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Reading notes, jokes, thoughts, and ספרדים

[captaintiny]

not dating not friends but a secret third thing (chevrusas)

[our-blood-is-our-ink]

I wonder how many non Jews are aware that we did try to go back after the Holocaust. There's plenty of stories about someone's grandmother or grandfather trying to return home in Poland or Germany to find strangers living in their houses, using their silver kiddish cups or their Shabbos candlesticks. Using their tables and homes and clothes, as if everything was simply abandoned by choice and was free to take. Some of us DID try going back.

We were not welcomed to. There was nothing left because they ensured there wouldn't be.

[our-blood-is-our-ink]

[ponpurin]

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land or making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

[transcaptainleviathan]

happy pride to my jewtuals and any queer jews this comes across :)

[the-catboy-minyan]

YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK YOU.

*catboys your Moses*

[resplendent-ragamuffin]

@krindor get out

[chutzpahchesed]

[notaplaceofhonour]

every time something like this happens, SJPers inevitably try to hide behind chapters being “independent & autonomous”, as if this is just a problem with that one local chapter.

but practically every chapter has their own separate laundry list of posts like this, either celebrating terror attacks & massacres, or sharing Nazi memes, or hosting rallies that feature convicted terrorists as speakers, & where open support for Hamas et al goes unchallenged, etc. etc.

it’s just that finding and actually presenting all that information takes time & effort, and doing that for every single one is like the world’s most exhausting game of whack-a-mole, while deflecting criticism to the satisfaction of people who’ve already bought in can be done with a single line talking point.

[amaditalks]

It's almost as if each SJP chapter, independent though they may be, receives material support and tactical guidance from a single source. Hmm.

[deskuvro]

I literally had been on that walk before so I want to share something. “The marchers responded with proud declarations that they wished death upon every child in Gaza, while flanked comfortably with a police escort”

Both claims are lies.

I know those people. I know their congregation. They simply wouldn’t say that, which is no doubt why direct quotes weren’t used, but paraphrase.

But the lie is especially bold because there were only ever police after the attack. This tells us that the SJPers were only went there to harass the Run For Their Lives folks after the firebombing.

[mylight-png]

I frequently mourn the fact that so little is commonly known about the smaller details of traditional Jewish life. And I don't mean diaspora Jewish life, it's amazing how much we know and have preserved of various diaspora community traditions.

I mean ancient Judean lifestyles. And yes, the Torah outlines a lot of it, which is amazing. But I don't want to just know that Judean women wore jewelry or nose rings or etc, I want to be able to know what our traditional Jewish jewelry looked like. Smaller specifics instead of the broad strokes.

We can know what religious garb looked like, and even the general gist of day to day clothing. But I want to know specifically what colors people would dye their clothes for their personal tastes, the specific embroidery designs that were worn.

I want to know how traditional Judean women wore their hair, both how they wore their head coverings (knot styles, accessories for the coverings, etc) and how unmarried women would adorn their heads.

I want to know what traditional Judean makeup looked like, what toys the children played with, so so so many aspects of ancient Jewish life that I have been able to find nothing about.

Maybe, of course, I just don't know enough history. But I've tried googling these things and I have not ever found a satisfactory answer.

I wish to know what traditional, pre-occupation, pre-exile Jewish life was like.

If anyone knows anything about any of this, please please please reblog or send an ask or comment about anything you know.

This topic is of great interest to me but I'm not great at finding good history information, I've got more experience doing in-depth research on current events and politics.

[krindor]

I'm prefacing this with the admission that I'm not an expert on jewelry, I study animal bones, but I am an archaeologist who studies the relevant time period and regions, so here's some quick examples of Iron Age (in Jewish Chronology Judges through First Temple) jewelry from Tel Beth Shemesh

(Golani, Amir, and Deborah Sweeney. “THE IRON AGE JEWELRY.” Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah, vol. 34, Penn State University Press, 2021, p. 610)

The article goes into detail on materials and how they were constructed, etc. but it's an academic text first so may be a bit dry.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I went to kabbalat shabbat at an Aussie shul (reform) for the first time last week. After services, in addition to challah and pastries and tiny glasses of wine, they had hard liquor (gin, vodka, and scotch) which I have never seen before at an American shul. Is this an Aussie thing? Did I just go to square shuls in the US? Is it more common in other denominations?

Does your synogogue normally provide hard liquor at the oneg?

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[magnetothemagnificent]

What American shuls are you going to where they *don't* have hard liquor???? For context I'm Orthodox, pretty much every Orthodox shul I've ever been to (and they've all been in either the US or Israel) has had hard liquor available during Kiddush. Some shuls would have more or less than others, some would advertise it more or less than others, but they'd all have l'chaims available if you wanted some.

[curhartwrites]

"...images of G-d [as] lover, friend, companion, cocreator are more appropriate metaphors for the G-d of the covenant than traditional images of lord and king. Defining G-d's power not as domination but empowerment, they evoke a G-d who is with us instead of over us, a partner in dialogue who ever and again summons us to responsible action. Rather than reminding human beings of our frailty and nothingness, they call us to accountability as partners in a solemn compact that makes demands on us to which we can respond. It is not as we are subjugated, as we feel our worthlessness and culpability, that we can act most responsibly and effectively, but as we know our own value, mirrored in the constancy of G-d as friend and lover who calls us to enter into the task of creation. Responding responsibly, we do so not because otherwise we are guilty, but because – as the Kabbalistic tradition reminds is – what we do or leave undone as cocreators makes a difference in the world."

-Judith Plaskow, "Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from A Feminist Perspective"

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

"Never again" but only for Jews right?

Man do ANY of you have anything original to say? 😂

I am against genocide. Full stop. No group, anywhere, ever, should be subjected to it.

That being said, the usage of "Never Again" that you're invoking here - while well-meaning, and not incorrect as a generic anti-genocide statement - is not actually what that phrase was coined to mean. It's actually the clipped form of מצדה לא תיפול שנית ("Never Again Will Masada Fall"), taken from Masada: A Historical Epic - a Zionist epic poem by Yitzhak Lamdan (a communist) - which helped to inspire the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The phrase as originally intended was very specifically a declaration of Judean/Israeli liberation, containing a rather unsubtle threat that we will defend ourselves if anyone tries to conquer us again. Top units of the IDF even use the phrase as part of their oaths during their induction ceremonies, on the top of Metzada itself. So while it's understandable how the use of it has evolved into a generic anti-genocide phrase, keep in mind that you're invoking a Zionist phrase whose meaning is far more "fuck around and find out" than "all lives matter".

[forevermorallylucky]

Being from Greece makes a lot of the arguments people give on why Israel should be destroyed sound even more ridiculous and weird. (especially when these people are also fellow greeks) ''Israel is an ethno state!!!''- You mean a nation state, and yes, so is Greece

''The founding of Israel was based on displacement of Palestinians''- Look, I don't want to minimize that at all because people losing their homes is fucking terrible but that doesn't mean the solution is expelling Israelis now. There was a population exchange between Greece and Tuurkey in 1922. Both sides ethnically cleansed people. It was a terrible thing to do. But both Turkey and Greece exist now as two seperate states with clearly defined borders (if you ignore some shit erdogan tries to pull in the agean). And you don't question Greece's or Turkey's right to not be wiped off.

''Israeli identity is fake because it was based on smth that happened 3000 years ago!!!''- Ok sorry to break it to you but us Greeks have made our entire national identity revolve around who we were 3000 years ago. And if you want to argue abt fakeness of identity I would argue ours was a less organic one. Jewish people maintained the same religion and basic belief systems for 3000 years. They continuously felt the connection with Eretz Yisrael. We switched to Orthodox christianity from whatever 12 god shit we had, we lost most of our literacy that allowed us to keep tpuch with ancient texts, we embraced so many customs from the Ottomans and YET it was still valid when we tried to reclaim our ancient greek identity to build a nation partly on the basis of that

''European colonial powers helped prop up Israel which means it is an imperialistic state!''- Do you think Greece got independence or gained more land purely through OUR military strength lol?

BTW one of the reasons i support a 2 state solution so much is bcs I think us and Turkey did a relatively fine job at accepting that although both turkish and greek populations have historically resided in both greek areas and asia minor (which today is turkey) there needs to be a compromise so that we both live in peace.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Was going to add this to a post I saw (the gist being a rebuttal of antizionist “separating Jews from Israel” talking points), but the app refreshed when I came back and now I can’t find the original post lol

A lot of people seem to not grasp that just because things are “different” or conceptually distinct doesn’t mean they’re entirely separate or inherently unrelated, where any relation between them is entirely arbitrary & artificial.

Are there distinctions between Jews, the state of Israel, and the land of Israel? Yes. But the relationship between these things has so much overlap that you cannot honestly fully separate them.

If I had to visualize it as a Venn diagram, it might look something like this.

Eretz Yisrael is incredibly important to Jewish history & Jewish religion, and half of all Jews reside there, as citizens of Medinat Yisrael (where most of its population is Jews, and the makeup of its government reflects that), which represents the most substantial embodiment of Am Yisrael’s political autonomy at present or in the last two millennia—which is very clearly necessary with the amount of violence Jews face—and whose borders encompass most of Eretz Yisrael.

The historical boundaries of the land of Israel are not 1-for-1 with the modern state of Israel’s borders; there are plenty of Israelis who aren’t Jews, including in the government; there are Jews living in the diaspora; some of them do not care for the state of Israel at all. So yes, these three things are different ideas. But that doesn’t change the fact that they are still tightly related in every direction, and the exceptions are statistical outliers, not normative.

It’s not that we are “conflating” these things; it’s that they are intrinsically blended concepts with inherent heavy overlap.

[notaplaceofhonour]

what this does not mean is that “any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic” nor that “all Jews are complicit” when Israel does something wrong.

what it does mean is that attacking Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state is an attack on Jewish political autonomy, that “criticisms” of its government which employ tropes historically used against the Jewish people are still targeting Jews with antisemitic tropes, which is antisemitic, and that Jews have every reason to call that out for what it is when they see it.

[harminder]

The grand chandelier in the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul is a sight to behold 🕍

[mariasklodowskastwixbar]

Happy pride month, if you kick out Jewish people for expressing their religion and culture you are antisemitic!! Jewish people belong at pride and deserve to express their Jewishness at pride just like any culture or religion!!

<3 ✡️🏳️‍🌈🌈 love yall!!!!

[ahava-suggestion]

Jewish lgbt pride flags at pride marches 💖🧡💛💚💙✡️

[slyandthefamilybook]

some more gay Jews for everyone to cry about

[tzelofachad]

happy pride month my shalomies

[mslovelyrita]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Be normal about queer Jews or else. 🫵