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3 years

Please don't avoid joining a synagogue because of the cost of dues. Every shul I have ever belonged to will quietly reduce dues as much as you need with a simple talk to the Rabbi or office staff

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Please don't put up a mezuzah, or even a mezuzah case, if you aren't Jewish.

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@2024Hawley @Citizen09372364 Contacting uncontacted ppl tends to give them diseases that they don't have immunity to (usually tuberculosis)

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If you are not Palestinian or Jewish, there's no particular reason to care *this much* about the war. So the reason for many is... antisemitism. From the basic "Israel is the quintessential settler colony" to "Israel lobby controls US congress"

Jill Filipovic

@JillFilipovic

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I feel like I'm a broken record on this but several of these organizations are led by people who are cosplaying revolutionaries and are truly, deeply demented and absolutely want to foment violence. They are not representative of most protesters, but it's a damn shame they're the

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People are assuming way too much bad intent in the fact that they are the only options. There just aren't that many Jews on a lot of campuses! It would be really weird to have competing Shabbat dinners on a campus with 100 Jews, 20 of whom will come on a Friday night.

Sam

@sammyclaws12

3 months

there’s a lot wrong w this sentiment, but on a base level: hillel and chabad have forced themselves into becoming virtually the only center for Jewish life on college campuses. some people go there because it’s the only source of kosher meals, some go for services.

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Wow, the Israeli food discourse is so gd antisemitic. I always think there might be some good faith misunderstanding and it's always like "evil Zionists in NYC are pretending to be Middle Eastern for the Zionist project but I can see through their lies"

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2 years

It bothers me when people say that Jewish atheists are not religiously Jewish, just ethnically Jewish. No. They are religiously Jewish if they participate in the covenant, whether or not they believe the covenant is with G-d

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It is amazing how confidently some Orthodox people can talk about Reform and Reconstructist Judaism and be completely wrong

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@SolutionOrganic @Citizen09372364 When uncontacted ppl are contacted, they tend to get Tuberculosis or other diseases that they don't have immunity to and die. There is a reason that the policy is generally to leave them alone.

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If you are Christian, please do NOT put up a real menorah in "solidarity" with Jews who are facing antisemitism. Replacing us does not feel like allyship. #Menorahs4OurNeighbors

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@pansyandrose211 @alizawerner Do you really not understand the difference between learning about a minority culture and being pressured into participating in a majority culture?

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I don't think you have to be a Zionist to become Jewish. You can be anti-Zionist even. But you do have to love the Jewish people enough *as we are* to understand the Zionist positions and where they come from.

Shai Ben Avraham

@PainfullyShai

6 months

There's a non-zero number of people on here who are like "I want to become a Jew, but I don't want people to think I'm a Zionist" and frankly if that's your mindset, then maybe becoming Jewish isn't for you.

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Note to Christians: Jews are trained to be diplomatic around you. They won't necessarily lie about their beliefs around Christianity, but they will tend to put things as charitably as possible. So apply that lens to what you hear.

Kim Miller

@cudsrev

2 months

@MAdryaelTong I have talked to Jewish Rabbis who have read the gospels who say definitively that Jesus was a very good Jew and that the gospels in fact depict Judaism pretty well. Paul’s letters and other NT writings are problematic.

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@lisettevoytko @becagrimm They talk about eating for two but never about *breathing* for two.

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@lunespiral @NicoleOKing @o_honeybees

After Knitters Get In A Twist, USOC Apologizes For 'Cease And Desist' Letter

The Olympic Committee had told organizers of the Ravelympics that they were infringing on a trademark. But after knitters complained loudly, the USOC's threat unraveled.

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I know non-Jews trying to separate Zionism and Judaism are trying to help, but - acknowledging that not all Jews are Zionists while keeping the incorrect definition of Zionism as a form of anti-Palistinian racism... just lets ppl direct hate at broad swaths of Jews anyway.

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It is polite not to tell someone that their deeply held beliefs are wrong. But sometimes Christians sometimes have a habit of assuming people in minority religions are stubborn, rather than just a different religion, so direct speech is necessary.

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@DanteAtkins People really think that American presidents can wave a magic wand and get whatever they want, and that foreign governments are all client states to the American empire.

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1 year

I wear visibly Jewish clothing. I was coming out of a doctor's appointment and asked a parking lot attendant for directions. She got right up to my face and said "Jesus loves you". It was not friendly, it was aggressive.

Armand Domalewski

@ArmandDoma

1 year

It’s fascinating to grow older and watch social norms change around me. When I was younger, few would say that a Christian saying Christ was path to salvation could be seen as bigotry or a man slipping a note with his phone number to a woman would be seen as harassment.

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Why non-Jews should avoid doing Jewish sacred practices: a 🧵 (mandatory caveat - if you are invited to join Jews in doing whatever it is, these rules don't apply)

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My Conservative shul has an Orthodox rival very nearby. Of course, there's a bit of friendly competition for members, but we come together and do joint celebrations twice a year - Succot (1 hakafa together) and Shavuot (a fully joint tikkun). We are not enemies, we are all Jews.

The Jewish Meme Queen

@jewishmemequeen

1 year

Can we all agree to not mock conservative or reform rabbis? You can disagree with their approach to Judaism, but there’s no need to poke fun of them in a shiur or podcast. They are people too.

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Imagine assuming that every student that attended Catholic Mass on campus supports banning abortion.

Dr. Mia Brett

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3 months

I support the movements to push individual Hillel chapters to break with Israel support but students who rely on any Hillel for kosher food or other services aren’t necessarily doing so because they’re Zionists

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People I saw sharing it didn't feel mad and superior to the left. They felt scared and alienated. Even if it wasn't the majority of speakers, it was still blatant antisemitism from people we once thought of as our allies on the left.

Aaron Bady

@zunguzungu

11 months

Lots of people shared a Yashar Ali tweet which cynically edited many hours of messy, passionate, and deeply sincere public debate into a minute of carefully-selected and decontextualized (even mis-framed) snippets because they wanted to feel mad and superior to the left

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It's weird seeing people post things like "look at all the civilian casualties, this isn't a war, it's a genocide" and, like... What did you think war was? It's awful! There's always massive civilian casualties! That's why it should be a last resort!

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1 year

Wasn't this phrase mostly to let hopeless queer teens know that there was life and freedom to be themselves after high school? Not about political and policy gains?

Hamish Steele is @ Thought Bubble

@hamishsteele

1 year

“It gets better” we said 13 years ago… Fucking WHEN?

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1 year

I live in DC, so many of the Jews at the ceasefire protests are the same Jews I see at Jewish community events and on Saturday morning. They are not Christian. Their tallitot are not costumes. They love our people, even if they disagree about what's best for us.

Alex גדעון בן װעלװל

@JewishWonk

1 year

It's very hard for many Jews to see protests by people donning our religious accessories for a politics they fundamentally disagree with, but it's worth repeating the below. They are far smaller and less influential than Jews who did such things in the past.

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That terrible Shabbat, I was called up to do hagba. I had done it before many times, but maybe the Torah was especially heavy or tall, or maybe my arm was weak. Whatever it was, I dropped the Torah, ripping right through the text.

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3 years

There is a Jewish legend that when you pass on, you are given a life to review and judge as worthy or unworthy. Those who are not judgemental in life will be gentle and give the benefit of the doubt - which will help them, as the life they judge is their own.

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@PFCDoofles @UjuAnya @gwensnyderPHL Allies can participate in things, but they are not part of the community. Q for questioning is for the people you describe, not the A.

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Ultimately, when you are a minority religion/ethnicity, you are going to have to be in community with people you disagree with. You can't schism over everything. Certainly not based on the divisions that happen to be most visible to outsiders.

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@JackWaltimore There is a monument to the boll weevil in Enterprise, Alabama, precisely because the failure of the cotton crop forced them to industrialize.

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@Beddy63 She is a Christian. You can definitely be Christian and treat other people badly.

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I just realized that western leftists are slotting the war in Gaza into the empty spot where the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were. Which is why they think that Israel can just unilaterally leave and that Israeli civilians are unaffected by the war.

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1 year

@hill_spt @musical_zombies I think a lot of evangelicals who accidentally deconstructed don't always realize how much of their worldview is still shaped by Christianity.

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2 years

My Great-grandmother was born in the US and spoke Yiddish. As an elementary school teacher, she believed the experts that told her that bilingualism was bad, and she kept my grandmother from learning the language.

moses hess

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Also, what killed Yiddish isn’t Hebrew it’s the fact that most American Jews weren’t taught it. Was Israel supposed to force a million Mizrachi Jews Yiddish? Hebrew was the common language.

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Non-Jews outnumber us. I don't want the sacred ritual of mezuzah to be changed to mean solidarity with Jewish struggles.

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@shemmishai @grapejewsblues She runs an account that posts the times a places of drag events and gets them harassed and attacked.

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1 year

For non-Jews who don't get the joke, most of our grandparents basically did just this. All of my Jewish grandparents have British sounding names.

Alex Edelman

@AlexEdelman

1 year

guys bad news, everyone who is Jewish has to pick a gentilename for when things turn really really awful here

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@77MarioF77 @alizawerner Passover? Diwali? Holi? Sukkot? Why only holidays that happen to fall near Christmas? (kids are smart, they realize that their celebration is being tokenized)

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3 months

Campuses usually don't have competing Catholic organizations, right? That would be weird, even though there are way more Catholics than Jews.

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1 year

I just want to post about my new baby. But it feels disrespectful when everyone is yelling about death and destruction.

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1 year

Jewish anti-Zionism is so different from non-Jewish anti-Zionism. Just like Jewish Zionism is pretty different from Christian Zionism.

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3 months

Sure, you protest pro-Bibi or settlement speakers. You might have a heated debate. You might bring some anti-Zionist, or pro-Palestine perspectives. But most places you can't afford to throw away the lifeline to your culture.

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Some critics On Here need to learn the difference between 1) creative use of Jewish liturgy and ritual to make a point, 2) deliberate decisions to prioritize other things than strict halacha, and 3) negligent inattention to halacha and Jewish norms.

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I do have a special bond with my fellow Jews, which is why it is so painful when they do wrong

Noah Berlatsky

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"if you do not feel this special bond with other Jews, you're emotionally damaged." that's ethnonationalism in a nutshell. either you care for "your own" people more than everyone else, or you're broken.

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You can't just say "Zionism is not real Judaism" and convert. You need to understand how it is rooted in our tradition, even if you ultimately decide that it is harmful or misguided.

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3 years

He story of Hannukah is about the desecration of the temple caused by outsiders using our holy spaces for idoletry. Making Christian versions of Jewish rituals is pretty much that.

Rishus Cold Yetzer

@JustSayXtian

3 years

@authoradambray @WorstSamaritan @JewStats @Makeshift_quill @arrowbreakrr Okay. Lovingly and honestly, stay the fuck away from Jewish rituals. They aren't about you, they aren't for you, and you weren't invited to redefine them as being about Jesus and desecrate them by transforming them into idolatry.

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Jews are a convenient victim for Europe to care about because there are hardly any left in their countries to inconveniently challenge heroic family narratives. In the US, they are convenient because the US gets to cast themselves as heroes.

Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura

@Rrrrnessa

1 year

I really wish we would stop perpetuating this because it is not true. Europe nor the US, at large, did not actually care about the Holocaust while it was happening. Jews, Roma, Slavs were not considered “white” by Europe, whether or not those Europeans were fascist or not.

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When I was younger and knew less about Christian appropriation, I found a Christian pattern tagged "Jewish" on Ravelry, a social media site for yarn crafters. It was a scarf with the tetragrammaton on one side and a cross on the other....

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It's kind of interesting, how for most ppl left of center, the article about Stanford was yet another "campus too woke" article, nothing new about it. For Jews reading it, I am seeing fear that the tenor of discourse on some campuses are getting dangerously antisemitic.

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@AkivaMCohen There are Christians who act this way (live and let live), but they still want to believe bigoted things and not be considered a bigot. Sorry, you are free to be a bigot, and people are also free to call you one.

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The Torah was insured and a sofer replaced the torn section. But still, I don't do hagba anymore, even with the smallest of scrolls. And still, I don't walk into synagogue quite as lightly and easily as I once did.

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@Respexy 43% of fathers in 1982 never changed a diaper. 43!

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I think this misunderstanding is part of the problem. The main problem, though, is that left-wing antisemitism tends to put the sins of Whiteness at the feet of Jews. Discriminatory landlords - Jews. Slave trade - Jews. Colonialism - Jews.

Danny Gold

@DGisSERIOUS

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The majority of Israeli Jews are not of European heritage. Some of the most virulent right wing hardliners are what Americans would consider brown people. Israel also airlifted thousands of Africans into the country. There’s certainly racism in Israel, but Americans really need

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Dominant cultures can water down and secularize important, sacred symbols. When they do this, they often project their twisted/simplified version back on their understanding of the minority they stole it from. 1/

Romeo Trauma

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@adamrocketblack @MovatSusie Is that bad? If it still works as a religious ritual/symbol for the jewish faith, why would it be bad if there were lots of them displayed by christians?

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Honestly, I would say the same thing about the traditions of mechitza and matrilineal descent, etc. Even if you convert Reform, you should make an effort to understand traditions from other movements, because you will be joining klal Yisrael

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To this point - I had an avowed Atheist as an English teacher once. Obnoxiously Atheist, even. He was also an Orthodox Jew who prayed 3 times a day and eventually made aliyah.

Dr. Mia Brett

@QueenMab87

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Jews can be religious without believing in God. Stop viewing everything through a Christian lens

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@GoldwagNathan We created government run childcare centers all over the country during that period. Then we dismantled them.

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An hour or so later, we heard the news about Pittsburgh, and the Torah scroll tearing seeming an omen, less than an hour after the shooting happened. The tearing of parchment like the tearing of clothes when you hear of a death.

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Most Zionists in the US are Christians - yes. This means that yelling about evil Zionists can't be antisemitic - no.

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@clhubes I knew a family growing up: Andrew, Piper, and Hezekiah.

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I looked up my great grandmother's Ukrainian hometown on Google maps. It has a "Jew Pond" but no Jews.

Luc Bernard

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Meanwhile in France.

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@utenzil @C_Stroop Please think hard about how Jews 1) still exist, 2)can read what you write, and 3) have spent almost 2 millenia being murdered by Christians for being "corrupt".

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Why I like the term QUILT BAG+ for LGBTQIA+, a short thread:

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I think the many cultures we Jews have created in diaspora were beautiful. I think we can be proud of them. I think it's wrong to try to "go back" culturally to some kind of mythological past where we dominated. I am happy to be an American Jew. But...

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Probably somewhat more controversially, Orthodox conversion students should read some recent Reform responsae, and attend a Reform service, at least in America.

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@pdnell Honestly, wouldn't want it from non-racist Democrats either. Don't do other people's sacred rituals in "solidarity".

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@WorstSamaritan Kosher slaughter would make my life easier, but I would probably go with regulation against usurous interest.

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More importantly... Christians tend to project their relationship with Israel onto Jews. We literally pray for rain during the rainy season there. We kept our old harvest festivals, even when they don't make much sense where we live.

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Ashkenazim being descended from the Israelites and being of Middle Eastern ancestry is just an accepted fact by most historians that can be supported by genetic, archeological and linguistic research. The idea that we’re all descended from converts and as a result, aren’t as-

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@JohnCinnamon @WSJ Google is free

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I am a Jew. I grew up with a lot of priveledge because my parents were upper middle class, white, English-speaking, and highly educated. Some of this privilege comes from my ancestors coming to the US as literate urbanites with portable skills over 100 years ago. But...

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I grew up Reform. It is not for me, but I sometimes have a moment where I miss something I had growing up and wish my kids could have that too. The Reform movement has its important contributions to Jewish strength and continuity, like all movements.

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Historical reminder: Christians were encouraged to go conquer the Holy Land, and we call that the Crusades. We tend to forget that, if they couldn't travel, slaughtering their local Jews was considered almost as good.

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So many men supporting gett abuse seem to think "I didn't get what I wanted" is an acceptable reason for coersion. That's why it's abuse.

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@PFCDoofles @UjuAnya @gwensnyderPHL I certainly don't advocate harassing allies. But the primary discrimination against asexual and aromantic people is our invisibility - in media, in queer spaces, etc.

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@BudrykZack @LouisatheLast The PPP "loans" were promised to be forgiven from the outset, as long as you met conditions. So they called it a loan, but it was rightly seen as a handout

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For those unaware, Satan in Jewish mythology is less in opposition to G-d and more the heavenly prosecuting attorney. He argues against people before G-d in the heavenly court. But he is not "the bad guy" to G-d's "good guy".

Ephraim Stone

@TEStoneWrites

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Well first let’s talk about how Job is a Jewish tale in the Jewish Tanakh, remind y’all that the neither the Christian devil nor Jesus make an appearance, and that it’s deeply rooted in Jewish trauma and survival.

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And, while the shallow version, without its roots, is a sad thing to see, it also has the pernicious effect of making Jewish theology seem shallow and/or the same as Christianity. It makes Judaism into kitsch.

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That is *an* American Jewish story. It is definitely not the only one. Or even the most common one.

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If I buy a tallit, I need it to be kosher. The fringes need to be spun with intention. There's lots of rules about materials. And, it *absolutely* can't have stuff about Jesus written on it. And yet, if you try to buy a tallit online, many of the top results are Christian.

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@MisfitTorah Artwork about Jewish deaths that don't acknowledge the toll on Palestinians... Next to explicitly pro Palestinian artwork? The horror.

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@KeithKow @RottenInDenmark Actually, can we talk about surgical outcomes? Research on anesthetic dosages for fat people is lacking. So surgical outcomes for fat people are always worse (it may not be the only factor, but it's a big one).

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This is a subtweet: not everything in indigenous cultures are thousands of years old. And that's fine; all cultures change. Lots of traditional ways of doing things are just a couple hundred years old.

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When bans on religion happen, they tend to target the forms that are the most "weird" to the dominant religion. Clothing, food restrictions, animal sacrifice, etc. Things that can be seen as secular are left in peace.

Rishus Cold Yetzer

@JustSayXtian

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This is, this kind of thought experiment looks a lot different for minority religions than it does for the majority religion. Yeah, of course outlawing church bells wouldn't interfere with *your* religious practice, but that's because your practice is implicitly supported.

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Some of this is absolutely the difference between a person who grows up secure as the majority culture and then leaves it, vs someone who has to cling to their culture as a minority their whole life. One feels less threatened in their identity than the other.

Paul Schofield

@pschofie79

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I’m into Chinese cooking and was waiting for someone to complain about cultural appropriation or whatever. But my Chinese students have been like “Of course you like Chinese cooking, our food is the best.”

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I am still salty that Ashkenazi is not an acceptable sub-category of white, or even an acceptable ancestry group to tabulate, under Census Bureau rules.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)

@hansilowang

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BREAKING: The #2030Census and federal surveys are getting new checkboxes for “Middle Eastern or North African” & “Hispanic or Latino” after White House’s @OMBPress approved the first changes to U.S. government standards on racial & ethnic data since 1997

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1) a ritual - its details and meanings - is shaped by those who perform it. Non-Jews performing a ritual are adding their own meanings, taking a Jewish thing out of the control of Jews

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Kol hakavod to our local grocery for 1) realizing that Jews live in the neighborhood and 2) actually doing research on what Jews eat on the high holidays. A sale on apples, pomegranates(!), and leeks(!!) were all marked with happy Rosh Hashanah signs.

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@dandelion3369 @theshirarose The main problem is that there is too little research on correct dosage for heavy patients. That's what makes it dangerous, not some inherent problem with fat and anesthesia.

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Reminder that part of the history of expensive Jewelry, especially for women, was as a portable way to store wealth. Women often didn't have access to traditional banks, and earrings or brooches or rings with gemstones could be kept if you had to flee your husband.

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So translate "Jesus was a great Jewish teacher" to "you put great store in him, so I am not going to say anything bad about a guy whose only place in Jewish history is how much his followers took his Judaism as a sign that Jews need to be wiped out"

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2 years

In sociology class, this was called "kinship work". I remember well a study of Italian men which showed they had less connections to their birth family after they got divorced, because their wife was the one who had been maintaining those ties.

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2 years

I've seen so many men over the years roll their eyes at the women in their life for what the dudes see as the frivolity of the work of making holidays happen. Spoiler: it isn't frivolous. It's the work of building and maintaining family-- a safety net that often saves lives.

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I have had interactions on here with Orthodox Jews who didn't even know that there *were* Reform responsae. You don't have to agree with them, obviously, but if you are Jewish, it is definitely worth looking through a few of them.

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6 months

Probably somewhat more controversially, Orthodox conversion students should read some recent Reform responsae, and attend a Reform service, at least in America.

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3) non-Jews doing a ritual are necessarily taking it out of the Jewish context, removing the roots and meanings, leaving a shallow thing. A tallit is not just a "prayer shawl". It is a reminder of the covenant, of the commandments - complex theological constructs.

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3 years

Non-Jews, please don't do this.

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(which is not to say that it's antisemitic to care about the deaths in Gaza and violence in the WB. But if you are spending all of your activist energy on it, and you don't have a connection to the place...)

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2) Jews are greatly outnumbered. If even a small % of Christians start doing the Jewish thing, it can quickly drown out the Jews doing it. Which makes it harder for Jews looking to reconnect (or converts) to find their own heritage.

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2 years

@MadMadMadMadRN @RottenInDenmark @HappyStoves Note: it's not about lead paint. It's about leaded *gasoline* which put lead in the atmosphere and in the soil pretty much everywhere.

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2 years

Once again my daughter has requested I read the most goyisch chanukah book we have. Let's look and see, shall we? 🧵

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Antisemitism isn't a "gotcha" for Jews. It's scary. It's a reminder of past cycles. It leaves us feeling abandoned by all sides.

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