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"When #author Kelsey Osgood listens to the #Book of Ruth on #Shavuot, the #biblical narrative has a special resonance for her.

Osgood, like Ruth, is a convert to #Judaism — and like her ancient predecessor, Osgood’s decision to adopt the #Jewish faith makes for a great story, which she recounts along with six other narratives in her new book, “Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to #Religious #Conversion.”

"Especially in my late 20s, in the lead-up to my conversion, I maintained a very romantic view of Ruth’s choice to pledge fealty to Naomi and to journey to #Israel; this seemed to me to embody faith in its purest form,” Osgood told The Times of Israel, referring to the famous lines from Ruth 1:16, “Wherever you go, I will follow; wherever you dwell, I will reside. Your people will be my people and your God, my God.”

But,” she added, “at the same time, I am now and have always been able to read this text with critical/historical perspectives..."

timesofisrael.com/with-echoes-

A call for an EU ban on anti-LGBTQ 'conversion' gets 1 million signatures.

More than one million Europeans have called on the EU to ban "conversion"' practices targeting LGBTQ people, the results of a European Citizens' Initiative petition showed Friday.

mediafaro.org/article/20250517

France24 · A call for an EU ban on anti-LGBTQ 'conversion' gets 1 million signatures.By August Hakansson

📝 #Pétition #européenne du jour, bonjour ! Pour interdire les «pratiques de #conversion» les interventions visant à modifier, réprimer ou éradiquer l’ orientation sexuelle, l’identité de #genre et/ou l’expression de genre des personnes #lgbtq ✊🏽

🙌🏽 Il faut atteindre les seuils dans 7 pays (c'est bon) mais il faut aussi 1 million de signatures et on est à 700 000 et il reste que 2 jours ! Faites tourner 📣

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/

Nouvelle version (déjà) de EBC-Guy.

Pour rappel EBC-Guy est un convertisseur d'eBooks qui s'appuie sur Calibre mais vous évite de lancer tout Calibre ou de passer par la ligne de commande.

Vous pourrez ainsi passer de l' ePub au mobi ou du mobi au pdf etc.

C'est donc la version 0.2.0 et c'est téléchargeable ici : codeberg.org/atlza/ebc-guy/rel

Nouveautés :
- dark thème
- choix du format de sortie
- contrôle du format d'entée

#ebook#ebooks#epub