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If someone is exempt from participating in a minyan/is not required to participate, are they also prohibited from participating?

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I'm not sure what heading this falls under. Maybe cultural sensitivity.

I've been looking into kosher wedding catering, but I don't frequent kosher restaurants, so I don't know if this is unusual. Several caterers list dishes as being "Asian" without listing a specific country of origin, which I find a bit cringey being that I'm part Chinese myself. I can deal with the cringe, but more than one caterer has actually used the term "Oriental" on the menu. Am I insane, or is that seriously outdated? No one I've talked to seems as appalled as I am.

I wouldn't want to pass up a good caterer over a minor-ish detail, but I literally cannot imagine asking the Chinese side of my family to select what meal they want from a list of options and having the word "Oriental" appear in a dish's name. That's a non-starter.

Is this kind of language typical of kosher catering? Or is this a wedding industry thing, or is this just my part of Florida? I feel like it's seriously out of line, but I don't know how much it's worth arguing over.

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Hi y'all! I was wondering if it would be antisemitic to call myself anti-Likud as a USAmerican goy? It seems to me they're kind of equivalent to our maga republicans but I wasn't sure if my understanding is ignorant of other context/nuance.

I've been listening and learning from a wide variety of sources and have come to the opinion that defining+criticizing any of the seemingly many interpretations of zionism is so far out of my own lane it's a whole different highway, and like I'm not trying to shirk responsibility for the antisemitism in my communities, but I don't want to risk cosigning and possibly amplifying the legitimate anxieties and traumas being caused in the diaspora.

Thank you for your time!

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If I'm citing the Torah for an academic paper, is this correct?

יהוה. תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב. Compiled by Moshe Ben Amram, Mount Sinai, 1312 BCE.

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Hi! I'm a prospective convert and currently something of an atheist. Basically, I believe in the divine as a concept, and I believe that certain actions are in themselves holy (feeding the hungry, healing the sick, etc.), but I don't believe in the existence of a higher power. I haven't properly studied Torah yet, but I worry that I would not be able to study in a meaningful way since I would not literally believe in the Torah. I worry that this would make conversion functionally impossible.

I know that it's possible to be a Jewish atheist, but my understanding is that Jewish atheists are typically born Jews. I can't picture a rabbi taking on a conversion student who does not believe in God and is therefore unable to accept the Torah.

Being that I'm an atheist and expect to continue being an atheist, should I just give up on the idea of converting, or is there a meaningful way to convert without belief in a divine being? Any advice on navigating this? (If anyone has book recommendations, I'm prepared to do a lot of reading.)

OP does not mention what movement they intend to convert under. Please state your FOR and identify which movements you are discussing clearly 😊

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This is a somewhat frivolous/silly question, but it's been bugging me for years.

So, I have been mentally storybuilding about a Chabad shliach and his wife fighting Vampires with Jewish ritual objects. At one point I decided that, to compensate for making them incredibly vulnerable to holy things wielded with sincere faith, I will make them tougher in other ways.

Upshot, sunlight doesn't kill them, but when the sun's up they can't move. Which begets the question, is it permissible to kill a vampire on Shabbos day, since they don't present an imminent danger?

Relatedly, have a bit about a Vampire who manages to obtain an invitation to enter the Chabad House, but can't pass the threshold because of the Mezuzah, so he comes in through a window and finds he can't exit the room for the same reason. If this happened Shabbos night, and he is still there Shabbos morning, are they allowed to move the paralyzed body out of the house?

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I have a question about who is considered Jewish under Jewish law. Traditionally it's matrelinial (although some branches do support patrelinial) but what happens with a trans woman as a parent? If a trans woman and a cis woman have a baby, would the baby be Jewish if the trans woman is Jewish? I know trans women are women but if there are two women parents, one Jewish one not, what's the babies status??

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Hey, so I was hoping to get some opinions about wearing both a kippah and tichel interchangeably as a genderqueer jew. I see myself mostly as a man, and usually I wear a kippah, but sometimes I see myself more as a woman and it feels more appropriate to me to wear a tichel. It feels like connecting to the feminine parts of myself while still having the kind of reminder of G-d's presence and of heaven around me. I know traditionally that tichels have mostly been worn by married orthodox women, but I've seen a big influx of younger, unmarried non-orthodox jewish women sort of reclaiming the practice. I don't look like a woman (have a full beard etc) so I'm not particularly worried about the social assumptions that I'm a married jewish woman, but I am worried that people might think that I'm somehow making a mockery of the practice, which is certainly not what I want to do.

I'd love some religious and queer jews to chime in specifically, but open to other FOR too

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This is a bit of a long question bear with me please. So I want to preface this by saying that I am not Jewish and this is more of a "is this anti-Semitic" sort of question. I am a young American woman who is considering buying a gun for self defense. I would need something small, easily concealable, and with reasonably light recoil, but I really don't think .22 is what I need, so I've decided on .380. Based on these needs and what I've shot the Walther PPK deeply appeals to me. Unfortunately, it has been the German police service pistol since 1931. I would be buying a new production, not a wartime pistol, but I want to know if you think it would be anti-Semitic?

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Mod answer: no, this is not antisemitic. I also buy Bayer products, I still drink Fanta, and so forth. It is fine. But let's see what other jumblr people say.

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are jewish apostates / meshumadim in (or out of ig) jewish communities treated like christian apostates/satanists are in christianity? is there any movements like satanism but jewish(originating?)?

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Hello, I'm the ask about the Kosher shop visit. Thank you all for your reassurances. Someone asked for clarifications in the notes about what ingredients I was trying to find since those are quite basic, potato, onions, you get it.

The thing is I tried to do latkes entirely homemade before, and it didn't turn great. I thought maybe the coconut oil I used in lieu of animal grease was responsible for the lack of taste. So I was basically searching for animal grease that was not pork grease. I was also hoping to find latke preparation cause I saw it in a hanukkah post, and I wanted to try it to see how latkes were actually supposed to taste. Conclusion, I probably didn't season mine enough.

If this ask does not follow guidelines, feel free to ignore.

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Hi! I would like to know the stance of different movements on name changes. Is a trans jewish person going to change their hebrew name, the one they get called for aliyah, after they come out? Is it expected, allowed, or frowned upon?

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hi jumblr!! so, i'm writing a play set in the late 1910s, and one of the leading roles is a jewish woman. i myself am not jewish (i would like to look into conversion one day, but as i am currently 17, i can't), and i want to avoid writing her in a way that is antisemitic.

i'm aware of some common antisemitic tropes, but i would like to know if there are any lesser known ones (in particular tropes that pertain to jewish women) that i should be aware of so i can avoid using them? i want my play to be something that my jewish friends can read without being made uncomfortable by bigoted tropes and stereotypes.

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I'm the anon who asked about Mitzvah Tanks, I am very sorry for any hurt I caused. I see now how the way my question was phrased seemed to be directly related to them being Orthodox, and I sincerely apologize and will work on being more aware and careful in the future.

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Hi! I wanted to share a story and have some insight if that's okay. For context, I'm fortunate enough to live in a city with a Jewish neighbourhood. I don't know if the whole community is Haredi, but I saw women wearing wigs, and there are Chabad shuls in the city. I would say the neighbourhood is mainly Orthodox.

I searched non-jewish stores for Jewish groceries before (like matzo soup, for example) and never managed to find any. So, yesterday, as I was crossing the Jewish neighbourhood, I thought, "Why not go to a casher grocery store? Surely they will have lakte ingredients.".

The thing is, the owner at the counter gave a double take when I entered. I think it was obvious I was non-jewish, and I'm afraid I scared them due to the context. He relaxed when he saw I had taken duck grease and lakte powder preparation. The way he thanked me for my purchase and wished me a good day sounded grateful. Like "thanks for being an actual customer, not a terrorist."

I guess I'm just asking if I did something wrong by going into a shop where only orthodoxes people usually go, especially nowadays. Afterwards I realised I was wearing nail polish and earrings and I wondered if I was breaking tznuit (I know I don't have to respect tznuit as a non-jew but somehow I'm uncomfortable at the idea of barging into an Orthodox shop and not respecting the usual dress code) but I don't know enough about it to know.

Was I imposing? Was I being noisy? Was I making a faux pas?

Thanks in advance for people's insights.

While this is about an orthodox/haredi environment, others will undoubtedly also have valuable insight so feel free to answer but please state your frame of reference (FOR) when you do.

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How are "Mitzvah Tanks" perceived within communities? I've only heard one or two jokes about them. Are they more of a mild annoyance or are they really invasive? Is it easy to just say "no thank you" to them? Do you know anyone who just said "no I'm not Jewish" to avoid participating?

Also this question is in good faith I'll be starting my conversion soon I just don't live in an area where Mitzvah Tanks exist.

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