eliran

jewish trans man

[blessedeliran]

trans muslims and jews who wear the head coverings of their assigned gender at birth are great. trans muslims and jews who wear the head coverings of their actual gender are great. trans muslims and jews who have issues with covering their heads because they arent sure what theyre "allowed" to wear are great. trans muslims and jews who choose not to cover because it's too complicated, or theyre afraid, or any other reason are great.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I remember reading somewhere about an old Yiddish curse that went, "May a child be named after you." For the unaware, Ashkenazi Jews name their children after dead people.

I love this curse so much. Every time I remember it, it fills me with wicked glee. "May a child be named after you." The subtlety! The viciousness! The fake well-wishing! What a delightful way to tell someone to go fuck themselves!

[plague-vulture]

lmk if this has been done before but i made a jewish trans symbol

more colors under the cut, all as transparents for your convenience :)

its very simple, just the trans symbol with a magen david instead of a circle but i think it's cute :D

[blessedeliran]

trans muslims and jews who wear the head coverings of their assigned gender at birth are great. trans muslims and jews who wear the head coverings of their actual gender are great. trans muslims and jews who have issues with covering their heads because they arent sure what theyre “allowed” to wear are great. trans muslims and jews who choose not to cover because it’s too complicated, or theyre afraid, or any other reason are great.

[blessedeliran]

trans muslims and jews who alternate headcoverings are great 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[gay-jewish-bucky]

A high-quality edit of Keshet's Jewish Progress Pride Flag

[a-charaid]

The T in trans stands for tzitzit

[theodoreangelos]

The Spanish Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת הספרדי) is the newest synagogue in the area of the so-called Jewish Town in Prague Josefov, yet paradoxically, it was built at the place of the presumably oldest synagogue, Old School (also known as Altshul). Španělská synagoga (původně Templ v Dušní ulici) je nejmladší synagogou v tzv. židovském městě na pražském Josefově. Byla postavena v maurském slohu. Die Spanische Synagoge ist eine Synagoge im Stadtteil Josefstadt in Prag. Sie wurde in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im maurischen Stil erbaut. La synagogue espagnole a été construite en 1868 à l'emplacement de la plus ancienne synagogue Altshul de Prague qui datait du XIIe siècle et qui a été détruite en 1867. Elle a été conçue dans un style mauresque. Испанская синагога — одна из синагог еврейского квартала Йозефов, достопримечательность города Праги. Своё название получила благодаря тому, что построена в неомавританском стиле.

[gay-otlc]

One time my rabbi was talking about how Jacob/Israel used both names interchangeably and struggled with identity until his death and I think about this regularly in a transgender way

[secular-jew]

Shabbat Ring from Galicia Poland, circa 1950. Inscription reads: "To Light The Candles of Shabbat." It was custom for Jewish women to wear a ring or necklace while lighting the candles on Shabbat.

[gliklofhameln]

Ketubah from Venice, Italy, 1684.

[gliklofhameln]

Ketubah from Ancona, Italy, 1792.

[gliklofhameln]

Purim plate

Les Islettes, Lorraine, France

18th century

Painted faience

[gliklofhameln]

Three glass kiddush cups, probably Bohemian, mid-19th century

[diaryofajewishgal]

As a Ukrainian-American it’s actually deeply disturbing to watch many of my fellow American/western progressives uncritically swallow Russian propaganda and promote Russian imperialism, while my family in Ukraine lives in terror every day that Russian soldiers will show up outside their house.

 It’s like some of y’all realized “Western imperialist propaganda is bad” and instead of coming to the conclusion that it’s imperialism that’s bad, you decided that because the West is bad any imperialism, murder, genocide, and bigotry are fine as long as the people doing it also don’t like the West. It should not be difficult to understand that the American government being bad does not automatically make anyone opposing the American government good. 

[sunshinesyrup]

leftist antisemites: all jews are responsible for everything the government of Israel does!!! boycott anything jewish and israel and make sure you put “free palestine” under any random jewish person’s picture even if they don’t live in Israel!! 

also leftist antisemites: :( the russian people aren’t responsible for what their government does, don’t boycott russian businesses! 

[jessicadmj]

this is so fucking funny

[johnturturro]

[anonymousdandelion]

Judaism and Life

I’m thinking about one of the rallying cries of the Jewish people. Our slogan, if you will. We speak it, we shout it, we sing it: עם ישראל חי. Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live.

It says a lot, I think, that this of all phrases is among our defining anthems. Out of all the possibilities, this is our motto, our catchphrase, our affirmation: a simple, defiant declaration of our own continued existence against the odds.

I’m also thinking of our traditional exclamation of celebration. The classic, quintessential, go-to Jewish toast, so characteristic as to have reached popular culture through a Broadway musical: לחיים. L’chaim. To life.

One of our primary “good luck” symbols, found on medallions and amulets: the single word, חי. Chai. Life. Our “lucky number” is 18, the number with the gematria value of life. We give momentary gifts and make donations in multiples of 18: giving chai, giving life.

It’s pretty straightforward, really. We just want to live. As people, as Jews, as a community.

I’m thinking about how many ways our culture and traditions repeatedly highlight the centrality of life — both the preservation of individual lives, and the continuation of our collective life. Thinking how terrifyingly often both categories of life fall under threat. And how we still keep going.

מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן. Mir veln zey iberlebn. We will outlive them, sung in a field with soldiers and no escape, worst come to worst but singing out defiance anyway.

… and they didn’t survive, those singers, physically they did not outlive their attackers, and too many others didn’t either. But they were still right: we, we as a collective, we did outlive. Barely, and with indescribable and lasting loss… but we did. We’re still here. Existent. Alive. Affirming that and hanging on for dear life, as individual people and as a people.

Am Yisrael Chai. Mir veln zey iberlebn. L’chaim.