cherry valley forever
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Three Goblin Art
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if i look back, i am lost
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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YOU ARE THE REASON
occasionally subtle
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Peter Solarz
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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@tagutschi
jews: have millenia worth of archeological and genetic evidence of our origin in the levant
most of the world, for some reason: "colonizers!! the arabs are the real natives!!!!1!!!1!1! (ignore the fact that the entire mena region speaks arabic that isnt relevant)"
Leftists made sexism ok as long as you put "white" in front of the woman you're about to insult, and they made antisemitism ok as long as you call the Jew a Zionist first.
To all of the self-hating Jews in the diaspora who think they'll be safe because they hate Israel and constantly attack Zionists, I'd like to remind you of this quote from megillat Esther
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מׇרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכׇּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ Mordecai had this message delivered to Esther: “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace.
i don’t know how to explain to my non-jewish audience what it means that two torah scrolls were destroyed in an arson attack but what i can tell you is that during the los angeles wildfires, three staff at the synagogue in pasadena made 4+ trips each back into the building to rescue torah scrolls while the fire was close enough that ashes were falling in the parking lot.
what i can tell you is that we have a holiday once a year where we hold the scrolls and hug them and dance around them. what i can tell you is that they are written with love by hand by trained scribes who take exquisite care to make sure each word, each letter, is perfect. when we read from them we do not touch the parchment directly so that it won’t be harmed by the oils from our fingers.
we make beautiful clothing for our torah scrolls, embroidered cloth coverings and shining worked metal crowns to sit atop them or carved wooden cases plated with gold and silver. the torah is to us the words of the living God, the tree of life, the record of who are and where we’re going, and the torah scroll is our most holy ritual object.
the torah scroll never touches the floor. if it is dropped accidentally, everyone in the room must fast for forty days in mourning. the desecration of a torah scroll is the utmost level of desecration that can be done to a jewish community, short of killing its members. nazis burnt and destroyed torah scrolls as part of their campaign of terror against the jewish people even before widescale mass deportations began. in ancient times, the romans wrapped the rabbis who led our community in torah scrolls when they burnt them at the stake.
this past shabbat, in the middle of the night, a synagogue in jackson, mississippi was intentionally set on fire. the library was burnt to ashes and five torah scrolls were damaged, with two of them completely destroyed.
i don’t know how many books were burnt, how many jewish holy texts and how many stories of jewish life and philosophy and love and resilience flew up with the smoke. i do know that the library was where the congregation had shabbat services and torah and talmud study. it was a sacred space. this is not the first time that people who hate us have destroyed our sacred spaces and our holy texts and our torah scrolls in order to terrorize us. i dearly wish it was the last.
Performs a german ritual on my little tool
cool that you feel guilty and ashamed of being jewish! go take it in the corner where i don’t have to hear you whine. anyway:
Reminder that the term Zio is a slur against Jews coined by former klan grand wizard David Duke. Imagine saying you're just anti-Zionist and calling people antisemitic slurs
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Shabbat Salmon!
waxewod
This post just sums everything up to me. “Hey Jews. I heard this statistic. But I’m sure it’s fake. So if you want me to believe you, you better tell me all the horrible things that have happened to you recently.”
Born too early to worry about pogroms
Born too late to worry about pogroms
Born just in time to worry about pogroms
all i want for the new year is for jews to be safe and happy. just leave us the fuck alone.
When you become famous you’re called a legend because your leg ends
What
Your leg. It ends.
I’m not a linguist but I think that’s wrong
Are you saying your leg doesn’t end?
I mean. at some point it does. yes.
then what’s the problem
Internet leftists will say "one joke" to homophobic and transphobic conservatives, then turn around and fall over themselves to comment "promised to them 3000 years ago" on literally everything tangentially related to Israelis, and have literally no self awareness about it.
man. the fact that at the bondi beach massacre there were people who had survived the nova massacre and people who had survived the invasion of ukraine. regina spektor getting harassed by a protester while playing a show and saying she just wants her kids to be able to grow up in one country, to not have to be refugees for the same reason she was (being a jew). they just hunt us down wherever we are. i feel so much anger towards "antizionist" jews. how the fuck can you see this happen to your own people and still feel the need to assert that you are One Of The Good Ones. just fucking stop.
Edible menorahs or menorah themed (the last picture is a themed lunch for a kid)
The black and white cookie one was captioned "Januca" so that's another spelling out there?
Everyone knows Ahmed Al Ahmed's name.
It's time to know theirs:
Boris and Sofia Gurman - Russian Jews. The first people who attempted to disarm one of the shooters. They died protecting people.
Reuven Morrison - a 60 year old Jewish man who hurled a brick at one of the shooters to distract him. He was shot and killed.
Edith Brutman - vice president of an anti-prejudice and anti-discrimination committee at B’nai B’rith NSW.
Marika Pogany - an 82 year old Jewish volunteer who assisted Jewish seniors.
10 year old Matilda. A Jewish girl who was shot and killed while playing at the petting zoo.
Dan Elkayam - a French Jew living in Australia who loved soccer.
Rabbi Eli Schlanger - father of five, who promoted dancing with joy to combat antisemitism.
Rabbi Yaakov Levitan - shot while handing out tefillin.
Peter Meagher - retired police officer who was taking photos at the events. Photography was his retirement passion.
Alex Kleytman - a Holocaust survivor who died protecting his wife.
Tibor Weitzen - a Russian Jew known as the "lolli man". He would give confectionery to the children of his shul.
An unidentified 40-year-old man was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Sunday but died at the hospital.
And we still have more to be identified.
Update: The unidentified man has been identified as Adam Smyth, a father of four who was walking along the beach with his wife when he was shot.
