a chassidic tale- a young boy woke up every morning hours before he needed to be awake just to go into the woods before school. when he got home, his mother would ask him what he was doing awake so early again. he told her “i go into the woods to talk to Gd”, to which she replied “you don’t need to go to the woods for that. you know Gd is the same everywhere, right?” and the little boy said “i know. but i’m not.”

The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

i wanna note that historically the police in the us do have very strong white supremacist ties, including those in the nypd (some examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and also that historically jews have never been able to rely on the police for protection (ex: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). rn there's police inaction and even victim blaming (ex: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), which is just another echo of so many other waves of antisemitism throughout history. jews cannot and should not look to the police for help here. the police state is not our friend

Antisemitism on college campuses

You know what's not going to free Palestine?

-Barricading Jewish students from entering certain buildings, ordering them to stay indoors during one of our biggest holidays. -chanting antisemitic slogans and slurs. -Harassing and physically attacking Jews. It's literally Nazi behaviour.

The last few days have been terrifying for Jews across the world, and these instances shouldn't be ignored.Imagine any other minority group being treated like this.

Due to the Assyrian-Greeks’ attempt to destroy the menorah, they caused millions of menorahs to be lit around the world each year from now on instead.

watch out next these ussr blogs are gonna start liking posts that say that "rootless cosmopolitanism" doesn't mean "jewish" either

who needs time travel when you can just go to ussr-themed blogs and see shit like this in their likes

[id: screenshot of a post that reads "Being an antizionist Jew, very much not the only one around, and seeing goyim talk about how allegedly antizionists just mean "zionist" to say "Jew", is sure fucking something.

Also, no matter if you're a goy or if you're Jewish, *this* is equating zionism and Judaism. Fuck you.

Zionist does not mean Jew and zionist is not a fucking "certain kind of Jew". Zionism is an ideology that must have. no. place. No matter who carries it, and we very much do remember goyische zionists."

the post has a filter over it to look like it's under water /end id]

who needs time travel when you can just go to ussr-themed blogs and see shit like this in their likes

[id: screenshot of a post that reads "Being an antizionist Jew, very much not the only one around, and seeing goyim talk about how allegedly antizionists just mean "zionist" to say "Jew", is sure fucking something.

Also, no matter if you're a goy or if you're Jewish, *this* is equating zionism and Judaism. Fuck you.

Zionist does not mean Jew and zionist is not a fucking "certain kind of Jew". Zionism is an ideology that must have. no. place. No matter who carries it, and we very much do remember goyische zionists."

the post has a filter over it to look like it's under water /end id]

everybody is jewish. pike's tefillin look so fucking hot on him. also he's a cantor. ortegas has a kippah for each parsha, but still uses a tallit provided by the shul and has a ladino accent when she speaks hebrew bc she grew up speaking it with her family (she also knows judeo-arabic and can trace her ancestry back to al-andalus). instead of the standard traditional tichel ties, uhura uses kenyan ties and patterns. una uses one of those lace thingies and bobby pins it to her hair. la'an doesn't cover her hair (though she plans to start if she ever gets married) but does have her hair up nice. chapel usually uses a nice headband. m'benga wears thawbs and prefers a sudra over a kippah. spock wears a tallis katan under his uniform and prefers to keep tznius, both for comfort reasons and also for tradition

Chag Sameach everyone!

Here's your annual reminder that it was a Plague of singular Frog (who must have been so big)

now for the ultimate test. go to this website. set it to randomly generate ONE pokemon. all generations. all types. whatever it generates? thats you as a pokemon forever. what you get is what you get. NO RE ROLLING. now. who are you? i got goomy :^)

you know that isn't what this post is about. if you have genuine curiosity about the topic, don't hesitate to reach out. however, i'm not gonna put up with snarky faux-ignorance

narrowing my eyes at how i haven't seen passover or pesach trending once and yet israel is trending

anti-theists log the fuck off

I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

out of context argentinian politics

i love this ty 👀 i'm such a fan of joint israeli-palestinian/jewish-muslim groups. how are we supposed to live together if we don't even talk to each other

i think the issue is that people want a solution and dont really care if its a realistic or fair solution? the people who want israelis out of israel dont know where to put them. those who want them all to emigrate arent considering where theyll be able to emigrate to, or the language barriers (will they be able to work and live? how many people would be forcefully seperated from their families?) or the prejudice theyre likely to face if they are forced to move. people dont seem to consider that the average israeli citizen is also as real a person as anyone else and have 0 power or choice over what their government is doing.

'antizionists' will say again and again that israelis living on stolen land, but were all living on stolen land, if you asked all of america to move away and return the country to the natives thered be outrage - i dont know what the solution is and i obviously support palestinian freedom, but i just think it would be so much more productive if as a collective we could like? discuss what we want the solution to be ? other than "hope all the israelis magically disappear"

(sorry tumblr fucking ate this ask lmfao) you have a very good point yeah. i think also tbh it's not for people without any connection to the land to really decide to begin with? but that to the side, yeah, the majority of a lot of the people tlaking about this are kinda hand-waving away a lot of the actual steps towards the goal absolutely bc that goal includes kicking all The Bad People™ out of the land, and they don't want to acknowledge that that's not gonna happen without a LOT of bloodshed

Yemeni Jewish Bride, Yemen, by Malin Fezehai

girl where is the dancing! where is the golden calf! if they wanted to depict this scene as the first time with the tablets, wouldn't it make sense for them to make that clear? why would you have a scene of an incredibly pivotal and deeply painful moment in the torah without,,, showing any of the important parts about it? wouldn't it make more sense that, in trying to find a scene to end the movie on with a happy note, they did more fast forwarding (which wouldn't be out of the question considering the rest of this scene) and decided to depict the actual revelation at mt sinai in which bnei yisrael are actually delivered from the immoral ways of the egyptians to the full covenant, thus bringing the story to a close?

here are some reviews specifically noting (often critiquing) the lack of inclusion of the golden calf:

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1748&context=jrf

it may interest you to note, however, that apparently you're not alone in mis-remembering the final scene! https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/s/5ljE3f6aLt

i appreciate your concern about my understanding of my own situation as existing within a "culturally jewish" atmosphere, however i'm unsure of where you got this impression, as this is the farthest thing from what i believe, to the point that i'm planning my grad school plans around wanting to be in a place with more jews. as much as i love kentucky, a change of scenery would do me a lot of good. i need more jews and less transphobic legislation in my life

i also don't need this kind of pretentious holier-than-thou (or, more-jewish-than-thou) parroting of simply incorrect statements about judaism, so i'm exiting the conversation now. i leave you with this point of caution: refrain from making an assertion that x way of thinking isn't jewish, or that y never happens in judaism, or that z is The One Jewish Way To Do Something. there's never one jewish way to do something, as the talmud clearly shows. plurality of opinion and interpretation and practice is something that is generally celebrated in judaism, not maligned. i think if you opened yourself up to more experiences than just your own, you may very well find that this is one of the most beautiful things about judaism

prince of egypt is not a christian movie. the exodus is a jewish story. it’s found in other religions, and can even have a heightened level of significance, like for black (specifically african american) christians. but it is a jewish story from jewish scripture written from a jewish perspective about jewish persecution. enjoy it all you want. but don’t go on about how much you love prince of egypt then erase the fundamental jewish spirit of it.

words cannot describe how relieved i am that we know that at the very least, hersh goldberg-polin is alive