#actuallyjewish

[stop-the-antisemitism-realjew]

Certified Not From Turkey. The Real Deal Jew right here.

[thewickedbohemian]

On a similar note to my last poll I have a question for Jumblr

Which of these Judaism-related TV show ideas would you most want to see (if you like multiple pick which one sounds like it'd be your favorite)?

superhero show that's Jewish the way Daredevil is Christian

urban fantasy show that's to Judaism what Supernatural is to Christianity

musical comedy about a rabbi-by-metaphorical-day rockstar-by-metaphorical-night

cartoon about all-Jewish magical girl team with sefirot-inspired powers

This-Is-Us-esque family drama where all shown generations are Jewish

an actually accurate adaptation of The Year Of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs

Voting ended onJul 30, 2025

Some explanation

by "Jewish the way Daredevil is Christian" I mean a superhero show where even if the Judaism only vaguely connects to their heroic identity or powers (not looking for a Jewish Hero Corps type thing as that's just too campy/obvious (look up those heroes, tell me any of those characters could exist as just a Jewish character in a secular superhero setting without being treated like a joke)) it still informs the character to a similar degree (even if different ways) as Matt Murdock's Catholicism

I couldn't fit in the poll blank that I'd want it to not just feel like an awkward ripoff, I just sometimes feel guilty when I see cool urban fantasy like that that I otherwise would want to live in the world of (if I could handle myself against its monsters) but it's "Christian mythology" to the degree where I'm afraid that world being secretly-real-but-covered-up-by-the-show or w/e would mean I was going to the bad place and it doesn't even have the kind of milieu stuff like The Librarians does (although I wish it actually explored Jewish-y stuff more) that makes me feel comfortable liking that/headcanoning Flynn and Jake as Jewish where "whatever you believe in is true for you" and multiple gods can coexist etc. So even if I couldn't get a show as wholly permeated by Judaism as Supernatural is by Christianity though that would be ideal if there was enough story there I would at least like there to be one where it's more than just a one-off episode with a cliche premise or w/e.

If that premise of rabbi rockstar sounds familiar that's because I at least loosely (not sure how much I'd follow the details) based this TV idea off of this Shlock Rock song. I said metaphorical-day and metaphorical-night in the poll option to clarify that A. both the rabbi stuff and the music stuff could happen in day or night and B. it's not a Hannah Montana situation and this congregation would know how their rabbi spends his free time. Also by musical comedy I mean this would be one of those one-hour live-action musical shows (just not full-on drama) like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist or Glee, I just haven't worked out if the music would be original like CXG, covers like ZEP or a mix of both like how Glee technically did some original songs.

This is one of the two original shows on this poll I have a working title for and said title would be Tree Of Life. I'm not sure what the villains would be or even how the heroines would get their powers I just have been special-interested in the sefirot ever since I first read Promethea and thought this would be cool if it could work and wouldn't be sacrilegious and even if they aren't diverse in a lot of other minority-status ways apart from all being Jewish girls it'd be a great opportunity to show many diverse kinds of Judaism. Also in my vision I said cartoon but specifically I was thinking of those not-made-in-Japan-but-still-clearly-inspired-by-anime cartoons like Miraculous, Winx Club, Totally Spies etc.

This is the other one with the working-title and this would be Braided Lives (thank you to my mom for that title suggestion). Even though my Jewish mom (who isn't a Jewish Mother if you get my drift) loves This Is Us I didn't come up with this show idea for her, I just thought it'd be a cool idea to have that kind of multiple-timeline family drama centering on a Jewish family and show how America and Judaism and stuff change over time through their eyes (even if it'd be hard to get back to the immigrant generation)

I love the book The Year Of Living Biblically so I hated when I discovered NBC's thankfully-one-season adaptation into a sitcom basically changed a lot of the key premise elements other than the titular quest to live by the Bible as literally as one can, the main character being some sort of entertainment writer and his wife being pregnant. It changed the reason for the quest, it didn't include his existing toddler son and most gallingly it made him Christian. I understand that an adaptation of a creative-nonfiction book like that might have to take a few creative liberties (like my adaptation would still not have AJ's previous impossible-quest book be a thing and might change his name) but this is a few too many when there's still many incidents from the book that'd make great sitcom episodes that rely on his Judaism (from the funny like his sukkah-building misadventures to the as-serious-as-a-sitcom-can-get-without-schmaltz like when he explores the Yom Kippur tradition of kapores (if you've read the book you know where this is going))

[mbtitypesby]

MBTI Types As Non-Traditional Hanukkah Songs

Figured everybody on Jumblr could use some introduction to the full potential range of diversity of Hanukkah songs (though I did include the classic of Light One Candle as it felt the best fit for that type) instead of always hearing the same few as imagine if Hanukkah even got 1/8 of the mainstream attention Christmas got and we could actually hear some of this shit on the radio (and imagine if that got Jewish artists who've already charted to make Hanukkah albums of their own)

ESTJ - Miracle Of Light by 8th Day

ESFJ - Hanukkah by The Living Sisters

ESTP - How Do You Spell Channukkahh by The LeeVees

ESFP - Give You Everything by Buzzy Lee

ENTJ - Dreidel Dreidel by Kosha Dillz

ENFJ - Eight Flames by Nissim Black

ENTP - Puppy For Hanukkah by Daveed Diggs

ENFP - Miracle by Matisyahu

ISTJ - Hanukkah In '96 by Alex Frankel

ISFJ - Light One Candle by Peter, Paul & Mary

ISTP - Like A Maccabee by Joanie Leeds

ISFP - My Eight Favorite Nights by Distant Cousins

INTJ - When Is Hanukkah This Year by Melee

INFJ - Chanukah - The Same Light by Danny Raphael

INTP - I Won't Be Home For Chanukah by TeamMate

INFP - More Like A Candle by Eric Hunker

[intersectionalpositivity]

Jewish people deserve love, peace, acceptance, and hope. You are Jewish? You matter so much, you are so lovely, we will be here for you, there is hope that you will find a place of peace & safety.

[thewickedbohemian]

Hyperspecific poll: Jumblr edition

I wish I could redo my bar/bat mitzvah before I turn 83

I think commercialization of Hanukkah isn't bad when done tastefully

I used to believe I had to be as great as Moses to live to 120 or more

I wish there was more/more-widely-known Jewish urban fantasy

I headcanon characters played by Jews as Jewish unless other religion stated

I've felt guilty for listening to technically-Christian artists like Superchick

I've read The Year Of Living Biblically and hate the sitcom NBC made of it

I like Star Trek and hate people who think that future requires no religion

I've had more than 15 people in my bar/bat mitzvah class

multiple

not Jewish

I just want to see results

Voting ended onDec 13, 2024

Some explanations for some of these

for the Jews who don't know, it's a thing (at least among some Jews) that you can have a second bar/bat mitzvah at 83 because 70 was what used to be considered a full lifetime

tasteful commercialization of Hanukkah means both not as excessive as Christmas (though we still deserve more than a blue end cap) and actually well done not this shit with blue-lighted wreaths and gingerbread Hanukkah houses and Hanukkah sweaters with English messages written using Hebrew letters as English letters which spell gibberish in Hebrew

Headcanoning characters played by Jewish actors as Jewish unless another religion's stated for them means that e.g. Quinn Fabray from Glee is still canonically Christian despite Dianna Agron being Jewish and Amy Farrah Fowler from BBT clearly had somewhat-Christian parents despite Mayim Bialik's heritage but you could be free to headcanon (unless they're mentioned as another religion in canon) as Jewish characters like Jack Hodgins from Bones or Flynn Carsen from The Librarians or DCEU!Billy Batson

in I think it was 2018 NBC made a really bad sitcom called Living Biblically that was supposedly based on The Year Of Living Biblically but all it shared other than the titular Bible quest was the main character being some sort of entertainment-y writer with a pregnant wife, I can see changing the names but they changed the motivation for the quest, removed the toddler he already had in the book and most gallingly made him freaking Christian when many instances from the book reliant on the guy's Judaism could have made good sitcom episodes

[vampiricbloodyraven]

I swear internalised self-misgendering, self-deadnaming, including internalised transandromisia and ableism is fucking me over and is adding onto my current depressive mood (with the weather and me staying inside) than I fucking realise.

Welp, time for some hot cocoa and me doing laundry plus reading BL (maybe seeing if there are any articles for me to edit and maybe continuing with a personal article on my thoughts of the Israel-Hamas conflict).

[mombinaryjew]

Making Challah.

[fandomrelatedshowerthoughts]

DAE notice a lot of subtext in Encanto that (while not to distract from what it did for Colombians and their culture or to say that the Madrigals are Sephardi) could resonate with Jewish people; i mean in addition to just heavy emphasis on family and it putting the “door” in “l’dor va’dor”, you’ve got fleeing persecution to paradise, a candle that’s supposed to never go out, socially-advantageous matchmaking, feeling defined by your differences, elders trying to hide the wounds of generational trauma, and an ending where everyone comes together to almost quite literally repair the world.