Gay Jewish–New Yorker and libertarian‐leaning classic liberal with some center‐right conservative views who is publishing on ▴ gay and ursine topics ▴ the public domain and freely licensed creative works ▴ Near Eastern, Central Asian, North African and Caucasian topics ▴ linguistics, particularly as relevant to the above populations ▴ Humanist, naturalist or Bright topics ▴ history, understood to include my own personal experiences in and occasionally out of my beloved native city.
24 June 2015
19 June 2014
Sunday at the Ethical Humanist Society of Queens, we were joined by Richard L. Koral from the American Ethical Union and the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester who also joined us for our monthly luncheon thereafter at Jax Inn.
Six Exotic Jews group members also gathered Sunday for an “Exoticon” in Upper Manhattan. We met at General Grant National Memorial where Ariel emphasized Grant’s racism by reading aloud General Order Nº. 11 and then spitting on the site. (See the video.) A British tourist inquired about it, and after explaining, a number of us eventually got onto the topic of libertarianism (and their implying that we were a group of libertarians annoyed me because we are not, but rather a Jewish cultural group). There was also a large group of adolescents there rehearsing a dance routine.
After briefly visiting Sakura Park, those of us who were hungry got food from a local supermarket and we sat, talked and ate on public benches. Then we went to Riverside Park which was really gorgeous and we located what we believe is the Freedom Tunnel. Then came rehydration and dessert at other local venues and more talking and sitting on benches. Afterwards, we rode the subway together to Times Square and then little by little separated from one another as our paths diverged.
While waiting with one of them in Jackson Heights for his bus, our topics turned unsurprisingly towards linguistics (Arabic ligatures, and why the letter jim is a moon letter even though it’s usually coronal).
23 April 2014
Madison Square Park, April 2012
My current cover photo/header photo on the social networking sites.
📌 Madison Square Park after the Persian Parade, East 26 Street between Fifth and Madison avenues, Gramercy/Flatiron District, 15 April 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial 4.0 International license.)
📷 DSCN1619.JPG, taken with Nikon Coolpix S220.
05 January 2013
Winter Walk Riverside Park
📷 My cover photo on the social networking sites: Dave Bledsoe, Winter Walk Riverside Park, 8 Jan. 2010, under a Creative Commons license.
(Also available on Tumblr.)
24 December 2012
The Jews Are Deliberately Polluting the Sacred Christmas Holiday!
📷 Incontrovertible proof that the Jews are deliberately polluting the sacred Christmas holiday with their dirty Jew symbols! Fight the war on Christmas! (🎅✡)
All five images are under Creative Commons licenses:
- Marco Repola (istolethetv), antisemitic santa, Santacon, New York City, 13 Dec. 2008.
- Phillip Merritt (intheburg), IMG_4001, Williamsburg, Va., 7 Dec. 2008.
- Chanel Beck (TheChanel), MistleJew, 14 Dec. 2006.
- Will Scovill (Bedtime Champ), Our Holiday Decor, 27 Sept. 2005.
- Marco Repola (istolethetv), Jewdolph the blue-nosed reindeer!, Santacon, New York City, 13 Dec. 2008.
(Also available on Tumblr.)
Cheese Cake Plan
📷 The “Cheese Cake Plan” is the plan on which I want to be! 🍴 #signage #misspelling #Engrish #cheesecake #dessert #cheesecakeplan #cake (at Ichi Umi)
📆 My birthday dinner at Ichi Umi 一海, 6 East 32 Street, Murray Hill, Manhattan, 21 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.
(Also available on Tumblr.)
Kisses at “Dance 208” 💏
📷 Kisses at “Dance 208.” 💏 #gaykiss #gaynyc #GreenwichVillage #Dance208 #NYC 😘 (at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center)
📆 “Dance 208: Twinkle Holiday Dance” at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13 Street, Greenwich Village, 18–19 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.
(Also available on Tumblr.)
22 December 2012
Flagger at the LGBT Community Center’s “Twinkle Dance”
📷 Flagger at the LGBT community center’s “Twinkle Dance,” 2010. #FlaggingDance #gaycenter #LGBTCenterNYC #gaynyc #winter #GreenwichVillage (at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center)
📆 “Dance 208: Twinkle Holiday Dance” at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13 Street, Greenwich Village, 18–19 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.
Also available on Tumblr.
18 December 2012
They Lit a Menora at the Community‐Wide LGBT Chanukah Party
📷 They lit a menora at the Community‐Wide LGBT Chanukah Party. #gayjew #gaynyc #JQY #CBST #UpperWestSide #gay #Jews #AmericanJews #winter #Hanukkah #Chanukah #menorah (at Congregation Rodeph Sholom)
📆 Community‐Wide LGBT Chanukah Party, organized by Jewish Queer “Youth” and various other groups, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83 Street, Upper West Side, 15 December 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
Also available on Tumblr.
10 December 2012
Happy, Oily and Greasy Hanukka!
📷 Happy, oily and greasy (first {now third} day of) Hanukka! #menorah #Hanukkah #Chanukah #Midtown #MidtownManhattan #חנוכה #חנכיה #מנורה #hanukkiyya #NYC (at New York Marriott Marquis)
📆 Socializing with members of Exotic Jews at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
01 December 2012
Jewish History They Didn’t Teach in Sunday School
📷 Seeing a presentation “Jewish History They Didn’t Teach in Sunday School.” #HumanisticJudaism #JewishAtheism #secularjudaismnyc #NYC #UpperWestSide #CityCongregation #Jews #AmericanJews #Humanisticjew #SAJNYC #thesaj #IISHJ #rabbi
☞ Presentation by Rabbi Adam Chalom, “Jewish History They Didn’t Teach in Sunday School,” the City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West 86 Street, Upper West Side, 29 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
30 November 2012
Fun and Frolic at the FurBall
📷 Fun and frolic at the FurBall, Greenwich Village. #FurBall #gaybear #gaycenter #GreenwichVillage #kiss #gaykiss #NYC #gayhug #lgbtcenternyc #gaynyc # (at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center)
☞ FurBall at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13 Street, Greenwich Village, 13–14 November 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
“Exotic” Friends and I
📷 Some “exotic” friends and I in Midtown Manhattan. #exojews #Midtown #NYC #EdSullivanTheater #autumn #MidtownManhattan #gpoy #Jews #ExoticJews (at Ed Sullivan Theatre)
☞ Exotic Jews by the Ed Sullivan Theater, 1697 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Isxaq Agadi.)
http://www.instagram.com/p/SkKIHANW1_/
Previously
- “Yuletide Lights in Midtown Manhattan,” 30 Nov. 2012.
Yuletide Lights in Midtown Manhattan
📷 Yuletide lights in Midtown Manhattan as viewed from within a moving vehicle. #Yule #Thanksgiving #Midtown #Manhattan #autumn #ChristmasLights #MidtownManhattan
☞ Possibly West 55 Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)
My Duck Lips
😗 Blowing a kiss to the camera just looks like duck lips.
📆 Ayah’s and Aaron’s birthdays with the Exotic Jews at Tiberias, 45 East 34 Street, Murray Hill, Manhattan, 10 November 2012. (Photograph by Eli Bildirici.)
03 September 2012
Man in the Subway
31 August 2012
The Museum Mile Festival in the Rain
- Meg Cotner, Mellifluous Ephemera, 30 Aug. 2012.
30 August 2012
Purple Queen
- “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
- “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
- “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
- “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
- “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
- “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
- “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.
- “Xavier and I…,” 17 August 2012.
- “Making Officer Livingston Blush,” 28 August 2012.
28 August 2012
Making Officer Livingston Blush
- “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
- “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
- “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
- “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
- “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
- “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
- “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.
- “Xavier and I…,” 17 August 2012.