Janaina Medeiros
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What if we just decided that the Wednesday of Pesach was Frog Day
Because of the frog plague + It's Wednesday My Dudes memes
ETA: i wanna see a meme with a bunch of frogs rushing at Pharaoh shouting it's Wednesday
SAY NO MORE
Chag frog sameach!
The House of Rabbi Haim Pinto “Hakatan”, Casablanca, Morocco. Photographed by Yossi Sahar, 1993.
Alright y'all. The whole thing about unmarried nonorthodox people wearing tichels.
I feel like more and more I've been seeing people do this without knowing much about the context of tichels/hair covering or how it functions as a societal marker of communal affiliation in the orthodox world. I feel like some people don't even realize that the movement of unmarried people wearing it is a recent innovation (like... within the last 5ish years) and just think it's an old Jewish tradition. A lot of the people are see doing it are folks very early in their reconnection/conversion journeys and I wonder how many are doing it from a place of rootedness in all the complexities.
And look, I'm all for ritual creation/innovation, it's my jam, but I feel like a lot of people don't even realize unmarried-tichelling is ritual innovation and just think "oh hey Jewish thing, I should do it" and I don't feel great about that.
Is it possible to appropriate your own culture? Maybe not. But also, maybe it is, if someone is sufficiently disconnected from the aspect they're connecting to and isn't putting in the work to deeply understand it. I think for very mainstream Jewish stuff it's pretty much impossible to appropriate but if you're gonna start doing more off the wall or transgressive stuff you've gotta have a knowledge base. And yes - unmarried tichelling IS transgressive, it's a statement of cultural reclamation in opposition to the norms of the practice and a strong repudiation of amatonormativity -- and that's amazing but no one ever frames it this way, they just frame it like, "uwu I'm connecting to Jewish stuff."
Like here's the thing about that. When you're joining or reconnecting to the Jewish people you primarily join or connect to a community and pick up your community's norms. This doesn't mean you have to be in lock-step with them and can't learn and explore outside of that, but sometimes it feels like people are just plugging shit in because it's a Jewish thing. But here's thing -- there's really no such thing as "it's a Jewish thing" because the Jewish world is so diverse and so old. Things exist in context and in communities and in places and in times and history. The ones from other places and times are not barred to you, but they mean something within their contexts. They're not just for cherrypicking without learning what they mean.
On that note, as a social marker, hair covering is a whole language. There is SO MUCH information that gets communicated by your hair covering -- the Orthodox subcommunity you're part of, the country you live in, your politics, your religious philosophy, whether your community leans toward spirituality vs rationality. If you have no idea what you're saying in that language, maybe you should figure it out first?
Then of course there's the fact that the style Wrapunzel popularized is from one of the popular Israeli styles which was created by Mizrahi women, and was not what Ashkenazi folks' ancestors in the shtetl would have been wearing. Which does not mean you're not allowed to wear it, but it does mean it sounds real weird to talk about how it's about connecting to your ancestors.
I truly believe folks are coming from a good place, and there are real and valid reasons to wear tichel. As members of a society where people don't get married super young, of course it makes sense to wear traditional markers of adulthood. I have a friend who's talked about it as a spiritual container. Tichelling can be a really powerful experience.
Honestly, I used to be super drawn to it. I have a whole box of tichels I started collecting back when I felt like I wasn't allowed to wear one if I wasn't married just because I felt so drawn even to scarves themselves. I watched tons of Andrea Grinberg's videos back in the early days of Wrapunzel, when it was still a blog and not yet a store. I started wrapping on myself and on friends in private. Eventually I got the courage to go outside wearing tichels, and I really enjoyed it. I've seen how joyful it makes my friends who I wrap tichels on, especially transfemme folks.
But I don't do it anymore, because so much of what I see has become so fucking contextless that leaves too bitter of a taste in my mouth. I know longer relate to it as something I'm internally drawn to. And that's a sad thing.
To be clear this isn't a callout post and I'm not telling you to STOP or that you CAN'T. I am saying, maybe spend time learning and understanding the historical and religious and social contexts and then either boldly claim your ritual innovation or gently set it down. Stop fucking doing it for the aesthetic. For god's sake, I saw a tiktoker call it a "tishelle" because I guess they're sufficiently disconnected from communities that wear tichels that they've never heard anyone even say it aloud. And yes I understand that there is a pandemic and irl Jewish community access has not been a thing, but then maybe just... take a break and wait? You don't have to take everything on right away. Especially something that is literally not actually a mitzvah (commandment) if you're not married, unless I guess you're following Rambam's thing that most contemporary Jewish communities do not hold by.
I am all for folks taking on Jewish stuff as they connect/reconnect to Judaism and their ancestors (including future spiritual ancestors) but like. Start with Shabbos, kashrut, prayer, Torah learning, brachot, holidays. Then when you learn more you can think deeply about what other things you want to take on and how.
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Each month there have been an average of 210 Palestinian children in Israeli detention awaiting sentences, many for months at a time. The most common crime is stone throwing, which is currently punishable under military law by up to 20 years in prison.
Orthodox Jews have thrown stones at IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens have thrown stones at Palestinians in the past. None of these offenders have received comparable treatment or sentences to those of Palestinian children.
The unfair arrest of Palestinian children without basic rights is absolutely unacceptable! And we must speak up!
TRANS HAMSA
feel free to use it for whatever you like
My friend from Nashville just sent this to me and anyway have I ever told you guys I hate goyim?
Stop Citing The ADL For Hate Crime Statistics, They Are A Racist Hate Group.
Please click here and read this article before you cite the Anti-Defamation League as an authority on hate speech, or participate in any campaign they are named in.
Some highlights include:
The ADL has a history of going after Black power activists and civil rights groups. This included the Movement for Black Lives as recently as 2017 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (as in, the Freedom Riders) as early as the 60s.
The ADL colluded with the FBI to spy on Arab-American and Black progressive organizations in the 70s and 80s.
The ADL’s definition of antisemitic hate speech includes any suggestion that the state of Israel does not have the right to control Palestinian territory, or that Israel should not be run as a religious ethnostate. It includes any endorsement of boycotts against Israeli goods or sanctions against the state of Israel for its war crimes. Given that definition, the idea of citing them for statistics on antisemitism is completely bananas.
The ADL supports apartheid in Israel as it supported apartheid in South Africa: “The Anti-Defamation League participated in a blatant propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the mid 1980s and employed an alleged ‘fact-finder’ named Roy Bullock to spy on the anti-apartheid campaign in the United States — a service he was simultaneously performing for the South African government. The ADL defended the white régime’s purported constitutional reforms while denouncing the ANC as ‘totalitarian anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.’”
The ADL historically works with the FBI, the Israeli military, US police departments, and ICE. They ran a seminar in Israel in 2015 on “counter-terrorism” that was attended by Donald Trump’s Deputy Director of ICE.
The ADL’s primary goal is the suppression of criticism of Israel and the elimination of international support for Palestine, with the ultimate aim of facilitating Israel’s annihilation of the Palestinian people. From Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource Organizing Committee (AROC): “The ADL’s agenda is to delegitimize Palestine solidarity. Anything they’re doing, one should see from that lens.”
I’ve seen a couple different posts circulated by leftists in recent months talking about hate crimes in the United States that cite the ADL as a major source. I cannot stress enough that the ADL is not a legitimate source, they are a white supremacist organization, they have a long and consistent history of collaboration with apartheid in the United States, Israel, and South Africa, and any infographic that draws on their data is inherently untrustworthy. White supremacists don’t yield good data.
a further couple of really good pieces from Jewish Currents:
How The ADL’s Israel Advocacy Undermines Its Civil Rights Work
The Anti-Democratic Origins of the Jewish Establishment
Nadine Abdel-Taif, 10, whose home in Palestine was destroyed by Israeli bombing
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Palestinian solidarity. Always. End the apartheid, free Palestine.
from @m_hushki on instagram
Israeli warplanes bombed all main roads and intersections that lead to Al Shifa Hospital, which the biggest hospital in Gaza and probably the only one that can handle so many casualties.
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The Israeli Air Force has just killed the head of the Internal Medicine department at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf.
Happy Holi to my Hindu followers and happy early Hola Mohalla to my Sikh followers! May everyone enjoy their festivities from a safe distance!
Sephardic Passover Seder Tray, brass, 19th c. Morocco.
Pesach Greetings!
Passover 2016 begins tonight at sundown. We present selected pages from our fine facsimile of the Barcelona Haggadah (London: Facsimile Editions, 1992), considered one of the finest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in the collection of the British Library. It dates from the middle of the fourteenth century, and is named after the heraldic shield it bears, which resembles the arms of Barcelona. The large size of the text and illuminations suggest that the manuscript was designed for use by a family, including children, at the Seder gathering and meal on Passover.
I love Jewish jokes
so was april 7th 1947 a jewish holiday?
IT LITERALLY WAS LMAO
[Mon, 7 April 1947 = 17th of Nisan, 5707, Pesach III]
