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Hey Jumblr friends, do you think that people have any idea just how small the Jewish community is?

Like (((we))) all know what’s happening right now. All of us.

Because we know (or at least see) people who have family involved. Which is why we’re grieving with them over the news.

But do you think that people who don’t even know that Jews exist outside of their TV or bibles, understand that six degrees of separation in our community is more like three degrees (Two degrees of separation if you went to sleep away camp or Yeshiva)?

If we don’t know someone, we know someone who knows someone. Or we know someone who know that someone who knows someone.

It doesn’t get any more complex from there because there are so few of us, that that’s how it works.

And we come from a people who mourn together.

So (((we))) know what’s happening.

But do you think that they understand just how often this happens? How we are all family, even when we’re the only two Jews left in Afghanistan* and refuse to speak to oneanother because he knows what he did!

*There are no longer any Jews in Afghanistan.

Or Lybia

Or Sudan

Or Syria

Or Oman

And The only Jew in Yemen is in prison for helping Jewish refugees escape the ethnic clensing.

Like how Lebanon is down over 99% of their Jewish population.

So is Iraq

And Bahrain

And Egypt

And Tunisia

And Algeria

And Morocco

Some of the oldest parts of the diaspora, going back not centuries, but millennia.

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Okeisms – Southernisms

I was more or less raised on the east coast. But I also spent a lot of summers in Oklahoma. Both my parents had rural, agrarian upbringings, one in Kentucky, land of beautiful horses and fast women, and the other in Oklahoma. One of my siblings has described Oklahoma as southern and western, but definitely not southwestern. Under their cowboy hats, Okies definitely operate with a southern…

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Okeisms – Southernisms

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Fun with unicorns & rainbows #marinadelrey #mishpucha (at Marina del Rey, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjBE9wHXC6r2dkViK4JDrXvkK7mAicp-nCD3s0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s5skn4np7t28

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Judaism as a family

So here's how I think of Judaism as an ethnocultural/ethnoreligious group(feel free to use your own metaphors):

We are essentially one big family. Converts are like people who marry into the family (or who are adopted into it, if you would prefer). Similarly, people who convert out or who lose touch with their Judaism are estranged members of the family, who you hope you can interact with on occasion but who you are pretty sure have gone their own way. Like other families, we have our squabbles, with Uncle Ashkenazi and Uncle Sephardi always arguing over how to do things, and Uncle Chabadnik trying to get young cousin Secular to go to shul more. Like other families, we have our black sheep, and those family members we don't talk about or feel shame towards. But we are a family, to use the Hebrew word constantly used on my Birthright trip, we are mishpucha. And (hopefully) if you mess with one member of the mishpucha, we'll mess with you.

So no nattering about how Judaism is just a religion, or that white Jews are white first and Jewish second, or whatever else. Because all of us (Israeli, American, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrachi, Beta Israel, B'nei Menashe, Orthdox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Humanist, Karaite, Atheist, Buddhist, conservative, liberal, socialist, FFB, B'aal Teshuva, white, black, Middle Eastern, East Asian, South Asian, and countless more divisions) are my aunts and uncles, cousins and distant relations.

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