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As Halloween approaches, I’ve been seeing many very talented makeup artists recreate the face of the bride in Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride.” I thought this would be a good oppertunity to make some art and remind one and all that the “The Corpe Bride” (known in some tellings as “The Finger” or “The Demon in the Tree”) is a beloved Jewish folktale. Folklorist Howard Schwartz traces the orgins of “The Finger” to 16th century Levant. Aftrer hundreds of years of retelling, the story, like all folktales, has undergone many iterations and also became highly informed by the violence of life in the Pale of Settlement (specifically towards women and young brides).

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Jewish female class, Romny, Poltava Governorate (now Sumy Oblast), 1880-1900s

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yeah of course me and my mutuals are besties. no, we haven’t ever talked, why would you even think that?

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The way settlers trying to be allies talk about Native genocide like it worked always gets on my fucking nerves to be honest. We're still here. Just because YOU were never taught about what happened doesn't mean nobody else remembers it. Also stop acting like a victim of the american education system you can learn from places other than your sixth grade propaganda machine. Your understanding of history going from "we ate turkey together and then they just mysteriously vanished" to "white people came and killed literally everyone and they're all gone now" is Barely an improvement

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Me, in the midst of deep and almost unbearable suffering: ok how can i make this funny

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Young kids celebrating the upcoming Jewish holiday of Shavuot. June 2, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

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One of the most insane currently popular flavors of antisemitism has got to be the “how dare you evil Jews steal our sacred Christian/Muslim theology/culture/holy sites and bastardize them for your nefarious (((Zionist))) purposes” when the theology/culture/holy sites in question are all in fact taken from Jewish religion, tradition, and culture. This bizarre belief that Judaism belongs to everyone but the Jews.

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20th anniversary

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In light of these* previous posts, I am rerunning these polls. Please vote however they apply to you, and spread them for reach even if they don't apply to you. Thanks!!

(*Context: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5])

ONLY answer this if you are Jewish and self-identify as a Zionist! By which I mean: you voluntarily describe yourself as a Zionist. Other people describing your views that way is not sufficient. Simply believing in Jewish self-determination in eretz Yisrael is not sufficient (despite that arguably being the baseline for all Zionist ideologies regardless of what other beliefs are embedded in them) - you MUST actively choose to label yourself as a Zionist. If you are a lukewarm Zionist but are fine with it under certain conditions, that's a personal judgment call. Feel free to answer this poll, the non-/post-Zionist/other poll, or both (if it changes).

If you click that button, you are saying under oath that YOU 🫵 are a Zionist 🙂

Please answer your IDEAL solution, not necessarily what you think would be the most likely or most practical, but your idealized outcome. I intend to reblog each of these with a second poll that asks what your preferred pragmatic solution would be after posting.

Everyone please be respectful of the folks replying to this poll, as with the others. There are lots of other places to debate people or discourse, but this post is not one of them. My goal here is simply to gather information and others' perspectives, not to argue or deconstruct them.

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Can leftists on the internet please stop suggesting Judaism is just a religion, or just a racial group?

It literally predates modern conceptions of both religion and race. ‘Religion’ as commonly understood in the West is largely an outgrowth of the Reformation, followed by the Enlightenment, which saw a change in the meaning of ‘belief’ to ‘intellectual agreement with a set of doctrines’, and developed an understanding of ‘religion’ that primarily centers around doctrinal commitments. When applied to non-western ‘religions’ (and, to a degree, when applied to non-Protestant christianities) this conception often forces a mold that does not fit the thing in question (in this case, that thing being Judaism).

Judaism also crosses modern conceptions of racial and ethnic lines, because Jews have lived in a very widespread array of regions, usually had some level of intertwining with local populations, and developed unique Jewish cultures in various diaspora communities.

Imposing the concept of ‘religion’ onto Judaism, imposing the concept of ‘race’ onto Judaism, is to disregard much of Judaism to make it fit with categories that are foreign to it.

Mordecai Kaplan was right: Judaism is a civilization. Daniel Boyarin was right: Judaism is a people. It cannot be reduced to the category of religion, nor of race, nor purely of ethnicity in a straightforward sense.

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dana international 💕 israeli queer royalty 🇮🇱👸🏻

the first trans contestant and winner of eurovision !!!! 🇮🇱

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Inspired by @violapeeps-blog

Eyeshadows inspired by Jewish Holidays!

Chanukah

Pesach

Purim

Rosh Hashanah

Shavuot

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i think it's pretty concerning that the Free Palestine movement in the US, while well-intentioned, has completely adopted radically right-wing strategies.

"i did my own research" you sound like your anti-vax grandfather on facebook

"they're trying to keep this quiet/they control the government, media" as if this conspiracy hasn't been the main conservative talking point for the past decade

"zionist" is literally used the same way right-wingers use the word "woke"

oh, and of course, the antisemitism. who could forget that (leftists, of course)

Holocaust denial is highest among Gen Z democrats? What??

i've seen leftists pivot to becoming Russian apologists once the US started giving aid to Israel

"Honestly, Trump might not be that bad" - The most hardcore leftist I know. WHAT???

Just an observation.

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Another Jew on here commented that people were going onto Wikipedia and removing references to certain people's Jewishness, and I just saw for myself that this is true. As a Jew and a fan of old movies and history, I was looking up a list of Jewish actors on Wikipedia. I saw Tina Louise (you know, from Gilligan's Island) pop up. So I popped over to her actual page on Wikipedia. And there were zero references to her being Jewish. So I hopped on over to the Wayback Machine (bless you, Internet Archive) and put in the URL for her Wikipedia page. And wouldn't ya know it: before 10/7, there were at least 3 to 5 references to her Jewishness at any given time on her Wikipedia page. Wtf is happening.

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Knish vendor, 1953. Knishes are fist-sized dumplings, wrapped in dough and baked, with fillings such as potato (the most common), kasha (buckwheat), or cabbage. Carts such as this were a fixture on New York sidewalks until the Giuliani administration cracked down on them in the 1990s.

Photo: Ernst Haas via Pastvu

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