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[hellyeahheroes]

Me too kid, me too.

The Newsboys Legion/Boy Commandoes Special #1 has one problem - it’s really hard to understand it for a non-native speaker, because of how much it uses slang of the World War II era. However, the message it sends is very clear and positive.  Two group of young adventurers join forces against a corporate fascist, a traitor that wants to take America to ally with the Nazis because “it’s good for the business”.  I mean, you don’t have to be subtle here and this book isn’t trying to. It is on point and heroic and inspiring in the best way because of it - it shows good guys taking a stand and defeating a Nazi and is not afraid of calling them so. Somebody should send a message to Marvel that THIS is how you do it.

- Admin

[kevlarninja]

And it’s somewhat true to history as well. While I don’t know if any outright wanted to have America join the Axis powers (since there’s money to be made selling arms to both sides), many corporate leaders in the US liked the fascists, since both hated communists, workers unions and Jewish people, not to mention a major part of fascist governments are public work projects and big companies love something as big as a payday from the government. In fact, Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford hanging in his office.

[espanolbot-deactivated20170903]

Hitler and the Nazis borrowed a lot of stuff from the US. A distressing amount of stuff can be traced back to the US, such as their form of eugenics being imported from the contemporary American eugenics movement and the machinery which would eventually lead to the Holocaust coming from the “disinfection“ camps the US had lined up along the US/Mexican border, for two examples.

[hellyeahheroes]

I’ve learned that Howard Chyakin who wrote and drew this book is Jewish, so I’m gonna tag @fandomshatejews - I think their followers may like a book made by a Jewish creator, using heroes of another Jewish creator (legendary Jack Kirby, no less) to call out big bussinesses for holding pro-nazi sympathies.

- Admin

[rosemarythunder]

the studio who made moonlight is making a movie about brooklyn chasids, spoken mainly in yiddish and written by jews. i am so, so excited.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

(JTA) — Uganda’s 2,000 Jews have long maintained a modest existence. They live in the east of the country in a hilly, rural area that lacks paved roads, consistent electricity and freely running water. But this year, the situation for Uganda’s Jewish community, called the Abayudaya, has worsened. Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East...

Holy shit, you guys, I just read this article about the Jews in Uganda facing severe starvation (along with many other ethnic groups in East Africa). There are only 2,000 Jews total in Uganda and this crisis could potentially wipe them out as a group if we do not help! 

If you are Jewish, Black, Both, or just a good person who cares about the all of the people in East Africa, including the Abayudaya Jews, please consider donating to the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief’s East Africa campaign: 

https://donate.jdc.org/checkout/donation?eid=129318

Proceeds will go towards helping all 30 million people in East Africa living on the brink of starvation (not just the Abayudaya Jews, though it will certainly help save them, too). 

PLEASE GIVE OR AT LEAST BOOST!

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

So it was OK when CDM called a gay Iranian Jewish woman a white supremacist for holding a Magen David pride flag, but if somebody calls them out for using actual alt-right Neo-Nazi buzzwords when continuing to attack said woman, it’s suddenly a huge, pearl-clutching offense?

I level of anti-Jewish vitriol from the fauxke left is fucking astounding.

[northstarfan]

Given that Dyke March’s reps outright compared said gay Iranian Jewish woman’s presence to Nazis in a synagogue, they can keep right on being offended.

[hero-israel]

Irony:  their response to criticism is the perfect definition of pinkwashing.  “I can’t be racist, I’m gay!” 

[chiribomb-deactivated20220820]

HA

[accursedpeanut]

worth mentioning that gretchen hammond is a half-indian jewish trans woman- so cdm proudly campaigned to get a trans jewish woc fired and then repeatedly called her a white supremacist, even within their “apology” for “zio tears”. remember this while they continue acting like theyre being attacked by some imaginary privileged white jewish elite controlling the news.

[palamate-deactivated20220813]

From the bottom of my Sephardic lesbian heart: they can go and fuck a lulav

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I didn’t know she was mixed Indian until last night, and as a fellow mixed Jewish Indian person I’m massively excited, but also 20x more livid. Because not only are CDM whitewashing the Iranian gay woman who they ejected, but they’re whitewashing a trans Indian Jewish WoC who they got fired? Like I’ve been saying: “White” doesn’t mean anything in dialogues about Jews when it comes from non-Jewish people. Calling Jews white is just a silencing tactic, and it doesn’t matter if you’re legitimately a JoC, they’ll still label you as “white” to justify their anti-Semitism.

[arbenia]

The last Jews of Albania (1991)

holiday celebrated at the Vituli home in Albania 

Priptik near the graves of Jews in Tirana

Kolonomus, an Albanian Jewish woman who converted to Islam, displays pictures of her sister who lives in Haifa

Josef Jakoel holds a Hebrew document of Albanian Jews 

family at Tirana airport en route to Israel 

wearingin a “talit” - prayer shawl - in Tirana

A representative of the Ministry of Tourism helps Riketa Jomtov uncover the grave of a Jew in Vlora 

family saying goodbye to their neighbors as they leave Tirana for Israel 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Because they hate Jews.

Like, I can’t believe it’s that simple, and yet…

There was a post on here that once said Jews couldn’t claim to know oppression until they had known colonisation, totally discounting that 1) It was colonisation by the Romans that led to our exile 2) Colonisation is not a catch-all phenomenon for all oppression, nor is it something that has been limited to non-white populations only; by this logic, Scottish and Irish people would be PoC, but not Roma, which is absurd 3) Most importantly, by the virtue of living in the Diaspora, Jewish people have been colonised within other populations on top of being Jewish, sometimes in different places within the same families due to our moving around a lot. Like, there are Jewish families that were exiled from the Levant, then exiled from Spain, then settled in Baghdad for a while, and then left for India. Do people think Levantine Spanish Iraqi Indian Jews don’t know colonisation once, let alone several times? This also discounts the fact that mixed-race Jews like myself exist, and that maybe my experiences as an Indian woman whose family suffered under colonial rule also inform my experiences as a Jew??

Like you said, these assumptions are just so off-base, offensive, and bogus, yet people will keep making them because they’d rather hate us than acknowledge the truth.

[ameliarating]

If anyone ever wants to know who I am, just show them this screenshot.

[lunaghostgirl]

So is that saying that ghosts can’t be part of the minyan or say Kaddish for themselves then?

[ameliarating]

Yup. Certainly the dead aren’t obligated in mitzvot and as such probably cannot be counted in a minyan. However, if there is a minyan present, halachically speaking, I can’t think of a reason why they couldn’t be allowed to say kaddish for someone else (as one’s self is not one of the people one can mourn for). Save, of course, for the reasoning above - לא המיתים יהללו יה (”The dead cannot praise God” Ps. 115:17″). 

I admitted though that that is a conceptual argument and probably not a halacha. And while the Yerushalmi does give that reasoning for why a lulav should not be dry and withered, the Bavli say something different - a lulav should not be withered because that is not beautiful. And who’s to say ghosts cannot be beautiful?

TLDLR: ghosts cannot count in a minyan and they cannot say kaddish for themselves. 

[shiraglassman]

I like how many Jewish SFF posts I am finding this morning yes yes

“Can I say kaddish for myself if I’m a ghost” I love this.

[keshetchai]

Well the whole story of Kaddish is that a ghost needed OTHER people to say prayers to put him to rest. QED ghosts cannot say Kaddish for themselves.

[entanglingbriars]

that does not follow, ten people are needed for a minyan, so clearly as single ghost cannot say the kaddish alone.

[keshetchai]

well they also can’t say kaddish IN a minyan either. 

Premise: story of the origin of Kaddish is about a ghost whose soul is restless. A rabbi discovers the ghost and then tracks down the ghost’s son (who is alive) in order to teach him Jewishly and prepare him to pray on behalf of the his father’s spirit *because* the ghost cannot do so. This also illustrates why a group or community is needed for a restless spirit to move on.

SO:

A.) the Kaddish is said to put spirits to rest B.) the restlessness of a spirit is because of a lack of resolution with relationships the living community C.) resolution of issues with relationships cannot happen one-sided (i.e. atonement/reconciliation cannot be solved by just the individual alone) as illustrated by the fact that the ghost could not move on without assistance  D.) a minyan is a representation of the community

Therefore: 1.) a minyan is required to say Kaddish

E.) a minyan requires living adults F.) a ghost, by nature, is not alive

Therefore: 2.) a ghost cannot be in a minyan

1 and 2 are both true statements.

QED: a ghost cannot say Kaddish for themselves alone, nor can they count in a minyan saying kaddish on their behalf. 

[janothar]

Premise E is the whole discussion, though, you slipped your conclusion in as a premise. The core of the matter is “does a minyan require living adult Jews or just adult Jews?”

Can’t mourn yourself, from above is also a questionable premise in a word of ghosts.

The fact that I’m sitting here working prepositional logic to find these things is one of my favorite things about being Jewish.

[3tznius5this-deactivated2018010]

New question, if a child dies before bar mitzvah (**me stringing up hamsa to ward off the evil eye on that statement**) when the ghost has ‘aged’ the appropriate number of years, can he be counted? (If we are taking, yes a ghost can be counted in a minyan, of course) 

[ameliarating]

Age of majority is based on physical displays of puberty (body hair and secondary sexual characteristics) so I’m going to go with no. The ghost doesn’t age.

[3tznius5this-deactivated2018010]

well… technically all ghosts won’t have physical displays of puberty? since they’re incorporeal?  (also what is the source for that, not that I’m doubting you, just I haven’t heard of that before.) 

[ameliarating]

Gonna split my response in two because you bring up two good points.

1. Exactly - no ghosts will manifest signs of aging or puberty, so if they are in their own category of types of beings (as I assumed they were), they are not eligible to become bnei mitzvah. 

It’s true that nowadays we don’t wait for certain physical signs to manifest for someone to reach their age of majority. We’ve set a certain age instead. But since it’s based on that rubric, with the assumptions that twelve year old girls and thirteen year old boys will manifest certain traits (there are considerations taken if they don’t), it would seem that ghosts wouldn’t be counted in such circumstances. 

2. Yes, always ask me for sources! I hate that people seem to assume that a request for sources is a challenge. I should have provided them from the get go.

See Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Ishut, Chapter 2. Itself based on passages in the Gemara in Ketubot, Yevamot, and Kiddushin, depending on which particular halacha he’s codifying.

[keshetchai]

That is part of why I don’t feel my “E” statement is slipping my conclusion as a premise @janothar. We know a minyan can be formed by adults. We must conclude that a minyan is formed by the living. 

 Adulthood is a stage of life, not death. A ghost’s age cannot be determined by normal physical life stages as they are incorporeal. (other physical attributes needed to meet the requirements for a minyan…decompose, shall we say.)

From a Burial Society’s website: “A person who is very close to death is called a gosses. A gosses is still a member of the community and is to be accorded full respect, provided with every comfort, and may be counted for a minyan.“  therefore implying that by contrast, the dead cannot count in a minyan. (Maimoides tells us to wait twenty minutes to make sure a gosses isn’t merely in a “swoon” before declaring they are dead due to lack of respiration. Respiration is mentioned in Yoma as a necessary quality of being considered alive.)  

A sleeping man cannot count in a minyan, (unless you side with leniency). The dead, we are told, are sleeping in the “dust of the earth” - which is important. “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence” (Daniel 12:2). Ergo the dead cannot count.  

In the Talmud R. Yochanan expounds upon the verse, “Among the dead I am free (Ps. 88:6), explaining the dead are free of ritual and religious obligation because they are dead. So we know the dead are not obligated to say Kaddish. By extension, it makes sense to say the dead cannot say Kaddish, because they are dead, which is a state of freedom from fulfilling such obligations. 

Also someone mentioned that verse that the dead do not praise hashem, which if what a minyan is for anyways. 

The primary obligation of reciting kaddish itself is on the deceased’s son (or children), and therefore a ghost ought to have their children recite on their behalf anyways. And so the ghost should not recite for themselves. 

Although Torah may count in a minyan, it is only in addition to nine (assumed) living adults:  

Berakhot 47b 19. 

This is referenced in a book, apparently: 

“I still have the overwhelming impression, though, that when the downstairs was rennovated, all the ghosts departed as well. […] Rabbi Singer’s practice of opening up the ark to count the Torah scroll as the tenth for the minyan, threatening at least once to walk out so that there wouldn’t even be nine living men in the room, let alone ten…” 

“I like to think of their ghosts as being available to make up the minyan, but no one thinks that’s how Jewish law works, not even among the minority of us who continue to accept the custom of counting the Torah scroll.”

(Emphasis mine.) Apparently from a book called Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side. I feel being alive is a fair requirement for being in a minyan. 

It is probably more reasonable to have the ghost rely on a Torah scroll to count as the tenth person in a minyan anyways. Also because the Talmud says someone who is “crazed” cannot count in a minyan, all nine other people must have first agreed that there even is a ghost to count or not, and agree that no one is hallucinating or under mental distress for any reason. 

[janothar]

I see your argument, and now concede that you’ve backed up E, at least on the issue of a minyan must consist of living adults, though I will take issue with statement 1, because adulthood may be a stage of life, but there is absolutely folklore (which I can’t cite at the moment, at work) which mentions child ghosts, therefore there must also be adult ghosts.

Now, here’s a fun bit I had forgotten earlier (I again can’t cite exactly, but it’s references in Jewish Magic and Superstition by Tractenberg) ghosts CAN have a minyan…and likely it must be entirely ghosts. There are traditional (Ashkenazi, at least) stories of ghosts annoying the living because they were buried with improper shrouds and specifically complaining that they are embarrassed to go to services with the other ghosts. (who presumably are not bothering the living, just hanging around.)

So, yeah, either there can be 100% ghostly minyans, or ghosts really couldn’t give a shit what the rules are, they’re going to go to services either way…which is itself a properly Jewish response to dying.

[imnotwhiteimjewish]

Gate to the Pardesi Synagogue in Jew Town, located in Kochi, Kerala, India. It is the oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth, built in the 16th century. Photo by Aviva West.

[jewish-archives-blog]

Jewish girls in the 1909 International Workers’ Day parade in New York City; draped over their chests are signs reading “Abolish child slavery!” in both English and Yiddish.

[bisexualamy]

And honestly, on that previous train of thought, it makes me really uncomfortable that Jewish students (at least where I’m from in the United States, though I suspect many other countries are no better) are told to consume media from “greats” of the past that were well-documented antisemites, without their teachers and curriculums even challenging or acknowledging that fact. The antisemitic views of these writers, artists, and thinkers are so often ignored or brushed off as the “views of the time” without a second thought to how uncomfortable that makes Jewish students feel.

This is not a commentary on whether or not these works should or shouldn’t be considered great, but rather pointing out the fact that it’s considered okay to normalize the antisemitism of the past on the grounds of it being widespread “back then”. But, that just perpetuates a cycle of bringing that normalized antisemitism, that’s supposed to be “just in the past”, into a present day setting where it’s supposedly no longer allowed. When I was told to read Oliver Twist as a high school student, and had to witness not only Dickens, but my own English teacher, refer to Fagin as “the Jew” like it was totally normal, it was a constant reminder that my fellow Jews and I will always be outsiders. 

While these same teachers may argue that this kind of antisemitism is unacceptable, may even acknowledge at the beginning of reading a novel that the author’s decision to do this was antisemitic, their actions speak louder than their words. Continuing to normalize characters like Fagin and Shylock, regardless of who wrote them, instead of challenging those stereotypes, simply because those authors have stood the test of time, continues to perpetuate antisemitism. And, this will always force Jewish students to make the impossible choice between accepting that antisemitism silently, or singling themselves out among their peers and teachers, as if they’re the wrong ones.

[bluespock-blog]

[brehaaorgana]

(In case my reblog will go unnoticed) I'm sorry but could you explain what you meant by saying Poland has "a bad track record for the entirety of Holocaust"? It sounds like you're acussing us of being complict in Holocaust, which is very much not what happened.

So let me make this very clear: as a convert, I had no family who died in the Holocaust, and none who survived it. However, I am real appalled at your claim on behalf of the people who do have that family, and also on behalf of actual history. 

Were Polish gentiles also victimized by Nazi Germany? Yes. Were they also often (not all, but most) antisemites? Yes. Does Poland have a large amount of righteous gentiles? Yes. Did many Polish gentiles actively participate in the murdering of Jewish people, the stealing of their homes, the torture and abuse? YES. 

Prior to World War II, antisemitism in Poland had been growing, and Polish authorities had taken various measures to exclude Jews from key sectors of society. Some Polish politicians pressed for the mass emigration of Poland’s Jewish population.

[…]

After killing in mass shootings almost 1.5 million Jews in hundreds of locations in occupied Soviet territories, the Germans decided to construct stationary killing centers in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau being the most well known. The ghettos became “holding pens” for Jews before deportation to a killing center.

As German forces implemented the killing, they drew upon some Polish agencies, such as Polish police forces and railroad personnel, in the guarding of ghettos and the deportation of Jews to the killing centers. Individual Poles often helped in the identification, denunciation, and hunting down of Jews in hiding, often profiting from the associated blackmail, and actively participated in the plunder of Jewish property.

There were incidents, particularly in the small towns of eastern Poland, where local Polish residents—acutely aware of the Germans’ presence and their antisemitic policies—carried out or participated in pogroms and murdered their Jewish neighbors. The pogrom in the town of Jedwabne in 1941 is one of the best-documented cases.  

Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust

And:

Polish peasants and villagers played an instrumental role in rounding up and denouncing Jews during the Holocaust, often taking initiative without any encouragement from the Germans, according to a soon-to-be-published study by Holocaust historian Jan Grabowski.

In “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland,” Grabowski argues that Poles living in the countryside served as enthusiastic accomplices to the Nazis and that many Jews who had managed to survive the ghettos and escape transports to the death camps eventually lost their lives only because they were turned in by their Polish neighbors. The book is scheduled for publication in October by the Indiana University Press. 

[…]

“For one, I had always thought to myself that the main instigators, actors and perpetrators were the Germans,” he explained.  “Second, I knew there were horrific things going on, but I thought it was all part of a popular, disorganized activity – killing people who no longer enjoyed protection of the state and were in a free-for-all situation.  What I did not know – and there was not even one single article in the entire published historiography about this – was the extent to which these efforts were organized. And this was all going on practically without any German involvement – in most cases, the Germans were sitting in cities 15-20 miles away.”

Holocaust Survivors Miriam Kuperhand and Saul Kuperhand wrote in Shadows of Treblinka that: “For every noble Pole who risked all to rescue a fellow human being, there were tenscoundrels who hunted Jews for a livelihood.” (page 51. Quote citation found via this Master’s Thesis, entitled Bystanders, Blackmailers, and Perpetrators: Polish Complicity in the Holocaust.

Or what about the Kiecle pogram – the one AFTER German defeat, where Polish gentiles decided to murder 42 Holocaust survivors in 1946?

So maybe it’s not that Poles were never complicit, maybe it’s that you don’t know the whole story. y’all have some gall.

[littlegoythings]

Anti-Semitic incidents rose a whopping 86% in the first 3 months of 2017

In the first three months of this year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US was 86% higher than the same period last year, says a new report.

The states which had the highest number of incidents in 2016 and the first quarter of 2017 were:

California (211 in 2016; 87 in first quarter 2017)

New York (199; 97)

New Jersey (157; 24)

Florida (137; 41)

Massachusetts (125; 38)

These states also have some of the largest Jewish populations in the nation.

[ds9vgrconfessions]

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[I really hate when people call the Ferengi the Jewish species of Star Trek. Not just because Vulcans were intended for that purpose, but because when you sit down and watch DS9, it’s obvious to me that the real ‘Space Jews’ of that series were the Bajorans, between the occupations, the clinging to their faith after unfathomable tragedy and the way the fallout of the occupation will affect generations yet to come. ]

[evilwickedme]

“antisemitism is gone” “It’s antizionism, not antisemitism!” “You guys are the actual privileged ones” 86% rise in antisemitic attacks in just one year. Jewish people are leaving France to the point where soon there will be nothing left of a vibrant community. Graves are being desecrated, children are being cursed while people stand by. And these people cheer. Two of these comments were by people of color. One of them was by a woman. All of them reinforce the idea that Jewish lives are worth less. That terrorism against us doesn’t count. FUCK THAT. Stop antisemitism NOW. You, personally, are responsible for every life lost.

[berniesrevolution]

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

They’re literally calling for every white gun owner to step up and kill black people. That’s not okay. Just imagine a black person doing the same, saying the same things. A black person would be arrested immediately and put behind bars for life. And after that you’re asking why we’re still fighting? Because we’re afraid to lose our lives! Ad promoting attack on Americans should have never been released. It’s just white supremacy power.

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

This ad is high key terrifying.

[renaissanceenby]

“bully and terrorize the law abiding” LMAO the nra is in some complex fucking denial… so exercising one’s right to protest is “terrorizing” now and the nra is concerned with WHAT IS LEGAL when we have a president who’s admitted to multiple illegal activities with n punishment.

[laundryandtaxes]

“They use their media/they use their schools/they use their movies” is very classically antisemitic rhetoric too, which is another important reason the left should keep an eye out for antisemitic statements- they form part of the bedrock of this kind of ideology, even to such an extent that proponents of this ideology might not even be able to accurately name the “they” as Jewish people due to propaganda and coding.

[localbadgirl-deactivated2017121]

Bulgaria just appointed a facist and neo-Nazi, Valeri Simeonov (who is also Deputy Prime Minister), to lead their council on how to “deal” with the Romani people in Bulgaria. 

Valeri Simeonov literally talked about creating modern concentration camps, and in 2016, when speaking of Bulgaria’s Roma minority, he told the parliament: “They are brazen, feral, human-like creatures that demand pay without work, and collect sickness benefits without being sick. They receive child benefits for children that play with pigs on the street, and for women that have the instincts of stray dogs.” His party has literally called for the demolition of “Gypsy ghettos” and for Roma to be instead isolated in closed reservations that could “generate income as tourist attractions”

Asides from this Ilian Todorov from the far-right ATAKA party (ultranationalist, racist, especially antisemitic and anti-Roma, xenophobic, especially anti-Muslim and anti-Turkish) is now Bulgaria, Sofia’s regional governor. 

The opposition party, Yes Bulgaria, warned that this “toxic national-populism” can only divide society and “heighten the risk of stirring up ethnic enmity” when we have already long gone past the “risk” stage as proven by recent submissions of the European Roma Rights Center and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee – Both reports detail recent violent events which include mass attempts to storm Roma neighbourhoods, an increase in hate speech, failures by the authorities to deal properly with racially motivated hate crime, as well as incidents such as the brutal assault in April by police of a Romani father and son outside the village of Bohot in Pleven province. The son sustained serious injuries, but his father died at the scene of this assault. The authorities justified the police action by claiming that the men were found in possession of stolen pesticides and had resisted arrest.

The former vice-deputy of the ATAKA party, went on TV to praise the police for “neutralising the two thieves,” for sending a clear message, and spreading the kind of fear that will cause “all crooks and thieves to lay down.”

The situation of Roma in Bulgaria is worsening. And if those events listed are not enough already Roma are still racially segregated in education and housing, being forcefully evicted and having their properties demolished as well.

(The source with links to the reports is here.)

[localbadgirl-deactivated2017121]

Can yall please read this.