoughts
Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Any of us would be distracted from study by Mandy Patinkin. Via IMDb. It’s a sad thing, hearing cisgender people talk about Yentl — especially the short story — and think they understand it, that they’re getting everything from it, while at the same time, they can’t…