#returnofthejudai

[dr-treyf]

if you think jewish women shouldn’t wrap tefillin in public, you’re sexist. orthodoxy does not give you a pass on this. 

[captaintalia]

man, I have recommended @returnofthejudai to so many people as a resource for learning about Judaism, and they just blocked me because I left a comment on a "beef" post, calling out one of their new mods for the way she was handling the situation. I told her she could be quite condescending/aggressive in her tone, and that's all it took to get blocked. how sad to be more concerned with preserving the way you see yourself than with being better. what a damn shame. can anyone recommend any other good jumblr blogs for me to follow? I really learned so much from ROTJ but i won't be going back there. I'm just after somewhere that is informative, engages in careful discussion, and doesn't trigger my anxiety. i love @sefardinha's blog but they've gone quiet lately...

[jewish-privilege]

have you seen this garbage

Alexis’s comments:

Potentially unpopular opinion coming up: I kind of agree with people who are complaining due to Judge Garland’s race, sex, and moderate politics. 

I wish President Obama had nominated someone from an ethnic, racial, or religious minority that has not already been represented on the Supreme Court (for example, Judge Sri Srinivasan who would have been the first Asian and Indian Supreme Court Justice and who has as moderate and centrist of a record as Judge Garland). I will say that it was brilliant move politically on President Obama’s part to nominate someone who is a centrist. If they continue with their pledge not to meet with or hold hearings when the nominee is a moderate centrist whose record shows that he sticks to legal precedent and the language of the statutes and regulations of which he’s interpreting, it will unequivocally show the Republican Senators as obstructionists only refusing to consider President Obama’s nominee for partisan reasons.

All that being said, I think this plainly illustrates how white/white-skinned Jewish people are racialized differently by different subgroups. It also plainly shows erasure of any Jewish person who does not fit into the “Jews are white and European” box (where European to them means Ashkenazi). On one side you have people (mainly white supremacists and white antisemites) saying Jews control everything and have unlimited power. On the other side, as evidenced above, you have people erasing antisemitism and Jewish people’s oppression under white supremacy by classifying white/white-skinned Jewish people completely the same as white non-Jewish people (and again, the implication is that to be Jewish is to be white, therefore erasing any Jewish person who is not white). 

As Chaim said at @returnofthejudai, having four Jewish justices on the Supreme Court could lead to more antisemitism and lead credence to conspiracy theories that Jewish people control everything. It leads to more Jewish anxiety that we are always a half-step away from expulsion, pogroms, and genocide again.

[sincereglomp-blog]

I’ve grown weary of the silent anti-semitism on this site. If you don’t fight for the rights of Jews to live in diaspora countries, and you believe Israel shouldn’t exist, then you believe that Jews don’t have a right to be safe anywhere. If you stand silent as Jews are murdered, raped, beaten, threatened, have their synagogues burned and their homes and businesses vandalized, then you have no right to claim that you care about human rights or social justice. You’re an anti-semite posing as a hero, getting high of your own sanctimony. Think long and hard if you’re comfortable with that.

source: returnofthejudai

[nialoke]

Okay, so my comment on this post  of returnofthejudai's upset a lot of people, and I want to apologize for that.

While I still am in two minds about the whole tone issue in general (without relation to this blog or issue in particular), I realize I was being disrespectful and it was simply not my business trying to "give advice" to someone I did not know, especially without informing myself enough about the issue at hand before writing what I wrote. returnofthejudai reacting very kindly in trying to clear things up and explain things to me, which I truly appreciate. I appologize to everyone who felt offended.

-Nia