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an intersection of bondage, blackness, jewishness, polyamory, motherhood, and service.

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Real Romany Gypsy Life, Beliefs and Customs - #FolkloreThursday

The image of the Gypsy conjures up ideas of a carefree people, who live life without rules and restrictions. In reality, being a real Romany

thinking of Master

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Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana, as photographed by Brian Schwartz

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Why you should care about Shavuot

Torah giving? YES GOOD 

The importance of Torah in Jewish tradition? YES GOOD 

The fact that ALL Jews were at some point converts? YES. YES YES. GOOD. 

Celebrating converts? YEESSSSS 

Celebrating Ruth, the “ideal” convert? yAaAaaaAAASSS 

celebrating Ruth who is Hella, Hella gay gooooood goooooooooood 

Dairy food? AHHHhHHhHhHhH thank HASHEM 

Celebrating later spring and the start of summer? So nice. So pretty. 

STAYING UP ALL NIGHT TO STUDY? 

gd made this holiday specifically for me 

Important Shavuot suggestion: make cheese fondu + bread. you can say ha motzi, you can have dairy food, and it’s fucking delicious. 

Shavuot is the most underrated member of shalosh regalim. spread this post to increase awareness of the beauty of Shavuot.

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me: thinks abt the fact that there a multiple genders described in the Torah that lots of trans/nb jews identify with

me:

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[Image description:   2 men are standing amongst other people in what seems like an LGBT+ Pride event.  The gentleman on the left, who looks like he is in his 60s and has gray hair and a beard, is holding a large Pride rainbow flag with a white Jewish Star in the center.  The gentleman on the right is holding a slightly smaller, but still rather large, rainbow sign that reads “#AllahLovesEquality.” A red, half-moon symbol and a black Arabic city-scape are also printed on the sign. ]

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Nina Simone

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מפני שחייה קודמין לחייו

“…because [the mother’s] life comes before [the fetus’] life…” - Mishnah Oholot 7:6

Let’s talk about the crossroads between Reproductive Health and Religious Freedom and their relationship with the basic, inalienable rights of women and other’s with uteruses from a Jewish perspective….

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Black men hug

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Jews and the African Slave Trade | My Jewish Learning

The role some Jews played in the Atlantic slave trade, both as traders and as slave owners, has long been ...

Yes, several American Jews owned slaves.  Yes, the past often can be disturbing.  We must learn from it, in order to create a present and future where every last human being, each created in God’s Image, is respectfully and compassionately treated.

#blacklivesmatter

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Parfois les décisions qu'on considère les plus importantes deviennent les plus stupides.

Béat heart

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Lecha dodi, traditionally sung on shabbos eve, is one of my favorite piyutim and I think that the Abayudaya version is one of my favorites!

Abayudaya is the name of the Jewish communities of Uganda, of which there are several. They’re known for their music (among many other things!) which contains many qualities familiar to other Jews while mixing in Luganda vocabulary and East African musical features.

They live in Eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale and number around 2000–which is miraculous because, due to persecution from the Idi Amin regime, there were as few as 300 Abayudaya people around in the ‘70s.

If you want to learn more about them, check out their entry on Bechol Lashon: http://bechollashon.org/projects/abayudaya/abayudaya.php

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Shabbat Shalom!

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I swear empathy will be the death of me.

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nah. the ones who are dead are the ones whose heart is shut and cold. your empathy is what makes you, and keeps you, ALIVE.  i know it feels dangerous and vulnerable to be too open-hearted, too generous, but it actually means you are STRONG. because it means your humanity has survived in a world that tries to kill it everyday, that tries to scare it into thinking empathy means weakness.  empathy means hope & resilience & power. 

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my politics summed up

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