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Shalom and welcome! You can call me Avi, later 20’s, they/he/she/whatever. I want to start sharing more of my Jewish art, and tumblr… sure exists so let’s go! This is my side blog for relaxation, sharing what I create (#mine), and looking at other people’s lovely art so I’ll do my best to keep the topic light. You’re welcome to ask questions or just drop in to say shalom but I delete and block freely to maintain my peace 🪬

[peaceforisrael]

Shalom and welcome!

You can call me Avi (they/he/she/whatever). It’s been a rough couple of years, for just about all of us in the Jewish community and adjacent.  With a lot of the rest of the world being… as it is right now, I really wanted to set up a space that centers Jewish joy, life, and creation. Right now, this mostly means that I occasionally post my art here and admire a lot of other people’s creations, but you might get a recipe or three at some point :)

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[peaceforisrael]

Recipe Trial: Beta Israel Fish Curry from King Solomon’s Table

For this one, I used my standard vegetarian substitute for whitefish, of a slab of tempeh marinated in olive brine (overnight if I have foresight) and it worked fabulously. No notes, really. I’ll make it again the next time I have some leftover tamarind from making pad Thai.

I used concentrated tamarind (the kind that’s black and almost the consistency of peanut butter) for this since I like it better, but it’s a huge pain to find. I also recommend cooking the tomato for a bit longer than the recipe calls for, maybe five extra minutes, to really infuse those onions.

A lot of the Indian Jewish community has made aliyah in recent years. I’m always happy that Jews have the opportunity to come home if they need or just prefer to, but there’s always a smaller part of me that’s sad to see Jewish life in various places dwindle.

[peaceforisrael]

Recipe Trial: Syrian-Jewish Keftes Geraz (meatballs in cherry sauce) from King Solomon’s Table

So, I love to cook and frequently modify meat recipes to be vegetarian because I think it’s fun. Maybe this blog can serve as a little diary for me to remember what worked and what didn’t, as well as giving some ideas and guidance to other vegetarian and vegan Jewish cooks and friends.

I had seen a recipe for this dish on the Nosher. I remember that I tried it some years ago but don’t recall how I tried to sub the beef, just that it didn’t work very well. I came across another version of this recipe recently in King Solomon’s Table (which is fabulous, highly recommended for the history alone) and had to give it a shot. I used a 1:1 volumetric sub of lentils (cooked in mushroom broth and cumin, paprika, and onion powder) for the meat. They held together great and looked really nice but were unpleasantly dry. (The KST recipe calls for them to be baked, not simmered in the sauce.) Closer to falafel than meatballs but not enough like falafel to be good. I graciously bequeathed my share of the leftovers to family members who liked them better than I did.

I liked the sauce much better than the Nosher version, though. It calls for a bit of red wine and I had some nonalcoholic … Cabernet or something, my interest in food rarely extends to alcohol, the kind I poach fruit in for dessert when we have gluten-free guests. The label called it “spicy” is all I remember. Anyway, I thought the fermented flavor of the wine gave the sauce some nice depth. Vegetarian/vegan food tends to be sweeter than meat-based food so that’s an especially big plus here.

I’ll try this one again. I feel like with a little more testing, a veggie version could be phenomenal!

[peaceforisrael]

Sketchbook Sneak Peek:

I really want to do something with the history of Jerusalem, from its ancient origins, through its colonization and the various rebellions against the Romans and such. I would love to make at least one tiling pattern, but trying to make a timeline (long) fit neatly onto a cut of fabric (which people usually do not buy and companies do not print in like, 300x5 dimensions) is perplexing me. And I don’t know of any print on demand stores that do really thick and detailed-printed ribbons 🤔

[cantotallyeven]

So you know how there are basically never any Jews in scifi? I've got this idea for a scifi story where it's your typical average joe wakes up like 200 years later in a post apocalyptic world and tries to get by and of course people don't notice the lack of Jews but at some point it comes up that the inhabitants exiled all the Jews to Mars or something. This would notably be unrelated to the apocalypse, and they'd be doing fine over there.

[peaceforisrael]

Please write this!

[leunusualsuspect]

Jumblr, do I create a blog solely devoted to correcting the Wikipedia “Jewish parents” bullshit? Leave the asks open to direct new pages. Everything is just gonna be a before and after with a date of the modification.

I’m thinking of naming it “born-Jewish” or some shit.

[peaceforisrael]

Yes! I’d follow you. I’d love some more Jewish history

[notaplaceofhonour]

We really gotta start spelling out the full name of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance when discussing the IHRA definition of antisemitism to make it clear who and what is being targeted

[notaplaceofhonour]

We cannot stress enough that the organization whose definition of antisemitism people are choosing to demonize and politicize and try to push Jews out of public life over is the Holocaust education organization, alongside Yad Vashem.

The definition itself is incredibly milquetoast and reasonable; anyone pretending otherwise is flat out lying.

There is no pretending this is not an attack on Jews and the memory of the Holocaust.

[maimonideznuts]

I know there are bigger problems, but I fucking hate the appropriation of the word "golem".

Just say "elemental construct" or something.

I don't think there's an argument here, it's a Jewish culture term... Invent your own terms and leave ours alone.

[maimonideznuts]

Flesh golem? That's a homunculus.

Magic caster created golem? That's a magical construct.

Naturally occurring golem? That's an elemental.

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A setting without Jews by definition cannot have golems.

Only a Rabbi can create a golem.

[maimonideznuts]

I am also bothered by the liberal use of the Eyn Sof in Fantasy media, especially animation. Full Metal Alchemist, The Owl House, Black Clover... I've even seen it used on the packaging for a vibrator/dildo.

It's not just Jewish, it's Kabbalah, a restricted practice even within Judaism and it has a cameo in an Owl House magic school classroom and on the package of a vibrator?

[queermystic]

Its always been truly strange to me that the only two instances I can remember of Actual Golems in popular media, with Jewish characters involved in the plot and and a some what legitimate explanation of what Golems actually are and that they're Jewish in Origin was......

Supernatural and The Simpsons.

[pleasestopthese]

there was also the dc comics miniseries the monolith

[maimonideznuts]

I'm not familiar, but the synopsis on Wikipedia looks interesting.

In the present the reader is introduced to Alice Cohen as she receives her inheritance from her recently deceased grandmother. This inheritance consists of a lone house in an area of Brooklyn where all the other buildings have been torn down. One of the first things that Alice discovers is a walled off section in the basement from which a voice calls to her to read stories. Alice's first choice for this is her grandmother's diary.

^ small excerpt

[sunspotpony]

I would like to continue to propose Lārem. In Latin, a Lār is a protective spirit of a place. So it’s got historical/linguistic roots and isn’t made-up wholecloth. It ties a thing to a space and has the exact same number of syllables, and at worst most folks will go “oh you’re just being unique and calling it something Fancy for your setting, just like how every fantasy story competes to come up with wild spellings for Mahgick.”

It just fucking fits. It’s so easy. I’m not remotely Jewish by any definition of the word, so I cannot speak for anybody, but instead I offer you this very practical taken on “golem.”

Let’s say you hear conflicting takes by Jewish folk on whether or not you can use “golem.” Some say you can, some say you can’t.

Rather than making it a moral matter — consider, some folks asked you not to and said it sucks, and you know they’ve got a fair argument even if you don’t agree with it. Since it’s so easy to not do, why not just, not be a dick?

If you want to look at it not as a moral matter, but look in purely practical terms, by refusing the request to call it anything else, it’s bein’ a bit of a dick.

So use mine. Call them Stone Lārems and everyone will understand immediately.

[penelope-and-the-suitors]

As of last friday, I am a member of the tribe of Israel. Two years of learning about Judaism and with any luck, many more to go.

[peaceforisrael]

Mazel tov!!!

[peaceforisrael]

Projects currently:

seven species diamond-tiling pattern

pareve/meat/dairy stickers, to mark food containers. I’ll probably also offer them as magnets, to use for organizing the fridge

a whole bunch of other stickers! I’ve been playing with evil eyes imagery lately :)

[peaceforisrael]

This blog has been getting some love lately so I’ll try to be more active. I haven’t finished a piece in awhile so I’ll share some works in progress in the meantime.

Sketchbook Sneak Peek:

More seven species art is on the way! I really want this to tile, but for it to do so, it needs 8 diamonds, not 7…

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[darlingofdots]

This is how I convinced my conservative grandma that the gays do also need marriage, actually. My grandad died when I was 4 and I asked her to imagine not being allowed to see him or make decisions for him or be entitled to an inheritance and she got very quiet and conceded the point. Marriage doesn't intrinsically mean anything but as a legal framework it is really, really important

[fandomdoestzedakah]

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[faygelehh]

thoughts on Judah the Prince? also are there any other prominent Jewish figures you find interesting? who/why?

Im not all that familiar with the Details on a lot of Jewish historical figures (i know that they exist of course, but i often get them mixed up and havent studied them in depth), but I think a lot of Judah's takes on animal life are interesting and I sometimes hear them brought up in discussions about ethical meat consumption in regards to kosher law. From what little I know abt him I think the way he cherished all life is something I resonate with a lot, but outside of hearing his name passed around sometimes I really dont know all that much about him ^^

I am always respectfully curious about Hasidim and am especially inspired by Rabbi Nachman V'Breslov - and again, I dont know a ton about him, but from what little ive read on late night Wikipedia deep dives he seemed like a beacon of light in his community. "It is a great mitzvah to be happy, always" is a quote I think of a lot 💖

[nonbinaryjudean]

paintings of Jewish people by Isidor Kauffman (1853-1921)

[dksartz]

Cat Queen Esther :3

I decided to do Purim-themed art to maybe sell in the gift shop at shul, stumbled into the idea of queen Esther and Co BUT as cats!

which turned into trying to be as historically accurate as possible with the outfits! so after several hours of obsessive research and drawing, have a cat Queen Esther! ^^'

if I actually end up doing the others maybe I'll make them into stickers?? (I'm thinking Vashti and Achashverosh will be in profile, idea is to have them look most like the Persian art from the time, except cats. and then our villain with his 3 cornered hat will be turned mostly away and glaring.)

[nonbinaryjudean]

passover seders in art

Lynne Feldman / Yelena Bryksenkova

Siona Benjamin / Oxana Zaika

Malcah Zeldis / Flora Rosefsky