#Jewish ask meme

[tzipporahs-well]

🥔 🎭 🤦 🎶?

(i already know your answer to at least one of these 😆)

🥔 Applesauce or sour cream?

Hot take 🔥: neither belong on latkes (half joking). In all seriousness, I eat my latkes plain. But at least applesauce is edible for me on its own even if it’s not my fave. I do like apples 🍎. Sour cream 🥴. So if I had to choose one, it’s the apples.

🎭 Purim or Chanukah?

Purim Purim Purim! No but in all seriousness, Purim is my favorite Jewish holiday of all time. I feel like it is especially applicable to these times plus I really like the food and costumes.

Chanukah is good but 8 nights is a lot…and I kinda feel like media oversaturated Chanukah because of its proximity to another December holiday.

Not to say that Chanukah is bad at all, but Purim has it beat by a lot. Also, fried food has a hard time storing and traveling well…The great news about both holidays are that they are low stress holidays.

🤦 Shema or Modeh Ani

Shema! This is a prayer fundamental traditionally said twice a day. These were the words that allowed me to become a Jew when I underwent mikveh immersion. Not only that but the Shema is way easier to learn.

Also as far as I know but I may be wrong, Modeh Ani is only said in the morning while Shema can be said any time.

🎶 'Lecha Dodi' or 'Shalom Aleichem'?

Lecha Dodi! 👰‍♀️ There are several tunes and 8 verses (wish we would do all 8 verses in reform synagogue but a girl can dream 💭). Plus the first letter of each verse spells out an acrostic of the author’s name. And the verses are all different. I will say though that although Shalom Aleichem is easier to learn, it can’t compare to the dizzying heights and references of Lecha Dodi.

[mintytrifecta]

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[meshaamem-li]

🪿?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

you're getting a hebrew joke:

רב אחד ישב במרפסת ביתו ושתה קפה, שלפתע שמע את קולו של אחד מתלמידיו: "רבי! רבי!"

אז הרבי ירה בו.

a Rabbi sat on his porch and drank his moening coffee, when suddenly he heard the voice of one of his students: "Rabbi! Rabbi!"

so the Rabbi shot him.

[koshercosplay]

and right back atcha my friend! 💙

[icemankazansky86]

When you’re searching for a new shul after moving and emailed the respective Rabbi(s) 3+ weeks ago:

(Because I don’t want to just show up because social anxiety go 📈 and ���cause security reasons, duh���)

[jewish-microwave-laser]

turns out an old-fashioned carpenter's pencil is really handy for practicing the Hebrew alphabet (the aleph kind of got away from me there though) 💙🤍💙

FHSKSHSJS THIS IS SO FUNNY IM OBSESSED

[astriiformes]

🎵 + a character or ship you hc as jewish 💖

This one gave me pause if only because the majority of fiction I'm into is set in completely different universes, which means I don't always have as many Jewish headcanons, even though I love them conceptually.

However, I do have one Owl House AU I still desperately need to write that involves Jewish Clawthornes, so like, in a very specific universe--

Eda - Could Have Been Me - The Struts

[jorvikzelda]

mothers be normal about trans people challenge (impossible)

[hindahoney]

your last post about Erez Oved is still tagged with "homophobia," and I fear that this is another case of "oops we got outraged because we got our news on Tumblr."

Oved is an actor who identifies as bi/pansexual. He is VERY open about Yakov Levy being a character he created for the song "conversion therapy," which highlights the absolutely shameful practice of conversion therapy which is still very rampant in religious circles.

I can't imagine his intent is to defraud anyone, because he want to be recognized as himself so people hire him for their projects and buy his book. I mentioned this on the post, but the last "incriminating" screenshot is promoting the above mentioned short. To him, and anyone who is vaguely familiar with Israeli media, his Yakov Levy character is just an exploration of the Haredi world he encountered while researching a role.

(and he was born and raised in Jerusalem, so I'm not even sure he doesn't come from a modern orthodox or traditional family. He surely has at least secondhand experience with religion, it's unavoidable in Jerusalem)

Is it in good taste? Is it a valid way of giving a voice to religious queer folks in Bnei Brak, who you can be damn sure have no social media presence of their own to leverage? Should he have made it clearer to an international audience that this is a character he's exploring? Is it a little cynical and patronizing? All debatable, and I definitely see all sides of the argument. But calling other queer Jews homophobic is just... Nah.

I tagged it as homophobia because in case people didn't want to see something that could be seen as homophobia, which it could. He is taking the voice away of actual queer orthodox jews who live in communities they can't be open in, and telling the world that their experience is easy and supportive, which simply isn't true. It can be dangerous to be gay in a lot of orthodox communities. I didn't call him homophobic and I don't think I ever questioned if he was Israeli? AFAIK that's irrelevant.

He was not open at all about it being a character. That's what the problem was. He didn't tell people that he was just an actor and he wasn't even chassidic. His "apology" was essentially patting himself on the back for solving homophobia in the charedi community. He is still trying to sweep his actions under the rug and post like normal as this character. His comments are full of people still calling him out or people who don't know it's a character and calling him brave for being gay and orthodox.

[supercantaloupe]

sleepover saturday !!!!!!

such adoration in those eyes of his….. but where did his ears go!!!!

what are some headcanons(?) you have for specific opera characters?

you STOLE his EARS. you STOLE them and they're GONE

okay uh random opera character headcanons off the top of my head...

tonio lafilleduregiment is endearingly bad at french whereas marie has the mouth of sailor (despite the best efforts of the regiment to raise her to be as ladylike as possible, at least wrt not swearing constantly. they failed </3). she eagerly tries to tutor him to improve and it does not go well

jewish leporello isn't even a headcanon to me in my heart and soul i know it to be a fact and lorenzo daponte told me so in a dream. anyway i think rigoletto is also jewish but like in a "converted to catholicism during an inquisition and raised gilda to be 100% disconnected from judaism to keep her safe" kind of way, but i think he absolutely resents it both because of what it cost him and because it didn't even work (ie jewish converts to xtianity were historically still targets of antisemitism whoopeee i love it here (SARCASM)). the thing about rigoletto as a story/representation of ostracization due to disability is that that shit runs extraordinarily parallel to the experience of ostracization due to other identifying characteristics like race and religion.

also this isn't so much a headcanon as it is a statement that i want to put serpina laservapadrona, depsina cosifantutte, and dulcamara lelisirdamore into a room together and see what happens

[ask meme]

[unhonestlymirror]

Just blocked anon without reading what was their last ask and now I'm curious but there is no return :(

[prinz-vassago]

ill be real, im jealous :/

SHE'S THE ONE WHO DESERVES A BETTER PERSON!!!11!

[spindrifters]

question 7 please <3<3

7. What fic meant the most to you to write?

I really surprised myself with the story goes (aka chapter 7 of ocho kandelikas) and how much it meant to me to write. I could write an entire manifesto on why the being a werewolf makes Remus a deeply Jewish-coded character, and with this I kind of got the chance to do just that.

The thing is, I obviously read Remus as Jewish, but there's a really slippery slope here that I see all the time, because the werewolf analogy can slide dangerously close to lizard people/blood libel/NWO conspiracy theories. I mean, pick any conspiracy involving shapeshifters or people hiding in the shadows, it's antisemitism all the way down.

That said, lycanthropy is actually a quite astute analogy for the very real phenomenon of conditional privilege. Jews who don't live in closed communities and are phenotypically similar to surrounding goyim largely experience acceptance until our Jewishness is either disclosed or involuntarily outed, at which point -- depending on the situation -- things can go sideways fast. This, along with a historical disinterest in assimilation, is largely the basis for the antisemitic conceptions of Jewish people being two-faced and deceptive, when really it's just a matter of keeping ourselves safe.

When done deftly and with care, an interpretation of Remus (who has to be so vigilant with disclosing his identity, who can't just assume that his friends will be tolerant, who is always prepared for attitudes towards him to change in an instant) as Jewish Is just fucking correct. When done carelessly or heavy-handed or just lacking a certain degree of understanding, it's going to smack of antisemitism.

So this fic meant everything to write, turns out. It ended up being not just a way to flesh out my own understanding of Remus' intersecting identities, but also a way to illustrate what it's like to live tall and proud and confident of your own value in a world that could turn actively hostile any moment.

ask me about my 2022 fics in review

[thehallstara]

for the lore ask meme: your mike townsend please ?

oughhhhh mike my beloved mike there's a bunch of stuff from my fic i wasn't able to elaborate on lets go

-mentioned that she was ashkenazi/mizrahi– more specifically i think his dad is like. a third gen immigrant from (now) ukraine (would have probably been pale of settlement at the time) and her mom is an iranian jew, probably 2nd gen!!! they met in ny and ended up moving to seattle for work -has rheumatoid arthritis and has since she was a kid! -aroace. v firm on this one lol -is a mediocre bass player but tries his best -is constantly trying new sourdough recipes. has not found the right one yet -was raised what i'd call like. casually religious?? lots of religious observances in the house but not super strict on it as far as like. don't think they were shomer shabbos but did keep shabbat that kinda vibes lol def got disconnected as she got older but got more observant as blaseball went on i think?? -does wrap tefillin now though that's also v important to me -this isn't a fact i just remembered i made this picrew of him like 3 months ago so i had a visual this is a v basic version of my mike ty for coming to my tled talk

[koshercosplay]

Can challah be chocolate? Is that a thing?

I mean there's an argument to be made that babka IS chocolate challah

[official-souls]

GYFTMAS, ONLY [An] WEEK AWAY!

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Go away! Shoo! Buzz off!

-🧡 Bea