#jewish pop culture

[jewishpopculture]

Doja Cat photographed by Hedi Slimane for V magazine (2023).

Doja is an American rapper and singer of Jewish and Zulu descent.

#doja cat #hedi slimane #v magazine #music #jewish #jewish beauty #jewish culture #jewish community #Black jews #jewish women #Black women #Jewish music #Black music #Black culture #pop #hip hop #rap #pop music #pop culture #jewish pop culture #jewish artists #jewish rappers #jewish singers #jewish songwriters

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol photographed by Bernard Gotfryd at the Jewish Museum in New York City, 1980.

#andy warhol #1980 #warhol #pop culture #pop art #art #artist #jewish #1980s

[margareturtle]

Jem: you’re a shadowhunter, Kit!

Kit: and you’re a wizard, Harry!

Jem: oh no I’m not a wizard, but Tessa is a warlock and my name is Jem :)

Kit: BAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

Jem: Kit are you ok? Why are you laughing?

Kit: *wheezing* sorry, it’s just you telling me I’m a shadowhunter, next you’re gonna be telling my I’m a lost faerie prince 🤣

Jem: umm well

Kit: oh really?! Well in that case tell my grandmother the queen that I am awaiting her arrival to claim me as her heir and give me a magical makeover

Jem: I don’t think that you’d want the Seelie Queen to—

Kit: *sigh* I can’t do this, are their any shadowhunters who can appreciate my pop culture references bc I’ll stay with them if I have to associate with the *shadowhunters* at all

Jem: Well I wanted to ask if you would consider staying with Tessa and I? I could help you train with your powers.

Kit: Ohhh I see, you wanna be the Obi Wan to my Luke,, ok ok I could get on board if their are powers involved

Jem: that we have to discover, but I have faith as I have helped Herondale’s in the past

Kit: Herondale?? Wait you skipped the part where I’m a Herondale, that’s like a big name for shadowhunters right? Does that mean I have to pick between shadowhunter and faerie royalty?! That’s like picking between basketball and the musical!! I am the real troy bolton omg 🤯🤯

Jem: oh well, don’t worry too much yet Kit, you have time!

Kit: I have— what? I was kidding, omg were you not?!!

Jem: No, I was not

Kit: OH FU— BAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA

#kit is gonna give jem a pop culture education #kit and jem #gen z kit herondale #swiftie kit herondale #he’s def making swiftie references all the time #dru gets a good amount of his references and ty gets some #but let Kit and Simon hang out in twp #they’d be HILARIOUS together PLSSS #simon lewis #simon lovelace #simon the jewish vampire #jem carstairs #tessa gray #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #dru blackthorn #kit x ty #the wicked powers #the dark artifices #twp #tda #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles

[2goldensnitches]

Diaspora USJew here just agreeing and commiserating with you re: the JVP “Seder” disaster. It always boggles my mind when American Jews try to universalize Judaism, or to make Judaism’s gatekeeping a bad thing. As if the “gatekeeing” doesn’t exist to keep us Jewish in a non-Jewish world. Like that’s the whole ass point of being a part of a closed ethnoreligion. Our traditions and customs are not for everyone, and they keep us Jewish. That’s. That’s the point. That we are not like everyone else.

Obviously that doesn’t mean we can’t interact and share etc. but like damn man. Some things aren’t available or meant to be universalized.

I wouldn’t say this is exclusive to american jews but otherwise i have no other comments to add.

#generally speaking cultural and religious literacy in the gen pop is…still not good #asks #the jewish experience tag

[norman-couple]

Lady gaga

#lady gaga #beautiful women #pop music #aesthetic #aestethic #culture #Jewish women

[im-stupidcupid]

The community note💀💀

#pop culture #1989 taylor's version #taylor swift #swifties #swifties wanna be oppressed so bad💀💀💀 #taylor lover #pop music #twitter trends #twitter community notes #community notes #jewish #jew oppression #Holocaust

[tonkysexist]

New Captain America movie starring Sam Wilson!!

…that’s named after an antisemitic conspiracy theory

(I dont care what the original series was called. Considering the MCU’s history with anti-semitism I refuse to give them leeway. Short video explanation here)

#Mooooom the MCU is MCUing again #sam wilson deserves so much better than this #marvel #mcu #sam wilson #captain america #also #captain america is a jewish pop culture icon :) #in case i haven’t posted enough about that #tw antisemitism mention #antisemitism and media

[bijoumikhawal]

Karaites are not a were (there are probably around 50,000 of them today), and they aren't biblical literalists. Karaites still interpret the Torah. They do not try to read the most obvious meaning out of it (which is still interpretation), they try to read what would have been obvious in Antiquity (which is also interpretation). Community leaders may often be Ḥakhamim (scholars) who are consulted regarding the Torah, and in the past compiled volumes of different interpretations (most have been lost). However, the only exaltation they have, to my understanding, is as scholars, filling an advising role. Every Jew in Karaite Judaism is encouraged to study the Torah and interpret it. All interpretations are held to the same scrutiny. The interpretations I've read from Karaites can be very satisfyingly logical (such as the "Tekhelet is woad" argument).

They reject that the Talmud is equal to or above the Torah, and I've seen a few different opinions from Karaites about what that means. One person I've bumped into said you shouldn't consult the Talmud at all, but the stance on the official site for American Karaites is as follows: "Rejection of the authority of the Talmud does not mean that the Karaites consider it unlawful to consult it or to rely on it; it means only that they deny its heavenly origin and regard it as an original work of the Sages in interpretation of the written Torah, and therefore subject to the shortcomings inherent in any handiwork of mortal men uninspired by heaven." Not to be controversial or anything, but I agree with them on that point. Further, that which directly contradicts the Torah is to be discarded as a custom, which is a contention with some Talmudic interpretations.

The rejection of the Talmud wasn't done for shits and giggles- it was likely a political choice reacting to the introduction of Islam, or in reaction to the consolidation of power among rabbis and how difficult the Talmud and additional interpretations risked becoming to learn, preserve, and transmit. There's a reason Sa'adiah Gaon was praised because “Were it not for Sa’adiah, the Torah might have disappeared from the midst of Israel", and it is notable that he was also a major opponent of Karaites. We don't actually know, because figuring out the beginning of Karaite Judaism is hard- some say it was a dispute over the Exilarch position (which Karaites say is made up, and some contemporary sources lack mention of), we have a document from 641 (i.e. the previous century) mentioning Karaites in Egypt, some think they were connected to Philo, others to some other group. But you don't break off from a major sect of your religion for fun!

Further calling Karaites biblical literalists invites one to think of Christian biblical literalists, which really isn't the case. For example in some ways Karaite women have better protections than Rabbinic women- they can initiate divorces! And if necessary, a court could issue a divorce order by itself. Fundamentalist can be a more accurate term, but still implies something false- Karaites did not arise in reaction to modernism, secularism, liberalism, etc. Most religious scholars will tell you fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. Karaites are a decidedly, very old community. Further, "fundamentalist", in most cases, is being used as a pejorative for Karaites, not intended as an accurate description. People who don't use eithef of these terms also like to use the word "extremist".

#cipher talk #There are definitely problems inside of Karaite Judaism because every group has problems but the utter lack of curiosity #And self assuredness that a community which has lasted for at least 1300 years and possibly more must be terrible and such entirely #There have been dozens of Jewish sects including ones that existed around the time Karaites start popping up in the historical record #None of them have lasted as long as the Karaites (usually because they were messianic sects and not in the modern sense #In the sense that their leaders claimed to be the Messiah or prophets and often promised to create an independent Jewish state #Or something else similar) #If Karaites were as horrible as how people talk about them people would just do something different like what happened with the other sects #It's a very annoying and kind of despicable attitude whenever I see a Hewish person say this about another culture of Jews #I've seen people say it about Sephardic culture as well as Karaites- you're dead roll over and assimilate to my thing

[hebrewishtv]

💜🖤 Black Israeli Culture 💜🖤

#israeli music #pop culture #israelis #black woman appreciation #melanin poppin #ethiopian jews #hebrew #hiphop #rap aesthetic #jumblr #black jews #jewish girls #SoundCloud

[britneyshakespeare]

i have to be honest. i would simply not have agreed to a loan if the condition for not repaying by the specified date were a pound of my flesh. i must tell the truth in that i would have avoided all of that entirely.

#men are stupid #I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO SEE SOMEONE HATECRIMED EXCEPT FOR ANTONIO #A POUND OF HIS FLESH RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO SHYLOCK!!!!!!! #text post #the merchant of venice #shakespeare #jacob fortune-lloyd is the name of the actor who played bassanio that i thought was cute #he is also jewish #and he's playing brian epstein in an upcoming biopic!!!! that's really cool #well if it's any good that's really cool. #lotta bad biopics seem to have come out lately....... blonde who shall not be named oh shit #the elvis biopic was half-good but it had some serious problems. namely that it was about elvis. #i saw it w my dad though it was a nice night at the theater #it did a good job at explaining how he came to be a musical icon but did a terrible fucking job at handling his personal life #as any kiss-ass sorta movie made for boomer music fans would. if they didn't wanna think about how their legend was #Actually Not A Wholly Uncomplicatedly Good Person #so i can't say i was really shocked or offended #brian epstein is a little bit different though. because he's not the SUPERSTAR he was the brains behind the superstars. #and kind of a legend in his own right but definitely not a typical figure in pop culture iconography. #idk. if the actor's cute i'll watch it. that's my take #hope it's good though

[aquietanarchy]

the whole Angry Mean Judgemental Old Testament God vs Loving Kind New Testament God thing is so weird to me, because like, have you read the Prophets? have you read the Epistles? so much of my trauma comes from shit Paul and Peter and James have said. meanwhile the writings of Isaiah and Jeremiah and Habakkuk etc are still so achingly beautiful to me

#i think there's some supercessionist antisemitism going on with how pop culture views the whole 'old testament/new testament' thing #i mean. even in calling them new vs old testaments. hm. #i am once again asking for exchristians to listen to jewish voices #this is coming from a gentile with only the smallest knowledge of judaism too but what i do know is that its a beautiful faith #and i should learn more about it #yarrow speaks into the void #sauntering vaguely downwards

[jewishpopculture]

Jewish actress Marilyn Monroe photographed on the set of the film ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955).

#marilyn monroe #marilyn #jewish #pop culture #50s #old hollywood #golden age of hollywood #classic hollywood #jewish culture #jewish artists #jewish community #jewish pop culture #jewish beauty #the seven year itch #vintage #nostaliga #throwback #iconic #jewish history #jewish women #jewish actors #film

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol photographed by Bernard Gotfryd at the Jewish Museum in New York City, 1980. 

#andy warhol #warhol #1980 #pop art #artist #pop culture #jewish #modern art

[panicinthestudio]

#paul reubens #celebrity #obituary #CNN #People Now #pop culture #news #1980s #20th century #American #Jewish #Lee Leonard #Youtube

[felt-squirrels]

Gone By Morning is so David coded though

#should i elaborate #uh #ok then #i dunno like the feeling of being ignored and feeling like you aren’t a big someone for people is very davey jacobs #can’t really relate to pop culture #because he’s gay and neurodivergent and jewish #wants to go somewhere and like make a new life #though that’s kind of a jack thing but still #if it wasn’t clear i’m talking about gone by morning by madilyn mei #madilyn mei #newsies musical #newsies 1992 #newsies #newsies broadway #davey jacobs #david jacobs #jewish #neurodiversity #neurodivergent

[glompcat]

Decided to replay TLOU 2 since it is raining and I need to break this new couch in, and fuck but Dina in the Synagogue has me sobbing, I forgot how she has the most tragic post-apocalypse statement ever here about how growing up they did worship and pray but the Torah scroll they used was half burnt up.

#fuck Druckmann #that is such a Jewish bit of writing #like I know he made Dina to be the same ethnicity as him on purpose #since like... Mizrachi existence in pop culture is so invisible #but that one line communicates so fucking much #so many layers of survival and how society has collapsed and how people are doing the best they can #and it just.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #I really don't think it is possible for a gentile to understand everything packed into that one comment? #anyway I needed to pause the game and go do something else for a bit because the implications hit so hard #tlou #of course this whole game is very obviously by a Jew #the end messaging and morals and everything #is super Jewish