#judaisim

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[chroniclesofajewishteen]

If Jews have to celebrate Christmas because "everyone does it" and "it's not even religious" or "it's just so commercialized to the point it's for everyone" then you need to celebrate Channukah. You need to sing all the prayers because "It's festive!" You need to light the menorah every night and buy it with your own money. You need to join a Channukah party with all your co-workers and friends because "It's really a holiday about family and getting together" and you need to explain 50 times why you're here if you're Christian. And at the party, we're all going to share the story of Channukah, and when you don't know it, we'll say "oh, but everyone knows it! Everyone celebrates Channukah!" Oh, does that sound a bit weird and frustrating? It's almost like stuff like this has been happening to Jewish people every year and you don't care.

[pennamenotfound]

i love you jews

i love you secular jews i love you religious jews i love you observant jews I love you cultural jews i love you ethnic jews i love you converts i love you reform jews i love you reconstruction jews i love you conservative jews i love you modern orthodox jews i love you orthodox jews i love you jewish community

[dazzlen-the-clown]

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[palominojacoby]

Marc Chagall, The tribe of Zebulun, 1964

[wu-gang-writing]

Who looks at a healthy baby and says 'almost perfect. Hand me something sharp.'

[shadowycoffeebean]

would fursuits be considered tznuis

[vaspider]

I keep wanting to reach out to the Jewish Community Center in my city and try to actually be part of my own culture, but I have serious social anxiety and also fear of being treated like I'm not Jewish enough because my mom raised me isolated from Jewish culture (yay generational trauma!). Do you have any advice other than the Shia LaBeouf "just do it!" meme?

Just do it!

Okay, now that I've said that:

The people who are involved enough in the Jewish community, and invested in it enough, to make running a Community Center the thing that they do, will be delighted to hear from someone who grew up separated from the community and who wants to be closer to their community.

Look at it this way: you are giving them the opportunity to help you. You are giving them the opportunity to perform mitzvaot, and they're gonna be happy about it, the same way I was happy to answer this ask. By asking me this question, you gave me the opportunity to help you reconnect with a community who loves you and wants you to be part of it, so thank you!

Am Yisrael is your home and you belong there, and it's better and stronger and more beautiful with you in it. You not only have a right to be part of this community, but we want you here, and getting to help Jewish people connect with a culture that was denied to them is one of the great joys of our community. It's an opportunity to say shehechyanu when I help someone say a bracha for the first time or teach them something they didn't know. The joy of seeing the look on someone's face when they light candles on Shabbat for the first time or feel the weight of the Shema? I love that stuff, and the people who are committed enough to run a community center, they love that stuff too. They're gonna be really excited to talk to you.

Keep that in mind, okay?