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Quarantined Jews make do
(Yes… that is a dog bone )
Women Of The Torah: Sarah / שָׂרָה
Never Forget.
Never Again.
Wine pitcher with plater, yiddish incription, Galicia, 1870s
Seder plates by Paul Küchler, Bohemia, 1875-1930(?)
Passover cups, Bohemia, 1900s
Home protection amulet and Mizrah plaque by Akiva Hass, Ukraine, Lviv, 1920s
being the only jew in a group of people is either unreservedly hilarious or endlessly frustrating
on the flip side, being in a group of all jews and one singular goy is alwayshilarious
achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily:
He’s so grumpy because he was bit by a dog
It’s back and it’s better
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Last Day!
If you live in the US and want to pre-order a deck at the Kickstarter price of $36 (plus shipping) – today is the last day to do it!
PRE-ORDER TODAY!
If you don’t live in the US, and want to pre-order – direct message or email me ([email protected]). I can’t do the full pre-order for outside US because I don’t know the final shipping price, and I don’t want you to pay too much. Non-US residents can reserve a deck at the $36 by just letting me know to add them to the list.
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What’s in a Name? Jewish Names, Naming Rituals, and What Can Affect Them | Sefaria
From the Online Tikkun Leil last year (2021/5781).
4th Online Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Discord) (2022 / 5782)
Shavuot is June 4-6, 2022 / 6-7 Sivan 5782!
I’ve done a thing with a Discord server for the past few years for an Online Tikkun Leil Shavuot, and it’s happening again! We’re a small to medium sized server with most activity occurring around Shavuot.
Read here about what a Tikkun Leil Shavuot is.
Dates and potential times
Evening of Saturday, June 4 – early morning of Sunday, June 5. More specific times to come depending on presenter availability and number of workshops. (Past times have been anywhere from 8 pm - 2 am US Eastern; typical amount of workshops 2-3.)
Past topics have included:
- Does it spark joy? A discussion of what brings us joy in Judaism
- Making mistakes, executive dysfunction, and disabled aspects of Gd
- Radical self-compassion for Jews in a plague
- The concept of scattered souls and spirituality in Judaism
- A set of assorted mini-discussion topics
- What’s in a name?
- Polyamory and Judaism
Archived posts on past online TLS sessions here.
Are you interested in presenting or attending?
Please reblog this post or reply to it and I can contact you with the link / ability to direct message me (I have messaging turned off for people I don’t follow on all my Tumblrs, as a general rule)! Or, send me an ask.
Topics should be accessible, inclusive, and ideally not require extensive Hebrew reading ability, as we don’t usually have a lot of sessions to choose from.
I currently have a couple discussions in progress around workshop hosting and will probably run one myself.
Alright so, I’m really baffled by this, but are mezuzah necklaces actually a thing? I saw several on Amazon while I was looking for a new Magen David necklace for my daughter, and it smells like Messianic bullshit willful misinterpretation to me, but…I don’t know…
Hello all,
I know I’ve been slow to reply and reticent as of late, and I’m so very sorry.
In meat space things have gotten difficult. My sister was tossed off a draft horse, and I was diagnosed with “severe depression.” (The quotes are to indicate accuracy, not sarcasm.)
So I’m slow, and I apologize. I will get to you all.
Be well. Drink your water. Take your meds.
I’m proud of you.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
11 million+ murdered. Jews, Roma, Sinti, the disabled, queer folks (mostly homosexual men), Soviet POWs, Slavs, political prisoners…
It seems so long ago. It wasn’t. My great aunts were there, my grandmother (z”l) was there. This happened in the modern world, in living memory.
Stand up. Fight back. Never forget. Never again.
Why should I care about you? You don’t care about how atheists are mistreated and instead just lump us in with Christians.
Why should I fight for you when you wouldn’t do the same for me?
This really is a masterclass in Western Athiest morality. All the righteous fury of an evangelical and the rootless nihilism of Western Capitalism. Maybe you don’t care about the Jews or the other groups the Nazis would kill, but think about this: a Nazi takeover would almost assuredly delay or cancel the next Marvel/Star Wars/Harry Potter movie. That’s enough to get every Western atheist in America forming militias right there
Again why should I care about anyone that doesn’t care about me? Op would gladly watch me die. She already doesn’t care about atheists getting killed all over the world.
Wow, leave the internet for a couple of days to handle things in meat space, and people start saying exactly what they mean. Good to know. I should try that at work.
Dude, I have no problem with atheists. I genuinely do not care if you believe in a deity or not. I never have. And, as I have mentioned, multiple times, atheists also can face persecution in various countries to include my own. To use a phrase common in my day job: what evidence do you have?
However:
1) An atheist raised in a Christian hegemonic country is still inculcated with Christian worldviews and culture whether they themselves are Christian or not.
2) Structures built under Christian hegemony disadvantage, on a systemic level, people with minority religious cultures (including those that are atheist) to a greater degree than others. Including other atheists.
3) To equate the non-systemic oppression of individual atheists in the west to the Holocaust, which resulted in the death of 11 million people regardless of faith (at the hands of an officially secular state no less), shows you for who you really are. It’s amazing how many fascists wear leftist hats these days.
I’ve never wished harm on atheists of any cultural background, I simply point out how much of the culture of the west is steeped in Christianity. Your discomfort with acknowledging that says nothing about me.
I am willing to entertain a fair amount of debate, but debate with those who “don’t care” about the Holocaust (which, again, murdered 11 million people) because they dislike one Jew? No. Get the fuck out. Enjoy the block, it’ll begin in one hour to give you time to read this. And don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, the door doesn’t deserve that.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
11 million+ murdered. Jews, Roma, Sinti, the disabled, queer folks (mostly homosexual men), Soviet POWs, Slavs, political prisoners…
It seems so long ago. It wasn’t. My great aunts were there, my grandmother (z”l) was there. This happened in the modern world, in living memory.
Stand up. Fight back. Never forget. Never again.
Let me try one, let me try one:
“What is Western Secularism if not Christianity persevering?”
What the fuck are you talking about asshole?
Pretty much exactly what it says. Western culture, even “secular” western culture, was built by Christian hegemony.
And yeah, I saw your asinine ask.
I’m in no mood. Fucking jagweed.
You know you’re old when:
We were talking about Abraham and Sarah, as we like to work Jewish stories into our kiddo’s (S) education.
S: But that was a long time ago? Jewish people have been here a long time?
Me: Yeah, a really long time ago. Jewish people have been here for thousands of years.
S: Okay, so a Long time. Like the 80’s?
Me:
Apparently I’m peers with Abraham and Sarah. Good to know.
So, I’m Jewish now, but I was raised a southern Christian. The last vestiges of that culture are in speech - mainly bless your heart, but sometimes others.
Tonight, as I could see my Jewish 7 year old daughter being internally tempted to do something that would cause her harm. I quickly said (but not for the first time) “Don’t, babe, that’s the devil talking.”
Her, dissuaded but confused: “What?”
Me: “Sorry, devils are something Christians believe in. We don’t believe they’re real.”
Her: “But they are real.”
Now, this was alarming, but not too alarming - my daughter is still at that age where fantasy sometimes blends with reality (’are you really sure unicorns are’t real?’), and she has Christian friends. So I reiterated, “No, honey- Christians believe in, but Jews don’t.”
“No, Mom, listen, they’re real. They’re an animal. They live in Tasmania. I saw it on Wild Kratts.”Y’all.
My 7 year old Jewish baby thought that when I said “That’s the devil talkin” that I meant there was a Tasmanian Devil that whispers in your brain to try and get you to ruin your life.
Real life anecdotes
S is a bit older now, but…I’m still laughing about this. And yes, they still don’t know what the Christian devil is.
So, I have a small human progeny (S) that is into Minecraft. S went into a Old West Minecraft world and this happened:
S: /finds a church with stained glass windows
S: Oh, look! A synagogue!
Me: Oh?
S: Yeah! It has stained glass windows and…
S: /looks around, brow furrows
S: Why is the bima weird? And why are there wood Ts everywhere?
S: /begins chopping down crosses while humming
S: I’m sure whoever built this did their best, they were just confused. I’ll fix it.
