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[pitdrunk]

he/him | professional transfag | black and converting to judaism

[ponpurin]

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land or making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

[nonbinaryjudean]

(Jewish) pride month day 2: Janis Ian

Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Born in New Jersey in 1951, she started learning to play instruments from a very young age and became a prominent artist in the 1960s and 1970s folk scene. Her first hit single, "Society's Child", was written and recorded when she was only 14 years old. The song centered around an interracial relationship, still a taboo subject at the time. In 1975, she released the song "At Seventeen", which would become her most successful hit and would win a Grammy in 1976 for best female pop vocal performance. She had previously been outed in 1976, but in 1993 she came out as a lesbian with the release of her album, "Breaking Silence". In 2003, Janis married her partner in Toronto when gay marriage was legalized there. In the 2000s, she became involved in science fiction fandoms as she had been a longtime fan of the genre. Her sci-fi writing has been published in several anthologies. She also wrote for LGBT and music related magazines. Janis and her brother, Eric, started the Pearl Foundation, a nonprofit that funds scholarships for older adults in higher education, named after their mother who they encouraged to fulfill her dream of going to college. Her memoir, "Society's Child", has received critical acclaim, and the audiobook narration won a Grammy for spoken word. The recent documentary "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence" was based on her memoir.

Where to watch the documentary

official site

[hailruth-deactivated20260123]

a siddur belonging to marilyn monroe, complete with her annotations in pencil. many remember her as a sex symbol who lived a difficult life, but few know of her conversion & devotion to judaism. "everybody's always out to get them, no matter what they do," said monroe. "like me."

[chavasjewishscrapbook]

There's little easily found about Marilyn's Judaism, but these pictures are sweet. She looks genuinely happy.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Tomorrow is Farhud Day, the day marking the violent ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jews in 1941, equivalent to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.

There used to be thousands of Jews in Iraq. The ancient Talmudic centers of Surah and Pumbedita were in Iraq. Jews in Iraq, and indeed most of the world, had never been treated as equal citizens, being subject to Dhimmi laws, but still the Iraqi Jewish culture flourished.

Today, it is estimated that there are only four Jews left in Iraq. Four Jews.

The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and it was razed to the ground.

If you talk about the Holocaust but don't talk about the multiple ethnic cleansings and genocides of Jews in the SWANA region, you are being deliberately ignorant and antisemitic.

My ancestors lived and died and were buried in Iraq but I can't visit their hometowns and gravesites because they're all gone.

Remember Iraq's Jews.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

[icereader12]

Reminder that blood quantum laws were imposed so governments could cheat treaties and not pay what they owe.

Let indigenous peoples decide who is and isn't a member of their tribe.

[disfiguredgrace]

pro palestiniks are so fundamentally stupid they’d hear about kibbutzniks draining israel's malaria swamps and call it ecological imperialism

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

Because they envision Palestinians as needing to fit the model of the Ecological Indigene™ whose close relationship with and stewardship of the land was in perfect harmony, and hence they envision the state of abject ecological degradation and collapse the land was in for centuries under imperial Greco-Roman and Islamic rule as a romanticized, natural state that had been carefully nurtured and undisturbed since time immemorial. When in fact the colony of Palestine was such a blight on the native ecosystems that dozens of keystone species went extinct, most of the land was unnaturally desertified and swampified, and during several historic periods experienced such long and intense famines and droughts that human population declined drastically because most of the country was uninhabitable. Invasive species like tzabar - originating in Mexico - were heavily adopted and spread by settler communities, many staple crops like our ancient grape cultivars and date palms were wiped out, and things like our terrace farms (madregot or ma‘alot) and other native landscaping practices that used to keep local ecosystems and water systems and soils were mostly destroyed. Almost all large carnivores like lions, bears, monitor lizards, and crocodiles were extirpated due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and extinction of a lot of their original prey species: oryxes, hartebeests, onagers, ostriches, etc. Ancient Israel was not filled with swamps and deserts. Romantic nationalists see images of "Palestine before Zionism" and interpret its decay and neglect as being the normative condition - or even a beautiful indigenous cultivation - when the truth is that before Zionism, the colony of Palestine's exploitation of, violence against, and apathy towards the land and its oldest inhabitants brought it to ruin.

[pitdrunk]

race/ethnicity swaps r too nuanced and dependent on the context for me to have a concrete opinion on. there's been a lot of times where i think it genuinely enhanced the source material. that said...any suggestion to erase magneto being jewish always feels predicated on the idea that antisemitism is a thing of the past and that "the holocaust was sooo long ago" type mindset and therefore cannot be present in a modern adaptation. which you know. hate that!

[cheetz0]

Iran is slowly coming back online, but by "online," I mean they've moved from whitelisting some websites to blacklisting everything. I had no idea what these terms meant, but living in Iran forces you to know about technical network and connection stuff. Basically, instead of banning everything except for a few shitty malware apps posing as "social media platforms", they have now moved to filter out and ban the same usual things as before (like Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, everything). So what does that mean? It means more IPs will be available to bypass the ban, and VPNs will be more affordable. So more people can access the internet, STILL ILLEGALLY and THROUGH A PAYWALL.

It's currently close to 4 AM now that I'm posting this, and I've been crying non-stop since midnight because my friends came back online one by one through an unstable connection and said: "Hi, I'm alive." I had prepared myself for the funeral of so many of my friends. Some haven't come back online yet, and we've formed small "search and rescue" groups to find their contacts or families to check if they're okay.

What remains a fact amidst all of this is that nobody in the world ever gave a single fuck about us. I was one of the lucky ones to connect during the complete shutdown via some newly invented way we were too scared to even publish on GitHub for fear of getting arrested. In the time I was connected, I felt immense guilt for having access to the internet, and I begged you all on my socials to be the voice of the people who were about to get executed.

Not even once did I see someone talk about the internet blackout in Iran, and it enrages me.

We've been massacred, mass executed, and then silenced by getting our only way of communicating with the world shut off and the world treats it as some background noise, some irrelevant news that isn't even worth spending time hearing about.

So I'm asking you again, please, be the voice for the people in Iran. We are barely surviving.

[ich-bin-jude]

Jewish texts including Torah, Talmud, Kabbalah, Midrash, and rabbinical commentaries. Browse 38+ texts in this comprehensive collection.

[patricia-taxxon]

people talk about "marginalized in one area but privileged in another" as if its a niche category of person and not everyone on earth

[pitdrunk]

bardugo is one of those authors who I can tell have their rock lee weights for their pure writing skills and are holding back as to not scare the YA hoes but I desperately need to read a book where she her drops those weights

[pitdrunk]

almost finished reading ninth house…ms bardugo you’ve done it again

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

[ryebreadgf]

[sycamorality]

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this

[aprettyjewishyear]

Bathing of Women in the Mikveh. paper gouache by Shalom Koboshvili, undated. Koboshvili, a Georgian Jew, began painting at the age of 61. the primary subjects of his work are scenes of Jewish life. he died before his works could be displayed publicly, and his exhibition remained in storage at the Georgian Jewish Museum in Tbilisi until the Soviet government seized and shut down the museum and the synagogue in which it was housed in 1952. his works now belong to the Georgian National Museum.