Doing My G-ddamn Best

conservative ashkie; maybe looking into orthodoxy. zionist. // jewish sideblog

[thrashbeatles]

i drew this at synagogue

[dead-dragon-dooms-day]

Eccentric, neurotic, constantly asking questions, carries a heavy amount of grief, piecing ingenious shit together through learned skills and whatever is around. He is one of us alright.

[lostxanadu]

im in ur shul, liking ur shoelaces

in the beit knesset. straight up "liking them." and by "them", haha, well. let's justr say. Your shoelaces

[weisswodka]

Outfit Check with tallit and tallit bag

[westasianblues]

i think about this video i saw a while back, maybe before the war, but i think about it a lot, the woman in it is Jewish and addressing other Jews and says something to the effect of… “anti-Israel, pro-Israel? baby, I AM Israel… and so are YOU!” and like idk it plays in my head so much like. yes. I AM ISRAEL. And SO ARE YOU!!!

[cantotallyeven]

So you know how there are basically never any Jews in scifi? I've got this idea for a scifi story where it's your typical average joe wakes up like 200 years later in a post apocalyptic world and tries to get by and of course people don't notice the lack of Jews but at some point it comes up that the inhabitants exiled all the Jews to Mars or something. This would notably be unrelated to the apocalypse, and they'd be doing fine over there.

[cantotallyeven]

The chabad was there when the Jews arrived

[danielf32]

More pics from Tel Aviv Pride.

[diemelusine]

A controversy from the Talmud by Carl Schleicher (1825–1903). Private collection.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

tag yourself

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[mockiatoh]

Everyone say Shabbat Shalom Snoopy

[noblegasseswithglasses]

Never forget that the first ever Superman fan convention was held at a synagogue in Ohio.

(source: https://www.wrhs.org/learn-discover/history-at-home/then-now-blog/2023/02/22/the-greatest-american-hero-the-story-of-jerry-siegel-and-joe-shuster)

And the first comic book convention was held at a Jewish fraternity.

(source: "Is Superman Circumcised?" by Roy Schwartz published 2021)

And Siegel and Shuster gave much of their Superman profits for tzedakah.

(source: https://www.jta.org/2018/10/03/united-states/tragic-tale-supermans-jewish-creators-told-graphic-novel-form)

(source: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/telling-the-joe-shuster-story)

[nimrochan]

Happy Pride Month to every single member of the LBGTQIA+ community in the Middle East, especially to the many poor souls who are not in places that allow them to celebrate or simply be themselves.

[remainsoflilies]

A Jewish woman of Damascus, Syria, photographed by Charles Lallemand, c. 1865

[postcard-from-the-past]

Greetings from Israel

Israeli vintage postcard

[bobemajses]

The last Jews of Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) in southwestern Ukraine, by János Chialá and Tali Mayer.

In the last century alone, Zakarpattia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union and independent Ukraine. Jewish life thrived here since the 15th century, as the local rulers allowed the Jews to own land and practice many trades that were precluded to them in the rest of Europe. Establishing synagogues, cemeteries, farms, shops, bathhouses, taverns and vineyards they were an integral part Zakarpattia’s economic and cultural life: by the end of the 19th century there were as many as 150,000 Jews living in the region. In 1944 German troops occupied Hungary; almost all Zakarpattian Jews were loaded on freight trains and deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Some of the survivors who decided to return to their villages after their war, found themselves trapped behind the Iron Curtain of the Communist regime, which banned all Jewish religious and cultural expression. Today, just a few hundred Jews remain in what used to be huge communities. Grand synagogues still stand empty and in need of repair, and cemeteries are overgrown with weeds. Yet Jewish life carries on. Some Jews still gather on shabbat and the high holidays, keeping the traditions alive and with them the story of the Jews of Zakarpattia.

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #29: Wheat But Not Bread, Fruit But Not Wine

[gelbgelbgelb]

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-- Daniel Mallory Ortberg

[technologistrevolution]

This has been driving me insane because this quote is so incredibly Jewish but every time I saw it was completely divorced from Judaism in the version applying it to 'transsexual'.

The original concept that humans complete the act of creation by making bread from wheat is from the Talmud! And the specific "wheat but not bread, grapes but not wine" phrasing is from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel but it is missing "clay but not bricks".

And among trans Jews the sentiment was already popular before I ever started seeing this specific phrasing so I knew, knew, knew a Jew and likely a trans Jew was involved.

As it happens, Ortberg's friend Julian is Jewish and they have strongly negative feelings about the way the quote has been removed from the context of their life as someone trans and Jewish. They used to have a thread up on xwitter about it but have since made their account private and only have a very terse FAQ online from which you can glean the treatment they likely received when being more open about their Jewishness, relationship to transness, and the interaction of both.

[kosherdragon]

I've always thought there was something extremely Jewish about that quote! I had no idea that Julian is Jewish.

[nonbinaryjudean]

(Jewish) pride month days 6 & 7: Some articles about queer Jews that I think you should read! + my hand-drawn original Gilbert Baker flag with Star of David done for a class project a while back about multifaceted identities

Jewish transgender man gives birth and embraces life as a single 'abba'

How Choosing Judaism Helped Me Embrace My Black, Bisexual Identity

Notes from an Asexual Jew

A gender-affirming bar mitzvah for a transgender man

Pride Built Us a New Closet - Hen Mazzig

How Do Nonbinary Jews Navigate Gendered Spaces?

(not feeling the best this weekend, will be getting back on track tomorrow)

[aridotdash]

Me after giving my baby a new food on Shabbos:

My baby, unsure if she likes it:

[dykeboytism]

Time to repost our photosensitive and colorblind friendly Jewish queer pride flag. The flags is a combination of the lavender stripe flag, the original flag, and the progress flag with a Star of David added.

[ID: a rectangle flag made to mimic the progress pride flag. The flag is horizontal, equally sized, and 9-striped with the colors lavender, magenta, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, indigo, and purple from top to bottom. There's a layered Star of David on the left of the image with the colors black, brown, blue, pink, white, and yellow from outside to inside. The yellow part has a small purple Star of David that makes the yellow part mimic the intersex flag. /End of ID]

Tagging: @radiomogai @io-archival @themogaidragon @genderstarbucks