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For some reason (which you may share?) I felt impelled to watch once again #TomLehrer on #NationalBrotherhoodWeek.
Does it still exist in the US?
Perhaps we should all adopt it...
youtu.be/zCluI87gQ3I?...

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - When You Are Old and Gray - with intro

Tom Lehrer on public domain (2020):https://tomlehrersongs.com/http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer-Collection-CD-DVD/dp/B0039TD73G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid...

youtu.be

May 6, 2024 at 10:13 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #February19-28 #NationalBrotherhoodWeek begins.
#NCCJ #SocialJustice #AlSmith #FranklinDRoosevelt #FDR #RacialTolerance #Brotherhood #Antibigotry #Antiprejudice #UniversalBrotherhood #BrotherhoodOfMan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAS...

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - with intro

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

www.youtube.com

February 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM

@opensiddur@aleph.land

@opensiddur.bsky.social

Prayer for Brotherhood, by Stephen Vincent Benét on United Nations Flag Day (14 June 1942) opensiddur.org?p=34779 #interconnectedness #antifascism #nationalbrotherhoodweek

Prayer for Brotherhood, by Stephen Vincent Benét on United Nations Flag Day (14 June 1942) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . .

opensiddur.org

February 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM

@opensiddur@aleph.land

@opensiddur.bsky.social

Interdependence, a prayer by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (19 November 1944) opensiddur.org?p=46341 #nationalbrotherhoodweek #interdependence #interconnectedness #antifascist

Interdependence, a prayer by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (19 November 1944) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

"Interdependence" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was originally written for the 50th Anniversary of the World's Young Women's Christian Association, 19 November 1944. The prayer was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 55. It's likely that Rabbi Bial first read the prayer in an anthology of prayer by Stephen Hole Fritchman, Prayers of the Free Spirit (1945), p. 38. . . .

opensiddur.org

February 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Emma Goldman ✊ ARE YOU OBEYING DER FUERER IN CHIEF?

@emmagoldman69.bsky.social

EVERY TIME I learn something new about this talented genius I can smile again. Then I remember he just died. But he WILL LIVE ON…
SO HARD! #NationalBrotherhoodWeek
#RIPTomLehrer 💔 🎶🎶🎶🎶=❤️‍🩹

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Jul 28

RIP Tom Lehrer

from Wikipedia: In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it". Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"[45][79]

July 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Emma Goldman ✊ ARE YOU OBEYING DER FUERER IN CHIEF?

@emmagoldman69.bsky.social

FINALLY: today's smile.
#NationalBrotherhoodWeek

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Did Tom Lehrer invent the jello shot? In April 2000, he confirmed the tale in a SF Weekly profile:

[Also: in addition to being Stephen Sondheim's summer camp counselor, the profile notes that he once shared an office with young lawyer Michael Dukakis.]
web.archive.org/web/20211025...

A rumor has circulated for years that in the 1950s, Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot, a cup of flavored gelatin infused with booze, which has now become a frat-house favorite. He throws his head back and laughs.

"That's amazing how that got around! What happened was, I was in the Army for two years, and we were having a Christmas party on the naval base where I was working in Washington, D.C. The rules said no alcoholic beverages were allowed. And we wanted to have a little party, so this friend and I spent an evening experimenting with Jell-O. It wasn't a beverage," he says with a shrug.

"And we finally decided that orange Jell-O and vodka was the best. We tried gin and vodka and various flavors and stuff -- of course you can't sample too much. So we went over to her apartment and we made all these little cups and we thought I would bring them in, hoping that the Marine guard would say, 'OK, what's in there?' And we'd say, 'Jell-O.' and then he'd say, 'Oh, OK.' But no, he didn't even ask. So it worked. I recommend it. Orange Jell-O."

July 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Emma Goldman ✊ ARE YOU OBEYING DER FUERER IN CHIEF?

@emmagoldman69.bsky.social

GENIUS. #NationalBrotherhoodWeek
youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...

July 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM

AI & Tech News Daily

@aitechnews-247.bsky.social

Tom Lehrer DEAD at 97?! Genius Satirist Bows Out!

www.youtube.com/shorts/LB03q...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=/LB0...

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Tom Lehrer DEAD at 97?! Genius Satirist Bows Out!

YouTube video by Quick Global News

www.youtube.com

July 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #February19-28 #NationalBrotherhoodWeek begins.
#NCCJ #SocialJustice #AlSmith #FranklinDRoosevelt #FDR #RacialTolerance #Brotherhood #Antibigotry #Antiprejudice #UniversalBrotherhood #BrotherhoodOfMan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAn-...

Imagine (Remastered 2010)

YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic

www.youtube.com

February 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM

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