some salted Judaism

she/her 28 light in Kashrut

[mildly-kosher]

[mildly-kosher]

I had a dream in Hebrew last night.

[clytemnestraaa]

additional note. why do we call it “religious experience.” shouldn’t it be a “spiritual experience.” “religious experience” implies one is like, connecting with a specific religious doctrine or something. like you orgasm so good that you specifically fully grasp the talmud

[queenofattolia]

#maybe i would care more about orgasms if they were so good they resulted in total knowledge of the talmud#<- prev#lauren that is the funniest possible explanation for asexuality#not enough rabbinic wisdom in orgasms (via @bisexual-tribble)

i mean! orgasms are fine? sometimes i actively feel the need for one and i make it happen and it's nice! but have you ever seen a page of talmud????

and the babylonian one alone is almost THREE THOUSAND PAGES long??? and again, we've been studying it for over a thousand years and still find new things to say about it all the time???

if an orgasm could help me fully comprehend even one single page of talmud, i would renounce asexuality forever!

[shofarsogood]

[notaplaceofhonour]

a ring camera is like if a mezuzah was evil

[notaplaceofhonour]

hear o neighborhood you are being surveilled

[thrashbeatles]

i drew this at synagogue

[dead-dragon-dooms-day]

Eccentric, neurotic, constantly asking questions, carries a heavy amount of grief, piecing ingenious shit together through learned skills and whatever is around. He is one of us alright.

[sound-the-horn]

I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.

It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.

As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.

I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.

So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.

The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.

I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.

The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.

You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.

When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".

"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?

However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Hvaing this come across my dash while I’ve been low-key crashing out over the ignored Jewish elements in X-Men comics (American superhero comics in general tbh) is. It’s a weird fucking feeling.

To be clear, I’m not here to scold @sound-the-horn because how dare they read their culture into a Jewish movie, blah blah blah. It’s more about the reaction they got? Because I have a sinking feeling that if I did the same thing, there’s not an insignificant chance that I would get shut down, too. I am Jewish, and in this hypothetical situation, I would be discussing a Jewish film made by a Jewish film about the Jewish genocide, and I still think there’s a good chance I might get dismissed. I’ve seen the Jewish elements in works by Jewish creators ignore, dismissed, or deliberately ripped out too often to not have doubts.

idk what I’m trying to say here. there’s a discomfort with interpretations outside the cultural mainstream I guess? like, it doesn’t matter whether you’re reading or writing your minority culture into a piece of work, there’s not an insignificant chance that it’ll get sanded away if that work gets popular. does that make any sense?

On a more personal note, @sound-the-horn reading your interpretation reminded me of these two bits from Night and Maus respectively:

[sound-the-horn]

Anti-semitism is so deep-rooted and widespread that it is heartbreaking but not surprising that you are made to feel this way. Your views are still incredibly important and your perspective is just as sacred as mine, but I know me saying that is not going to lessen the sting of having others undervalue that perspective.

For the record, I would love to read more about the Jewish elements in X-Men. It may not be my fandom, but reading about cultural analysis is something I am deeply interested in. And I know there are many out there who would be delighted to see it, both within and without of the Jewish community; it's just unfortunate that the bigots are always the loudest and take up the most space.

[ugagradlady]

"Nize Baby!" A comic strip by Milt Gross that made heavy use of comedic Yiddish. In the 1920s and 1930s he was beloved by Jewish immigrants. Some of his characters' sayings, like "Banana Oil!" ("Bullshit!") became memetic.

Mickey Katz : What Gross did with pictures, he did with music. SUPER corny by modern standards but his audience ate it up-representation matters!

Ernie Kovacs: Hungarian-Jewish comedian who went on to write for MAD magazine, a bastion of Jewish humor.

Harvey Moiseyevich Volodarskii: A Russo-Jewish magician character you fight in the Japanese game No More Heroes. Many famous magicians were Jewish, including Harry Houdini (Volodarskii is based off him) and David Copperfield.

I've never really liked or cared for superheroes, but my dad did and probably would've had some things to say about their Jewish origins.

And as for death rituals...I said the Shema for him on his deathbed. He had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (throat cancer) and couldn't say it for himself.

[chutzpahchesed]

uclajewishmusic:

We are excited to partner with Hughie Stone Fish in producing another of his brilliant songs. This one is a love letter to all of the Jewish songwriters who have created and continue to create the music we love.

mostly wholesome comments on this for once!

my favorite genre of response are the people just listing names:

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[the-sapphic-raven]

@daughter-of-sapph0 i found it

[daughter-of-sapph0]

thank you!

[tzamanafshi]

The Ezrat Nashim Database

Mapping women's spaces in synagogues around the world

Hey frumblr! JOFA has a new project so you can know what the women's sections are like at a shul, which could be very helpful if you're moving somewhere or visiting. It currently assesses the size of the women's section compared to the men's section, and a star ranking of how well you can see and hear. I haven't put in any rankings yet but there's one I want to put in where the size is decent compared to the men but you have no idea what on earth is going on in the men's section, and the #$@#$@ shul calls itself Modox.

[magnetothemagnificent]

This is so cool!

[wouldyoueatthisfood]

Would you eat this?

I would eat this

I would not eat this

I have eaten this (positive)

I have eaten this (negative)

Voting ended onJun 22

Food: matzo toffee bark

Ingredients: matzo sheets, dark brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract, salt, bittersweet chocolate chips, flaky salt

[yuriinullification]

topless mahjong is gonna be the next big thing

[dj-of-the-coven]

More Jewish music in honor of Jewish Heritage month -- this track is an energetic cover of "Im Ninalu", a folk song. Sung by Oshrat Haim.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

jews looking for (low rent! high quality!) housing in chicago please dm me. i'm looking for two roommates. must be okay with a dog and a cat, 4 bed 2 bath, private porch and big back yard. rent less than $400/month, part of moishe house so you'll need a background check but i think as long as you're honest about anything that might come up there'd be no issue they just wanna make sure you wont kill the other residents ig

[koshercosplay]

you now have THIS jewish superpower

but it comes with THIS side effect

is it still worth it?

absolutely yes!

this will suck but it's still worth it

hm probably not

the side effect makes it totally not worth it

Voting ended onMay 20

based on this post

(if they cancel each other out, spin again)

[mildly-kosher]

Without doxxing myself, there is a synoguge no longer in use in the northern part of my state and its now a cultural center. I'm thinking of going up there and camping and doing a tour. If you were a jewish adult would you be interested in car camping and going to the synagogue?

would you car camp and go to a rural no longer in use synoguge that's only 3 hour drive away?

yes

no

yes but not by myself

3 opinions 2 jews/vanilla extract

Voting ended onMay 13

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

What's the second Bund other than the Labour Bund?

German American Bund. They were Nazis. Literally Nazis, they operated in the 1930s with discreet backing from Berlin, and were outlawed after the US entered the war. They held rallies, issued propaganda, ran training camps, etc. etc. There was a big rally at Madison Square Garden where their leader called the president "Frank D. Rosenfeld" and his signature legislation the "Jew Deal." I think they also harassed German American organizations that had the gall to not be Nazis. Fucking fascists, man.

Hilariously, they did get the shit kicked out of them by angry Jews...specifically, Jewish mobsters. The Jewish mafia organized attacks on Bund gatherings with great relish, sometimes in coordination with more legitimate members of the community.

[mildly-kosher]

Maybe we need to bring back the jewish mafia.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

We do not need to bring back the Jewish mafia, but I do think we should seriously consider self-defense organizations

[mildly-kosher]

Look if there is a local chapter of Lox and Loaded