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Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

#judaica #passover #pesach

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Jewish baby gifts: personalized hamsa, mezuzah, and tzedakah box

How cute is this?! They have other designs as well, but I thought this one was so adorable. I love the little roses!

#jewish baby gifts #judaica #kid stuff #jewish children

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today in Cute Jewish Stuff on my Baby Registry:

"Baby Loves Angular Momentum on Hanukkah!" by Ruth Spiro:

"Baby discovers the science behind spinning a dreidel on Hanukkah! Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book explores angular momentum, torque, friction, and gravity. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby’s sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two as well."

#baby books #kid stuff #jewish books #jewish kids #jewish children #jewish parenting #there's actually a whole series of these; 'baby loves science' #they are all adorable #sorry but i am due in july and y'all are gonna be seeing more baby and parenting stuff on this blog

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#havdalah #shabbat #jewish ritual #judaism #jumblr #FoR: Orthodox #resources #Youtube

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#havdalah #jewish ritual #shabbat #jumblr #judaism #FoR: Reform #resources #Youtube

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if you’re jewish and need to take time off from work for the high holidays here’s your reminder to request time off now so you don’t forget

#i will be out on maternity leave for RH and YK this year!!!!!!!!!!! :D #jewish holidays #jumblr

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Looks great!! :)

Playing around with head coverings and getting comfortable.. ty everyone who shared their thoughts and experiences!

#it took me a while to get comfortable with wrapping #and there are so many styles! #you did great! #love the scarf colors you chose

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Reminder: Jewish indigeneity is not a threat to any other ethnic group. It’s just a fact. Acknowledging Jews as indigenous to the levant doesn’t actually harm any Palestinians. Palestinian indigeneity does not actually rely on Jews NOT being indigenous. Multiple peoples can be indigenous to the same place.

#antisemitism #historial revisionism #israel #jews #jews are indigenous - not up for debate #i'm not interested in “alternative facts” about this

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Hey I don't know if you'd be a good person to ask this but about your last post about JVP's Haggadah, I noticed someone say make a comment about "grace after meals". So in my experience as a Jew (very limited I know) I've only ever seen the blessings after a meal translated in English as grace. Both in the two Haggadah versions I have (one being Maxwell House which I'm aware isn't a Jewish organization and the other from Rabbi Nathan Goldberg) say grace. What word in English would most Jews used to describe the Birkat Ha'mazon in English?

Well -- I can only speak about my experience, which of course will not be universal amongst Jews or anything.

But! In my experience no one calls these things in English, everyone calls this as bracha/brachot.

If I HAD to pick an English word I think I would personally use "blessing".

I think that the use of the word "grace" in this manner definitely has Christian connotations, they are certainly the only people I really associate with using this word this way. It's not something I would personally apply to Jewish life. For me it feels like it's use in an assimilation context.

#seeyouaroundprofessorsong #pom answers #sorry! i know this probably wasn't helpful! #obligatory IANAR #nobody but christians 'say grace' in my mind

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More JVP Shenanigans

TLDR; JVP's Haggadah was put together by goys and their tax filings show they have no intent to help and/or represent Jews. We all know JVP is the Autism Speaks of the Jewish community. They exploit Jews and try to present themselves as a Jewish organization concerned with systemic discrimination, Palestinian rights, antisemitism, and much more. Hell, you can go look at their core values on their website and a lot of us would agree that these are good things.

JVP uses all that as misdirection. It uses Judaism as set dressing for its own agenda and exploits people’s ignorance. However, if you have just a little bit of knowledge you can tell that JVP is not only exploiting Judaism, but it is an organization that has wholly embraced Jew face and does not know what it’s doing.

Take a look at their Haggadah.

Their Haggadah was clearly put together by goys who didn’t know what they were doing. Many of the translations for their blessings are wrong or were clearly put through google translate. Other blessings are slapdash put together or grabbed from other Seders. Take a look at this blessing:

Baruch atah adonai eloheynu melech ha’olam asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik ner shel (Shabbat v’shel) yom tov. Blessed is the spirit of freedom in whose honor we kindle the lights of this holiday, Passover, the season of Freedom.

Do you see the issue? For those who don't know, there is no mention of Passover in the blessing at all. So why is it in the translation? They also didn't include any of the extra words for Shabbat in the translation as well. If you have the patience, go through and read it. It omits the story of Passover, dismisses the importance of the holiday, and just changes the entire thing for their agenda.

“But it’s a Jewish organization, I swear!”

Well let’s look at their tax filing where they as a 501(c)3 have to describe what their organization is and their intent.

That's weird. A Jewish organization that states it fights against antisemitism and is committed to Jewish communities has nothing on their filing about Judaism or Jews in any capacity. It's mission is regarding education about Palestinians. Some of you might say "what's wrong with that?" There's nothing inherently wrong with that mission statement. What is wrong is that JVP hides its intent, bigotry, and antisemitism behind a veil of Jew face. It claims to be a Jewish organization, but it can't even get basic translations of prayers right. It omits, misleads, and misinforms about our culture, history, and traditions in such a heinous way that it's downright disgraceful. JVP does not represent the Jewish community and at this point it's clear that they're Jewish in name only.

#JVP #honestly JVP is a Mess and I'm not gonna lie #I do use it as a litmus test #jewish voice for peace #typing their name out just makes me mad because..... it is a Lie

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Passover Haggadah from Germany, written by Abraham Sofer in 1756

#haggadah #passover #pesach #judaism

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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

#passover #pesach #our last pesach as just the two of us! :')

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Due to a protest at my college, Hillel had to move tonight’s Seder to a secret location and have barred last-minute registrations.

I signed up in time to go, but I’m disappointed that some people who want to go may not be able to. I really wish this was an event that could be more open to students who may have been on the fence about going.

The fact that Hillel has to hide the location of a Passover Seder is horrifying to me.

#once your Seders are in hiding you don’t get to call it ‘anti Zionism’ #this speaks for itself #antisemitism #jumblr #passover #pesach

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"The notion of Palestine being Arab emerges, really, only in the 60s. because... what did Israelis do? the colonial era is over; the Ottoman Empire is gone, finally the British are gone, and the Jewish people finally, having outlived all these empires, going back to the Roman Empire, finally restore their sovereignty. What do they do? they do what every self-respecting people in history did when the colonial people were gone- they call the country by their name, right? so Siam becomes Thailand, and the Gold Coast becomes Ghana, and Palestine becomes Israel because Palestine was the colonial name and Israel is the original, indigenous name.

Once the Jews call the land Israel... in order to present the Jews as foreign, [...] thieves, interlopers, Arabs began to hijack the name Palestine, to say, actually we are Palestine, whereas previously everyone understood it was Jews. and I love it, because sometimes you see on the internet, oh look Palestine existed, and they show, like, the Palestine football team and if you look closely all the names are like [...] all Jewish [...] because this was the Jewish football team of the Jewish state in the making, and the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra was the orchestra of Jewish exiles that became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. So, this is a classis [...] hijacking of the Arabs of something that was very Jewish, in order to present the Jews as thieves, rather than the original owners."

-Einat Wilf (source)

#Israel #history

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recipes i'm going to make this pesach:

sweet & sour braised roast (i've a kalakel cut so that is what i'll be using)

olive oil mashed potatoes

apple matzah kugel

... and the leftovers on these will keep us fed the whole time, basically, as it's just my partner + me. but i'm also planning to make

matzah "chilquiles" one day for breakfast :)

and moroccan paprika fish because i cherish my once a week fish allowance during pregnancy like nothing else.

#food #recipes #pesach #passover #K for P #kosher recipes #kosher food #jewish food #jewish recipes #jumblr

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#pesach #passover #jumblr #jewish holidays

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Woman baking Matzah, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 2004

#pesach #jewish women #judaism