#JEWISH

[fallingrainandburningsuns]

Sorry to do this but we (jewish people) have been telling yall for months. sure, were appalled and disgusted, but not surprised.

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

[ertik-einstein]

I made something

Y'all can use it

edit: made another one

[extreme-asexual-confusion]

experiment time

if you're jew who's has lost leftist friends due to antisemitism in the last year reblog this and if it compels you share with your stories about it

[greco-roman-jewess]

There are a ton of people in the comments who are p*ssed at her for this. All she said was *no pictures*

She said don’t take photos of my newly released from captivity daughter on the day we already aren’t supposed to take photos

Honestly I think this was probably:

A. To protest that hamas keeps releasing hostages on our holy day of rest

B. A ploy to get her daughter home sooner- like it or not everyone from hamas to Knesset wants photos of the hostages returning “safe”

C. Maybe she really didn’t want to take pictures: because they’d make her sad to look back at, because she thinks it exploitative to photograph her daughter in that state, or yes really because it’s Shabbos and photos do not fall under “necessary to preserve life” or some other reason

I think that some of the negative comments might be a result of the secular/haredi divide. If you are a secular Israeli who thinks this woman is stupid and as one commenter on instagram said “this behavior should not be encouraged” stop for a second check your reading comprehension and ask yourself why a political conflict has made you dislike your fellow Jews and things you associate with them so much that you feel the need to say that a worried mother who found a way to both get her daughter home two days early and keep Shabbos is NUTS.



[tomato-loss]

okay guys who wants to buy me one 🥱

a hanukkiah bouquet . ݁₊᪥⋆. ݁

[ieatsporks11]

I think a lot of you forget the core of naziism is wanting to exterminate jews

[spacelazarwolf]

this lovely artist is offering free ketubahs for folks who have lost theirs to natural disasters. here’s some of her work:

[bobemajses]

Jewish child's robe, Uzbekistan, late 19th century

[greco-roman-jewess]

Ok challenge for Jumblrings draw two coffee cups one with your “English Brain” (while repeating over and over this is an English coffee cup) then draw your second cup with your “Hebrew brain” (while repeating Hebrew cup preferably in Hebrew but a don’t know what that would be)

How are the cups different

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

[tikkunolamresistance]

nova festival survivor meets a holocaust survivor and they have a chat.

video length is about 6 minutes. it’s worth it.

TW: yoni describes what he saw at nova, please watch with caution and only when you have the emotional capacity.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Holding a 80 year old man hostage for 482 days is not resistance.

[uraniumgeranium]

Gonna puke from the number of goyish folks I saw attach "free Palestine" to Holocaust remembrance day.

This is why we need Yom Hashoah. Because Jews are never allowed to mourn what we've lost. We are always made either culpable for the loss of others or our grief is universalised to a point where it no longer belongs to us.

[garlic-and-cloves]

I've been saying this since I was in third grade. So many people have told me I was completely wrong and not once did anyone believe me. But now guess what they're all finally saying it too and claiming no one warned them. Y'all would get a lot farther if you listened to what Jews have to say, we have experience with things like this after all.

Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???

So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"

But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????

[jewish-culture-is]

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

.

[greco-roman-jewess]

Well I was grabbing screen shots for the r/Breadtube antisemitism thing i did, I came across this question

I decided I would answer the gent in the purple avatar’s question in good faith…

First let’s define systemic oppression: systemic oppression refers to when systems rather than individuals are the cause of a groups suffering. There are two type: Structural Oppression and Institutional Oppression. Structural Oppression (in this case antisemitism) is when the structure is made of again in this case antisemitic building blocks the ideas and people who build the structures are foundationally antisemitic in a way that can not be purged and every individual person (including Jews) carries those antisemitic foundations inside their brains as they view and interpret the world. Institutional Oppression is informed and produced by Structural Oppression but is distinct. Institutional Oppression consists of written laws and unwritten conventions that make life harder for the oppressed group because we are discussing Jews here are so older examples from the USA; for examples of laws until the ratification of the constitution Jewish men could not legally vote or hold office in some American territories and until after the Second World War there were quotas prohibited to many Jews from entering the country. As a consequence of unwritten conventions Leo Frank was convicted of a crime he did not commit because the jury saw him as part of a people predisposed to the murder and sexual violation of Christian children.

This is all very interesting but we still need to answer the question do Jews experience systematic racism? . Respectable art forms like opera, advertisement, literature and galleries wouldn’t take jewish artists in any large number till the 30s of 40s, Thousands of Jews were denied refuge and sent back to the Nazis because of quotas in the 40s, Up until the 70s Ivy League schools would only admit a certain number Jewish students, police did nothing to actively prevent or address the Crown Heights Riots as they occurred because they thought the Jews “deserved it” and that was in the 90s. Even though all of these things happened during my grandmother’s lifetime and many of them actively affected her and the people around her you might say to me “that was 30 years ago, I’m saying that there is no systemic antisemitism now.” To this I would say TALK TO SOME JEWs and you will here stories of being turned down for jobs when they put their jewish sounding names on the applications, having to use personal days to observe holidays, and tons of other things that come from systematic antisemitism. What about the big of I haven’t talked about yet Israel, no matter how you slice it Israel is treated fundamentally differently by world governments than other countries are. They are expected to make sacrifices in the name of peace no one else is. They are blamed for attacks against them and they are scrutinized in a way others are not. Even if you believe Israel has the terrible record some people do other nations with records you dream similar are not treated that way. Even if you believe that this is the correct series of actions why is it not being enforced evenly.