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my heart 😭💔

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i am so tired of the “most jews in israel are jews of COLOR. MIZRAHIM ARENT WHITE BUT ASHKENAZIM AREEE” nonsense.

if we are talking complexion, do you know how many sephardim and mizrahim are blond and redheaded and pale skinned? meanwhile how many ahskenazim are darker?

like lbr: our brothers the samaritans have pale hair and skin and also darker hair and skin and they were never dispersed by oppressors. they dont all look one way (and neither do arabs or assyrians or persians or kurds or yazidis or any other BROADER middle eastern group, the levant and arabia included.)

also look at oded fehr as an example of an ashkenazi jew who looks what people would assume as “mizrahi.”

this narrow minded understanding of skin color and ethnicity needs to change in our community. it doesnt help us. we all come from the same place: judea. diaspora affected many of us in numerous ways. we need to foster nuance and complexity and realize that skin color has nothing to do with ethnicity.

stop creating more disunity by treating ashkenazim as something they never were in the first place: white.

signed, a sephardic jew.

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not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

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I feel an obligation to do justly in the world where I can, not because I believe in G-d, but because I feel that G-d believes in me.

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i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

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saw a cute hat pattern on Ravelry, went to check it out... you can only get the pattern if you show proof to the designer that you donated to UNRWA.

nothing is fucking safe, and i'm so fucking sick of these ~leftist activists~ simping for fucking terrorist groups. you're a bad person. no nuance needed. you fucking suck.

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So today I watched this interview with the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and they demonstrate the phenomenon "space ship acting"

and they all go

and it just cracks me up, ESPECIALLY Sir Patrick Stewart

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Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

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being in a long-term committed loving relationship with a neurodivergent person, as someone very much neurotypical, has been a beautiful exercise in both humility and communication

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I need less religious content on my dash where are all my secular jews at

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A group of far-future linguists and archeologists suddenly *poof* into existence in front of me. One is holding a tablet. "What is the difference between 'red sauce' and 'tomato sauce?'" they ask me. "The distinction is not clear in extant texts from this time and place."

"Uh, they're the same thing," I tell them. "Who are you?"

"Yes!" the being with the tablet exclaims.

One of the other researchers groans. "No! My thesis...months of writing wasted..." One of the others comforts them.

"Now, what is this object for?" The first researcher holds up a discolored, dinged-up plastic object. It's clearly been buried in the ground for quite some time, but the two holes and the scuffed plastic window are distinctive.

"That's a cassette tape. You record music with it."

"Interesting, interesting." The being enters something on the tablet.

"How are you speaking English?"

"Sophisticated translation technology," one of the researchers confides. "We are students of your society. From the future."

"What does this pictogram represent?" The researcher with the tablet turns it around so that the screen faces me.

It's the eggplant emoji.

"Sex," I say. "Why do you need to ask me this if you can time travel or whatever? Can't you just go wherever you want to go and look around and see how these things are being used?"

The beings shift guiltily and look at each other. "Technically, travel to times and places prior the advent of time travel is strictly prohibited. Paradoxes, you know."

"Oh."

"We must be get back before our advisor returns to the lab. Just don't tell anyone you saw us, alright? The space-time continuity depends on it. Can you do that?"

"Uh, sure, I guess?"

One of them pats me on the head. "And don't go to Mars."

"Okay. Wait, why? Is it dangerous?"

"No. Just not worth it."

The group disappears in a shimmering light.

The cassette clatters to the sidewalk behind them.

Out of befuddlement, mainly, I pick it up. It's clearly old, discolored and scuffed, but it still has tape in it.

I carry the tape around in my pocket for a while. The curiosity builds. I want to know what's on that tape. I don't have a cassette player anymore, so I go to Goodwill and pick up the first one I can find, praying that it still works. I plug it in. It turns on.

I slide the tape inside. It's dirty, but it still seems to be in decent shape. I snap the player closed and hit play. The wheels begin to turn. I hold my breath.

A familiar tune starts up. A wobbly voice comes out of the machine.

We're no strangers to love

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I’m sick of the Hamantaschen debate!

“It’s Haman’s hat!”

“No it’s his ears!”

“Actually it’s his pockets”🤓

WRONG! It’s his pussy you cowards!!

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i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."

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every so often, i think, and it might be so selfish of me, but i crave to be someone's first choice. i want to be the person that someone sees fun things to do and their first thought is to ask me to go with them. i want someone to be willing to inconvenience themselves a little bit sometimes for me as i would do for them. i want to be looked at in a list of people and to have someone pick me out of all of them. i want to be held at the same level as a romantic partner in terms of effort and closeness. i want someone to want me as much as i want them, even though it's not in a romantic sense. i want to be important to someone.