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The most harrowing thing about writing any word in Yiddish is that there are always like three semi-accepted ways to spell it and I can never remember which one I used last time.

Bubbeleh? Bubeleh? Bubele?

Should I spell it the way my mom spells it, the way YIVO spells it, or the way Leo Rosten spells it?

Should I just put the fucking thing in the Hebrew alphabet instead??? No, I can’t, because then it should be read in the opposite direction sjdidijdidkdhdjdk

#Yiddish #jewish problems #writers on tumblr

why is trying to read books when jewish a choice between "support the racist islamophobic xenophobic queerphobes" and "support the hamasniks who, if they don't already want you dead kidnapped and raped because you're j--ZIONIST (nevermind they never pay attention to the american evangelical christian zionists, of whom there are 4-117 million more than jews in the world) would want you if you happened to be born somewhere else and cheerfully call for genocide"?

#jumblr #jewblr #jewish #judaism #antisemitism #jewish tumblr #leftist antisemitism #if jew know jew know #jewish problems

Someone said Happy New Year to me the other day at synagogue, and it honestly threw me off for a second because my mind was thinking in terms of the Hebrew calendar.

#Jewish problems #jewish #jumblr

Ok wow. Everyone on that jkr polish caricature post is asking what "slavic eyes" means and... y'all don't know. You don't... It's antisemitism. It's a reference to nazi propaganda on how to identify ashkenazi/slavic jews by our (often) deeply set, hooded, hazel colored eyes. The combination results in shadowed "dark" eyes that seem to shift colors. She just subbed the word slavic to elide her dogwhistle.

#jewish problems #hazel means dual colored #like blue gray #or more often #green-blue #which resembles a filbert #within its cluster of leaves #as in #a hazelnut

Hey Jumblr, I need some advice. But first, story time:

My high school best friend is at Y*le Seminary so they can become a Reverend. It's great. I'm really happy for them.

BUT

Liberal Christianity seems to be really into doing this thing where they reject the Old Testament for the Hebrew Bible? Like, to fulfil their Old Testament requirement, my friend took a class on Jewish interpretations of the Hebrew Bible.

I, personally, hate it. The vast majority of Jewish biblical exegesis was done after 200 CE. It's not theirs at all. It's not the interpretation that the founders of Christianity (both imagined and real) knew, because there's an extra 1800+ years of scholarship. Jewish exegesis doesn't even follow the same format at Christian exegesis! They have 2000 years of their *own* exegesis that actually makes sense for their religion both philosophically and the assumption that Jesus was being foreshadowed, which is the whole reason they pay any attention to it in the first place!

To me it feels very "let's have a seder for Jesus even though the Passover Seder was invented in the middle ages!" with a hint of trying to be woke about how Christianity essentially stole our bible and then oppressed us for not seeing it their way. They don't even explain/use Jewish Biblical exegesis correctly (which kind of adds to the point).

My friend is no longer in the class, but I don't know how to explain to them either that or why the fact that they (and their denomination) are doing this makes me *wildly* uncomfortable. I grew up in an area with very few Jews. I'm not sure that my friend is actually close with any other Jews. But this is a movement-wide phenomenon (at least in the UCC/Congregationalist movement), and I need them to be able to articulate why it's not great. How do I tell them how I feel without being a d*ck about it?

#pls advise?#jewish problems #christian appropriation of judaism #religion #I used to do a lot of interfaith organizing so I know where these ideas come from but #this is still bad even if it comes from a. good place