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🍯 Hinda/הינדא 🍯 Blog for all things Jewish! Dirty zionist. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי

[troybarnesbucky]

the thing is we cannot make judaism about antisemitism. we can’t let us sink so deeply into grief about the dehumanization and violence and hurt. we have to make judaism about us jews, about k’lal yisrael and l’dor va dor and everything in between. we need to be jewish and love being jewish and yeah we deal with the vitriolic hate but every generation does, and still we’re here being jewish — spiritually, in praxis, in education, in joy, in despair — not just out of spite but out of LOVE and perseverance. it’s getting bad i know it is, it’s been a decade of alarms sounding. but antisemitism cannot be the boundaries within which we operate as jews, as a people.

[starlightomatic]

have you ever seen a callout post for someone on here featuring the accusation that they think the usa should continue existing? have you ever seen a post reblogged with “op thinks the usa should continue existing” in large font to warn their follows away from that blogger?

i’m not debating the merits of that political position either way, just noticing i’ve never seen that. interesting!

[hindahoney]

I never see them do this for China either, even though one of their main taking points is about the Uyghurs.

[hindahoney]

People would stop clowning on the "punch a nazi" crowd if they were actually capable of identifying a real nazi instead of conflating it with "person who disagrees with me"

[hindahoney]

The "Punch a nazi" people are the same ones who made maps of synagogues, and apps that tell you which groceries not to buy because theyre "zionist"

[hindahoney]

People would stop clowning on the "punch a nazi" crowd if they were actually capable of identifying a real nazi instead of conflating it with "person who disagrees with me"

[askjumblr]

How do Jews in rural areas keep kosher? I want to convert in the near future, and I live within a reasonable enough driving distance of a small city to do that (about an hour each way), but I don't even live in an actual town; my closest neighbors are cornfields, the only town nearby is tiny and Christian, and the only grocery stores are Walmart and Aldi. If there's a Jewish presence in the rural area I live, then it's small, isolated, or very quiet and things like kosher grocery stores or butchers are nonexistent.

Do people who commute long distances to get to their synagogues also make their kosher meat purchases at the same time? Do you focus more on cutting out treyf foods from your diet than on only eating kosher certified meats? I know "just move to a more Jewish area" is something a lot of people suggest, but that isn't an option for me at this point in my life.

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[hindahoney]

I lived in a small town when I started becoming observant. I would drive an hour and a half to Trader Joes when I could afford it, but otherwise I would essentially eat as a vegetarian. I would eat a lot of Beyond/Impossible/Gardein meat. I separated my dishes, and only bought food with a kosher certification at the grocery store.

As for shabbat, it was very difficult. You have to make a choice between keeping shabbat or being involved in the community. If you're lucky and get close to someone at shul, they may be willing to let you spend shabbat at their place sometimes so you don't have to drive. I used to drive an hour every shabbat to shul until I moved closer.

People in the conversion process aren't "supposed" to keep shabbat 100%, so driving could be your one allowed activity until you complete your conversion. I would say that at this stage, getting involved in the community is one of the most important steps (if not the most), and shabbat/kosher observance can come later once you're able to.

[kvetchings]

there are only six people following this blog and I mostly used it as a journal, but I hope someone sees this. I started this account in high school when I was very insecure in my Jewishness. I wanted so badly to live a Jewish life and I felt not Jewish enough to try. it’s 10 years later now and I’m a Hebrew school teacher, I light shabbat candles almost every week, I speak Yiddish, I play Jewish music on the violin and guitar (personally and professionally), I have a degree in Jewish studies, people I know text me to ask me questions about halakha, and I’m waiting to hear back about my rabbinical school application. I get so much joy from my Jewish life. I’m so glad I started learning. I’m so glad I chose to be Jewish.

[nonbinaryjudean]

"vast harm to diaspora jews is being caused by israel" no actually its being caused by antisemites. its caused by the regular ordinary people who decide to stab and shoot and beat and injure jews. its caused by regular people who decide to ram their cars into synagogues and set fire to jewish preschools. israel isnt boycotting jewish businesses and vandalizing them. israel isnt firebombing synagogues and throwing elderly jewish women off balconies. fuck you.

[captainlordauditor]

Saw a Threads post like "Jews what's your most heretical take" and everyone was giving really boring baseline Reform stuff like "patrilineal Jews are Jews" or "you don't need to keep kosher"

Had to come here to ask jumblr for the unhinged takes. Mine is that men shouldn't be rabbis because it makes a shul too much like the Beis HaMikdash

[captainlordauditor]

You guys are not listening either!! i need the UNHINGED takes the CRAZY ones

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

1. The 25th hour of Shabbat has been rendered unnecessary and should no longer be observed.

2. Rabbinic rulings on the permissibility of various disability accommodations are only valid if the posek had first-hand experience living with the specific disability in question.

3. The sages aren’t better than me just because they were born first.

[hindahoney]

1. Chicken used to be considered pareve like fish and it still should be. You can't milk a chicken.

2. If we are following the spirit of not boiling a kid in its mother's milk, eggs and chicken should be forbidden together too.

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Crazy how many people are just full time antisemitic conspiracy theorists now. Like people I respected and took seriously

[the-library-alcove]

The sheer number of people who basically traded in their principles, integrity, morality, and occasionally dignity in order to spout Jew-hate is depressing.

[hindahoney]

A quintessential jewish experience post Oct. 7 is seeing an influencer you followed for years go down the antisemitism rabbit hole

[hindahoney]

every leftist screams about "international law!!! war crime!!! you can't assassinate another country's leader!!!" but if it was netanyahu all of them would suddenly change their minds

[wanderingmadscientist]

To all of the self-hating Jews in the diaspora who think they'll be safe because they hate Israel and constantly attack Zionists, I'd like to remind you of this quote from megillat Esther

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מׇרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכׇּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ Mordecai had this message delivered to Esther: “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace.

[ketubahring]

Queen Esther was a young Jewish woman hiding her identity inside an empire that wanted her people gone. And when the moment came where she could either protect herself or risk everything for her people, she chose her people. She fasted for three days, walked into the king's throne room uninvited (which could have gotten her killed), and changed the entire course of Jewish history.

Purim is really a story about how the people who seem all-powerful aren't always as secure as they look, and how one person's courage at the right moment can unravel an entire evil plot. Esther was probably was terrified, but she moved anyway because she understood that she was exactly where she needed to be for exactly this reason.

I love Mordechai's words to her, "Who knows whether you came to your position for just such a time as this?" Every generation has its "such a time as this" moment and somehow we're still here, every single time.

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[fdelopera]

Chag Purim sameach, and Free Iran!

🦁✡️ 💙 🦁☀️

[jessicamiriamdrew]

i do actually think people should try to use a word other than cabal

[pedro-friedeberg]

I certainly didn’t hear the tumblr human rights activists crying when the islamic republic murdered Iranian children en masse barely a month prior. I wonder what changed their priorities?

[hindahoney]

the leader of persia getting killed right before purim. HaShem has a sense of humor

[nonbinaryjudean]

the fact that people's takeaway is "israel just attacked iran! how evil! poor iran!" rather than "iranian people have been begging for this to happen and have been murdered in the tens of thousands by this horrible government for protesting because they want a regime change" just shows that hating jews and hating israel is higher on these peoples priority list than the lives and futures of the iranian people. its like they only know that iran exists when they see a headline that says the word israel in it. they cant even be fucking bothered to read a single thing. they just want to justify their hatred for israel. they dont care what the people of iran have been going through for ages. its so fucked and to the people of iran: the jewish community is standing with you. woman, life, freedom.