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We’d love to highlight a few of them as we get closer to the challenge!
(Check out our blog to learn more about Days of Awesome, and follow for updates!)
Calling all Jewish fans, and and fans of Jewish characters!
Very excited to announce that Days of Awesome–a Jewish High Holiday ficathon originally launched in 2007, and which ran from 2007-2013, is back–just in time to kick-off the Hebrew year of 5781!
What is Days of Awesome?
Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.
Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.
We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!
How It Works
This year, we’re keeping it really casual.
We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (September 17, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 17)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!
You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!
And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.
What are the requirements for fic?
The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.
If they’re canonically Jewish–great!
If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.
If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games,or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.
If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.
Questions?
We are here to help!
Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]
And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!Just wanted to ping this again, for anyone who may not have seen it yesterday!
I am so excited to be able to bring @daysofawesome back, y’all!
Participating in @purimgifts (which is another great exchange–you should def check them out if you haven’t!), the past several years, has got me thinking about how important it is–on a really genuine non-superficial real-life-and-not-just-fandom-life level–that we are conscious of whose points of view we center in fanworks.
This is not a moral judgement by any means, but partly as a result of my participating in purimgifts, I realized that there was something very real in my experience of a lot of fandoms in which I, a woman, have been conditioned to see interiority in certain characters–(mostly male characters, for instance, until I found Steven Universe!)–than in others.And this surely had real world effects! Whose was I conditioned to see interiority was I conditioned to see more easily?
In addition to just being really fun–and it is supposed to be! I love seeing all the Jewish fics pop up every years with purimgifts, and I’m hoping for something similar here too!–Days of Awesome is an attempt to make sure that we’re able to center the interiorities of some of these Jewish characters, when so often in media they or their Jewishness is tokenized or brushed off just as comic relief.
(I wrote a post about this re: purimgifts a few years ago, if anyone is interested!)
If you’re interested in Days of Awesome, please follow @daysofawesome for updated!
Calling all Jewish fans, and and fans of Jewish characters!
Very excited to announce that Days of Awesome–a Jewish High Holiday ficathon originally launched in 2007, and which ran from 2007-2013, is back–just in time to kick-off the Hebrew year of 5781!
What is Days of Awesome?
Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.
Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.
We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!
How It Works
This year, we’re keeping it really casual.
We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (September 17, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 17)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!
You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!
And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.
What are the requirements for fic?
The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.
If they’re canonically Jewish–great!
If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.
If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games,or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.
If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.
All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.
Questions?
We are here to help!
Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]
And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!
Sword of David Pendant ⚔️
From a sketch to a wax model to nearly a sterling silver pendant, this design has come a long way! So excited for it to actually be a necklace soon :)
Sword Magen David ⚔️
also made a trans version! this is my original design (I am a trans jew) and was made to represent the Star of David and the strength of the Jewish people.
will be available as a necklace soon so stay tuned :)
Hey Jewish side of Tumblr - can you sing the amidah in harmony, or is that a no-no?
New Jewish Youth is a zine meant to help the Jewish youth of today forge connections with Judaism that go beyond the typical modes of Zionism, consumerism, and religious orthodoxy.
The next issue of New Jewish Youth will focus on the recent resurgence of Fascist ideology throughout the world and on Jewish activism–present and past, in the Unites States and globally. The current moment is a crucial time for organizing and fighting back. We hope to highlight the current struggles, analyze the conditions and strategies, and draw insight from the past.
As always, we seek a wide variety of content, from non-fiction writing to poetry, art, and photography. From frontline protest reports to information about how to find groups and get organized. From the personal to the impersonal. Submissions are due by April 30, 2017 and can be emailed to [email protected]. Please email with any questions or requests for help.
I’m trying to keep this blog focused on positive Jewish things, because at least my dash is so clogged with antisemitism-related posts right now, and I just wanna spread some happiness, you know? On that note… Jewish positivity thread, anyone? A happy Jewish thing I recently saw was a local kosher establishment where the plastic cover on the mezuza on the door was half worn-away from all of the people going in, touching it, and kissing their fingers.
Lubavitch Israeli children playing with a horse and cart at a farm in Kfar Chabad, May 1960.
Paul Schutzer The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, German, 1800–1882.Shavuot (Pentecost) (Das Wochen- oder Pfingst-Fest), 1880. Oil on canvas. (71 × 60.7 cm)
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The Pines familyakaStan, Ford, Dipper, and Mable Pinesfrom:Gravity Falls is Jewish!
Submitted by @godlymoss
Dan Dreiberg aka Nite OwlII from: Watchmen is Jewish!
submitted by: @rorschachen
