#jewish culture

[imnotkosmic]

Happy Passover!! Never stop fighting for your people to be free. 🇮🇱

#passover 2024 #jewish culture #jewish history #jewblr #jewish #jumblr #judaism #jewish holidays

[nesyanast]

Some of my favorite Hassidic Purim pictures

#jumblr #jewish #nesyapost #jews #jewish culture #judaism #purim #hassidic #costumes #purim costume #hassidic jews #Jewish holidays

[edenfenixblogs]

Ummmmm I just came home from a Filipino Jewish bakery and y’all…

Filipino Jews have won Purim and maybe the entire baked goods category.

I don’t wanna brag but I’ve acquired an ube challah and an ube hamantaschen and that doesn’t even touch the variety of pandan offerings they had. Omg. This is easily the best discovery I’ve made in my city.

And yes, they ship nationally so I will be ordering from them when I move away.

#Judaism son #Purim #Jewish food #Jewish culture #I love Jewish food mixed with various national cultures!

[batboyblog]

I'm just gonna say something, Bar/Bat/B'nai mitzvahs are a celebration, they often but not always come with an after party and depending on the means of the parents of the lucky 13 year old they can be over the top sometimes. Much like rich kids with sweet 16s or Quinceañera.

okay thats out of the way, what I wanted to say is, I'm SICK of every media depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah as a 100 million dollar, biggest party on the planet celebration of conspicuous consumption. Almost ALWAYS missing the you know Bar Mitzvah itself, and again depicting Jews over and over again as INSANELY wealthy. Like not everyone, hell not MOST people's Bar Mitzvah was huge and expensive.

another thing, I know by definition no 13 year old is cool, by definition they are greasy and annoying and cringe. But EVERY depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah where the boy or girl of the hour is both an awkward loser and (particularly the boys) sleazy little creeps who are trying WAY too hard to impressive with their garishly massive (and expensive) party (and how often they quote how much something costs as if a 13 year old would know or care) it just seem a little close to the old antisemitic stereotype of Jews as crass and uncouth social climbers desperately trying to use their money to buy their way into classy society and forever failing.

#Jumblr #jewish culture #Jewish #judaism #bar mitzvah #Bat mitzvah

[magnetothemagnificent]

Ways to show a home in a show or movie belongs to a Jewish character that isn't just lazily having a menorah in the shot for 0.02 seconds:

-Mezuzah on the doorpost/s

-Hamsas hanging on the wall

-Shabbat candles on a shelf somewhere

-Basket or drawer full of endless monogrammed and logo-ed Kippot from past weddings, B' Mitzvahs, and holiday parties.

-A calendar with both Hebrew and Gregorian dates on the wall

-A collection of Jewish books

-Various Jewish ritual items scattered around

#jumblr #depicting jewish characters #judaism #jewish culture

[racheldi]

#jewish things #jumblr #jewish culture #jewish stuff #jewish

[dyingroses]

#lols #tiktok #tiktoks #judaism #jewish culture #stuff

[thehmn]

Though I’m sure they’re out there I’ve never seen any Jewish people complain about the use of golems in fantasy. In fact, I’ve never seen any Jewish people talk about the use of golems in fantasy at all and I’m curious what your thoughts are on the subject if you’re Jewish.

As someone who has Jewish roots that were completely lost during WWII not because my Jewish family was killed but because they hid their religion and pretended to be Christians even to their own children to keep them safe, going so far as to claim our dark hair and brown eyes were due to a single Spanish ancestor, I’m always deeply fascinated by the use of golems as an allegory for Jewish heritage, but I also thought the use of golems as moving gardens in Dungeon Meshi was unbelievably cute. However, while I relate to gentile characters with lost Jewish heritage I don’t consider myself Jewish and wouldn’t dream of giving my opinion on anything as a Jew, which is why I really want to know what Jewish people who grew up in a Jewish culture feels about the use of golems in fantasy like Minecraft and Dungeon Meshi.

#golem #jewish folklore #Jewish culture

[fromgoy2joy]

I have been… biting my tongue from saying things. 

Partially because I’m not “really Jewish” (on the way to it via conversion), and because I didn’t want this blog to be political. 

But I realize I want this page to be a safe space. If anyone takes issue with what I’m about to say, I don’t want them on this page. 

I joined the college jewish community very shortly after 10/7 and was immediately welcomed in. There was no separation between me and the girl who had gone to orthodox shul all her life and was the head of the state youth group. I was told explicitly  “you are one of us. And together, we are mourning. We have lost our people and so have you.” 

Still I felt no authority to speak on things as insidious as antisemitism until recently. But how many times do you have to experience an antisemitic incident until you get to stand up? 

Six. The answer is six. 

Since explicitly aligning myself with Jewishness, I have lost friends who told me I have “dual loyalties” in so many words. I’ve been ostracized in events because we were singled out . I’ve been followed back to my dorm room from events by people hurling genocide accusations at me- white girls wearing keffiyahs who don't know anything about the Nakba when I try to connect with them about how awful it was.

My face was used in a local “fight jew hate” campaign” where I’m in a group of people with clearly middle eastern descent. But what circulated around my campus was my blonde hair and blue eyes, with people using laughing emojis.

“This is who we’re supposed to be defending!? Bitch please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣” 

(Which is perfectly ironic because they singled out the person who wasn't ethnically Jewish and focused on her. )

Campus security and the disciplinary office knows me quite well from all the reports I've filed whether for me or other people.

I leave campus for breaks. Even though I’m returning to my highly Catholic conservative family, I breathe a sigh of relief. I don't have to look over my shoulder constantly or check myself in the surroundings I'm in. I already feel the dread about returning in January.

What hurts is the blindness- the lack of nuance- that is being given. Every single Jewish person at my school is not a self described zionist, other than that they acknowledge Jewish indignity to the land, and that there was a reason for the creation of Israel- not even justification in the current state or the matter it came about.

But they- and we- shouldn't have to prove ourselves. We shouldn't be debating if we should fundraise for Gazans (we are) in case someone accuses us of "lying about our intentions" or if we'd be pointed out as "the good jews!" They shouldn't have to have a tab open on their computer for Israeli passports, even though they desperately don't want to leave the United States. I shouldn't have to wonder whenever I'm at a synagogue "If I get killed here in a terrorist attack before being immersed in the mikvah, will I get a Catholic or Jewish funeral?"

But that never mattered. Our voices never did. Unless the antisemitism came from a high school dropout neo-nazi with a shaved head and swastika jacket, it's never going to matter.

I will never forget- even as I advocate for Palestinians, call for a ceasefire, and donate. Or any other cause where I'll be marching besides these activists I can never call well meaning.

I could go on and on about it. But I won't be able to write it out in this post.

All I know is when the counsel of rabbis ask me if I'm ready to be apart of an unpopular group, I'm going to have to fight myself from laughing at the question

#jumblr #jewish #antisemitism #tw antisemtism #jewblr #jewish convert #jewish culture #fromgoy2joy thoughts

[socialist-microwave-laser]

jews: hey so this word is so important that historically it was only ever said once a year on the holiest day of the year and only by one guy. this tradition stopped after the fall of the second temple and everybody has forgotten how to pronounce it, and it's been deemed unpronounceable. now, we use a word to replace it, but you're not allowed to say it outside of prayer or reading torah aloud. any printed material that has it written must be buried in a graveyard like a human, it can't simply be thrown out

christians: *treat the word like a fucking trivia question, have songs that just mispronounce say it on repeat for the entire chorus, make shitty ugly ass earrings with the word written on it, include the word in fun translation exercises like it's just like any other word*

#and christians wonder why i'm so uncomfortable around them #also that one guy before the fall of the second temple that said it did so as a part of a ritual that was deemed so dangerous people would #literally tie a string around him in case he died so they could pull him out without going in after him #anyway my biblical hebrew class starts tomorrow and the textbook was made by a bunch of evangelicals and it has the shem hashem and so many #other words that make me physically uncomfortable to have just sitting in a textbook #jumblr #christian antisemitism #antisemitism tw #judaism #jewish history #jewish culture

[jewishpositivity18]

Studying commentary on the Torah is a bit like joining a conversation that covers the entire world and all of history

This guy from the 1880s disagrees with that guy from the late Middle Ages about what the text means

A dude in 16th century Poland is building off what that dude in 12th century Egypt said about why the text is written this way

Guys come read Gemara the Old Men are fighting again

#jewish positivity #jewblr #jewish #jewish culture #judaism

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Main exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Reconstruction of the bima from the synagogue in Hvizdetsʹ (Gwoździec), Ukraine.

#judaica #jewish culture #ashkenazi #Poland

[nesyanast]

Baghdadi Jews celebrate Purim in Shanghai 1908

Source: Rachel Wahba

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish culture #purim #Jewish holidays #purim upon us lads #shanghai #China #Jews in China #1908 #baghdadi jews

[bigfootboyband]

As Halloween approaches, I’ve been seeing many very talented makeup artists recreate the face of the bride in Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride.” I thought this would be a good oppertunity to make some art and remind one and all that the “The Corpe Bride” (known in some tellings as “The Finger” or “The Demon in the Tree”) is a beloved Jewish folktale. Folklorist Howard Schwartz traces the orgins of “The Finger” to 16th century Levant. Aftrer hundreds of years of retelling, the story, like all folktales, has undergone many iterations and also became highly informed by the violence of life in the Pale of Settlement (specifically towards women and young brides).

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#digital art #art #original art #jewish #jewish art #jewish culture #jewish tradition #jewish things #jewish folklore #jewish folktales #jewish folktale #jewish history #jumblr #folkart #folk art #jewish folk art #jewish folkart #halloween #the corpse bride #der finger #the finger #the demon in the tree #tim burton #tim burton corpse bride #corpse bride #jewish artist

[soxiyy]

Every Jewish person is ethically jewish weather they are born from the waters of a womb or the waters of a mikvah

#jumblr #actually jewish #jewish conversion #jewish culture #jewish convert #jewblr #jew by choice #jewish #jewish joy #jewish positivity

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

So if Jews eat non-middle eastern food it proves we’re not indigenous to Israel, and if we eat middle eastern food we’re culturally appropriating.

Well now I don’t know what to make for dinner.

#antisemitism #jumblr #jewish history #jewish culture