#African Jews

[secular-jew]

Ethiopian Jews, or "falasha" consider themselves descendants of King Solomon and Queen Sheva.

Between 1977-1993 the absolute majority of Ethiopian Jews moved to Israel, their number in Israel currently stands @ 155,000.

[foodglorious-food]

Shakshuka - A spicy egg and tomato dish invented by Maghreb Jews in North Africa and adopted all over the Middle East 🥚🍅🍳

[holidaysincambodia]

A Jewish bride from the city of Salé in Northwestern Morocco (1935)

[kemetic-dreams]

SO NOW JEWS ARE BLAMING AFRICAN AMERICANS FOR HAMAS

[archtroop]

Israel to send Hercules aitplanes to evacuate Israelis (re: Jews) from Amsterdam.

Oh, how I wish Israel existed in the 30s.

We could have evacuated Jews from Europe the day before the Kristalnacht then, too.

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

Can anyone recommend good resources on Jewish folklore? Not necessarily the explicitly religious stuff, but the various regional and local tales and superstitions and creatures that arose in different Jewish communities over the past 2000 years.

I'm from an Ashkenazi background, but would live to learn about what MENA, Sephardi, African, and Asian communities have in their folklore.

I have an idea for a cozy, low-fantasy, Jewish and North American folklore inspired story. The North American folklore I want to build from is easy to research (going with lumberjack stories to avoid touching sacred Native mythology that does not belong to me), but I am much better at religious research for Judaism than folklore.

[jewreallythinkthat]

Jewish food 😂😂 more like stolen land and food

Girl (gn) I hope you've never eaten a bagel in your entire life, you wouldn't want those nasty Jewish cooties we garnish them all with 🥱

[originalhaffigaza]

[meyhew]

learning abt how deeply woven the Quran and muslims are in the fabric of american history….

[bimdraws]

Ver "White South Africans Convert & Move to Israel to Continue Apartheid" en YouTube

[secular-jew]

Zulu's in the house!

[gay-----pisces2]

I hate how minorities emotions are blow way out of the water.

like, "oh your a minority experiencing anger, a normal human emotion, JESUS YOU DANGEROUS MONSTER!"

Like I'm not hurting anyone I'm just upset at the way I get treated and the hurtles I must jump over to hopefully be happy one day

[mizrahimayhem]

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[kemetic-dreams]

The phrase "I plead the blood" is a tradition that goes back to the Old Testament, when the Israelites applied the blood of an animal to their doorposts for protection. The phrase "I plead the blood" activates what happened through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. Some say that Jesus' blood was not spilled for the covering of sin, but for the remission of it. The blood of Jesus is the covering that allows us to enter into the presence of a perfect and holy God. 

1 John 1:7 says, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin”. 

The tradition of applying blood is considered important to uphold. 

Blood sacrifice is a common practice in many African spiritual traditions, such as Vodu, to feed deities and ancestors. The practice is believed to release a vital force that sustains life, and to empower spirits and ancestors to work. Blood is also a spiritual currency, and some believe that the spirits in shrines feed on the life-blood of the animals sacrificed.

[koenji]

Boys at a Jewish school in Morocco. Photographer, location and time unknown.

Part of the exhibition "Juifs d'Orient" about the once diverse and deeply rooted Jewish communities of North Africa and South West Asia, now often described as "a vanished world". With increasing antisemitic sentiments, as well as violence and heavy state discrimination against Jewish minorities, including dispossession and forced withdrawal of citizenship, only few Jews remain in many of these countries today.

[hindahoney]

The only people who benefit when black people and jews are divided are white supremacists