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[thebestoftumbling]

no one man should have this much power

[murdershegoat]

hello american followers hope ur having a fantastic fourth of july and here’s a friendly reminder that the poem inscribed at the bottom of the statue of liberty was written by a sephardic, american-born jewish woman who advocated for jewish immigrants fleeing persecution from europe

[murdershegoat]

oh! and in case anybody wants to refamiliarise themselves with said poem:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

[murdershegoat]

just a friendly reminder that this type of rhetoric is misleading, (in my opinion, slightly antisemitic) and not the way to go about fighting religious homophobes.

religious jews still follow these laws. we dont wear clothes that have a blend of wool & linen (laws of shatnez). fresh produce in israel follows all of the agricultural laws outlined in the torah. as for some of the other laws i always see referenced: we don’t eat shellfish or pork or anything prohibited by the torah. clean-shaven men will only ever use electric razors never blades. we don’t work on the sabbath, we observe the sanctioned holy days, we believe in, love and fear God and obey God’s commandments.

personally, i find the rhetoric harmful and insulting for three reasons. one, it only works on the (very christian) premise that the torah is outdated, and that ~nobody in their right mind~ would follow those laws anymore. two, it tends to ignore the fact that lgbtq+ orthodox jews exist and have to live through the struggle of being lgbtq+ and observant, despite community backlash, severe judgement and institutionalised homophobia. and three, it gives homophobia-masked-as-religious-observance some sort of legitimacy because yeah, the rest of those laws are kept in varying degrees by millions of people.

don’t fight homophobes by saying ‘look at all of these other ridiculous laws’ – those laws matter to a lot of people, including me, a jewish lesbian. instead, say ‘do not stand idly by your fellow’s blood (leviticus 19:16)’, ‘whoever humiliates another in public forfeits their place in the World to Come (avot 3:11), ‘one shall not say to a person words that hurt them or cause them pain against which they cannot stand (sefer hachinuch, mitzvah 338)’, ‘do not do to others that which you would not wish them to do to you. this is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary (gemara shabbat 31a)’, and what is perhaps one of my favorite verses in tanach, ‘to what is good and just is more preferable to God than sacrifice (proverbs 21:3)’.

oh, and here’s a good starting point for educating your religious friends and family members. 

[whatmakesyoulove]

Happy Passover to all my Jewish followers

חג פסח שמח!

[wendynerdwrites]

Here Are the Jewish People

Western popular concepts of Jews that people here take as the extent of our tribe:

The reality:

Boys from the Jewish population of Yemen, which has been around for 2500 hundred years but has been slowly massacred over the past few generations.

The Lemba of South Africa and Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe in particular has a large and VERY long history with their Jewish Community)

The Abayudaya of Uganda, some of the great Jewish musicians

The Beta Israeli of Ethiopia

Igbo Jews of Nigeria

Cochin Jews of India 

Baghdadi Jews

Kaifeng Jews of China, who go back to the 7th or 8th century. Unfortunately, during the 20th century much of their culture was almost wiped out and the Kaifeng are currently working to rediscover their Jewish heritage and culture.

Jewish Children in Puerto Rico (Jews have been in Puerto Rico since the 15th century, many fleeing from the Inquisition)

The Beit Shalom Choir in Japan

Kosher comes in all colors, from all over the world, and in a variety cultural groups. We’re a small portion of the human population, but we have EVERYONE. We are all members of this tribe.

Because stereotypes are bullshit.

[watchingthedetective]

Boosting because you sure as fuck won’t see this in any Western textbook. 

[particularlyparasitic]

Shoutout to the regularly erased JOC

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

As a jew who has never set foot outside of Israel I always love seeing things like this. I don’t really like the way my country is right now or the way the religion controls everything and is twisted in many ways to benefit the preachers in power, but I love seeing this side of the religion. The fact that it exists beyond what I know and grew up with, the fact that I could go so many places in the world and still find people who speak my language and have something in common with me.

I don’t know I just think it’s neat

[russian-lezion]

I was at a party yesterday and two of the guys started making Nazi and antisemitic jokes. The rest of the crowd laughed and then one of my friends pointed out that I am Jewish. One of the guys half apologised, while stifling a laugh.

If I wasn’t there they would have continued making those jokes, done the hitler salute, and not thought twice about it. While they would never have dared make racist comments of another kind, antisemitism is treated as a joke, a non existent threat.

This is why, when antisemitic incidents happen, people start questioning them, and wondering whether the motive was truly there. This is why me and other jews have to convince everyone it’s actually antisemitism, even though it’s clear from the start. And they never believe us anyway, because antisemitism isn’t real, right? It was just a joke.

[feralpunkz-deactivated20190902]

you though this was gonna be a christmas post? guess again bitch! happy hanukkah! may your latkes be delicious and you have a blessed holiday season! אני אוהב את כולכם כל כך !!!

[convervative-blog]

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[ora-not-oral-deactivated2018070]

Found on fb, no credit.not mine.

[mothman-dontpullout]

jewish holidays as memes

yom kippur

chanukah

sukkot

purim

feel free to add

[yidquotes]

Strangely, the Torah contains no reference to an afterlife… Perhaps the Bible did not raise the issue of afterlife because it recognized that when it becomes central to religion, it diverts people’s attention from their responsibilities in this world.

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

[chiribomb-deactivated20220820]

People stereotype Jews as being smart and shrewd and all that, but we also made a drinking holiday the night after an all-day fast, so how smart can we be, really

[golemqueen]

god: here's the torah, i worked pretty hard on it! enjoy!

jews:

jews:

jews: hey op do you take constructive criticism

[yidquotes]

Jews read the Bible the way a person reads a love letter. When you read a love letter, you don’t just read it for content. You try and squeeze every last little bit of meaning out of it.

Harold Kushner

[idrils]

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[happygelir]

Soft top on my jeep and oil changed! I’m ready for you summer!! #jeepwrangler #southernliving #tennessee #readyforsummer #oilchanged #softtop #redjeep (at Knoxville, Tennessee)

[happygelir]

You gotta bring your own music when you gotta drive through the mountains. #nosignal #noradio #appalachianmountains #smokeymountains #tennessee #northcarolina #America #southernliving (at Great Smokey Mountains in North Carolina)