Let me ask you a question right back at you– what if it didn’t? Does that change how incredible and powerful it is? What if it didn’t quite happen the way that we have as recorded in Jewish tradition– does that mean that we should simply pack up our Hagadot and Matzah?
PJ
Metaphors? Emotional community gatherings? Traditional ritual experiences?
The co-opting of Jewish deaths in the Holocaust by the pro-gun movement and the cries of ‘never again’ in relation to gun control measures is frankly sickening. White Christians are not the new Jews. Your gun rights have nothing to do with the Holocaust. You are not oppressed.
i think the worst thing to come out of this site are the ‘NAZIS ARE TERRIBLE. they WILL KILL ALL JEWS in COLD BLOOD, LET THEIR FAMILIES DIE IN FRONT OF THEM, and start the HOLOCAUST 2.0!! also reblog to make a jew feel safe.’ formatted type posts
ways to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:
-let them celebrate their holidays openly around you and encourage them to express themselves religiously. if they invite you over for a holiday, go!! they’re making an effort to let you learn more about them.
-consider any different diets they might be on (ex. kosher or even if it’s passover) when you have them over at your house. a little goes a long way with this one
-if christmas is around חנוכה that year, feel free to send them a חנוכה card!! it’s not really as big of a holiday for us but we do appreciate the effort put into making us feel included 🙂
-educate any of your friends that might make antisemitic jokes. even ‘grammar nazi’ jokes. standing up for jewish people goes further than when theyre just around. antisemitism isnt something that only exists when a jew is in the room.
-understand that, if they practice judaism, their beliefs arent like yours, and that that’s ok! a lot of people forget that not everyone is either a christian or an atheist whenever the topic of religion comes up. (but also remember not every jew practices or believes in judaism!!)
-if they tell you to warn them before you talk about nazis, do it. It’s really easy just to give someone a heads up before you talk about people who want them dead, especially if they’re openly jewish or a holocaust survivor descendent.
ways NOT to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:
“NAZIS are EVIL. they will KILL ALL THE JEWS. that’s just BAD. they will MURDER EVERY SINGLE JEWISH FAMILY. NO JEW IS SAFE. anyway reblog to make a jewish person feel safe and loved 🤗”
also if you can goyim reblog. and if you’re jewish and want to add on feel free!
hey by ‘if you are a goy reblog if you can’ i meant ‘i highly encourage you to reblog this because i have seen too many posts that make me and other jewish people very uncomfortable and they are, to be honest, entirely surface level and exhausting to see over and over again. not only that, but they are also annoying to us because they dont make us feel safe at all, and reblogging posts about how bad nazis are isnt actual activism or showing real, substantial support for jews. if youre serious about being there for your jewish siblings actually take part in their lives. make sure they’re comfortable. make sure you make casual antisemitists uncomfortable. dont just reblog posts about hating nazis, your posts dont do shit. supporting your jewish friends by even doing something as simple as what i listed above does have an affect of us. your posts about you hating nazis mean absolutely nothing unless you care for and acknowledge Actual Jewish People’s problems and challenges. otherwise, they’re surface level bullshit and do not contribute whatsoever to improve our safety.’ 🙂 🙂 🙂
I hate those posts! I’m sorry but I find them so awful and performative. Maybe it’s because a goy told me that I probably never had any negative encounters with the altright when we were arguing and then I saw she had reblogged one of them a few posts down. To me what that says is she just reblogged it reflexively without taking the time to read it because otherwise she would’ve put two and two together and realized the absurdity of what she said.
I’m not saying anyone following me is a bad person for having reblogged them of course, just that I don’t particularly find them helpful.
I know people are always pulling this crap with “Hallelujah” but today I saw someone trying to argue that “You Want It Darker” was proof that Leonard Cohen believed in Jesus and I want to stab my eyes out tbh
WHY
Ah yes the song with a chorus of “hineini” aka literally a major part of both the high holiday musaf service and the story Abraham’s binding of Isaac, in the original Hebrew, makes sense
I think the more you learn about what people did on the regular in prehistory the more you become overwhelmingly filled with gratitude that you were born into the modern era and live in the 21st century
we may slowly die from radiation exposure and ingestion of micro plastics but I’ll take that over being killed three different ways and thrown in a bog or having to share a tiny brick house propped up by literal food refuse with the pickled brown remains of some apparent ancestor.
One thing I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older is how much of Judaism is a combination of thanking G-d that you are still alive and praying to G-d that all the many ways you could die as, say, a nomadic desert tribesman or a subsistence farmer in a Ukranian shtetl aren’t going to happen to you tomorrow.
I’m taking Spanish classes, and I think I’ve identified three kinds of Spanish words so far
1) It’s pronounced like in Italian, but it’s written differently
2) It’s written like in Italian, but it’s pronounced differently.
3) It fucking looks like French but has a completely different pronunciation.
So, basically, I’m confused but happy as fuck. I love Spanish.
How I picture Sara every time 1, 2 or 3 happen:
At least Spanish has rules of pronunciation (?)
Btw, I think this is why a native speaker of a romance language can read and understand the basic meaning of texts in other romance languages, but is totally or almost totally lost when it comes to understand someone speaking in those same languages.
Yes, thankfully Spanish does have pronunciation rules, and they’re not even that hard to remember. I still distractedly write gn instead of ñ from time to time, but I’m getting better at it.
Honestly, the funniest thing about these Spanish classes is how literally every one of us instinctively resorts to other foreign languages when struggling with Spanish. It’s like our brains collectively go: “Okay, I need to speak a foreign language, I’ve got this. Is it English? French?? Latin??? Oh fuck it”
I just realized your eyes must bleed when you see words like “ñoqui” or “capuchino” XD
I think number 3 was kicking in for me when I took both Spanish and French in the 9th grade. At first similarities between the two languages made learning two at once easier, but by the end of the year, I remember sometimes thinking of a word and not being able to remember which language it belonged to.
I had my Bat Mitzvah when I was first learning Spanish and I would keep pronouncing all the “j” sounds in Spanish words as “ch” like in Hebrew (that really guttural, throaty sound for people who don’t know) and then the other kids would look at me funny.
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