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Wesołej Chanuki! Freilichen Chanukah! Hanukkah Alegre! Chag Hanukkah Sameach!!

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Celebrations of the first Hanukkah after liberation, in the DP camp - Germany 1945

(From the series Hanukkah - Before, During and After the Holocaust)

#tw Shoah mention

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happy chanukah my girls, gays, they’s, and non binary babes. may the following 8 nights bring you happiness and joy! 🕎

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Everyone shut up I’m shifting into ~Hanukkah Mode~

🕎✡️🔯🍩🍽🥯🔯✡️🕎

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— HANUKKAH (חנוכה), the festival of lights ‧*₊˚

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Hi! I’m looking to purchase some Judaica from online small owned businesses, can you help me find some? Thank you!

#jumblr #judaica

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hanukkah cats commission for @hanukcat!

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Jews: On Passover we celebrate our escape from slavery, but that does not mean we celebrate Pharaoh's death. That would make us as cruel as he was.

Also Jews: happy purim haman's fucking dead let's celebrate by making cookies shaped like his dumb hat for a gazillion years and use noisemakers and scream every time someone says his name lol

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October 11, 2020 - 23 Tishrei, 5781

Outside of Israel, today is Simchat Torah, the beginning of the Torah cycle for the year. In Israel, Simchat Torah was observed yesterday with Shemini Atzeret.

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yom kippur is just "you sinned so no food for you"

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גמר חתימה טובה

To my Jewish friends and family who are observing Yom Kippur, may you be sealed for good in the book of life.

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Names for trans people is always interesting to me. I like my birth name but I also like Rosi. And for my Hebrew name I like Yaakov and Gila. My brain went: you will have 4 names.

#humble #trans #converting to judaism

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I always think about impostor syndrome and what if I’m just faking it? Like being invested. And then I have breakdowns on how bad I want to finish my conversion and be Jewish and then I feel fine.

#converting to judaism

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Y’all ever cry thinking of marrying a nice Jewish person (gnc included) and raising a Jewish family? Cause I do.

#jumblr #converting to judaism

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This week I learned that 2/3 of American teens don't even know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the holocaust.

This is so shocking to me, as this might be one of the biggest events in human history.

I wanted to share my photos from my trip to Poland, where there used to live the biggest Jewish community, a community that today is nonexistent.

The 'grave' of the famous teacher Janusz Korczak, who said he prefers to die with his orphanage children when given a chance to escape the death camp:

A famous synagogue, that is now a museum due to lack of Jewish people that can operate it:

Auschwitz, 2014, after the nazis made sure to hide the existence of the death camp back when they left it:

Real suitcases of Jewish people who got to Auschwitz, most of them probably died in a gas chamber moments after they gave away their belongings:

(At this point we were asked to not take any pictures, so I can't show you the hair art the nazis made out of Jewish hair)

As part of a ceremony we did, we created a small monument with peace and remembrance in our minds. Mine is a growing tree with roots, to show how we grow using our history as guidance:

Today we have names of 3 million Jews who died in the holocaust, documented by friends and families. The other 3 million are unknown, because there was no one to remember them- their entire family and friends circle died with them.

I have my own family story, and my own grandfather is a holocaust survivor. It's hard to find Jewish people who don't have a holocaust story to tell because every single Jewish person has some connection to a descendant of a holocaust survivor, or is himself a descendant of a holocaust survivor.

There are 6 million Jewish people living in Israel today. Around 75 years after the holocaust. You do the math.

Please, remember this event. Please, don't downplay it. This is not another illuminati conspiracy. This is history, it has evidence, and if we don't learn from it we will get there again in no time.

Thank you for reading.

#tw shoah

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September 22, 2020 - 4 Tishrei, 5781

Today is the fourth of the Ten Days of Return.