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Jewish culture is picking up English books backwards

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Jewish culture is ‘The Good Guys and the Bad Guys’, from The Return of Captain Invincible. Not just because it’s Alan Arkin’s solo, but because the lyrics.

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jewish culture is being scared shitless

jewish culture is being scared shitless together

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Jewish culture is yearning for Israel even though you know you'll probably never be able to go

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Jewish culture is dressing up in your mother's tichels and your dad's kippas as children

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Jewish Culture is seeing my very baby little brother putting a kipah on his head, trying to copy our dad and grandpa, and trying not to cry about the l’dor v’dor of it all

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Jewish culture is resenting your ancestors’ decision to hide their Jewishness from their children after leaving their old countries. Effectively cutting us all off from the faith and culture to protect them. But after the past 15 months, you finally fucking GET IT!

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jewish culture is waking up to get ready for school and debating whether or not it's safe enough to wear your yarmulke that day

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Jewish culture is being determined to find Jewish headcanons anywhere and everywhere. Is there any actual reason to believe this character might possibly be Jewish? No. Also no evidence that Judaism (or any other real-world religion) exists in this setting. However, I would like to present the argument that I Like Them, And Therefore,

check out @jewsinfandoms !

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Ethnically-Jewish-but-following-a-different-religion culture is having the same problems as the secular jew about having to justify your existence to religious jews who keep telling you youre doing your ethnicity wrong, but without being able to use the term secular jew, because you're not secular, you're religious, just not for Judaism.

(Also depending on what that other religion is it might also be constantly having to explain that, no, I am not a Messianic Jew. I may be both a Jew and a Christian, but they are a separate thing and we don't claim them.)

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jewish culture is having a wild ass family tree and ethnicity

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jewish culture is having whole family debates about literally anything

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Jewish culture is the Sunday morning bagel shop

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Jewish culture is being 12 years old and very carefully following your mom's directions as she teaches you how to check for bloodspots in eggs for the first time

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Jewish culture is saying 'gam tzu ltova' even when all you see around you is hate

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Jewish culture is trying to find peace and love within you for goys, but finding nothing but anger and sadness and hatred

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Jewish culture is not knowing whether or not to say Shabbat Shalom to the person selling you challah on a Saturday

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