#weird jewish things

[animatedamerican]

I really really appreciate your pesach recipe round-up, thank you for your service to menu makers everywhere! חַג כָּשֵׁר וְשָׂמֵחַ

Thank you, nony! Chag kasher v'sameach to you too, and to everybody else out there celebrating this year.

(And for everyone not sure what this is about: The Pesach Recipe Roundup is a post of kosher-for-Pesach recipes that I made some years ago, and keep adding to.)

#from the ask box #links #food #recipes #pesach #weird jewish things

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Hello Newsies fandom, for your casual viewing pleasure (and because apparently some people think headcanoning the Jacobs family as Jewish is antisemitic), here is the exact passage from the official Newsies novel that states Davey is Jewish and Jack is Irish :D

It's not a headcanon, it's literally written in the source material and, even if it wasn't, this fandom has been headcanoning characters' ethnicities based on their names since 1992. They're street kids living in New York City in 1899, they're going to be a diverse group and the best thing we have to go on is their names. I know my group of mutuals headcanon at least two other characters as Jewish, somewhat if not entirely based on their names.

Like, I don't know how else to explain that headcanoning a character with a traditionally Jewish name isn't "stereotyping" it's literally just being like "oh hey, this whole family has really common Jewish names, it would be fun if they're Jewish" and then we all move on with our lives because it's also literally canon. Like, it would be bad if we were headcanoning a character as Jewish purely because they exhibit behaviors that are also associated with negative Jewish stereotypes but that's literally not what's happening here. Also I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the non-dialogue parts of the script somewhere but I don't have access to that.

In conclusion, don't be weird about people headcanoning characters as minorities, it's not stereotyping it's literally just people existing.

(Also, I am not Jewish, so I do not at all claim to be any kind of authority on representation. If any Jewish bloggers want to weigh in I will happily read and be open to learning!)

#not to vague post on main but i'm feeling confrontational today #my old post about character details confirmed in the newsies novel was going around again and i got excited until i found out why #the jacobs family is canonically jewish and even if they weren't it's not a weird thing to headcanon #if you're going to police people's headcanons at least go after the ones that are actually harmful to disenfranchised communities #tell me if you want to hear my jewish mush headcanons because i have a lot of thougths about him that i don't think i've ever posted #also if anyone wants my pdf of the newsies novel just dm me it's such a fun read #david jacobs #newsies #92sies #livesies #newsies novel

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

#a lot of my traits have been exacerbated lately and i remember it was much easier for me before #and some of my friends have said “oh it's because you've been masking too long and now you're facing autistic burnout.” #and that made sense to me i think. #but then i found out about the stress thing. me overproducing stress hormone. and that's a very physical thing. #and that explains why i've been overstimulated more than usual lately. and why everything feels like too much. #and i wonder how many of these traits of mine are going to subside once i have lamar removed #and it makes me wonder a lot of things. and it's so weird how much your brain is tied to your biology. #i wonder how much i'll change. i wonder how i'll feel. i wonder if i'll still feel like me. i wonder how much me is me right now. #and how much of me is being altered by weird freaky hormones. who am i?? who will i be?? #i'm almost looking at this as like. a superhero origin story of some sort. like this is my spider-bite moment. maybe. #will i be different? will i cope with things differently?? now that my body isn't fighting something anymore?? #maybe i'll be normal. i don't know. i don't know. #i don't know what it'll mean for me. #but all of these things mean i relate to peter parker in a certain kind of way #i don't think you have to be diagnosed with autism to recognise and empathise with those traits i think #i think everyone can see themselves in peter. and i think that's the benefit of having characters that aren't diagnosed. #because there's so much overlap in the human experience. and certain feelings aren't exclusive to just one group of people. #peter has such a rich identity actually. it's an autistic thing. it's a queer thing. it's a jewish thing. it's a trauma thing. #there are so many overlapping parts of peter's identity that inform who he is and how he behaves and it's never just one thing. #it's a product of all of his things. #just like me! just like everyone. #so me? i guess i can be a million things. you can explain what i am in a million different ways. #a hundred different psychologists can all come up with different ways to explain why i be the way i be. #i don't think it's something that can be simplified. #sorry wow. i'm really going off here in the tags. #i hope people don't think i'm stupid. i don't know brain science. i'm just philosophising as usual. #sci speaks

[makeweirdart]

As a kid, I always wondered why our Jewish holidays were seemingly so much more boring than the goyish holidays. Those holidays felt so much bigger and prouder, and all we did was sit arround talking about our past.

I now know why on every Jewish holiday we talk about our history. It's because no one else remembers it, and if we didn't repeat it this often, we might get caught up in what the goyim think is our truth and forget as well.

#jumblr #jewish things #the war #ipc #jewish conspiracy theories can suck my ass #make weird art #jewish holidays #being jewish #chanukah #hannukah

[crippled-peeper]

sorry for being very opinionated about some weirdly specific topics like chiropracty and homeopathy because I was raised by a type 1 diabetic and a 4th-5th generation atheist so I live with the persistent need to want to learn the actual nature of things instead of letting my intuition and feelings guide my choices and kill my disabled ass in the process. like. I’m not dying for your feelings

#idk what to tag this #literally so many Christians have tried to kill this man and also weird antivaxxers saying just eat cinnamon #the most normal people about disability I’ve encountered are Jewish #my surgeon for example #one of my favorite rabbis has said very helpful things about being sick/disabled #but Christians? my GAHD

[andreburakovskyisgod]

These men plus the veterans on the St Louis Blues need to be asked how they pronounce quarter. Someone give me an answer.

#matthew tkachuk #brady tkachuk #joseph woll #clayton keller #luke kunin #st louis blues #so for anyone not in the know #people in St. Louis pronounce quarter in the weirdest way possible #it’s an upper middle class catholic thing #Luke is Jewish but I fear he might also say it weird #I need to use the blues roster as a test subject to see if it’s nature or nurture

[orcelito]

Ok. Real question. How many people Actually have believed in Santa? Bc I never did, mostly bc my dad never bothered with the entire pretense, so the whole concept is just. Really fucking strange to me

Putting an actual poll bc I feel like I'm losing my mind a bit thinking about how apparently widespread it is. Like. It's just so... weird? Why is this the thing people have popularized? It makes no sense.

#speculation nation #polls #like ok my dad's an atheist raised by jewish parents so xmas has never really been a religious sort of holiday to me #we celebrate it bc it's fun to give gifts and spend time with family #but that's... it. #all the lore and mythos of xmas is just so weird to me #like baby jesus etc etc but now here comes saint nicholas with the steel chair! (breaking into your house to eat your cookies #and leave presents Only for the rich kids! why only the rich ones? uhmmm Dont worry about it!) #genuinely speaking my dad's worked at ups my whole life so growing up he'd say he (and the rest of his coworkers) were the real santas #said as a joke mostly bc theyre the ones Actually delivering the packages #but i took it to heart. told people at school that my dad was the Real santa. #no one believed me lol which i found quite frustrating. #but yeah i have never once in my entire life believed in Santa #and im content with that. it seems like such a stupid thing i will be honest. #'what about the magic of christmas' what about the poor kids who dont get gifts & feel abandoned by this all-powerful man? #in fact why do we Want kids to not think it's their parents giving gifts? they cant thank the right people if we trick them. #it's a convoluted setup that makes absolutely 0 sense to me #trust me christmas had more than enough 'magic' for me as a kid just bc of all the cool lights and all the free gifts #dont need some mythological man who can travel the globe in one night and is a professional in B&E #makes no sense for Real. #there was a time with my ex step siblings where me n my sister were told not to spoil the fun for them #so i had to pretend like santa existed as they opened presents marked from him #and even back then i was just thinking 'this is So Dumb' #this is an anti santa zone i guess. me and myself hate the popularized version of this strange strange belief system.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

it's just interesting that hollywood consistently erases real and fictional jews but when it comes to telling our history will just fully invent jewish characters, ignoring the real jews who were actually involved, and cast gentiles to play them

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #this is about a bunch of things #antisemitism #tw antisemitism #antisemitism tw #some i wont name bc i dont want to get people being weird in my inbox #but i think a lot of people know one specific movie im thinking of #but this applies to so much shit #does blonde even mention her conversion? probably not #and yet not a peep #when i think about the word peep it's always in a really weird intonation lmao #im off topic

[hobbinch]

Im doing so good at just staying over here with my dislike of Hazb1n Hotel but nearly every single thing I learn about it justifies my haterdom to myself

#i just found out Lilith is a major character and I'm CONFIDENT the writer just took the name out of Jewish apocrypha and made up new lore #using Jewish mythological figures in a setting clearly based on christian theology isnt a new thing but its still obnoxious #when most of the characters are OCs with no mythological basis it makes it feel extra weird to take a real name and get it so incorrectly #*i* was mistaken about jewish demonology and Lilith in particular for most of my life because of similar ways she's written by Christians #sorry i just dont trust the Christian south park fan to handle jewish mythology respectfully #hell literally doesnt exist in jewish theology in the way the show portrays it #so to make Jewish figure who is literally not a part of Christian works the QUEEN OF HELL #i know ive been going in circles but that just feels sooooooooo weird

[animatedamerican]

Happy Eighth Night of Chanukah, Jumblr! Please enjoy this rendition of Tom Lehrer's "Hanukkah in Santa Monica", in Yiddish. (Transliteration and English translation subtitled.)

#weird jewish things #musics #video #translation #tom lehrer #chanukah #this makes me happy in my soul parts #Youtube

[quasi-normalcy]

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#so first of all i'm not jewish. #but i feel like i occupy a relatively weird position with respect to judaism. #because the neighbourhood in which i grew up was like...30-50% jewish? #it was jewish enough that the local families requested and got a hebrew immersion programme at the local elementary school #that operated in parallel to the english programme that i attended #and about half of my friends growing up were jewish. #and so i absorbed a lot of the surface-level details of the religion by a sort of osmosis #like...i knew the dates and significance of the various jewish holy days #and i knew a smattering of phrases in hebrew (phonetically); most of them apparently quite rude #and we occasionally did jewish religious songs in choir (some of them admittedly lifted from the 'Prince of Egypt' soundtrack) #and once when i was in high school i was on a trivia team; and we asked a run of questions about judaism; #and i was the only one who knew them even though (i swear to god) i was the non-Jewish player on either team #(and then when i was much older i almost married a jewish enby and i would even have tried to convert for them #but our relationship fell apart for unrelated reasons) #but one of the things that was drilled into me when i was growing up (by my dad who grew up under similar circumstances) #was that you don't criticise Israel; it's antisemitic to criticise Israel #(which made for a lot of fraught moments as a teenager given that i was watching the second Intifada on the news) #and the thing is even now in the face of what seems pretty unambiguously to be a genocide against the Palestinians #i find that i'm more circumspect about criticizing israel than i would be just about any other country under the same circumstances #like i was writing things like 'fuck saudi arabia' when they were murdering houthis in yemen #but 'fuck israel'? #even though a little harsh language is least of what that regime deserves #ugh #i feel like i'm privy to the death of a dream that was never even mine. #personal #religion

[makeweirdart]

I'm tired of my posts on antisemitism being the only posts on my page that get reblogged. I get why, but it is still tiring.

I wish people were as proud to reblog jewish art, music, poetry, ect. as they are to reblog against antisemites.

We don't just want to play defense, guys. Offense is also important.

#jumblr #jewish things #the war #make weird art #art #poetry #ipc #make jewish art #jewish art #jewish artists #jewish artist

[daz4i]

ik it's not good to latch onto a mental illness as your defining trait but also. babe i don't have much else going on or any other sense of identity beyond it

#''you don't want to heal from depression bc you don't know who you are without it'' yeah no shit. if there's no depression there's no me #also i got the no sense of identity disorder!!!! so!!!! said disorder is just my only identity ig!!!!!! #ik this is why ppl look for labels and i am no different but all my labels hinge on being vague so like . not very helpful #others i know latch onto their nationality/religion/heritage etc. but i definitely don't feel pride in any of those #dare i even say i feel disgust. i am more defined by my disdain for being jewish than my actual judaism #ppl say to let what you love define you. but. i don't love. i mean i love my cat but i don't think that can define me #also maybe I'm just autistic but i don't really get how one can even be defined by what they love 🤔 #and this whole thing is so weird. bc in so many people's head there is this very firm image #and people tell me i seem confident and like i know how i am and that I'm being myself in an honest way #girl i don't even know what myself is!!!! i am more defined by my lack of definition than anything 😭😭😭 #or my worse traits like stubbornness and hypocrisy and obsession #wouldja look at that we just circled back to my bpd. see what I'm saying? #vent #ask to tag #sorry for all the vents today 🫡 i am at my worst actually and i fear i may lose it at any moment ✨️

[quixtrix]

Ngl, did NOT have this scenario on my metaphorical bingo card for insane shit that has happened in this fandom. Infighting and discourse? Yeah. Fighting over ships? Yeah. Main character getting sidelined? Unfortunate but also yeah. Someone making essentially a fan theory about the creator's personal life, getting mad that people are telling them that's creepy, then turning around and calling others CREEPS for 'being entitled to personal info' even though they started it in the first place? Wow, most of those types back off and put out a shitty apology to try and get people to back off, but this mf doubled down and hit it with a double whammy of 'well you should've expected it, don't want your work to be known, don't create', what the actual fuck is going on here.

i dont even know man. i think i shouldnt have engaged further after the initial villain monologue bro pulled on me, but i digress. it was also very weird to me how they were lecturing me on how to analyse media and digest it but couldnt register that i was using a basic example in my initial explanation on why writing about dark topics does not necessarily equal having the trauma those experiences give.

tbf i looked at their blog and theyre a zionist so

#i specifically bring up the zionism because i find to engage with fascists means losing braincells #slightly off topic but as a non jewish person i dont get why jews support israel #dont they literally like. desecrate judaism #like i understand the thing about returning to the homeland in the bible #i grew up learning that #however the way israel practices judaism from what ive heard is jus not. right? #like in judaism the rabbi must turn you away three times #in israel's judaism you dont go through the usual trials and tribulations #idk i feel like looking at something so important in a religion being desecrated and still supporting it is weird #that is not my place to entirely say tho #im jus kinda saying its like. weird. esp as an outsider #anyways that person was also rlly stubborn

[heretherebedork]

I have been cursed because Passover ends on Monday night but I have a free pizza delivery through SUNDAY night. Why? The true curse of being a cultural Jew is deciding how much I actually care, sometimes.

I keep a mediocre passover most of the time but pizza before it ends feels like a step over a line I've never crossed. I grew up using pizza as the way of breaking passover, of returning to my usual diet, and despite not worrying bout kitinyot anymore... it feels so oddly real to contemplate pizza before the end of passover.

I don't know what choice I'll make yet.

But I suspect I'll be paying delivery on Monday night. I am a creature of habit and isn't that what traditions are? Long standing habits in historical terms.

#weird jewish thoughts that aren't very jewish #francis irl #i dunno it's weird #it's the kind of thing i don't often think about #but like it's right there this week

[clonerightsagenda]

The Peregrination has a cultural tradition of also extending membership to ghosts. This rules

#that being said with the detail that their wandering diaspora is often accused of stealing children to eat... #is this an attempt at a Space Jewish Parallel with space antisemitism tropes to match #weird note to hit in the holiday special that also hits the extremely old and tired trope #of having a Christmas themed storyline with one token person referencing Hanukkah who still gets pulled into the Christmas festivities #sure we have fantasy space Jewish allegories but the actual Jewish people in space are largely glossed over #breathing space// #oh shit actually is the peregrination knocking on the door thing supposed to reference Elijah at passover