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Haemorrhaging followers again, so this is just a reminder that I:
Support Ukraine
Block Tankies and TERFs on sight
Will never forgive people who chose not to vote for Harris in 2024
If posts reflecting these views are not what you want to see, then kindly consider fixing your heart and not following in the first place, thanks!
People who say "bring back bullying" have never been bullied and it shows
People who say "bring back bullying" are bullies.
Yup. What really makes me sad is while most of them always were, and want that power trip back? There ARE people who were bullied as kids and still managed to internalize the bullies' logic, and now think they're owed a chance to bully someone in their turn.
There is a Certain Type of Leftist on here who is convinced that they can and should categorise all countries as either Real or Fake (a cornerstone of imperialist thinking btw), and while they might provide some support for their decision regarding specific countries, maybe even reference some noble ideals when explaining their reasoning, when you look at their overall views it becomes pretty clear that their main criterion is "how do my favorite empires feel about this country's independence?"
FOR Orthodox.
What even is orthodox? Lots of different groups get included in orthodox so what core beliefs unite Hassidic, Yeshivish, Modox, etc. as distinct from for example Conservative? I know some people also use terms like ultra orthodox and modern orthodox but are those different beliefs or just different customs?
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Historically speaking, Orthodox Jews are the ones who disagreed with the Reform movement.
Reform Judaism is only a few centuries old, originating as part of the Haskalah, the Jewish adoption of Enlightenment ideas. Other movements are newer, either breaking away from Reform like the Conservative movement did or being modeled on it.
When the Reform movement first began adopting changes to traditional Judaism, "Orthodox" became the catch all term for those who rejected said changes.
Which is not to say that Orthodox Jews are living as they would have if there were never a Reform movement; in many cases, Orthodox Rabbis and communities made decisions specifically to counter Reform rulings.
The difficulty is that, ultimately, there is no Orthodox movement. Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist are all distinct movements with official rabbinical counsels who can make rulings about what the movement officially believes (though of course that doesn't mean every Jew who is part of those movements holds those beliefs) there is no comparable Orthodox counsel. "Chief Rabbi," of Israel or elsewhere, is a government position. In Israel, the Chief Rabbi can make rulings such as who counts as a Jew for the purposes of the Law of Return. In other countries, the Chief Rabbi tends to act as a representative of the local Jewish community to the government.
But while they are (usually) highly respected and influential Rabbis, that doesn't mean they have the authority to make official rulings for all Orthodox Jews, or even all Orthodox Jews in their country.
Now, there are Orthodox movements based on the teachings of specific Rabbis and their heirs, so those movements will have official beliefs, but then you get something like Modern Orthodoxy, which is really more of a philosophy than a movement, and the borders of who is and is not Modern Orthodox can get really fuzzy.
And, crucially, all of this only applies to Ashkenazi Jews.
Reform was a European movement. All of the political implications of Reform and later movements (and yeah, a lot of this is political) are within Ashkenazi Judaism.
Other minhagim aren't Orthodox, because Orthodox just means "not Reform, Conservative, ect," and they don't have a Reform movement to be "not".
This doesn't mean that other minhagim are more or less traditional that Ashkenazi Judiasm, just that the terms don't apply.
I hope that this cleared some things up!
(I assume that it did not.)
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My most recent creation, "My Own Answer". I am excited to have this one displayed in February. by thespaceitake on reddit.
Remember, for Cucker, Owens, and all the other surrogates Russia uses, russia is the based defender of christendom and european culture
And not a pack of fading cynical imperialists hungry for the glory days of the USSR and willing to extinguish Ukraine and Ukrainian culture to do it out of fear, greed and insecurity.
Got woken up by explosions yet again.
Very, very loud ones.
Kyiv is once again under a massive combined attack.
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https://people.com/jane-yolen-author-of-450-childrens-books-dies-at-87-11996432
Jane Yolen was a Jewish-American children’s author, poet, and young adult novelist. Yolen wrote more than 400 books for children and adults,
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel nove
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel novella “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” it’s likely you will once you become a parent, reading one of her many, many, many books for kids. My young boys are especially partial to her “How Do Dinosaurs?” series with its captivating, realistic dinosaur illustrations and snappy, funny text (and yes, there’s a Hanukkah “How Do Dinosaurs” book).
The prolific children’s book author, who was the recipient of multiple children’s book awards and six honorary doctorates, passed away this week at age 87. She was just about to release her 450th book. “Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds” will come out posthumously on July 14.
Yolen wasn’t raised particularly Jewish, and her exposure to religion was mostly at relatives’ homes, she recounted in a piece for the Jewish Book Council. As a teen, she did become fascinated with Jewish texts and traditions, getting confirmed at her local Reform synagogue; she was one of the first girls to read from the Torah on the bimah at that temple. And she minored in religious studies at Smith College.
But it took a while for Judaism to become part of her children’s book-writing career. In fact, she was two decades into her career when she got “noodged” into writing Jewish tales.
It all happened in the 1980s, she wrote in her essay for the Jewish Book Council: “One of my editors, who happened to be a rabbi’s wife, asked me why I had never written a Jewish book. And I had to think long and hard about that. And she noodged. Boy! Was she an expert noodge. The result was ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic.’ And then the Jewish stories began to tumble out.”
The books that came tumbling out were as gripping and wonderful and magical as the rest of her oeuvre.
There came magical stories about Jews and dragons and golems (co-written with her son, Adam Stemple).
She published illustrated books about Miriam and other biblical women (and even the children’s book adaptation of the famous “Prince of Egypt”).
She came up with her own twist on the tales of the Wise Men of Chelm.
She perhaps became most known for her three young adult tomes that tackle the Holocaust in novel ways. She wrote the “Sleeping Beauty” inspired “Briar Rose” and the “Hansel and Gretel”-esque “Mapping the Bones.” And of course, she penned the Nebula Prize Winning “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” about a Jewish teen who finds herself transported to 1942 Poland, which continues to be taught in schools to this very day, even as one Texas school district pulled it out of the curriculum for AI-detected “DEI content.” The book was famously turned into a 1999 film starring Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman and Mimi Rogers.
Yolen also wrote books about Jewish holidays: “Milk and Honey,” and the lovely “Jewish Tale Feasts” (with her daughter, author Heidi Stemple), a book that my Jewish food-loving family adores.
Heidi, Adam and their brother Jason were all by their mother’s side when she “passed gently with no pain or stress,” Heidi shared on Instagram. Adam was playing his music while Heidi read from her mother’s book “Owl Moon.”
“As you all probably know, she had one of the most brilliant creative minds of our time,” Heidi wrote of her mother. “She has mentored, inspired and nurtured so many authors and illustrators through her words both on the page and off. But, beyond that, she was our mother and grandmother.”
May Jane Yolen’s memory be for a blessing; her books will certainly remain part of our lives for a long, long time.
