INACTIVE ACCOUNT

aggie || he/they/she || latine || prospective convert to Judaism (sideblog)

[didyoumeanxianity]

Your friendly Black History Month reminder that Black Jews are JEWS.

Born Jews, Jews by choice, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Israeli, diaspora…they are an integral part of all of our communities and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

We still have work to do as a community to uplift Jewish POC, particularly Black Jews, but to my Black Jewish friends out there know that I see you and I will keep trying to do the work.

Happy Black History Month. ❤️

[dead-lavender-society]

during Black History Month please remember that Black Jews also do face antisemtisim. we go through the hardships of being Jewish. do not assume we are any less Jewish because of our Blackness

thank you

-sincerely a Black Jew

[edenfenixblogs]

Black Jews are Jews!!! As much as any other Jew! Support Black Jews, now and always!

[jewish-rock]

a black rabbi I know shared a story of being in the beit din for someone's conversion. as part of the conversion process they visited another congregation, and the people there thanked the rabbi for "joining" judaism.

so many jews of color I know, especially black jews, have faced similar racism.

we need to do better. we know better than anyone that despite our racialization, judaism doesn't have one look.

[magnetothemagnificent]

There's something that really gets me about how the Torah is alive. A Torah scroll is buried when it's destroyed and can't be salvaged. People are as careful holding a Torah scroll as they are holding a baby. We dress our Torah scrolls in adorned cases or decorated robes. We celebrate it every year like it's its birthday. And the words of the Torah themselves are also alive. We constantly reread and recontextualize and reinterpret the Torah. The Torah is as alive as the Jewish people are.

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

[wayfaring-soldier]

Jesus taught that divorce was only allowed because people demanded it. It wasn't the way things were supposed to be, but God was like, 'ookay. we'll set up a system since your stubborn asses are gonna do it anyway.' He didn't want Israel to have a monarchy either, but let them do it. Whether divorce is allowed or not, it is the result of a host of other sins. It is not the ideal.

Sex within marriage is encouraged in the NT. If the Puritans were against that, that's their weird thing.

Faith is the essential thing in both testaments, but I don't think I've ever seen it written in either that you're faithless if you question things. Kind of impossible not to.

[jessicalprice]

“Faith is the essential thing in both testaments”

Truly spoken like someone who has never actually read the Tanakh.

[eliyahu613]

i found the image without the ugly instagram overlay!

[prof-grace-aspen]

Shabbat shalom!!

May you have light and peace this weekend.

[juanepstein]

how it started :

how it went :

[sillyjewishqueer]

queer jewish flag coining!

[pt. queer jewish flag coining! end pt.]

nivrah bein hashmashot

a term for queer jews, translating to "created between the suns" in reference to the night between the sixth and seventh days of creation. the rainbow was created then, along with other things that transcended binaries.

ovri

term for queer (especially trans and/or gender non-conforming) jews, translating to "one who crosses over" which can reference transition or subverting gender/sexuality norms. the plural is ovrim.

these flags/terms are jewish-exclusive! other than that, feel free to use

if you credit/tag me, you can use these flags as inspiration or redesign them!

credits: where i first heard these terms!

[magnetothemagnificent]

These are incredible!!

[prorochestvo]

The Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg

In the middle of the 19th century, the Jewish community of St. Petersburg numbered about 10 thousand people, Therefore, at the initiative of the jewish community, the construction of a new synagogue began. The main sponsors were Baron Gunzburg and the first chairman of the city's Jewish community and philanthropist Samuel Polyakov (brother of Lazar Polyakov, the one who built the Moscow Choral Synagogue). The construction was completed in 1893.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

can't wait for the next jewish holiday

[gay-jewish-bucky]

you're telling me these trees are bi?

[xclowniex]

I saw a mutual talk about how some jews are weird towards intermarriage and I want to discuss it.

I am firmly of the belief, that it is fine for jews to marry non jews. It would be weird if I wasn't as my parents are an intermarriage.

Like firstly, it is weird as fuck to want to control who someone marries who fucks. As long as everything is legal and consensual, it is no one's business bar the people involved.

Secondly, it simply isn't really that possible for everyone???? Like some of us live in countries with small jewish communities.

I, a lesbian, only know of 3 other Sapphic jews. Am I supposed to just marry one of them, regardless of if I'm attracted to them and they're attracted to me? If I don't like any of them, or none of them like me, am I supposed to just stay single forever?

what am i supposed to do? Go on a lesbian pilgrimage around the world to find a jewish girlfriend?????

(Honestly as a concept that does fuck, but it should be a choice not something I have to do).

Also like, a jew is a jew is a jew. It doesn't matter if you have one non Jewish parent. Your jewishness does not get fucking disintegrated upon birth if you have one non Jewish parent.

[amaditalks]

Chanukah night 6 and the birds have flown home for the rest of the chag!

[jompsjnngurdsn]

I saw a lot of “holiday” art in the Kirby tag, and wanted to put my own…my own sp…my own spi-

[spoondrifts]

missed night five (still lit them, forgot to take a pic) so enjoy night six <3

+ one with better lighting

[trixic-frankenman-deactivated20]

I love you gay Jews. I love you sapphic Jews. I love you lesbian Jews. I love you mspec Jews. I love you trans Jews. I love you multigender Jews. I love you agender Jews. I love you nonbinary Jews. I love you ace Jews. I love you aro Jews. I love you polyam Jews. I love you Jews with contradictory labels. I love you queer Jews.

[kosher-martian]

We need more Hanukkah movies/specials. Real ones, not reskinned Hallmark movies. The only ones I can think of are:

A Rugrats Chanukah - a classic for us 90s kids.

Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah- I bet your grandparents had a copy on VHS.

Full Court Miracle - actually a really enjoyable Disney Channel Original Movie and one of two "basketball+ethnic holiday" movies they made, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Eight Crazy Nights - no further comment

What, we couldn't even get to eight movies? We somehow control the entertainment industry and the best we could do is two specials, a TV movie, and a single theatrical release between 1995 and 2003?

I mean sure this plays nicely into my theory that the 90s were an unparalleled time of normalized (i.e. not gawking) Jewish visibility in US media that we have not seen since... but it doesn't have to be! The era of streaming and nonstop content means there has to be at least one desperate coked-out executive who'll throw money at us just to get content to push for the holidays.

You can have this one for free (just do a special thanks in the credits everyone will skip): Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanuka! A spelling bee + Hanukkah movie.

[starlightomatic]

i'm gonna make a series for the less well-known holidays! don't compare these results directly with the other one since I don't expect this post to break containment, but here, just for kicks:

jews, do you celebrate tu bishvat?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you observe/mark 17 tammuz?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you observe/mark tisha b'av?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you celebrate tu b'av?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you observe/mark tzom gedalia?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you celebrate hoshanah rabbah? (this is NOT rosh hashanah - separate thing)

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you celebrate sigd?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[starlightomatic]

jews, do you observe/mark 10 tevet?

yes

no

sometimes

nuance (this is not a goy button)

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[outreach-by-adellah]

Here's a funny Jewish Uquiz I found:

Although the Amidah, the central prayer of Jewish liturgy, is known as the Shmoneh Esreh (literally: eighteen), it actually contains ninetee

Has the added side effect of teaching about the Amidah!