Family in the sukkah of the Shlomo Synagogue, Pune, India, 1980
or just a few people standing outside a hut. what makes you identify these people as practicing jews?
I identified them as such because the photographer did?? And the photographer identified (as I put in the title) that the family is in the sukkah (constructed for the Jewish holiday Sukkot) of a synagogue.
I’m about as confident that they are Jewish as I am for any photo where the photographer identifies the subject as a member of a particular religion/ethnicity when that isn’t readily obvious in the photo.
you should link said photographer in such a case, both because ypu ahould credit the artist for photography, but more relevantly these people do not present jewish.
there are and have always been self placed external signs, i will point out the most obvious being none of them wearing a head covering of any kind. these are not individuals practicing in religion, one of the most physically taxing holidays would not be on their to-do list (see current day israeli observence amongst secular jews). additionally, the man has a very distinct facial hair style, one that goes againat a pretty fundamental jewish law that was also use to distinguish oneself. he has no beard.
finally, there are no decorations, whether holiday themed (i will let this go because of its contemporary nature) but more importantly religious themed. no star of david, no menorah, and no lettering. without a source, this picture is as true as every other uncredited source on tumblr, is dubiously true until proven otherwise.
i hope my investigation was eye opening, this is my speculation based on socio-religious trends and how judaism appears around the world.
idk what the fuck your problem is. I attached the link to the photo, where you can see the photographer’s name and the context of the image. I’m not sure if this is some weird Ashki-supremacy where you think that Indian Jews (like Jews everywhere!) do not range in observance from Orthodox to more secular. The fact that they’re not observing every mitzvah does not make them less Jewish.
Blocking you now because idk what possesses a person to “well actually” someone else’s Judaism because they don’t look like a Chabad rabbi
