Am Yisrael Chai

Blog of a person converting to Judaism the long way around (begun 2017). Genderqueer, multiply-disabled, very tired. Not great at tagging, follow at your own risk.

[redrola]

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[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

This Jewish museum is lending art across America — with one condition

A quiet initiative is filling museums that don't have Jewish art, but only if they're displayed alongside the cultures that shaped them

[ziskeyt]

“What you need to do is show that Jewish culture has been in the global diaspora longer than any other single culture for 3,500 years, demonstrating resilience and engagement worldwide.” -- “We’re introducing Jewish material and Jewish concepts and Jewish ideas that are not widely known,” he said. “And debunking myths about what Judaism is and looks like.” Snyder agrees. “We see part of our job as dispersing Jewish culture across the landscape of our own American diaspora,” Snyder said. “It’s what we feel is our mandate — and one that’s all the more relevant because of the times we’re in.”

This is good.

[prokopetz]

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I don't remember what post exactly I said this in, but I remember I once saw someone doing this and had to be like "sometimes you think you're tricking the racist into agreeing with you when you're actually letting the racist trick you into agreeing with him"

[starlight-shadowbanned]

Big assumption to imagine people don't know what they're doing when they do this. Sometimes the leftist also means The Jews. Sometimes they're not tricking each other, they actually just agree

[wherever-you-are-is-your-derech]

[indecisiveavocado]

I'm not ready for Elul! Go away! Maybe we can add another extra month in.

[wherever-you-are-is-your-derech]

Official petition to Make This Year Have an Extra Month and We Skip Over the Next Adar II bc Some of Us Really Need It Right Now

[eighthdoctor]

do I have mutuals or followers who read yiddish and might be familiar with Sholem Aleichem's Railroad Stories? and esp ability to find litcrit on one of them in particular

@zingiberofficinale ?

[guiltfactory]

you can lead a lamb away from slaughter but you can't make it stop feeling like a sacrifice

[magnetothemagnificent]

Yitzchak Avinu

[cartoonverisimilitude]

TikTokers are now using the term “blue and white people” to refer to Jews so they can be more openly antisemitic.

What a load of bullshit

[koshercosplay]

"diogenes holding a chicken voice" BEHOLD A JEW

[maimonideznuts]

Regional variation in kippot style is a beautiful thing

[captainlordauditor]

I looked it up and in some places during the 13th century sumptuary laws did actually require Jews to wear phrygian caps which is the style of cap Smurfs wear

so yes, smurfs are Jews now

[maimonideznuts]

I for one welcome our lost blue and white brethren and sistren 🤝

[mental-mona]

As Kochi’s Jewish community fades, its last members preserve its history

Kochi’s last local Jews are preserving a centuries-old heritage as dwindling congregations, abandoned synagogues and fading traditions threa

[lioryaakov]

[malte-laurids]

I’m so sorry for this yall!

[notaplaceofhonour]

turns out it’s not shofar away after all

[lostxanadu]

calling elul-tishrei the "holiday season" both because it's accurate and because it will confuse and baffle goyim

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Book cover for Pentateuch and Five Scrolls

Tobias Schier Polish

silver: 1721–ca. 1727; book: 1699–1701 and 1700–1701

"Jewish prayer books printed in "Typographical Amsterdam Hebrew Characters" were sought after in the decades around 1700 and well into the eighteenth century in Europe. Treasured and handed down all over Europe for generations by Jewish families, these books represent the learned and sophisticated standing of their owners. The utmost precious protection for the sacred text was a silver book cover. Complete ensembles are extremely rare. The goldsmith Tobias Schier was a specialist for such ostentatiously crafted silver covers. Several examples by Schier have survived and document the master’s outstanding abilities to transform the precious metals silver and gold into objects of great elegance and exuberant appearance."

[meowzel-tov]

i love this jewish character ! sure hope everyone doesnt completely disregard how the chaacters jewish and instead opt for "secular" christain bullshit to be associated with the character from here on out🥰🥰🥰

[gliklofhameln]

Kissing in front of the Torah ark. Paris, France. 1981.

Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Photos

[gothicprep]

the late senator graham and i disagreed on pretty much everything, but credit where it’s due. this quote of his is an all-timer:

it’s arguably the most honest thing that anyone has said in politics.

[pamfieldsphotoshoppedinjail]

antisemite frantically running around the capitol trying to find the jews who control shit:

[indecisiveavocado]

There is only we, and we usually don't know what the fuck we're doing GODDAMNIT LINDSEY STOP MAKING GOOD POINTS

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

It is an interesting idea that the whole “Jews control the world” might actually be a comfort fantasy, since the idea that there’s no one controlling anything and everything is just human judgment and error is terrifying in its own unique way.

[pagecommando]

That is often how I address it yes. It is literally more scary to these people that everything is an interaction of competing interests and they don't matter, vs them being "The Bold Truth-Tellers and Truth Seekers and Uncovering the Sinister Plots by (((Them)))."

This is because that gives these people an enemy and a REASON their life didn't go the way they wanted instead of "Sometimes shit doesn't work out, but you have to work on yourself regardless, so maybe don't be a miserable asshole and people will actually want to spend time with you"

[a-s-fischer]

One thing I wish more gentiles understood is that modern Judaism is post-apocalyptic, and every Jew they've ever met is living after the apocalypse.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[strive-to-be-human]

Since "apocalypse" is kind of a Christian concept, I don't define Jewishness by it.

Judaism is absolutely post-catastrophic, though. Post-cataclysmic, perhaps.

And yet we persist. Truly, our greatest gift (other than linear storytelling, but that's a different post) is the ability to pick up the pieces of our traditions and rearrange them to suit the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

Is the sparrow who hopped along to Avinu Malkeinu while I listened to it Jewish?

RATING: JEWISH

Is it the same sparrow that danced to Modeh Ani?

[jewishpangolin]

Not a sparrow, but I immediately thought of this bird that has a permanent kippah. It's a black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea).