#Jewish Batman

[frownyalfred]

joke’s on everyone sending me shit because I’m going to Jewishpost about Bruce Wayne even harder now.

reasons I think Bruce Wayne is a Jewish Dad (non-canon reasons, just things he does that remind me of Jewish Dads I know):

he has longstanding beef with multiple people downtown but won’t explain

currently walking around with an injury he should’ve seen a doctor about at least two years ago

observing his kid do something stupid and hurt themselves “why did you do that?”

either has no adult friends at all or has a bunch but they’re all kinda weird so he never brings them up

happiest with the NYT crossword and coffee strong enough to pass as rocket fuel

loves his children. has trouble saying this out loud, explicitly, to his children

can fall asleep anywhere

[captainlordauditor]

I think he would, yeah. It's made from a blanket, which is usually 4 corners (or his baby blanket was made from his father's cape, perhaps?).

I think the only times I've seen Bruce in a non-spiky cape is when he had to improvise a cape. Which means he would have to improvise tzitzit too - which is a hilarious image, actually. Does he carry the strings in his utility belt Just In Case?

HEY WAIT A SEC IF HIS HOOD IS ATTACHED TO HIS CAPE THEN

[shewolf-sinclair]

batman is a very private person. duh.

brucie wayne isn’t as private. he’s actually very open, about certain things. like relationships and issues and people he supports as a public figure. but he still keeps personal things personal. the public only knows he’s jewish because he speaks about it when doing activist work against antisemitism in gotham. otherwise. you would never guess

bruce wayne isn’t usually very religious. he values his judaism but more so as a cultural background than a religion he doesn’t regularly go to synagogue, he doesn’t keep sabbath or keep kosher. BUT he absolutely sat shiva for jason. and i like to think that it was huge when jason found out after coming back. because he knows bruce stopped practicing years ago. he only practices on high holidays (and maybe passover). and he does chanukkah for the kids. so him taking the time to sit shiva for the whole week is a huge deal.

i like to think it was a huge jumping off point for them to start fixing things

[ednygmasbowlerhat]

Bruce Wayne is canonically Jewish and we don’t talk about this enough. Obviously the representation would be amazing and as a Jew i would love my favorite hero to be Jewish but also it would just add so much to the character. Just like cultural flavor and personality. And of course plot lines. Like just imagine the entire bat family getting together for Jewish holidays or like batman making torah or rabbinic references all the time. Like what if he’s giving one of the bat kids a lecture and is just like “that reminds me of this story I learned about hillel and shammai in hebrew school blah blah blah”.

Also this just makes so much sense because superheroes were created by Jews like Superman literally has the most Jewish story ever but aliens can’t be born Jews and the kents aren’t Jewish so he’s not canon Jewish so having bats as Jewish is just too iconic.

[spocks-husband]

Okay so Beware The Batman hasn't been great so far-- but I just got to Season 1 Episode 17 and in that episode we actually get to see Bruce be Jewish for the first time in animated form and it's REALLY REALLY COOL. It's not explicitly stated but it's really obvious that he is based off the main plot of the episode and how he reacts to it and it's jsut. Ough. It's so good.

[starryaugust]

Bruce Wayne is so jewish mother coded

[captainlordauditor]

@dickgraysonweek  Day 3: Growing up as the First Child Hero

Ma Nishtana (traditionally performed by the youngest present at a seder) gets a little strange when Robin and Shazam are both present.

[monowritestoomuch]

I was today years old when I learned Batman is Jewish

[nightwings-puphood]

you don't understand. batman will never kill somebody because of pikuach nefesh. to destroy a life is to destroy a world. are you listening to me.

[capsrecedinghairline]

Just saw a clip where David Mazouz talks about how a WB exec called him “too Jewy” to play young Bruce Wayne so uhhh now I have decided that Bruce should have thick curly hair, he should have bold, broad features, he be exactly what people think of when they stereotype Jews.

And yeah, obviously there is no singular way to “look Jewish”. That’s not the point. The point is that a Jewish kid had to load his hair down with gel in order to play a canonically Jewish character. I shouldn’t have to spell out the rest for you.

The point is visibility. The point is that Jewish-American comic book innovators used the concept of superheroes’ secret identities to explore identity and assimilation. The point is that I want Bruce Wayne in a kippah and I’m not gonna shut up about it.

[scribbling-scientist]

Inspired by the discord convo that @littlegreenfag 's Post about Jewish Riddler in turn inspired

Convo and answer under the cut

[frownyalfred]

Clark going insane (planes!? older!? jewish?!), Bruce not addressing it, Hal on the case of why Supes suddenly hates him, the batkids playing 5D chess in a ship war, and somehow, for once, the one with an accurate reading of the situation, is Barry.

J'onn could know whats going on but he saw the storm clouds and closed his window. Diana is too wise to get invested in the drama.

Clark, woefully misunderstanding Jewish tradition: so he has to marry Hal or his kids aren't Jewish?

Barry, patting his friend on the back: buddy....they're adopted. that's not how it works.

Clark, near tears: well it sounds like it's important to him!!

[lakeofthesocknessmonster]

What do you MEAN batman isn't "canonically jewish", as far as I'm concerned he and batwoman dressed up as each other for purim

[shewolf-sinclair]

Damian moved in with Bruce at age like… 8? 10? either way he had been raised by LOA up till that point and knew nothing of his jewish heritage. when he moved in w B, you bet he was asking so many questions. bro speedran his torah study and was ready for his bar-mitzvah faster than any teen in history. what normallt takes 9ish years to learn in hebrew school he learned in like 3-5. and he’ll never admit it but he did it to be closer to Bruce.

of course his mitzvah was a huge gotham event. and he aced it, doing his torah portion with perfect pronunciation and grace.

[zodarii-dae]

so the word lazarus is actually biblical in origin! it’s the name of someone who was apparently revived from the dead by jesus (pretty fitting for the pits). the hebrew version of this name is eleazar, which means god has helped.

the point of this post is that damian’s hebrew name is אלעזר (eleazar), bc i’m a jewish waynes truther.

[meirmakesstuff]

I'm so embarrassed--I've lived in the Berkshires my whole life and never heard of Ramah. Can you expound a bit on that please?

Ramah is a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative movement. While I didn't attend one myself, my youth group had yearly end-of-summer retreats at the Berkshires, specifically for the kids in the greater NYC region (I didn't grow up that close to the city but close enough to count), so specifying Berkshires in the Batman-Superman post was a little dig at Gotham's not-quite-NYC-ness. Likewise, Jewish groups I was with would have retreats at Camp Isabella Friedman, which is a retreat center rather than a kids' summer camp but does host some kids' retreats, particularly focused on Jewish ecological learning.

I name-checked those two specifically just because the aesthetic matched the ones in the post: Isabella Friedman's kid programs bring that crunchy ukulele vibe, while at Ramah a teen is more likely to find themself exploring taking on outwardly visible personal Jewish practices like the ones in the Batman-Superman post, mostly through exposure to fellow campers who do them. There are Ramah camps all around the US and Canada, as well as Jewish camps from other denominations and no denomination--I'm sure someone can give a more compelling suggestion for where Kansas-raised Clark might center his Jewish nostalgia.