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The Jewish Woman

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I know this is a huge ask, or maybe it just feels like it because I'm so exhausted mentally emotionally and spiritually, but please stop treating compassion like a zero sum game. If I catch any of y'all using my posts fiercely advocating for the safety and worth of my people and condemning this tidal wave of antisemitism to be racist to Arabs in general or Palestinians in particular or to spread libel about Islam?

I am manifesting in your walls to yell at you.

Knock it the fuck off.

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i don’t want to constantly post about antisemitism. i don’t want to have to. i’m just tired.

#jumblr #judaism #eden talks #antisemitism

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"go back to poland" means go back to auschwitz majdanek sobibor treblinka etc.

you are not slick lol

#antisemitism

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Hey, don't cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?

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I sat next to the protest today.

I wrote fan-fiction about two gay jewish dads raising children to the play list of the chant- "No peace on stolen land!" on an American college campus. It isn't a name brand one either, nor does it have any legitimate ties to Israel. The anger is just there- it has rotten these future doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of society.

I don't even know what to call their demonstration- it was a tizzy of a Jew hatred affair. At points, there were empathetic statements about Gazans and their suffering. Then outright support of Hamas and violent resistance against all colonizers. Then this bizarre fixation on antisemitism while explaining the globalists are behind everything.

"Antisemitism doesn't exist. Not in the modern day," A professor gloated over a microphone in front of the library. "It's a weaponized concept, that's prevents us from getting actual places- ignore anyone who tells you otherwise."

"How can we be antisemitic?" A pasty white girl wearing a red Jordanian keffiyeh gloats five minutes later. "Palestinians are the actual semites."

"there is only one solution!" The crowd of over 50 students and faculty cried, over and over.

"Been there, done that," I thought, then added a reference to a mezuza in the fourth paragraph.

Two other Jewish students passed where I was parked out, hunching and trying to be as innocuous as possible. We laughed together at my predicament, where I am willingly hearing this bullshit and feeling so amused by this.

"Am I crazy? For sitting here?" I asked them. My friends shook their heads.

"We did the same last week- it's an amazing experience, isn't it?”

We all cackled hysterically again. They left to study for finals. Two minutes later, I learned from the current speaker that “Zionism” is behind everything bad in this world.

Forty-five minutes in, a boy I recognized joined me on my lonely bench. He came from a very secular Jewish family and had joined Hillel recently to learn more about his culture. His first Seder was two nights ago.

He sat next to me, heavy like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. There was just this despondent look on his face. I couldn’t describe it anyone else, but just sheer hopelessness personified.

“They hate us. I can’t believe how much they hate us.” He said in greeting.

And for the first time all day, I had no snarky response or glib. All I could do was stare out into the crowd, and sigh.

#antisemitism

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pleaaaaaase y'all the process of having a manufacturing facility declared kosher has nothing to do with a rabbi blessing the food

pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase stop

you can literally google what is required

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An addition to the saga of weird Elijah things during seders.

Transcript: a series of texts including a photo of a baby deer with spots peeking through a sliding glass door. A message follows saying “deer at the Seder”. The other person responds “Elijah?” In all caps.

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we should use ladino casually the same way people use yiddish casually. ladino is a beautiful language and it should be used more often! the more people who even just know two words, the less likely this wonderful language and important piece of history is to fully die out. the more jewish languages that are used regularly the better!

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I’ve seen a lot of posts from fellow Jews about how hard it feels to observe Pesach this year, how it even feels wrong while there are Jews being held in captivity right now.

I would argue that’s the very point of Pesach, and observing it has never been more appropriate than it is now.

The first Seder was not a celebration of a victory already won. The first Seder was held by the Jews while we were still in Egypt, while we were all still enslaved, huddled inside with lambs blood on our doorposts. We were anticipating imminent departure from Egypt, but it hadn’t happened yet and we had no way of knowing if it would.

Pesach is not an after-the-fact celebration of finally being out of danger. The origin of the Seder is a deliberately premature celebration, a demonstration that we have so much faith in G-d saving us that we act as if it’s already happened.

We don’t have the Seder because we are finally free. We have the Seder as a show of faith that we will be, no matter how unlikely it seems.

חג קשר ושמח

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thinking about all the seders with empty seats this pesach. may our loved ones be returned home soon, and may the gd who released am yisrael from egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm do the same for all those who are being held captive and prisoner

rachel goldberg, mother of hersch goldberg-polin—who we hope is still alive and is being held captive—proposes a fifth question for our seders: why are we not all here?

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How to make charoset

Step 1: Argue about how much charoset you're going to make

Step 2: Argue about how you're going to slice the apples, and is it worth it to pull out the machine?

(Complain about how many apples there are to be sliced)

Step 3: Argue about how small to slice the apples

(Complain about the machine not working properly)

Step 4: Argue about whether the walnuts are ground up enough

Step 5: Argue about how much of each seasoning to add

Step 6: Argue about whether or not you did everything right in the end

(Complain about all the dishes)

Eat delicious charoset with matzo

Step 7: Argue about why we eat charoset, anyway

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Okay, now that it's been a few days, I have a question for all the Jews on here.

tumblr only allows 12 options so sorry to any barech / hallel / neirtza fans.

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By reciting the Haggadah, Jews give their children a sense of connectedness to Jews throughout the world and to the Jewish people throughout time.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, The Chief Rabbi’s Haggadah (Essays), p. 2

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The Jewish Woman

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I get WHY they did it but I also think that Duolingo teaching modern chasidic pronunciation to written klal sprakh was so so so unbelievably dumb