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I think it’s funny when people get mad about us “abusing loopholes” and trying to “trick G-d”

Isn’t it more offensive to insinuate that G-d left those loopholes there accidentally? That He didn’t think through His mitsvot before He gave them to us?

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reblog because I'm jewish so my followers are jewish and we all know the answer so I need non-jewish people to do the thing

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Or hey, you can connect it to Tu Bish’vat by saying “You can honor this holiday by donating to help plant olive trees”

There was a way to do this that was not antisemitic, but Jew-hatred is the easiest route 🙄

I'm scheduling this for after Tu Bishvat is over cuz fuck @bringmemyrocks you for ruining my tree day fun

so, things to say about this:

1) good job turning Tree Day into a political discourse, taking our culture and making it about Palestinians. definitely not cultural appropriation at all.

2) Olives have been a major significance in Jewish culture. the story of Noah's arc with the dove carrying an olive branch, the Miracle of Hanukkah with the jug of olive oil that lasted for 8 days, and the countless references to them in the Torah. they're a symbol of peace, prosperity and life in Judaism.

3) there's an ongoing debate on wether the Jerusalem Pine is an invasive species or not, it is spreading over some areas of Israel and is an ongoing concern, but there's no practice of planting them deliberately. I have no idea where you got this from.

4) it's not "Jewish Arbor day", it's much more than that. it's a day of ecological awareness, agricultural celebration, and appreciation of local harvest. it's THE BIRTHDAY OF THE TREES. we celebrate the 7 species, listed in the Torah as the special products of Israel (as in, our local specialties).

אֶ֤רֶץ חִטָּה֙ וּשְׂעֹרָ֔ה וְגֶ֥פֶן וּתְאֵנָ֖ה וְרִמּ֑וֹן אֶרֶץ־זֵ֥ית שֶׁ֖מֶן וּדְבָֽשׁ

aka: land of are wheat and barley, and grape and fig, and pomegranates, olive oil, and [date] honey.

we're celebrating our local produce. We've had a local holiday for environmental awareness for thousands of years.

you could have talked about that charity without spreading disinformation, and without bringing up our fucking holiday. good day to you.

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Imam just fatally shot in new jersey. Are muslims allowed to be scared or is that exclusively your forte?

Yeah no of course Muslims are allowed to be scared in the US. Muslims tend to face equal rates of hate crimes in the US as Jews per capita. This blog has always stood against Islamophobic hate when it’s come up.

I don’t know how many times I’ve got to say this but. Just because this blog is focused on combatting antisemitism specifically doesn’t mean that I don’t care about plights and horrors that aren’t being covered.

It’s just really interesting to me that not once have I been accused of racism for not covering anti-Black crimes. Not once have I been accused of being pro-genocide for not covering the conflicts in Congo or Sudan. Not once have I been accused of supporting paedophila because I’m not doing a day-by-day breakdown of the Epstein case.

I only get comments like that from antisemitic anti-Zionists who think that a Jew on the internet detailing antisemitism and hypocrisy must somehow be fundamentally detrimental to Muslims. Of course Muslims in America should be scared. Of course Palestinians should be scared. Muslims living around the world have ample cause to be scared right now.

Saying that Jews are scared right now has never meant that we’re taking away others rights to fear. More than one group can be scared at a time. I’m simply staying in my lane and focusing on the fear that my community experiences because this is Jewish Sideblog, not a current events class or a news network.

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You can care about multiple things. Talking about one thing does not mean you don’t care about anything else.

if your blog is nothing but posts combatting antisemitism, and absolutely nothing in the atrocities being committed by israel, please explain how it’s unfair to assume you don’t actually care about the palestinian genocide. you see, when most people care about a cause, they actually talk about it and bring awareness to it

The situation in Gaza has been trending on tumblr and every other social media site consistently for three months. Most major news networks are at least covering the ICJ case and the Houthi strikes this week. Public awareness of situation in Gaza is so high that it’s clearly influencing polling for the US presidential election. Herit/ageposts has basically been talking about it 24/7, complete with an antisemitic rehash of The Crucible. Their posts tend to get tens or hundreds of thousands of notes.

Meanwhile, there are like. Ten blogs on this website that are actively contributing to combatting antisemitic misinformation. We might get 10k notes on a more successful post. Mostly we get slurs and death threats.

Right now there are major conflicts ongoing in Sudan, Syria, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Somalia. Do you care for the thousands of people that have died in those conflicts in the last sixteen days? Have you been consistently posting about them and bringing attention to them? There was a mass shooting at an American high school just last week. Did you make a post about it? Or do you not care about the three children who died? Will your reblog bring them back?

The situation in Gaza is, by leaps and bounds, the conflict with the most awareness in the world right now. There is not a single person who follows this blog who is not aware of what is happening. Jews are sheltering from the thousands of missiles being fired at soft targets from Gaza, or we are in the diaspora, getting hate crimed for a conflict we have no control over. How much more awareness would you like us to have? And what exactly do you expect that awareness to solve? Slacktivism will not save lives.

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If anon hates converts so much, they should take it up with G-d.

Respectfully, from someone who is jewish.. You are born jewish. You cannot "Convert" its insulating to jewish families. If you could "Convert" My family would have to have not been put in a concentration camp.

You are born Jewish. Like how you are born Gay, Trans, white or black. You cannot convert to Jewish.

I'm going to tag jumblr in this post because L + ratio + ur wrong and the vast majority of jews accept converts + jews always come to back me up when someone says something like this.

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Huh. I’ve never really encountered this before — likely because many of my friends growing up were second or third generation atheists, as was I (before I became religious). I’m sorry to anyone who’s experienced this; it sounds like it sucks.

Many conversations about atheism don't consider the existence of the second generation atheist, let alone more. Atheism is almost universally framed as some kind of personal rejection of one's upbringing, culture, family, and/or society, to one degree or another. There is not much widespread awareness of the fact that some atheists were raised that way.

But second generation and more atheists already exist, and as open atheists grow as a demographic, for more and more of them the answer to "Why are you an atheist?" is not going to be a long, involved story of self discovery or a bitter rejection, a principled decision or a sharp retort, but simply "Well, that's how my family was." Does your concept of atheism account for their existence?

How does the concept of children being raised by atheist parents make you feel? If it makes you feel uncomfortable, or like the children are missing out on something, you may need to unpack that. What responsibilities do you feel that atheist parents have to their children's religious education, and do you apply those same standards to religious parents? If you find yourself with a double standard, ask yourself if the higher one or the lower one is more reasonable to apply broadly.

The big question here is this: do you consider atheism to be an idea that can be held independently, or a solely reactive concept?

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L’chah Dodi was probably my first favourite, something I’d look forward to every Friday night. I really like the upbeat melodies my synagogue uses, so L’chah Dodi and V’shamru are always very powerful for me.

A couple weeks ago, it was thundering while we were saying Mizmor L’David, which was an awesome experience. It’s definitely become special to me, particularly because my understanding of G-d is very linked to sound/vibrations.

Man, it’s tough to pick just one! Can I just say all of Friday evening services?

Jews of Tumblr, what's your favorite prayer/bracha? This can be specific or a category (like the food brachot for example).

Personally I recently started saying the modeh ani and I really like having that moment of gratitude to start the day with. Something so simple like waking up is something we tend to take for granted and I love how the modeh ani allows a moment of reflection about how wonderful it really is to be able to wake up.

Goyim do not respond. Those in the conversion process are welcome.

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“What is this.” It’s antisemitism.

Well… it’s…. Not…. Yiddish…. Then…. When Jews came to Europe we spoke Aramaic and Hebrew and we had to learn European languages… Yiddish/Ladino etc all formed because Jewish people learned new languages but kept traces of our previous languages. Yiddish originated in the Rhine valley about 1000 CE. You’re not “Boycotting” Israel by refusing to learn a language that has Hebrew influence bc it was first spoken by Jewish ppl. What is this.

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This time of year is always very nostalgic for me bc I used to be the Token Gentile at an office and every few months there'd be a Jewish holiday and my friend would be like "Hey, I need you to do Gentile things for us" and I'd be like hell yes dude. Gentile Things often meant I'd sign things in exchange for a few dollars on venmo but Pesach was a special time for me because it meant everyone gave me boxes of pasta, cereal, and other baked goods. The first time my friends were like "Hey for reasons we won't bother getting into we're going to give you all of our bread" I was like, it is a powerful responsibility but as an Ally I cannot refuse. Best time of the year, frankly

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Various Purim memes for ya'll:

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bdsm enjoyers r onto something. i think we should incorporate aftercare into just hanging out. i need a buddy to hold me and say “that was really fun and you seemed normal”

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What I love about Jewish ritual objects is how....for so many of their productions, they just *can't* be automated. Even aside from Halakha, the details for some just *have* to be done by human hand. A machine can weave the fabric for a Tallit, but it can't tie the Tzizit correctly. A Shofar can't be made by a machine because each horn is shaped ever so differently with different textures. Kosher food can be mass-produced but only a human can ensure that it's Kosher, and a Jewish person *has* to turn on the ovens. A Mezuzah and a Torah and Tefillin can't be machine printed, they *have* to be written by a Sofer.

I just love how we emphasize the human involvement in our objects.

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love hearing folks talk about how they chose their hebrew names because it ranges from “i had it picked out before i even started the formal process” to “i had no idea until 2 hours before my mikveh”

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So over on Reddit this happened:

And collectively everyone was like: hey we love this tiny child, please do take him to a public candle lighting and show him the Rugrats special and here's our fave chanukah kids books and some songs and play a little dreidel and here's some kindergartner activities you can printout or color, also through the power of Jewish geography here's a potentially nearby Jewish bakery with sufganiyot stocked up for him, and also a recipe for if you want to sneak veggies into some latkes.

He's five and has permission. ADORABLE.

(and don't mind me wanting to cry because this was me at age 5 and now I'm Jewish lol)

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Yesterday I kept checking in w my roommate about the differences between gentile bernie memes and zayde bernie memes