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the procrastinator’s mind will invent distractions you’ve never conceived of in order to avoid tasks even a dog could do.
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By Hari Kumar and Alex Travelli. Visuals by Atul Loke.
Nearly half the community has already moved to Israel, piecemeal, since the 1990s. But on Thursday, with Operation ‘Wings of Dawn,’ Israel itself will fly about 250 more of the Menashe, via Delhi, to Tel Aviv. The rest are to follow soon after.
Some of the earliest groups made their homes in places like Hebron in the West Bank and in Israeli settlements in Gaza, before 2005. In November last year, the Israeli government agreed to help the remaining 5,800 or so immigrate en masse, including 1,200 this year, and is covering some of the cost.
Benjamin Haokip, another resident of the Manipuri kibbutz, said, “We follow Judaism, and here we cannot follow all our customs.”
Some prayers require a minyan or quorum, which is hard to find in the hills. Others require knowledge gained through cultural experience and foodstuffs that can’t be found locally. “We want to go to Israel for our religion,” he said.
The NYT suggests that Israel is largely motivated by the need to replenish its workforce, but like. This is 5,800 people.
It's not a number that will replenish a workforce or (as I am certain people will claim) colonize a territory.
I don't blame them for not understanding that sometimes, a community just wants to be together. This country is a melting pot of ethnic origins, on land that was already a salad of ethnic groups.
I'm grateful that for once, Israel isn't flying Jewish immigrants in because their lives are at risk where they are.
For once, it's just that they want to come home.
The main reason I wanted to share this post is that the quote I embiggened, above, hit me right in the feels.
People love to act like Jews would only "need Israel" if their lives were threatened elsewhere. (And that Jewish lives aren't threatened elsewhere, and never will be.)
I kind of understood it the same way at first, despite also understanding the craving to stand where your history and your people are.
The day that I found out Israel's weekend is Friday and Saturday, though? My entire perspective changed forever.
You don't know how hard it is for Jews to organize being Jewish around the Christian calendar until you've tried it yourself.
For months each year, it gets dark before the regular workday ends. That means Shabbat starts before you get off work.
If you work retail or some other job with irregular hours it's even worse, because they have no motivation to schedule you around your weekly holiday. If you're unlucky, they have plenty of motivation TO schedule you during that. Because they hate Jews, and/or because they hate workers.
Even if you just work regular office hours, you cannot observe Shabbat the way you normally would if it starts while you're at work. You aren't supposed to be working during Shabbat. You aren't supposed to be going home, carrying all your work things, during Shabbat.
You have to either have ordered your Shabbat dinner ahead of time, or started it in a slow cooker ahead of time. And have set the table ahead of time. Or continue not being observant.
You can't light the Shabbat candles.
All of that also makes it pretty hard to make it a nice celebratory dinner, and to have people over for it.
When it's light out after work, you can come home and make things nice and make food. It's just a race against time, most of the time. It requires executive function that I personally do not fucking have.
I don't really even have the executive function to do it WITHOUT a job, yet. But that's partly an autistic burnout problem.
And that's just Shabbat. That doesn't even start to address how hard it is for a lot of people to get time off for annual holidays. Or to get out of school without missing anything.
Or the fact that you have to tell your bosses/teachers, your workplace/school administration, that you're Jewish in order to get those accomodations: which is not always safe.
Then there's the fact that this is ultimately a lunar religion based on the agricultural and seasonal rituals of a place 7,000 miles away.
I need to source a lulav and etrog to shake every year. Etrogs don't really grow in most places.
Last year, I did research what kind of palm trees I could pick a lulav from, and how to fold it right and stuff. I didn't have the spoons to actually fold it, after that. And none of the stores that usually sell etrogs, or even Buddha's hand citrons which my friend swears are the same thing, had them. And my kid and I did not have the spoons to go to a second location after spending a week on that.
You might be thinking, damn, just be Reform, nobody cares about all that fuss!
This is WHY that's a thing. It's not that Jews wouldn't continue practicing their ethnoreligion, passing on layers and layers of history and culture through these practices, if it were easier. It's not that Jews don't want to do that.
It's that some of it becomes fucking impossible when you live in the diaspora. Different parts become impossible, depending on where and when you live and your own personal circumstances.
Like, if I could just go to shul, they'd have a kosher sukkah and we could all shake the lulav and the etrog, but my kid is agoraphobic and I went through years of autistic burnout. And there isn't much of a safety net for that.
If I sat down and wrote out all the things I want to do that I can't, at THIS point in my recovery I could reach out to people at my functional and organized synagogue, and ask them for help with each part. And I might even get it!
But that probably wouldn't be true if I didn't live in the third-Jewiest part of the US.
And it still wasn't true until recently, when I regained the spoons to do things like figure out what I needed and potentially ask for help.
My point is: people do not understand how difficult it is to maintain your own culture and practices within systems that are set up to exclude you.
Systems that are subtly hostile to your existence, because you're supposed to assimilate. No matter where you are, the system expects you to assimilate, and marks you as undesired other if you don't.
We KNOW this, Tumblr: we experience this as trans people, as queer people, as people with disabilities, as immigrants, as poor people, as all sorts of people of color and all sorts of unassimilated ethnic groups.
This is why the UN considers self-determination to be not only a core human right, but one at the core of what the UN does.
That's why it says that every people has the right of self-determination: the right to decide what political situation best lets them "freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." Whether that's having a voice in a larger democracy, declaring independence from a country or empire, or something else entirely.
Sorry; I've been reading a lot of history and watching a LOT of Hamilton.
I also wanted to share this post because the pictures are great. I love the diversity of the Jewish diaspora.
(Also, as an American, it's genuinely so weird that we so often fail to understand that you can be a part of more than one ethnic group. That's practically the norm in our country.
I grew up thinking I was ¾ Italian, ¼ Irish, and that seemed pretty normal from where I stood.*
And yet, I know some people will look at this and be like, "see, Jews aren't an ethnic group, they're just a religion!"
Bruh. An ethnoreligion is how some ethnic groups pass their history, traditions, music, language, food, myths, etc - their culture - down from one generation to the next. Like the Hindus, Druze, Yazidi, and Roma. And the Jews.)
* (Turns out my mom was not kidding all those years, Grandma did lie about being Irish. Her heritage seems to have been pretty solidly English fundie Puritans, which explains her evangelical frenzy.)
queer jewish flag coining!
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nivrah bein hashmashot
a term for queer jews, translating to "created between the suns" in reference to the night between the sixth and seventh days of creation. the rainbow was created then, along with other things that transcended binaries.
ovri
term for queer (especially trans and/or gender non-conforming) jews, translating to "one who crosses over" which can reference transition or subverting gender/sexuality norms. the plural is ovrim.
these flags/terms are jewish-exclusive! other than that, feel free to use
if you credit/tag me, you can use these flags as inspiration or redesign them!
credits: where i first heard these terms!
if your knee-jerk reaction to seeing someone point out rising antisemitism and hypocrisy in leftist spaces and the pro-Palestine movement is to assume that they support Israel/genocide/ethnic cleansing/the IDF you’ve been radicalized in a really shitty way
because your first reaction upon seeing a post combating antisemitism isn’t to check your biases, it’s to get into the replies and call OP a genocide supporter instead of, you know, reading the post and checking your internal biases
because instead of recognizing that bad people are going to infiltrate your movement to spread their own agenda and it’s your job to call that out and stop it when you can, you immediately assume OP is a shill for the IDF or something
because instead of realizing that you could have accidentally spread some antisemitic tropes yourself, you immediately get defensive and angry
you sound like your conservative family going on about how all of “those” (insert race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender) people are inherently violent/evil/stupid/etc. and saying racism doesn’t exist anymore in the next sentence.
you don’t get to pick and choose which minorities are worthy of respect.
i have never seen such a perfect example of hit dogs holler on this site
wow they really can't stop
Antisemitism is bad even if they're a Zionist, even if they're an anti-zionist, even if they voted Likud, even if they're not from Israel, antisemitism is always bad.
I know we talk about the oxen a lot, but there's some wild fun stuff in the Talmud too. An incomplete list:
rabbi dick measuring contest
a king's 1am influencer bro routine
"King David had 400 sons and they were all hot"
an argument about the legality of literally fucking yourself
HOA rules for where windows on your house can go
"as we all know, werewolves have tails in human form"
two guys who got off on charges for homosexuality by telling the witness that it was two witnesses against one
judge using fruit to prove eye witness testimony is unreliable
"quarrels are like peeing"
a bunch of rabbis defining different types of bed and one of the definitions they use is a bed specifically for throwing your clothes on
someone insisting that the law saying "you need a jury of x amount of people" means that x should be half the jury + 1 resulting in the suggestion that you need a jury of 45 people for a murder trial
your mom jokes
"why does it say Solomon had 4000 horses AND that he had 40,000 horses?" "he had 160 million horses"
science more questionable than Pliny
the demand that a captive bear who killed someone be present at the trial
diagram of punishments for illegal haircuts
"in order for a town to be big enough to have a court it needs to have 10 idlers of the synagogue"
a rabbi claiming that you can only be a judge on the national court if you're a hot wizard
In conclusion: the Sages would do numbers on tumblr.
just like all the fake Talmud stuff out there, the real stuff also needs citations. I gotta fact check this stuff immediately (specifically #4 I’m curious about)
here you go
Rav Ahadevoi: What if I fucked myself
Rav Sheshet: Where is the ear bleach
How dare you leave out the next part
where Rav Ashi argues that you can go fuck yourself (but only sans boner)
I often joke that in my head live two very different Jews, one is a snobby rationalist Classical Reform Jew, and the other is a super spiritual old country Hasid, they’re constantly arguing and bickering about how I, Adeline, should go about viewing the world.
Personally, I think they should hold hands and make-out.
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"Borrowing from Ladino and Yiddish."
"Borrowing from Ladino and Yiddish"
"Borrowing from Ladino and Yiddish"
And Arabic!
The earliest manuscripts in Hebrew (and not proto-Hebrew) date back to ~500 BCE. The earliest Arabic (which is actually paleo-Arabic) is found in ~500 CE, a full millennium later!
prev, the antizionist take is (usually) not that Arabic predates Hebrew as a whole, but rather that modern Hebrew as a whole is a separate language, which is more similar so foreign languages than to "real Hebrew"
as for my response to that, there are a couple of things to unpack here.
modern Hebrew is continuous with older forms of Hebrew - this is no "break". Hebrew was never a "dead" language.
modern Hebrew is closer to ancient Hebrew than modern English is to the English of only a few centuries back. evidently, children speaking modern Hebrew can read the Tanakh without needing to learn ancient Hebrew, and only need a word explained to them here and there.
modern Hebrew is also closer to ancient Hebrew than modern Arabic is to older Arabic. ironically enough, Judeo-Arabic has older roots than the Arabic that is spoken today in most places - because it has Aramaic roots.
throughout the entirety of exile, Hebrew has been used by Jews all around the world, and even developed different subtle quirks in different regions - something which, antizionists usually know to say (as a gotcha), without thinking of how it goes against the claim that Hebrew "wasn't spoken" slash "was only liturgical". a purely liturgical language does not develop differently in different regions - see, for instance, the liturgical dialect of Arabic.
due to this, one thing that WAS required for the revitalization of Hebrew, was some type of a merge between these subtle differences. which, personally, i think we did rather poorly. but that could be its own post, and my opinion is of much of a minority anyways (as i've been proved here enough times). either way, considering the fact that this was arguably the first case of language revitalization... i mean - is the alternative of letting a language die any better?
one thing that Hebrew was used less for, was constructing new ideas. that already began to change towards the end of the second exile, WAY before Eliezer Ben Yehuda (which is given the title of the mind behind the revitalization of Hebrew by both Zionists and antizionists, which is its own exaggeration).
yes, the revitalization of Hebrew required "borrowing" words from other languages - same way that all languages do. how does one say "television" in Arabic? or "queue" in English? thing is, Hebrew had a lot of ground to cover, since for some time it was used less for creating new ideas, some more modern concepts didnt have proper Hebrew terminology. which brings me to my next point-
modern Hebrew actually attempted to prefer Hebrew words other foreign ones. we have words for scientific terms which are often universalized in other places, e.g. sickness names. the fun thing about Semetic languages is that they're root-pattern based, and can easily derive words from other words. the modern Hebrew word for "texting" is derived from the word for "writing", the word for "airplane" is derived from the word for "air", etc.
if anything, modern Hebrew borrowed most from Aramaic - tho the same can be said about the Hebrew used in the time of Baith Sheni. if anything, modern Hebrew uses LESS Aramaic nowadays.
in general, you gotta love (sarcasm) the take that "language revitalization is a tool of colonization". it's just so incredibly harmful on the linguistic aspect of things. it opens the gate for pushing down other attempts of revitalization, too. take Wales, who took inspiration from the revitalization of Hebrew, to try and preserve Welsh. take Aboriginal people who took inspiration to try and revitalize their own languages. the revitalization of Hebrew had a good balance of new and old (or rather, old with a sparkle of new) which plenty of people who are connected to endangered languages, could learn from. this new* gen z insistence that the revitalization of Hebrew is Evil™, these people are discouraged to learn - practically endangering minority languages further. [*new from the western point of view, i will not get into the USSR - tho it is tempting, i am simply not knowledgeable enough on that topic].
Arabic is used in the vast majority of the Middle East. Hebrew, however, is only used in one tiny are. if your take is, "i want to destroy a language spoken by a tiny minority of people and replace it with one spoken towards the greater region" then congrats, you're imperialist, and by extension, hold strictly colonial worldviews. OWN UP TO IT.
Yiddish and Ladino developed from Hebrew, not the other way around.
the very fact that Jews have developed their own languages (again, from Hebrew!) in different regions is already an indicator that Jews are an ethnicity, not merely a religion. how many religions are out there who developed their own languages, which are not linked to any ethnic group? none. because a religion is a set of cultural bindings - whether they're held by one primary ethnic group (ethnoreligeons) or were imposed on large regions by brute force (e.g. christianity, islam). Arabic is not the language of the muslims, it is the language of the Arabs. whose language is Yiddish - the Yidden's? oh what do you know - Jews'. and if one's trying to claim that Hebrew is the language of the Hebrew, not the Jews - see next point.
the Jews are the Hebrews. our ethnicity was referred to as "Hebrew" through the majority of history, hell - some places still call us Hebrews today. (hate to be linking Wikipedia here, but you can check the references).
when antizionist refer to Hebrew "stealing" from Arabic, they dont usually refer to adapted roots (e.g. the root n.z.l which means to go down in Arabic being adapted into Hebrew to describe liquids), but rather to one of two things: to grammar (which was not adapted from Arabic what so ever - Hebrew grammar has remained roughly the same as it was, with the major change being in the future tense (chapter4)), or to Israeli slang, which - and i cannot emphasize this enough - was made as a result of people fleeing from Arab-lead countries, as i mentioned above.
Yiddish and Ladino were only spoken by Jews in specific areas, while Hebrew is spoken by most Jews worldwide. so, when these Jews moved to Eretz Yisrael, they had one language which is to some extent "nobody's first language, but everybody's second". it was the obvious choice.
mocking the revitalization of Hebrew does nothing but achieve two results. one, is the mocking of Jewish heritage; which is something that antizionists will never care about. the other, is pulling down other endangered languages and chances of revitalizing them - which is something that antizionists will never realize.
in simple terms - people could achieve so much more had they only accepted the fact that Jews (/ Hebrews / Israelites / Israelis / whatever current name they use to hate us under) are people. who they could even learn from. it's... quite frustrating, honestly.
there. i got it off my chest. hopefully i can stop being angry about these people for a bit now.
are you applying this logic to other groups, too?
are Indian people living in the United States not a diaspora because the modern country of India gained independence in 1947?
and you do understand that the word "diaspora" literally originally referred to Jewish people??
and you do also realize that Jews have been living in the land that state exists on consistently for thousands of years? that we never "left"? that we were forcibly displaced over and over again? that we tried to return to our native land to be with our people who remained there?
you do realize that the entire time Jews have been in Europe and the Americas we have been massacred and displaced, over and over and over again, right? that our population in Europe nearly disappeared entirely during the medieval period because people kept killing us? that Jews who still lived in our native land were massacred by invading crusaders?
and i am sure you are aware of the origins of the words "Jew" and "Jewish"? what about "Syria Palaestina"?
does this look like being in one place for centuries?
I've picked up a few new followers, and just to make sure we're all here hanging out and understanding each other:
I support Jews.
I support Israel existing. I do not require Israel to meet some perfect level of existence I don't put onto any other democratic state. I'm from the USA. My own country is shitting the bed really regularly. I still support its existence. Nuance!
"I support Jews but not Zionists" is Nazi talk.
I have been reading/watching information about Nazis for 30 years, and I know "Those are BAD Jews, but these are GOOD Jews" is Nazi talk. That's literally how they started using the centuries-long antisemitism to fully poison the German people. "Oh, we won't go after the GOOD Jews who have assimilated and served in the Great War." (Guess what they fucking did. Otto Frank was a fourth-generation German secular Jew who served in WWI.)
Antizionism is antisemitism because I have literally never seen a so-called antizionist do sweet fuck all to make Jews feel welcome in the diaspora.
I am not a Jew. I make this point in case you are now mad that you followed me and want to piss in my inbox before you leave. It's not an insult to call me a Jew because (to paraphrase Iggy Pop), there's no shame in being a Jew. I just want to skip that step if possible. Means I can save time on my response telling you to go fuck yourselves.
I’m not linking the reels he was responding to here directly, they don’t need more views and the descriptions are enough. videos like this, overrun with hateful conspiracism, have shifted antisemitism to the mainstream with alarming ease.
AJC’s Director of Antisemitism Policy Holly Huffnagle: ‘The No. 1 reason that we have the antisemitism levels that we do today in the United
Half of Jewish users who experienced antisemitism online do not report these incidents to social media companies because they do not think a
When you have an entire movement dedicated to denying and erasing the history of an indigenous group that makes up less than half a percent of the world's population and calling their right to sovereignty on their own land evil, genocidal, and colonialist, what else could that movement possibly be than hateful and bigoted?
Antizionism is antisemitism. Antizionism is racism.
Can I vent about something that's going to probably make people upset for sec?
But like I'm so tired of the whole "zinoism is antisemitism" vs "anti-zinoism is and antisemitism" discourse.
Because to say the least zinoism means different things depending on who ask. In Jewish communities, most Jews would agree that zinoism is the strong belief that the Jewish people belong in Israel. (Obviously that doesn't necessarily mean all Jews live in all of it right now, to put it simply it's more of we once belonged there and now we are in exile and are not where we belong, but we still want to be connected to a land of such importance to our culture.)
But if you were to ask most pro-palestinians, people who identify as a Zionist are evil, baby killing, genocidal, horrible people.
Now these are two VERY different definitions.
Whatever your opinion is on Jews living in Israel (a conversation for another day but yes, we do have significant cultural, historical,and spiritual connection to the place. And no, it isn't wrong for us to want to live safely there and to be angry towards people literally killing us just for existing) I think people should take a step back and just look at what possible situation this could cause.
Like do you see it? Do you see the problem with saying shit like "you shouldn't hate Jews just Zionists" or "well not all Jews are Zionists".
Do you realize how little Jews actually exist?
And that by justifying any shit that happens because "they were a zio" or "but how do we know they weren't a Zionist" your essentially saying most hate crimes are okay against Jews? Because you're probably right. They probably DO identify as a Zionist. They probably are happy every time a member of HAMAS is killed. Does that make it okay? That people hated them enough to actively harm them? Because they have a belief that's very personal and real relating to their entire life? That their history, and their culture matters to them enough to feel so strongly about this?
The only reason anti-zinoism is antisemitism is because all people do is use as an excuse to harm or justify harm to Jews.
Like how can you even say something like that? Don't you think?? Why does the few times someone defends us they always have to exclude the majority and imply justification if the Jew had a belief that they belonged somewhere? What is wrong with you people?? Why is this even a conversation?? Are you all that lacking in self awareness??
And I know it's late rn and I'm so tired and this post probably isn't perfect and isn't necessarily worded the best but I think people can get the gist of this rant if they cared.
Bigots have been throwing throwing a tantrum these past few days because London has Jewish ambulance services that, checks notes, provide free emergency care to everyone regardless of faith. These grifters treat "helping others" like a conspiracy, completely ignoring that saving a life, or Pikuach Nefesh (פיקוח נפש), is a key mandate that overrules almost everything else.
And to the mouth-breathers arguing it’s "not antisemitic" to burn ambulances because of Israel: you clearly forgot your own script explicitly says not to conflate Judaism with a state’s politics. Committing a horrendous hate crime against a life-saving charity isn't "activism" it’s just a sign that most of you can’t even fucking read.
How many charities worldwide are explicitly christian?? How many a muslim? Why is there a cross in the Red Cross??
Thing when anyone else does it: wow, cool!
Same thing, but jewish: what are they up to???
It's actually not even the same:
Jewish adoption services: help people of all faiths.
Catholic adoption services: took a case all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent being forced to help Jewish couples adopt.
reading about jewish history is depressing bc it’s like this endless cycle of, “we were doing okay for a bit and even managed to partially integrate, but the political climate changed and we’re once again heavily persecuted if not outright murdered. ce la vie!”
i want gentiles to understand that Diaspora jews are getting squirrely rn bc we’ve been through this before and we can Tell the current period of relative acceptance is ending and we’re in for some shit.
this is from 2019