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80 rabbins et étudiants rabbiniques de toutes obédiences et affiliations politiques ont publié une déclaration vidéo appelant la communauté juive dans son ensemble et les représentants américains à appeler dès maintenant à un cessez-le-feu à Gaza. via @CJNVtweets
▻https://twitter.com/CJNVtweets/status/1717944046713450742

STATEMENT

We are U.S. Rabbis and Rabbinical students and at this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice.

Those of us grieving both Israeli and Palestinian loved ones this week know there is no military solution to our horror.

We know that many Jews in our communities are feeling confused, afraid, and despairing over the events of these past two weeks.

Together with Jews in Israel, we are in deep grief over the 1400 Israelis who were brutally killed by Hamas.

We are terrified for the over 200 Israeli hostages - adults, children and infants - who remain in captivity.

However, the U.S. and Israeli governments are using our grief to justify genocidal violence directed against the people of Gaza.

As we speak, over 6000 Palestinains have been killed,including 2,400 children

According to Defense for Children International, the Israeli military is killing one child in Gaza every 15 minutes.

Scores of people are still buried in the rubble with no one able to rescue them.

Israel has cut off all access to electricity, water and medicine - and now Gaza is on the verge of running out of fuel. Threatening the lives of 2.2 million people.

In the face of this terrifying, violence, we say no!

We uplift the Torah value of v’chai bahem– live by Torah. Torah should be a source of life, not death.

As Jews, as Rabbis, as human beings we are pleading with our communities to rise through our despair and our grief to save lives.

As Americans, we call upon our leaders to stop supporting and enabling this nightmare

We call upon all Americans to call their representatives and demand that they act immediately

Our tradition is an Eytz Hayim - a tree of life. Life, not death, are its fruits.

We ask you to join our calls for a complete ceasefire now.

Ceasefire means no more bombing

Ceasefire means no ground war

Ceasefire means all Israeli hostages must be released now.

Ceasefire means immediate engagement by the international community toward a just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine.

Ceasefire is the only way to prevent more death and destruction.

All human beings are made b’tzelem Elohim - in the image of the Divine. All human life is sacred and precious.

Too many precious lives are being killed.

The voice of the Jewish people, now more than ever, must be clear and united:

Never Again is Now.

Never again for anyone.

Not in our names.

Ceasefire now!

#cessez_le_feu #Israël #Gaza

Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73 - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/arts/music/tom-verlaine-dead.html

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He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.

Tom Verlaine, a thin man wearing dark clothes, onstage playing an electric guitar while staring intensely at the instrument.
The guitarist Tom Verlaine performing at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan in 2006.Credit...Rahav Segev for The New York Times
Tom Verlaine, a thin man wearing dark clothes, onstage playing an electric guitar while staring intensely at the instrument.

By Peter Keepnews
Jan. 28, 2023

Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorizable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre — died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73.

His death was announced by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Mr. Verlaine’s fellow musician Patti Smith. She did not specify a cause, saying that he died “after a brief illness.”

Although Television achieved only minor commercial success and broke up after recording two albums, Mr. Verlaine — who went on to record several solo albums and reunited with the band periodically — had a lasting influence, especially on his fellow guitarists.

“Tom Verlaine is the guitarist to mention these days if you’re a young rocker with some pretense to intelligence and originality,” Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote in 1987.

Reviewing a performance by Mr. Verlaine’s band at the Bowery Ballroom in 2006, the Times critic Jon Pareles wrote: “Mr. Verlaine’s guitar leads didn’t flaunt virtuosity by streaking above the beat. They tugged against it instead: lagging deliberately behind, clawing chords on offbeats, trickling around it or rising in craggy, determined lines.”

The layered, often ethereal sound that Mr. Verlaine and the other members of Television developed was a far cry from the stripped-down approach of the Ramones and other leading lights of the punk scene. But that scene — which also included bands as disparate as Blondie and Talking Heads — was never as one-dimensional as it was often portrayed.

Mr. Verlaine, who was also the band’s lead singer and did most of the songwriting, studied piano and saxophone as a child, and his music had roots in everything from the free jazz of John Coltrane to the Rolling Stones’ hard-driving “19th Nervous Breakdown.” His often impressionistic lyrics reflected the influence of poets like Paul Verlaine, from whom the man born Thomas Miller took his stage name.

Television had its roots in Mr. Verlaine’s friendship with Richard Meyers, later known as Richard Hell, when they were both students at a boarding school in Delaware. After they moved to New York, they formed a band, the Neon Boys, which in 1973 evolved into Television, with Richard Lloyd on second guitar, Mr. Hell on bass and Billy Ficca on drums. Mr. Hell was replaced by Fred Smith in 1975 and later went on to form the punk band Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

After building a devoted following in New York, Television was signed by Elektra Records and in 1977 released the album “Marquee Moon.” Sales were disappointing, but critical acclaim was nearly unanimous, and “Marquee Moon” now regularly shows up on lists of the greatest rock albums.

#Tom_Verlaine #Television #Marquee_Moon

Mean Streets en libre accès jusqu’au au 31 mars (parce que quand même)
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/028121-000-A/mean-streets

Réalisé avec un petit budget et tourné caméra à l’épaule, ce film nous offre la première collaboration du cinéaste avec le tout jeune Robert De Niro. Celui-ci étoffe son rôle de gamin orgueilleux et récalcitrant par un jeu brillant qui crève l’écran. Maître de la provocation irrévérencieuse et du sourire en coin, il donne la réplique à un Harvey Keitel remarquable en jeune poulain de la #mafia.

#film #cinéma #Scorcese #Robert_De_Niro #Harvey_Keitel #masculinité_toxique #rock #playlist #N-Y