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during rosh hashanah services yesterday one of the little kids kept shouting out 'TEK-YAH' after the shofar blasts to try and make them blow it again and it was soooo cute i love the babies at shul aaaaa

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Shanah tovah!!! May 5785 be filled with sweet wishes, everlasting hope, and peaceful blessings. 🍎🍯✡️

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- get offered job interview

- on rosh hashanah, ask for alternative interview date

- 'we apologise that we cannot offer an interview on [requested date], but can offer the following date'

- yom kippur

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'oh my friend complimented you when we were hanging out the other day!'

haha cool!

'yeah they said they didnt realise you were trans!'

oh

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Oddish! 🫐🌱

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i’m actually curious about this so:

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not v traditional but im so glad my friday evenings are now ttrpg nights. no screens (for me anyway). bring in shabbos and then hang with friends in person in the moment. blessed

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Antique hamsa amulets from Tunisia 🪬

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kippot really are the perfect crochet project like

- easy, come together quickly, v satisfying

- stash buster - you got scrap yarn? thats a kippah baby! one skein makes a bunch of em!

- super customisable (solid colour? stripes? themed around something? the sky is the limit!)

- grounding and meditative to think about the intention behind making/wearing

i love making kippot thanks for coming to my ted talk

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Mariage: Le Bedeken (left) and Le Bezetzen (right), Mané-Katz 1966

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getting incredibly nervous about the talmud study intensive im going to next week i never do stuff on my own really and im travelling seven hours to spend a five days with people ive never met! out of character. wild.

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I hate that thing some people do where it's like. "I left my wallet on the table to see if you'd say anything" or "I wanted to see if you'd wash the car if I stopped doing it"

Cause like

I dont know about anyone else

But I am perpetually hovering three inches above the strong subconscious belief that everyone knows what they're doing at all times except me, so if you change your normal patterns and I notice, then I will assume it is an intentional choice with a thought-out plan behind it and I will avoid interfering

And if I don't notice, because I won't, because why would I, because not much bothers me and if you don't say anything to indicate you are bothered then how would I KNOW

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I’d been meaning to make a rec list for a while, but now I’m finally getting around to it! I’ve read or started to read most of the books on this list, and I own 95% of them. If I haven’t read it, but someone has recommended it to me, I’ve included it. I know that there are books I’ve read or have been meaning to read that aren’t on here because my memory is shit and I never write anything down. Titles link to Goodreads.

An asterisk (*) indicates a book I haven’t read yet. A pound sign (#) indicates a book I haven’t read yet, but which others have recommended. A tilde (~) indicates a book I’m in the process of reading and would recommend up to the current point (aka “I don’t know if this book has a terrible second half, but so far it’s good”). Italics indicate a personal favorite.

Fiction:

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem

The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer * 

The Golden Dreydl by Ellen Kushner

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth #

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ~

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok #

The Instructions by Adam Levin

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant #

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar 

The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer ~

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (I might not have included this one except that a friend whose opinion I trust absolutely loved it.) 

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss #

The Doverkeepers by Alice Hoffman *

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks *

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker #

The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern *

Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman 

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch 

The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer #

Moving Waters by Racelle Rosett *

The World to Come by Dara Horn

Maus: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegleman (Shoah tw)

Nonfiction:

The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate by Ruth Fredman Cernea

Boychiks In the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground by Robert Eisenberg

The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner 

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs (Jacobs is Jewish, but spends half the book following Jewish traditions and the other half following Christian traditions, just as a note.) 

Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant (also would rec “Choosing a Jewish Life” for converts, etc)

Gonzo Judaism: a Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith by Niles Goldstein

New American Haggadah edited by Jonathan Safran Foer (lovely design and dual translation)

Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion by Michael Levy

O Jerusalem! Day By Day and Minute By Minute, the Historic Struggle For Jerusalem and the Birth of Israel by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre #

Inside Israel: The Faiths, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World’s Holiest Land by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi #

The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone ~

The Rabbi’s Daughter by Reva Mann #

Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue by Susan Grossman ~

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Rich Cohen #

25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin

1000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life by Linda Cohen

Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal by E.M. Broner

My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachael Naomi Remen

Jewish Literacy by Joseph Telushkin (this is more of a “skim when you want to” kind of resource book, rather than a narrative.) 

Born to Kvetch: Yidish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex *

The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems From Antiquity to the Present by Shirley Kaufman

The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond by Ben G. Frank #

Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area by Fred Rosenbaum *

Blood Relation by Eric Konigsberg *

Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero by Simcha Weinstein #

Mandarins, Jews, And Missionaries: Jewish Experience In The Chinese Empire by Michel Pollak *

The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia by Hagar Salamon *

Cookbooks:

The Holiday Kosher Baker by Paula Shoyer

The Joy of Kosher by Jamie Geller (seriously, I have never made a recipe from this book and had it come out anything other than absolutely delicious)

Classic Italian Jewish Cooking by Edda Servi Machlin

The Foods of Israel Today by Joan Nathan

Feel free to add others! 

Tagging shiraglassman and newlyjewly​, re: the “books” ask.

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my partner found this in a charity shop for me! building the library

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my hebrew study group is taking a break from meeting for august and ive been too busy to sit down for a study session because life has been hectic but its quiet at work so i printed off a section of this weeks portion to translate and i can feel my soul mending in real time actually

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L'Yom Vayom: A Jewish TTRPG

The Complete Edition of L'Yom Vayom, my TTRPG about being Jewish, has just been released! You can grab it at the link below:

Please note that the rules require that the MC be Jewish. Please also note that it might be a pretty tough game to play.

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A worn birkat hamazon (grace after meals) booklet I used to keep in my wallet.