[Insert Jewish Sideblog Here]

They/Them. Not one of the “good ones.”

[lostthenfoundmyself]

IFAQs

(aka Infrequently Asked Questions)

(aka questions that no one has asked me that I wanted to answer)

Why does this blog exist?

Because I realized that I saw posts on Tumblr about Jewish things that I didn’t want to reblog on my main blog, but really wanted to reblog. I also had things that I wanted to discuss that didn’t really fit on a fandom blog.

Why don’t you just post this on your main blog?

Because I’m exhausted. I’m having enough problems in real life—I wanted to use a sideblog that I can selectively interact with. Also, my main blog is a fandom blog.

Why are you qualified to talk about _insert thing here_?

This blog exists so I can share my own personal experiences, reblog others’ experiences, and express my opinions. When expressing my opinions, I do my best to back them up with research and sources. When sharing my experiences, I don’t claim to have any sort of qualification other than…actually experiencing that thing. I don’t speak for anyone except myself.

Do you use trigger/content warnings?

I try to. In general, I do my best to tag posts and reblogs about antisemitism so they’re easy to avoid, and tag other common triggers I notice as “tw: ”+ the trigger. However, I’m not the best at remembering/noticing, so be careful. If you see something I didn’t tag, please feel free to send me an ask or message and I’ll add the tag.

Are you…

…Jewish? Ethnically, I am Jewish but was not raised with a huge connection to my Jewish heritage. I celebrated a few holidays with my mom’s parents and read kids’ books, but that was mostly it. In college, I have begun learning more about Jewish culture through Hillel, Chabad, and the Internet. I am certainly no expert, but I enjoy learning and have my own experiences to share. Religiously, I’m somewhere between agnostic and atheist.

…a Zionist? By the definition I use, yes. I don’t know what definition you’ve heard, so here’s a clarification of what I mean:

I believe that there should be a Jewish state somewhere in the region where Israel is located. I also believe that there should be a Palestinian state. I see calls for the dissolution of Israel as overly optimistic at best and antisemitic at worst. While I accept that ideally, everyone in the world would live together in peace and harmony, this is not a feasible short-term goal. No one-state solution under any kind of government would be fair or safe for the inhabitants of the region, and Jews deserve the right to self-determination just like other ethnic groups. Israel exists—I see that as a good thing, but even if you don’t, just getting rid of an entire country is…not gonna work.

…Israeli? No. I live in the United States.

…able to speak Hebrew/Yiddish/insert language here? I can only speak English and (very iffy) French. I know a few Yiddish words from my mom, but I can’t read Hebrew or actually speak Yiddish. You are welcome to interact with this blog in whatever language makes you most comfortable, but I will probably be plugging it into Google Translate if it is not English or French.

…sane/okay/alive? No, definitely not, and barely. Will update if “definitely not” changes. Will not update if “barely” changes, because I’m the only person with access to this blog.

[mitzpe-rimon]

hello jumblr would anyone happen to have any context for this

at least some works are in Hebrew but I still have like less than zero idea what's going on

[lostthenfoundmyself]

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Maybe this?

[ventingfromatiredjew]

important to note two things:

1. Boulder Colorado has historically been a progressive liberal part of Colorado. it's blue bubble and Denvers blue bubble is the reason the state, while technically a swing state has been blue. this is honestly the last place I would've imagined a hate crime like this to occur.

2. the victims of the attack were 67-88 years old. On shavuot. at a March for the hostages. this is not some young adults getting into a heat of the moment fight at a protest. this person lit 6 elderly jews on fire.

I don't have any words for this.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

Dining hall closes before sunset? Okay…I’ll just fill up my water bottle with grape juice and take that out. Wait, they don’t have grape juice? I’ll just do kiddush over challah, but since I don’t have real challah I’ll just use bread. But actually, I don’t even have bread, just ritz cracker cheese sandwiches. Fine. I’ll do kiddush over ritz cracker cheese sandwiches, because Google says I can do HaMotzi over ritz crackers. But I don’t have any salt! Well…ritz crackers have salt on top of them them. So if I remove the salt from the ritz crackers cheese sandwiches, they’ll still be bread, kind of, and then I can dip them in their own salt!

…at this point, I’m getting the feeling that my substitutes are too far removed to do kiddush.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

I found a hidden convenience store and bought grape juice, so I will not be doing ritz cracker cheese sandwiches kiddush!

[lostthenfoundmyself]

Dining hall closes before sunset? Okay…I’ll just fill up my water bottle with grape juice and take that out. Wait, they don’t have grape juice? I’ll just do kiddush over challah, but since I don’t have real challah I’ll just use bread. But actually, I don’t even have bread, just ritz cracker cheese sandwiches. Fine. I’ll do kiddush over ritz cracker cheese sandwiches, because Google says I can do HaMotzi over ritz crackers. But I don’t have any salt! Well…ritz crackers have salt on top of them them. So if I remove the salt from the ritz crackers cheese sandwiches, they’ll still be bread, kind of, and then I can dip them in their own salt!

…at this point, I’m getting the feeling that my substitutes are too far removed to do kiddush.

[notaplaceofhonour]

if somebody makes you a challah out of lox, which bracha do you make?

HaMatzoi

Shekahol

Birkat HaMinim

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

[notaplaceofhonour]

I need you all to know this isn’t my fault. this is all jinsta lol

[lostthenfoundmyself]

Whelp, according to my university’s CAA, the Jews—sorry, Zionists—are at fault for India’s “settler-colonialism” too.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

It is “Thou shalt not eat 10% of thy diet, but thy ancestors declared thou shalt not eat 90% of thy diet so thou art stuck with potatoes” week.

[titimylove]

i praise your dedication. i can't do it. especially since my period started first night of passover. i was like "no, idc, my period cravings are gonna fight god directly"

[lostthenfoundmyself]

Well...yesterday, I managed to forget stringbeans were beans. (My brain for some reason thinks of beans, peas, lentils, etc. as their own category separate from vegetables...and thinks of string beans as vegetables.) So, I'm definitely not doing anywhere near perfectly.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

It is “Thou shalt not eat 10% of thy diet, but thy ancestors declared thou shalt not eat 90% of thy diet so thou art stuck with potatoes” week.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

…I had a nightmare last night about accidentally eating a cookie.

[maimonidesnutz]

While you were eating dates in Babylonia, I studied the bl…Torah

[froshele-deactivated20250116]

somebody really has to make an anime or at least a webtoon about this whole cohort of guys. honestly and desperately i need to see someone draw it. there are things too good to not show the rest of the world.

exhibit a, rav yosei (yosef was his full name) presumably fanning himself with his hand and sighing and giving us this

exhibit b: every proverb about rabbi drama but especially this one

EXHIBIT C:

foolish bird is the translator editorializing. what he said to him (for context they had been going back and forth a while) was a bit stronger, more like 'demented ostrich'

Exhibit D was going to be the time R" Sheshet clowned on someone making fun of his blindness and then superman laser eyed him into a pile of ashes but this post is already running long and I do not recall where the story is. anyway (banging fist on table) multigenerational tanna/amora comedy for the people by the people! jumblr be brave you can do this

[jewish-microwave-laser]

exhibit e:

[lostthenfoundmyself]

I have tolerance for people being idiots, or misinformed, or overly wrapped up in ideology.

I do not, unfortunately, have tolerance for someone claiming they can’t be antisemitic because they’re “of Jewish descent.”

It’s not even “I can’t be antisemitic because I’m Jewish.” It’s “I’m not Jewish, was not raised at all in Jewish culture, and don’t know anything about being Jewish, but someone somewhere in my family line was Jewish so therefore I’m immune to a highly prevalent form of bigotry!”

Ugh.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

you do bedikas chametz thursday night and burn it on friday. save enough to do hamotzi for shabbos lunch, and eat or dispose of that before the last chametz time

Thank you! That’s interesting.

[snissel613]

Good luck to everyone on erev pesach shabbas this year. the glitch in the halakhic system. Everything you need to do for each day is not allowed because of the other day

[jewish-sideblog]

I’m a gentile, but I recently switched bodies with my Jewish friend (like in Freaky Friday). Am I obligated to keep kosher while I’m in his body? Is he obligated to keep kosher while he’s in my body?

I’m assuming you’ve already had your calls rejected by Lindsey Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and several Rabbinic authorities. They’re the experts, so trust anything they say over anything I say!

This is sticky. I originally wrote a paragraph explaining why it was okay for you to eat whatever you want, because kosher laws would be tied to the Jewish soul, not the body. Then I remembered Marit Ayin. If you and your friend have publicly disclosed your body-swap status, you should be good to go! But if you’re pretending to be your Jewish friend during the body-swap, then eating treif could cause him social and reputational harm. In that case, I’d steer clear of the bacon cheeseburgers for a while, if only to do your friend a solid.

Either way, I think your friend is obligated to keep kosher, because he still has a Jewish soul, regardless of which body he's in. (Obligated is a weird word. I’m Reform, so I choose to keep kosher, it’s not an obligation. But for whatever reason your friend was keeping kosher before, it’s probably best he still keeps it now.)

[bi-kingdavid]

Whenever people ask me what do Jews believe about X I always start with how much time do you have? How many answers do you want? Would you like the four most common interpretations?

And then I get to watch their face as they try to wrap their head around the idea that a religion based on debate and questioning might have multiple disparate opinions on scripture.

[agam-shel-barvadim]

I once had a teacher who said, if you ever find yourself saying "Judaism says that-", then there's probably something that you're missing

[zionistgirlie-deactivated202512]

Jewish tradition by importance:

Disagree with one another

Everything else

[daughterofstories]

Sorry, I have to disagree with that.

[tzi-believes-in-luck]

what year do we think there will be a chabad on the moon