This year I have decided I will not put up with bullshit statements by teachers when it pertains to Judaism. I don’t have the patience and I don’t have it in me.
Yes my school, a community college, has a tiny Jewish population and yes often I am the only Jew in my class, but I can’t do this anymore.
So when you tell me that Judaeo-Christian viewpoint of sex is for procreation only, seed is life because they didn’t understand science, and other such stuff in my Sexual Behavior class yeah I’m going to raise my hand and say something.
I’m going to respectfully tell you that Judaeo-Christian is not even a thing because they are nothing a like and it perpetuates the idea that Judaism is Christianity-lite. Also these two religions could not be more different.
Also if you look at the Tanach and Talmud you will see they are very ahead of their times in terms of science and they discuss life, conception, and biology.
That in Judaism sex is meant to be good and fun and not for procreation only. That women are not obligated to have children and are entitled to have sex be enjoyable for them.
When I am in my Women in Literature class and you tell me the during the Renaissance only 4% of women were educated I am going to ask to clarify if you are talking about Christian women because if you looked at Muslim and Jewish women during that time period and during most times period they were far more educated then their Christian counterparts.
And you know what. I am incredibly proud of myself. They say we have many selves our Academic Self, Familial Self, Hidden Self, Developmental Self and so on, but you know what fundamental aspects to all my selves I have often hidden away out fear and a million other reasons, my Jewishness.
My Jewishness is so ingrained in how I view the world, how I conduct myself, what my moral and ethic codes are, and so much more. I am sick of having and being encouraged to hide it. Yeah the way people have built the world is that is makes being a Jew very difficult to almost impossible and it is pretty clear that this is not a world set up for Jews to have a place, but if goyim get go out a be why can’t I?
There is long line of strong Jewish women reaching back to Sarah, the first Jewish woman, who I take strength and courage from.
{Disclaimer: I know and acknowledge that for safety reasons not every Jewish person even has the option of contemplating not hiding their Jewishness, but that is not what this post is about. It is not about what others should or should not do it is about me, my thoughts, my feeling, and my frustrations}
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