#Judaism YES

[screamingfromuz]

Listen. LISTEN, the longer I spend in the academic world, I am more convinced that describing Judaism and Jews as a religion/ethnic grope/ethnoreligion is unhelpful outside of Academic circles.

The best way to explain Judaism is using the tribe model. A lot of times Judaism is a community first and a religion second, i.e., your level of religiousness is rarely a thing that alienate you from the community.

Think of other tribes, like the Sámi, Aboriginal Australians, Māori, Yurok, Inuit ect. Each have their own unique religion, but we do not think of them as a religious group, because the tribal identity is more important, and the religion is considered part of the culture, not the opposite.

IMORTANT SIDENOTE: I am aware that many of those tribes, and other tribes have a big chunk of Christians in them, usually more Christians than those who follow the indigenous religion of the tribe. BUT for the sake of discussion, I am equating Judaism to the section that does follow the indigenous religion of the tribe.

So, despite the fact that the religious structures of Judaism is very integral to Judaism, it is partly because of the community based focus of Judaism. The most basic example is the Minyan, the fact that prayer is preferred to be done in a group. Or the fact that the Sader is meant to be a celebrated in a group. and so on.

SO, ethnoreligion is a great academic term, but for outside that world? A tribe is a much better term to explain Judaism.

#jumblr #judaism #ethnoreligion #the problem of using academic terms outside academia is that they require the ACADEMIC CONTEXT #and I found that presenting Jews as a tribe makes a lot of the comparison to Christianity go away #and helps explain the solidarity a lot of Jews find toward other indigenous tribes #because we have a lot in common #the Jewish tribe is just far more spread out than most tribes #yes #this is an oversimplification #but sometimes you have to do it in order to get the point #Judaism is a closed practice #just like the faith of many other tribes

[65810-29]

hey sorry but they goyified your inherently jewish written character. yea. yea no they tried catering to a wider audience. yea they made him scorf down a pile of bacon. i’m so sorry

#star trek snw #spock #judaism #leonard nimoy #also apology to leonard nimoy #i’m not even at the episode yet but i saw a bunch of spoilers on twt. and That clip #not to mention the nonsensical exaggerated gen z talk paramount put in the caption #not to ALSO mention the way they try so desperately to make him straight #quite harrowing from everything i’ve seen #yes i’m aware some jewish people don’t keep kosher and i don’t mean offense with this post #but many jewish trek fans feel it important to keep spock’s unabashed jewishness in tact #DISCLAIMER: i am not jewish. this post does not have significant weight and i do not wish to speak on behalf of jewish friends #lamb of blog

[hindahoney]

Maybe it's just a jumblr thing but I do get annoyed at the portrayal of Jews being constantly mad at God. If you didn't know anything about judaism tumblr would really convince you that all Jews either hate God or don't believe in Him. It's the same thing for Jews in media as well, I've never seen a Jewish person portrayed who talks proudly about their culture. There is so much more to being jewish than having a culture that encourages questioning and disagreement with God.

#shaking the lulav is not shaking it at God that is such a tumblr thing to think #jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #jewblr #yes there are atheist jews im not saying thats not valid but like. theres way more to us than that

[jewishconvertthings]

Honestly can I just say: all of y'all who are starting or continuing your conversions right now, even in these terrible times, and experiencing and embracing Jewish joy at a time when it is very hard to be Jewish? You are such a miracle and a blessing. There is a special kind of ahavat Yisrael - love for the Jewish people - that gerim bring to the table, and it's so life-giving always. But especially in dark times. Especially now.

May your light be a blessing on all of us!

#yes I'm obviously a ger too #this one is more aimed at the conversion students #I already signed up to be here and that is a Choice I have made #thank you to the bright-eyed students for reminding me why I did <3 #you give the rest of us such chizzuk #jewish convert things #jumblr #converting to judaism

[bonyassfish]

Idk maybe I’m just a bitter queer Jew but it is entertaining to me how many Christians will trip over themselves to be like “our church isn’t like that!!” Which is like…yeah, it probably is like that.

What are the largest christian sects in the world? The Catholic Church? Long history of antisemitism. Protestantism? Long history of antisemitism. The Orthodox Church? Long history of antisemitism. The church of latter-day-saints? A younger religion with its own history of antisemitism. Jehovahs witnesses? Another younger religion with its own history of antisemitism. And all of these, broadly, are still mostly hostile to queer and trans folks.

So yeah, it is you. It is your church. My ancestors in the former Russian empire experienced pogroms that we’re actively encouraged by the Orthodox. Catholic Churches stole thousands of Jewish orphans during world war 2 and forcibly converted them. Protestantism was founded by a guy who wrote a book called “on the Jews and their lies”. The Mormon church was, as recently as a few years ago, posthumously converting victims of the holocaust. And pretty much every single Christian denomination, with a few exceptions, still actively proselytize to Jews, still view us as either primitive Christians who need to be brought into the fold or as an evil cabal that has to be killed and sent to hell, or (in the us especially) a politically convenient group that needs to be exported to Israel ASAP so as to begin the resurrection of Jesus or whatever.

#yes you your church is like that #rant #religion #Judaism #Christians #Christianity #Christian #jesus christ #jumblr #Jewish #ugh #jewish tag

[dykefaggotry]

man the other thing that drives me crazy abt the whole "claiming judaism is an ethnicity and religion is race science just like the NAZIS" is that like....

what the nazis believed in was a mythical race of white europeans who were stronger and better than everyone else. they had 0 scientific, historic, or archeological proof of this. it was just a crackpot theory proposed to explain why white europeans were "better" than everyone else and provided an ideal for them to strive back to bc they thought that "pure" race had been tainted by racial "interbreeding"

jews saying judaism is an ethnicity is not bc it's in the fucking tanakh that they came from judea. it's bc there's MOUNTAINS of historical and archeological proof that jews came from that area. there's historical proof of people encountering jews in the middle east. there's firsthand accounts from jews themselves that survived diaspora that lived in that area. jewish DNA, regardless of other race, has a great deal of similarity w arabic DNA. there's MOUNTAINS of historical and archeological evidence that traces the movement of jews OUT of the area and into the rest of the world and the subsequent movement of jews for the next few thousand years as they kept getting kicked out or murdered

does any of that mean that israel should have displaced the people already living there and subjected them to decades of inequality and atrocity? fucking obviously not. but 1) denying historical and archeological fact to throw around your pet antisemitic conspiracy theory makes you sound like a qanon fuckass and 2) comparing that to white supremacists making up a mythical pure white race is just fucking insane and incredibly deeply antisemitic

like you don't have to make shit up to condemn what israel is doing, I promise you. you can acknowledge the nuance and hardship of history without condoning what israel does. israel doesn't need to be made up of pure europeans for you to criticize it. bc believe it or not, europeans are not the only people on earth capable of committing atrocities or having enough autonomy to do so.

#antisemitism #genuinely boils my blood lmao #like yes race is absolutely a social construct #that doesn't mean the very real history of judaism does not exist #also wild to compare it to racial purist ideas when outside of orthodox (as far as I'm aware) #most jews completely see converts as jewish in every way #& it's very easy to see where converts having children w ppl raised jewish gets a whole mix of dna #which is very much the antithesis of nazi racial purity

[nonsenseofyesteryear]

alright kings let's get rid of this bread!

#passover #pesach #jew #jewish #judaism #did i leave my passover cleaning to the last minute? #yes i did

[puzzle-paradigm]

Not to be on about negative things on a holiday but goyim who find “goy” offensive but not “gentile” confuse the fuck out of me. Like. It’s the same word. Do Jews speaking our own language really offend you that much?

#judaism #antisemitism #yes this is about the same guy as the last post #they also tried to goysplain Antisemitism to me #which was not cute

[koshercosplay]

Can challah be chocolate? Is that a thing?

I mean there's an argument to be made that babka IS chocolate challah

#like yes all kinds of flavorings of challah exist #but babka is already right there my dude #but yeah ive had chocolate challah and cinnamon challah and raisin challah and pretzel challah and and and #hm. now I want challah #asks #judaism #jewish culture #hamlet-macbeth-othello #answers #memes #jewish humor

[miguelinileugim]

#yes I meant preserve #pickle the middle east #politics #gaza #israel #palestine #islam #judaism #anti religion #middle east #poll #polls #liberal #liberalism #progressive #progressivism #conservative #conservatism

[jewishboricua]

apparently somewhere on my college campus, there's a gallery that is currently blasting hallelujah by leonard cohen, and i think that's a huge win actually

#and because of this i got into a funny situation #beause i told one of my professors that this song is jewish (i even told her that some of the lyrics got christian-ized #to be more 'friendly to everyone' and she was INCREDIBLY shocked and starting trash talking antisemites and it was golden #yes i’m trying to be more positive on this account so here you go! #aggie talks #jumblr #jewblr #judaism #jewish humor

[hindahoney]

Wild and revolutionary concept: maybe don't treat converts like trash just because they're converts? And also don't ask someone if they're a convert in a public setting?

#having lunch before shabbat and had to remind my friend not to do this to people #like i get it might be a hard concept for some born jews to understand but one thing jumblr has taught me #is that its a sensitive and private topic #you dont just.bring it up. especially not in front of people? #because i have seen other born jews get all Different when they find out someone is a convert #and its crazy disrespectful #side note you can disagree w a convert about their opinions on certain things #and still not go after them for being a convert #thats a dif topic though #anyway unless the convert is openly inviting that convo #dont fucking bring it up???? #jumblr #judaism #jewish #jewish conversion #like it prob feels like how i do when someone treats me dif for being baal teshuva #its just a shitty thing to do in general #dont bring it up? #if you have to ask they prob havent told you for a reason #yes even if its from a movement you don't think is vaid #like what do you expect them to go back to their rabbi and be like 'is like to return this conversion and exchange it for orthodoxy' #thats not how it works they already converted to that movement what is the point of you trying to make them feel bad about it #like what do you change or affect by doing that #same w being baal teshuva #you want me to get in a time machine and tell my parents to move to a jewish community? #whats the point of saying anything just shut up

[rustchild]

ok i get the desire to push back against annoying dominant christian interpretations of the torah/old testament. i really do. however i also wish that people would stop being like “actually, the jewish perspective on this is--” before listing off one (1) jewish perspective, usually either reform or humanistic, that also happens to be the most politically convenient and moral according to the standards of tumblr. like y’all if anyone tells you that there is only one jewish interpretation of something you should know that they are probably wrong, there’s at least one jew out there who would vehemently disagree with them, and also judaism is a complex living culture that you really should not put on a pedestal

#like. yes the binding of isaac can be interpreted as a test that abraham failed. that's one interpretation #discussed in some sects by some rabbis #however. #there very much are also jews who interpret it as #a sign that jews specifically must be ready to sacrifice anything for g-d #in order to hold up our end of the covenant #there are jews who interpret it in completely different ways as well #like i can't list out all of them because #i don't know them #and am not a theologian or rabbi or even all that observant #so my interpretation isn't going to be very helpful #but can we please not oversimplify judaism to present it as the Good Abrahamic ReligionTM #it's a complex living tradition with a whole wide range of different ideas #some of which i personally hate! #because that's culture for you! #the one exception to the 'one jewish belief on x' thing is like #messianics #we basically all do not like messianics #or like. We Generally Agree That Antisemitism Is Bad #but when it comes to biblical interpretation? #four jews twelve opinions #always #jewish things #something something leftist philosemitism

[gay-jewish-bucky]

if you have a problem with Am Yisrael Chai, which literally just means The Jewish People Live and is a cry of defiance against our persecution, please block me

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #yes someone has a problem with this.... #it's literally no different to 'we will outlive them'

[shoshanaa]

jews are tied to the land of Israel religiously, historically and culturally.

if you have a problem with a jew visiting Israel yes you are an antisemite

#yes this is about noah schnapp #jews #judaism #israel #jewish #noah schnapp #antisemitism #anti zionisim

[ragnarssons]

honestly, fuck y'all sitting on your high horse, literally endorsing genocidal lying zionist propaganda just to protect a fucking actor in your ship. zionism is NOT judaism. noah schnapp being jewish does not give him a free pass to validate a genocide being currently performed by israel in the name of "claiming their holy land" or whatever bullshit. IT IS A GENOCIDE. there are real people dying, real children being bombed, real families torn apart. "zionism is sexy". no zionism is NOT sexy, zionism is GENOCIDE, zionism is ethnic cleansing, zionism is the oppression and occupation of palestine and the palestinian people. just think for a second, why weren't they handing some "judaism is sexy" stickers, huh? was that too hard to print? noah schnapp is a zionist, period.

#noah schnapp #boycott zionists #stranger things #it's not that hard to say that you want to continue to believe in your ship WITHOUT supporting a zionist #fuck y'all seriously #'oh you're so surprised that noah schnapp who is jewish supports israel' #YES because THERE ARE jewish people who do everything in their power to CONDEMN israel #and say out loud that ISRAEL IS NOT JUDAISM #MAYBE LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE HUH?