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Those who are interested in taking our Judaism 101 course and/or possible conversion to Judaism, please contact me. We will probably begin the course in the month of Elul. I'm thinking Monday evenings 7-9 PM Eastern. If interested, would this time work for you? Is there a better time? Let me know.
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#i miss going to shul a lot but I'm. conflicted.#my medical stuff that was preventing a lot of it has been improving to the point where i think i technically could again#but the only synagogue that's easily accessible for me is... i dunno. i love the community there#i really do. but they don't have a Rabbi or even offer Judaism 101 classes so i can't progress in conversion like i desperately want#and on top of it they always - at least when I've gone - have some sort of pastor or preacher present who is encouraged to participate#disregarding my distaste with them having Christian leaders present but no Rabbi because i know they're hurting financially#(the previous one retired RIGHT before i was able to start attending. i even got to meet his last conversion student on my first trip. ouch)#i have such severe Christian trauma that the last time i went and the preacher started talking about the bible i nearly had a full blown#panic attack that would've sent me running out of the room if i wasn't trapped in place by how mortified i would've been by doing that#so while i applaud their outreach program stuff and do agree with its necessity because of the size and area they're in#i just. don't feel safe going. but i can't get to the other nearest ones without having to make multiple people drive me.#and it's so close to the High Holy Days that i don't want to scare anyone or be a bother. and i can't get over the feeling that#I'd be abandoning the first community that welcomed me despite them pointing me in this direction since they know they can't help me convert#because i don't know if I'd be able to bring myself to go back even if i wanted to#but at the same time... i can't as easily get to the others. so what would i be meant to do after finishing my conversion?#assuming i even COULD because of the distance.#sigh...#no one said it was gonna be easy but of all the possible hurdles did it really have to be these?#(i wonder sometimes how much their struggle to get more than a handful of people to show up regularly#might also have to do with the fact that I'm not sure how many Jews want to listen to Christian interpretations of the Torah on Shabbos...)
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Hi Spider, I hope you're well! I had a question about being Jewish and was wondering if you could give me some insight. All good if not!
Forgive me if I use the wrong terms here, I'm still learning and don't have any ill intent.
I'm a weird case, I think? I was raised Catholic, and I found out as an adult that my family past was hidden from me. Both my Babcia (great grandma, from Poland) and my Grandpa are descended from and were practicing Jews.
This information was withheld from me, so my knowledge of it is limited to what I've learned from my parents after they passed. And that's been like pulling teeth in and of itself.
How would I go about reconnecting with this part of my past? Are there resources available for the basics? I tried looking up various things online, but I think I'm looking in the wrong places- it's all super dense to me and I don't know where to start.
If you have any advice on this, or any thoughts of your own, I'd really appreciate it, no pressure. Thank you!!
My cat Princess says hello btw (:
Hello, Princess!
I would recommend finding a rabbi close to you geographically and starting there. Many places have a Judaism 101 class, which is required for conversion but doesn't necessarily lead to it.
Here's the list I gave @oldest-man-alive-blog off the top of my head when he asked for books to read to decide if he wants to convert
Essential Judaism by George Robinson
Choosing a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant
Here All Along by Sara Hurwitz
The Jewish Approach to God, A Brief Introduction for Christians by Rabbi Neil Gillman
To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking by Harold Kushner
Becoming a Jew
by Rabbi Maurice Lamm
And followed with this:
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Might be an odd ask, but do you have any recommendations for a non-jew wanting to learn more about judaism?
I figured one way to fight antisemitism is to just try being a friend to my local Jewish community, but I'd like to learn more before I go sticking my noise anywhere. And even if it'd be preferred I keep my distance, never hurts to know more about another culture.
If not, thanks anyway!
if you're looking for something more structured, you can contact your local synagogue and see if they can get you signed up for a judaism 101 class. if you're looking for books and resources, here is a list of books i recommend and i have a tag on my blog for educational posts. myjewishlearning is also a good place to start.
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I definitely think there are people who use those "diverse reading challenges" to show off, but I also think you can have a truly genuine desire to diversify your reading habits, and challenges can be a good way to incentive yourself to do that and keep track of it. And I'm not sure there's a go-to standard for who is "tryhard" beyond if they act cringey and show-offy about it on social media. I was going to say something like "do they genuinely seem like they're trying to branch out, or just reading the same things as they usually do but with a black lead" - but honestly, I want the people who are "just reading YA" or "just reading romance" or whatever to read more diversely, too. Like for romance readers specifically: Read more romance with COC or written by POC, read more M/M and/or F/F if you primarily read het, read more stuff written by people from outside of North America and Western Europe, etc. And if you primarily read serious "classic" literature, try reading one from Africa beyond the lit-class staples like Things Fall Apart rather than another white British author, just to give an example. I think everyone should do more of that. I think those can all come from a genuine desire to try new things, not just show off to your followers about how open-minded you are.
Actually, I think the big way to tell if someone's being "tryhard" is, yes, their reaction on social media, but particularly how they talk about the book when they're done. The one big Tell I see on Goodreads about people who want to be seen as "reading diversely" but don't really appreciate diversity is when they read a book about, say, Muslim characters and then leave a 2-star reviewing whining that they didn't like that the book expected them to know 101-level things about Islam like what Ramadan or the hajj is. (Or alternately, are mad that it DID explain that stuff "too much," oblivious to the fact that in Christian-majority cultures, that's a publisher expectation that you do that with any other religion, because of ignorant readers who will whine if you don't spend a paragraph teaching them what Ramadan is because apparently these supposed "diverse readers" can't be assed to learn literally anything about the best-known Muslim holiday.) I saw someone complain on Tumblr about Goodreads reviewers getting mad at all the "Jewish stuff they were expected to know" to read Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver, and this person was like "I'm a goy and I understood all of it because it's stuff you would know just from having seen Fiddler on the Roof. If all the Judaism you need to know for a book is stuff that you can get from watching Fiddler on the Roof, then maybe the issue is not the book, it's you for not having such basic information about a major world religion and then reading a book about it."
Or as another example, when people complain about how the particular set of lingo this person who is oppressed in a way you are not used to describe their oppression is not the exact thing that Twitter discourse has told you is "correct" to use or that it is offensive. When they get mad that a book where a black person is talking about their life experience with police brutality has "too many descriptions of violence" and "I'm rating this lower because it might be triggering." (In general, when people seem to conflate "this triggered me" with the kind of "productive discomfort" that relatively privileged people NEED to confront in fiction about marginalizations they don't experience in order to grow as humans. But also it's just like... there are some topics where it would be doing readers a disservice not to describe them graphically. Not everything can be communicated in a way that would earn a G rating on AO3. That might mean the book is inaccessible to you, but that's on you to deal with, not on the author to censor themselves.) Or when they, as in the American Fiction example, expect it to fit some stereotypical ideas of "authenticity" and are mad that this POC or LGBTQ+ or disabled person's lives are more like their own rather than feeling like a museum exhibit about an exotic Other culture.
To me, "tryhard" is when you don't actually value diversity FOR diversity. If you're going to read diverse media, you can't get mad when it actually is diverse. If you want to read about stuff about/from other cultures and identities, then a) you need to be okay with being challenged, b) you need to not expect the author to hold your privileged hand all the time. You can look up unfamiliar words like "hajj" or "Purim." It's 2024. You have a tiny computer in your hand that is several times more powerful than the big computers that put astronauts on the moon. You can use it to go to Wikipedia when you see a word you don't understand, it's not that hard! Expecting authors from other cultures and identities to patiently explain every aspect of that to you like an elementary school teacher is the ultimate sign of entitlement and privilege, especially if you're reading, say, a book by a Congolese author about the Congo, not one that they wrote specifically for Western audiences!
When people make a big show of reading "diversely" but then seem to be upset that those books are actually, you know, DIVERSE, that's a big flashing sign that it's performative tryhard nonsense to me.
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It's pretty sad when we'll go google some xianxia thing to watch The Untamed, but we can't manage to look at a ten thousand times more commonplace wikipedia article on a major world religion.
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Hello,
I’m considering converting and have been for a long time, but I’m not sure whether to go with a reform rabbi or a conservative rabbi for the conversion. Reform Judaism is probably what I would practice after converting, but I also know that reform conversions are not recognized by some other rabbis and branches of Judaism. I want to be able to travel to different places and visit different communities and still be considered a Jew. But, I’m wondering how much this would actually be affected by me converting with a reform rabbi instead of a conservative rabbi. Am I actually going to be asked what branch I converted with? Am I ever going to have to “prove” that I’m really Jewish? Or will most people and communities just accept that I am if I say I am?
Hi anon,
So I'm not sure how this applies out abroad, but assuming you're in the US, many/most liberal movements will accept each other's conversions. You may occasionally come across a Conservative shul that is more stringent about you needing to have had kabbalat mitzvot as part of your conversion, along with all of the other traditional steps. Most Reform rabbis strongly encourage (but some do not require) you to have a brit milah or hatafat dam brit (if relevant to your anatomy) and/or tevilah (immersion in the mikvah.) All rabbis require a significant period of structured study; that may be a reading list for self study or it may be a Judaism 101 class. All rabbis are going to want you to spend significant time within the community to experience the holidays, Shabbat, the people, and the culture to make sure this is your forever home first. You will then need to have a beit din to finalize the process when you and your rabbi both think you are ready.
If you are wanting your conversion to be accepted by the widest swath of liberal Jews, you should make sure that you complete all the above-mentioned steps, including mikvah and (if relevant) having a bris (whether that's a hatafat dam brit or brit milah.) The Conservative movement requires all of these steps, and also requires that you accept responsibility for all of the mitzvot and the binding nature of halacha (kabbalat mitzvot.) The Reform movement doesn't include this part because it fundamentally doesn't view halacha as binding. While many Conservative communities/rabbis will overlook this last one in general, they may become more strict if you are, say, trying to become a long-term Conservative Jew and/or a member of the shul. (I will say, though, that the Conservative movement doesn't require its affiliated shuls to require that all voting members are halachicly Jewish to community standards. This was a way to include more Jewish adjacent or Jewish but not halachicly Jewish members of the community. So it honestly probably wouldn't even get brought up in that situation either.) If you are trying to get married by a Conservative rabbi, you may run into trouble without briefly redoing the beit din to include kabbalat mitzvot, but I think that's probably the most likely scenario in which this information would be chased down including a paper trail and phone call to your conversion rabbi. Otherwise I seriously doubt it would come up.
As for just rolling through a minyan in your travels (post-conversion)? Literally just tell them you're Jewish, because you are. You don't owe anyone an elaboration unless the rabbi or gabbaim ask, and that's honestly unlikely. No one else is halachicly allowed to ask you about your conversion anyway.
I strongly recommend converting within the community that fits your view of Judaism and needs best, and not worrying about other people validating your conversion. As someone who is more traditional spectrum and does view halacha as binding, I take very seriously the idea of accepting the mitzvot upon yourself as a binding matter. If that's not you, don't make promises you don't intend to keep based on what a handful of judgemental people might think. They really don't matter and they shouldn't get to make major life decisions like "what kind of Jew am I?" for you. The rest of us? Honestly we're just glad if you show up at 7 a.m. to be Jew #10.
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Heyyyy do you have any advice for a potential convert/person exploring Judaism going to services for the first time. I have big anxiety and want to show up respectfully but not totally sure what to expect and how to approach it.
Sure! I definitely have advice.
First, like I said recently, we're currently still in the month of Tishrei, and every Jewish professional is absolutely drowning because this month is jam packed with the high holy days, & Hebrew school/Sunday school is starting back up. This is the absolute busiest time of year for anyone who is a "professional Jew." (Rabbis, cantors, synagogue front admin, etc etc).
What that means is this: I strongly recommend waiting until after October 15th (which will begin the Hebrew month of Cheshvan) to try contacting anyone about conversion. You're just much more likely to be able to get in touch with someone, send an email or make a phone call and get a timely response and/or someone with enough bandwidth to really engage with you.
I'm not saying they'll ignore you right now, or to stay away! Just that your email could end up lost or the people in question might be hard to reach because they're doing 50 million things right now. And I wouldn't want you to think that was personal or to make you anxious!
Okay so, the list looks like this:
Try reaching out after Oct 15th this year (when Tishrei is over).
A good basic book you might be able to find in a local chain bookstore is Anita Diamant's To Choose a Jewish Life which is all about conversion! She is a liberal Jew (reform) and the book leans that way, but it does just cover some general considerations and topics as a good starter.
You can try browsing myjewishlearning.com or watching Bimbam videos (youtube) for basic 101 concepts.
If you've found a local synagogue you would like to try visiting, go to the website. See if you can find the admin assistant email or the rabbi's email. Then send an email explaining you're interested in exploring/learning about Judaism and have considered you may be interested in converting and would like to attend a shabbat service for the first time. This is basically all I did! I sent an email to two rabbis at two synagogues I was considering, and one of them replied immediately and I went that very week.
I have anxiety too but it was extremely easy for me, and I'm pretty lucky that my rabbi is pretty familiar with converts and conversion. Not every rabbi has had converts or even a fair amount of converts though, so some of them might be navigating a new thing to them too!
What made my first shabbat really easy was this:
- basically the response email answered my dress code question, assured me I was welcome to join the next service as a guest and he would be happy to meet/do introductions, and then he gave me the name of someone at the synagogue who would be a great community member to sit with/who could help me follow the service, and said he'd introduce me.
So like, to me, that was the most helpful part, which was that when I arrived a little before the start time, we got to say hi and then he introduced me to a woman who sat with me and was able to help me gain a footing. Or at least who could help me when I was totally lost lol! If no one suggests it to you unprompted, you can always ask if there's anyone in the community they'd recommend you sit with to help you acclimate. It's also totally okay to sit in the back.
You won't know everything the first few times! There's also no musical notation if people sing (so it doesn't matter if you read music or not)! I can't guarantee the synagogue will have full transliteration into English for the service! There's a whole other language you probably don't know being used. Lots of people who show up could do the service with their eyes closed. It is OKAY that you don't start there! It's okay to have no idea when to bow or to not know every prayer ahead of time!
Don't worry that you're not sure what's happening. Most of the time people will be super friendly! They'll also want to know all about you. You can either tell them you're wanting to convert/learn more or you can tell them a limited truth.
If I don't feel like explaining my whole backstory to someone, I usually just say "oh, my parents weren't really/super religious." (This is true for me! my parents werent super religious! But they are christians who aren't super religious. I usually just say I converted nowadays, I don't feel a need to hide it if pressed, but yanno. Sometimes I didn't want to have to explain I never went to Jewish summer camp to a stranger at a random event who wants to play Jewish geography)
Anyways most people will probably be very friendly to a new face/stranger and want to know allll about you at oneg (usually like, snacks after shabbat service) if they don't recognize you and you seem alone. (it's also highly likely there will be a lot of regular people who are a lot older than you, so don't be surprised if you basically get treated like a visiting grandkid. It's kinda great.)
Eventually you learn a lot just by immersion and showing up again and again. There's a pattern you can pick up. Tunes to songs may change and eventually you'll come to recognize the most common ones.
I know it's hard to like hear "hey it's okay don't worry too much" if you have anxiety, because, well, I have anxiety! I know you can't just turn it off! BUT I assure you, if you are made to feel unwelcome or bad, then that just isn't a good synagogue to be going to anyways. It's more likely they're just not a good fit for you than anything wrong with you, yanno? And the first rabbi you talk to may not be the one you want to stick with. That's okay too!
I was extremely nervous my first few services, and honestly everyone was just really nice and helpful. I think the other rabbi I emailed didn't end up replying to that email (it probably got lost!) and it ended up being fine, I stuck with the one who replied right away because we got along and clicked.
My last piece of advice is to go ahead and buy yourself a notebook/journal and keep a book for yourself.
This book can/should be any number of things!
For some inspiration, this book can be:
A journal about your religious journey prior to this point and currently
Write about what you believe now, what you think, what you aren't sure about
Write down the books you're recommended, given, or borrowed
Write down questions you have
Write down the complicated or uncomfortable things you worry or think about
Write about experiencing x or y thing for the first time and what you were interested in, confused by, etc
Cut out/copy down Jewish recipes!
Note things that you find joy in or are confused or bored by!
Take notes during classes/readings of books/etc
Write down notes during meetings with your rabbi!
Torah study notes! What'd you learn? What'd someone else say you found interesting? Questions? Thoughts? Etc.
It's a big process! A lot is going on, and it's worthwhile to record your personal feelings and studies in some way! It doesn't have to be a serious diary or a really studious study notebook, it can literally just be...a catch-all book and it is for no one but yourself to benefit from, so it doesn't have to look any which way. But it's very worthwhile, even if you later change your mind and don't convert, you'll still have all that spiritual exploration journaling and notes for yourself as part of your growth!
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i have absolutely zero tolerance for any deflection to discuss if it’s antisemitic to criticize israel. if i have to hold your hand and guide you that much through this extraordinarily simple world event then you are so far behind i don’t even rlly want to hear your thoughts. sit down, understand that hatred of israel is not hatred of judaism, understand that 90% of anti-zionists are fully aware that israel does not represent judaism and jewish people as a whole, and Listen for once. none of the criticism has anything to do with the religion of the ethnostate in question (israel). the criticism is with the fact that it IS an ethnostate and a settler colony carrying out a genocide in broad daylight. stop distracting the discussion and bringing everything to a grinding halt so people can gently guide you through ethics 101.
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there are at least four other nonbinary/gender diverse people who use they/them pronouns in my judaism 101 class and i'm so 🥺🥺🥺 my HEART i feel so SAFE
#judaism#cannot express how important this is to me#i'm so emotional actually???#the rabbi made special note of everyone's pronouns too
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hi there! im a trans person that's Jewish by blood but was not raised that way and i was hoping to ask some questions about where to learn about judaism (and general jewish culture) if that's ok!
to provide context: my great-grandparents were practicing Jews, but they stopped practicing and changed their names to escape attention during WW2, and, as far as we know, did not start practicing again until they were near-death in old age and revealed to my grandparents their jewish history.
this led to one of my closer family members to begin partially practicing judaism, but uh... in a way that i now know to be tied up with Zionism. when i got curious and asked about the culture and the history of our people, i got a whole bunch of Zionist rhetoric tied in, which i thought didnt sound awfully nice! this, tied in with them using Kabbalah to (falsely, ive discovered) justify some rather nasty takes about my gender identity and neurodivergence (such as. uh. neither of them existing) led to me deciding that i didnt want anything to do with the culture as a whole, thinking that that was all there was to it.
thanks to your blog, and others on tumblr, ive discovered that i have been incredibly wrong! and was simply unlucky with my One Connection to my culture, and i find that i resonate with some of the ideas i have seen really strongly?
so! i wanted to ask (and i must emphasise, only if it is not too much effort, I don't want to be a bother!) if you might know of any good online resources for beginners wanting to learn about Jewish culture and Judaism (And perhaps Kabbalah!) preferably without Zionist rhetoric, lol, because i think i may just want to reconnect with my culture after all.
thank you so much, even if it was just reading this, as ive wanted to just state it for a while <33
Wow, that's... a lot, to be sure.
My general basic recommendations for people looking for 101-level information is My Jewish Learning as well as the Union for Reform Judaism's Introduction to Judaism online classes. URJ has been trans-affirming as a movement since 2003 or 2004. There's also their whole Learning section, which has a lot!
Jewish Virtual Library has a lot of resources in it; it's run by AICE, so do with that what you will. Sefaria is also a huge virtual library of Jewish texts.
That said, Judaism is first and foremost a people and a culture, so I would actually highly recommend that you talk to a rabbi and see about attending an Intro to Judaism class near you. Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements are all trans-affirming; I've personally had my best experiences at a Reform shul and an independent shul.
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I’m Jewish by heritage but my family pretty much stopped being religious when I was really young and only really celebrates Hanukkah anymore, and I wanna get more connected to Judaism but don’t really know how to start, would it be worthwhile to look into resources aimed at people looking to convert to Judaism or???? Right now all I’ve got is trying to regain some of my shaky Hebrew knowledge via Duolingo lol
a good first step would be to reach out to a rabbi. find a synagogue near you that you like the vibe of and see if you can get a meeting. from there, the rabbi will probably be able to get you in a judaism 101 class, there will probably be other classes at the synagogue, usually a library, etc.
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As someone who is sympathetic to affirming theology, though still not entirely sure what to believe, and is also a fan of a lot of New Perspective and Paul Within Judaism (Mark D. Nanos for example) stuff and R. Kendall Soulen -- do you know of any Side A/pro-LGBT arguments that do not fall into supersessionism or which argue for it in a non-supersessionist way? I've looked but I've not really been able to find a lot. And it's something which worries me because a lot of the arguments seem to rest on an implicitly supersessionist framing.
Not sure if this makes sense -- thanks in advance for your reply! Have a wonderful day.
Hey there, thanks for the question! Facing and uprooting supersessionism and other forms of antisemitism within Christianity is a huge passion of mine. You might find some stuff related to your search in my #supersessionism tag or my #antisemitism tag.
(For anyone who's reading this and isn't sure what supersessionism is, in a nutshell it's the idea that Christianity supersedes Judaism, that Christ rendered Judaism obsolete, etc.; see my tag linked above for more.
Take the common rebuttal to homophobic Christians who quote Leviticus’ & Deuteronomy’s “a man shall not lie with a man,” etc.: “Yeah well, Leviticus also tells us not to eat shrimp, and a bunch of other nonsense!” That response, which requires mockery of the Torah that is still so vital to Jewish faith today, is antisemitic — as a Jewish person explains here.)
And ugh, it aggravates me to no end when Christians who think ourselves "progressive" and all that commit the same antisemitic bs that much of the Christian Church has committed for millennia now. We need to face our failings, and make things right.
Any argument that relies on antisemitism in order to uplift LGBTQA+ persons doesn't actually uplift us at all — it just makes us complicit. Thankfully, it is possible to affirm LGBTQA+ folk without throwing Jewish folks under the bus!
There is good news to be found in scripture for us! — real good news, news that not only tolerates but celebrates diversity of all sorts, including both diversity of gender & sexuality and diversity of faith.
The God of the oppressed, who responded to the cries of Hagar in the wilderness, of Joseph in prison, of the enslaved Hebrews in Egypt, of the exiles in Babylon, and on and on, is the same God who responds to the cries of oppressed persons today, including Jewish persons experiencing antisemitism and LGBTQA+ persons experiencing queerphobia. Any news that seems to be “good” for one oppressed group only by being bad news for another oppressed group, pits God’s own beloved against one another — and that’s not good news at all.
To me, finding the good news that lifts all oppressed persons up is both harder and easier than rebuttals like “well Leviticus is just ridiculous.” It’s complicated by the need for at least a little critical thinking and understanding of cultural context around the Bible — compared to the ease of throwing the whole “Old Testament” out as, well, “old outdated nonsense” like some arguments do, actually exploring the texts that comprise the Bible takes way longer.
But at the same time, the good news that uplifts all of us is in some ways not so hard to find — it’s the whole Bible’s very foundation, the overarching theme that breathes through scripture and gives it life. For every verse a person can pick out to support their hate, there are hundreds of other commanding love of stranger, delight in diversity, the upturning of the status quo.
For some examples of this good news that’s focused on the LGBTQA+ community and not (I hope) supersessionist, you might wander through my #affirmation tag.
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This is getting ramble-y lol — time to actually share some LGBTQA+ affirming Christian resources that either lack or explicitly combat supersessionism:
Now, I haven't read every single article over at the Queer Grace Encyclopedia, but the ones I have read seemed fine in this regard, while being a good site to begin with for brief "Affirmation 101" type articles — like this one, which makes the point I made a moment ago about needing to approach the Bible with cultural context in mind.
I also like to think that the two pages of my timeline of gender diversity that deal with scripture avoid supersessionism while exploring God’s good news for trans folk. If you do spot anything icky, I welcome correction.
Another great place to go is the Bible Bash podcast! Each episode explores a biblical passage through a queer lens. One of the co-hosts, Liam Hooper, is himself Jewish. (I will say that eeeevery now and then, I feel like one of the Christian co-hosts or guests will start moving towards what could quickly become supersessionism, but Liam always guides them back.)
Next, check out my post featuring affirming Christian books. I haven't read each of the books listed there in full, but to the best of my knowledge, none of them rely on supersessionist beliefs to make their points. The ones I can vouch for most confidently are:
OtherWise Christian by Chris Paige (this one explicitly confronts & uproots possible antisemitic readings! Chris is awesome; they’re a co-founder of Transfaith Online)
Queerfully & Wonderfully Made
Trans-forming Proclamation
Finally, if you like following people on social media to learn, some Twitter recs:
Lura Groen is one Christian whom I frequently see calling out antisemitism & supersessionism within progressive Christian spaces.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg also often tweets out educational information of this kind.
Same with Rabbi Ruti Regan.
#okay i ran out of steam at the end there so. the end!#supersessionism#issues in christianity#resources#long post
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