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✡️✨JEWS ARE INDIGENOUS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. PASS IT ON. ✨✡️

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When I say I yearn for the shtetl I don’t mean that I want to go live in the shtetl because that would be a disaster. I’m a soft butch lesbian that likes to take on male social roles. It wouldn’t work out for me. Not to mention the pogroms and persecution. But I’m mourning for the world that my great grandparents were born in to, the way my family lived for centuries, something that was lost and is no longer possible. That world is gone. The shtetl doesn’t really exist anymore and I can recognize what it was while also recognizing that it wasn’t all bad 24/7, that there were beautiful parts of my family’s culture in diaspora, that they were beautiful, with their specific ways of dress and community organization and living.

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G-d i love being Jewish. B"H !!

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Carrying the Torah in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, around 2000

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Kaunas Synagogue, Kaunas, Lithuania. [1872]

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wait no one tell them this is so funny

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So in light of having had to wiggle "O Come All Ye Faithful" out my ear in N o v e m b e r

I am dropping my official Oh Lawd The Xtians Are Coming playlist

Have you gotten Xmas music stuck in your head before you've even gotten to eat your turkey? Have your ears already been assaulted with the Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Jingle Bells or the most sacchrine, nasally kid version of Away in a Manager?

Here is your cure:

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Starbucks had Christmas music and their Christmas cups today so in honour of that here are some memes to celebrate the classic experience of being a Jew from November to December

I know it's early but cheshvan has no holidays and so yeah

Fuck it

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For people who claim that they're supporting indigenous rights, it's really weird when they bring in blood quantums, especially only with Ashkenazim.

Like why is it only that Ashkenazim are just Europeans and not "proper" jews.

Why not say Mizrahim are just middle eastern and not "proper" jews.

Why not say sephradim are just Mediterranean/Spanish/etc and not "proper" jews.

Why not say that jews from beta Israel are just African and not "proper" jews.

And the reason why this doesn't happen, and is only localized to Ashkenazim, is for two main reasons.

1. Calling jews white makes it easy to impose a western idea of colonized and colonzier, if you were to pull the same shit with other jews, it would mean that you're recognizing that ignoring that jew as an a ethnicity isn't white, that there are non white jews, and a lot of us.

2. If you apply the logic to all jews, it's a lot harder to say "I'm not antisemitic". If you boil down all jews to their sub/secondary/Dual ethnicity, you're are erasing the jewishness of all jews, because that's what it is when it's done to Ashkenazi jews.

And this is all ignoring that not all Ashkenazi jews are white or visibly white. Black Ashkenazi jews aren't super uncommon, plus there are plenty of Ashkenazim who do have European ancestors who just don't look white.

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i’m going to be visiting germany in december and i’m wondering if it will be safe for me to wear my yarmulke around while i’m there

does anyone have any insight on how safe it is to be visibly jewish there right now? i’ll be in dresden, berlin, and nürnberg in case that matters at all

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Dear God, did you have to send me news like that, today of all days? I know, I know we are The Chosen People, but once in awhile, can't you choose someone else?

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Torah Ark Curtain from Ottoman Turkey, 19th century

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Yehuda Pen (1853-1937), Russian and Soviet Jewish artist, teacher of Marc Chagall

Letter from America, 1903

Portrait of a Man, 1917

Talmudist, 1925

Old tailor, 1910

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What’s wrong babe?

You’ve barely lit your Hannupus

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The Or Torah Synagogue in Akko, Israel is Tunisian, and decorated floor to wall to ceiling with beautiful tiles from Italy. Gorgeous.

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baruch hashem for jewish people i love you guys

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Rabbi with a Prayer Shawl — Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921), Hungarian.