Trans gay jew

גד ינאתן

[radical-awe]

[shalomandstuff]

Ok so someone I consider to be a minor friend decided to whine to me about how someone they went to school with posted something "anti-Xtian" to Facebook and how their response was to say "you clearly don't believe in J*sus" like it's some sort of moral litmus.

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

once I called you brother, once I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted

[hypokeimena]

some days these days you just see a headline

[kuttithevangu]

Listen. We’re an adaptive people

[coughloop]

The shit just never ends huh

[oingaboigurt]

$10 says none of you even watched it. Ya'll are obsessed.

[sushinfood]

Ah yes. REAL racism. Not the kind of FAKE racism spread to mostly impressionable young white boys who parrot everything Felix says in a desperate attempt to be cool and popular with their peers and thus grow up thinking racism is humour. Not that racism.

[whelvenwings]

From "Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel"

[realsadjewishhours]

On another episode of I’m not a convert but will speak for converts because for some reason I believe I understand their identity more than they do themselves. Also I will just make shit up as a go along.

G-d searching “Jewish converts” through Twitter is and will always be a minefield of bad and incredibly uneducated opinions.

Anyways I am a Jew & Jewish you know why? Because... they are literally the same thing

It’s 2020 please just realize y’all do not understand the convert experience if you haven’t converted lmao.

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

Some people will bend over backwards and jump through flaming hoops to exclude converts and you really gotta ask yourself WHY

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

They hate us. It's very simple.

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

Right. And hatred of Jews is called antisemitism.

When you see someone being so divisive and going out of their way to "other" Jews who are different from them, it really says something about what that person has internalized about ALL Jews, including themself.

Also, it says something about that person's ignorance, willful or through lack of education. A study of sociology OR of Jewish texts and theology/halacha about converts would not support those views.

But that's not of my business.

[adira5780]

Whenever something about lgbt issues and Judaism comes up, gentiles are so quick to talk over lgbt Jews, acting as if gentiles are the only ones who can be lgbt, or calling lgbt Jewish people traitors to the lgbt community for disagreeing with them.

When it comes to lgbt Jewish issues, the experts will always be lgbt Jewish people!

I've seen someone make a post that literally says "as a Jewish lesbian..." and have a dozen comments accusing her of speaking over lgbt people. She is lgbt people!!!!

[yidquotes]

Jews deny that there ever was a “divine labor” to redeem the world; rather, God gave humanity the means for its own redemption, and its members will be judged by the choices they make. Christians may maintain that no human being is unloved by the God who died on his or her behalf, but Jews insist that while no human being is denied the chance to become worthy of God’s love, not every human being engages in actions so as to be worthy of that love, and those unworthy of divine love do not deserve our love either.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik

[beaky-peartree]

you can’t claim to be a jewish or muslim ally while also saying shit like “all organized religion is evil” or “only vapid idiots believe in god”

[shalomandstuff]

Personally invited to a community leaders' summit. It means a lot to be considered such.

I don't really have any qualities other than "I stepped up when nobody else did" so if you felt something was holding you back from trying to build community, ignore that feeling. If your community needs a space, find it for them.

[he-his-himbo-deactivated2020040]

White LGBT goyim want to claim the pink triangles but don’t want to claim the intergenerational trauma from the holocaust most Jewish people live with or make any spaces for LGBT Jews

White LGBT goyim want to derail discussions of the holocaust to talk about how much LGBT people were affected too and you’re a homophobe for not being inclusive enough or making things comfortable enough for them while talking about your peoples oppression, but they don’t want the intergenerational trauma from the holocaust most Jewish people live with or make any spaces for LGBT Jews

White LGBT goyim want Anne Frank to be their bicon but can’t fathom what it’s like to be a Jewish kid and to be compared to her in the nastiest ways and later learn about her and realize she wasn’t a bad person, they were just insulting you for being Jewish. LGBT goyim need a reason to care about a murdered Jewish girl because antisemitism isn’t enough. They want to see themselves in her, they can’t fathom what it’s like to have no choice to

White LGBT goyim love LGBT history but only when it’s through a white, goyische lense. They want Oscar Wilde but don’t want Magnus Hirschfeld, Faygele Ben Miriam, Leslie Feinberg

White LGBT goyim love Jews except for when we are open about it, except for when we’re proud, except for when we’re religious, except for when we see our Jewishness and our gayness and our transness as inseparable, except for when we identify with Jewish cultural genders, except for when we want to be visibly Jewish at pride parades and marches, except for when we refuse to assimilate. Except for when we’re Jewish. Except for when we call out their antisemitism

Goyim can reblog but don’t add anything, unless if you have a *respectful* question. If you’re just going to “not all goyim” in my notes then don’t bother I’ll block you love and light. Also before anyone calls me a transphobe/homophobe I’m trans and bi I’m just tired of not feeling safe or welcome in the lgbt community for being Jewish lol

[shalomandstuff]

My grandfather just died and someone who had previously said they wanted to be my chevruta a) didn't even send a text and b) now I see them on FB like "ugh anyone want to be my chevruta?" like... :')

Anyway if anyone wants to get to know me better I really don't bite and maybe in seven years someone will care about me enough to consider me a chevruta.

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

there’s a post i just saw that i don’t want to reblog from cuz i don’t want to hop on someone’s personal post sounding argumentative but it was a post about how converting to judaism doesn’t make you ethnically jewish and specifically cited that the op faced antisemitic racialization, she and other jewish women were alienated for their curls their whole lives, and converts will never be ethnically jewish.

which seems to me to be a conflation of race and ethnicity in ways that are conflicting and uncomfortable and directly play into the ways joc are othered and treated in jewish community. like being jewish is about your blood and your looks? i know japanese jewish people, black jewish people, indian jewish people, who were Born Jewish but don’t. look like that? don’t get racialized the way ashkenazi jews do? sephardi/mizrahi jews don’t get racialized the same!

it seems a bit of a tightrope to walk. and ethnicity isn’t about race, there are jews of all races. including white jews who are not converts and this conversation feels like yet another way that jewish people Not Of Color try to distance themselves from that fact. im not sure how to hold these things at once, that conversion makes you Fully Jewish but Not Fully Jewish, but it seems like people are trying to reconcile it by saying that ethnicity is now fully a race thing and therefore conversion doesn’t let you in?

which… tbh the whole conversation feels like a way for jewish people who are not jews of color to distance jews of color from the community, while simultaneously distancing themselves from any proximity to whiteness they might have.

if you can relegate true jewishness to being about one, specific, form of racialization it’s easier to deny any way you are proximal to whiteness. and also easy to deny how jews of color are a part of jewishness.

[jewish-tutter]

read this. there’s no one way to “look” jewish

[koshercosplay]

ok quastions: how difficult is it to be jewish and trans? also, do eating disorders count as being ill when it comes to fasting?

To be perfectly honest, I don’t feel qualified to answer either of these questions.

To the first one I’d say it probably depends on what Jewish community you belong to and what level of observance/identity you want to keep. I know that I definitely have trans jewish mutuals on here although I’m currently blanking on who to tag, so definitely seek out some of those people here on tumblr!

To the second one I really have no idea, some people on here might have an answer for you but I’d suggest you ask a rabbi!

[ari-naftali]

If I may butt in– I’m quite qualified for the first question, and have approximate knowledge in the second.

1) As a Reform Jew with a gay rabbi and a very welcoming community, it only makes a difference if my opinion is specifically asked for because I’m trans. Nobody’s been even remotely negative.

2) I don’t have an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia, but I do sometimes forget to eat if I’m not on a schedule, which is disordered eating– and I’ve been told I should not fast. Something as simple as that counts as being, if not ill, unsuited to fasting. If it could even possibly interact with an eating disorder, please use your best judgement when it comes to fasting! If you don’t want to take advice from a stranger on the internet– which is totally fair– please talk to a rabbi or at least a doctor before you try to fast in any capacity.

Either way, whatever you choose– please be safe!

[queermachmir]

My rabbi is a non-binary bi person and transness is celebrated, not just tolerated. :)

[shalomandstuff]

I would recommend the essay When Fasting is Not Teshuvah by Rabbi Debbie Somers-Young. If you can't find it, DM me and I will send it.

[itgetsbetter]

This Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Says His Holiest Moment Was Becoming Public LGBTQ Ally

Mike Moskowitz is one of the few ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis who actively advocate for LGBTQ individuals. But that advocacy cost him his congregation and his job.

“I think we’re all put in this world for a specific purpose, and for me, I’ve found clarity in the invitation to kind of expand the space that religion I think is meant to provide…" 

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

“God doesn’t put extra people in this world and God so desperately yearns and longs to be in a relationship with each one of us. And unfortunately, the suicide rate among the trans community, for those who are not validated and affirmed, it’s over 40 percent. Whether we understand the meta question of where gender lies is almost irrelevant, because we do understand the practical obligation to create a safe space for folks.”

To be honest, even ignoring the halacha of it, this is the most critical thing that literally all traditionalists must answer to. We are meant to live by the light of Torah, not die from a disproportionately strict interpretation of it.

[realsadjewishhours]

Christianized atheists be like, “I’m not trying to convert you I’m just trying to make you see the truth, I’m just trying to save you from your religion!”

Yeah ok... and what do you think your Christian counterparts we’re thinking when they were doing trying to convert us? Hmm.

We’ve heard it before, we are not interested.

[realsadjewishhours]

I don’t know how to make (Christianized) atheists, specifically anti-theist, understand that their idea of “eradicating all religion is solely beneficial to society” is rooted in lack of education, predisposed belief of fundamentalist ideology, the false idea that all religious people do not care for science, xenophobia/bigotry to marginalized cultural/religion groups, and certainly from a Christianized point of view.

Your idea that we MUST adhere to your point of view on science, religious, and spiritual beliefs and their interaction with the world mirrors the same behavior of Christians. It shows we have no reason to trust or respect your voice in conversations revolving religion and religious relations.

While it’s important for everyone to acknowledge the facts that science has blessed us with, we are not required by any means to abandon our religion or spiritual beliefs because you feel we should look at the world a certain way and not look at the world in a way that you feel disrespects the scientific method.

You also have no right to come into our community, whether online or in real, and demand we debate or convert because you feel like we should.

I don’t know how to make Christianized atheists understand our intellect or life is not lacking because we did not leave our Judaism.

[shelomit]

Halachos of December 25

Beis Shammai say that one must eat both an appetizer and an entree; Beis Hillel say an appetizer or an entree. Others say that one fulfills his obligation even with won ton soup alone. The halacha follows the others.

There is a machlokes as to whether one can fulfill his obligation by eating fortune cookies. Our practice is to be machmir in this matter.

The mitzvah is to eat Chinese food on Christmas Day. If one ate Chinese food on Christmas Eve, he has not fulfilled his obligation until he eats from his leftovers the next day. The leftovers need not be reheated but one who does so is praiseworthy.

If one ate sushi, Indian or Thai, he has fulfilled his obligation after the fact (b’dieved). If one ate pizza, burgers or Mexican, he has not fulfilled his obligation. Rabbi Meir says that one fulfills his obligation with Mexican because it is exotic. B’shaas had’chak, a shaila must be asked. 

(By Jack Abramowitz.)