#Jewish catboys

[chaotic-emo-pigeon]

10 catboys at temple call that a minyan

[the-catboy-minyan]

ok but like... concept

[meshaamem-li]

Shana tova to all the catboys of jumblr, may you eat all the fish and knock all the honey jars off the top shelf >:3

[thedeafprophet]

New plan. i need to draw Fires with an early 1900s car with flame decals

like this one. but with flame decals.

its a must

[prinz-vassago]

ill be real, im jealous :/

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

[radiomogai]

[PT: Eepy Jewish catboy. End PT]

Eepy Jewish catboy

When your Jewish and an eepy catboy

[ID starts A flag with four horizontal strips, all the same width. From the top down, the first color is a very light pinkish gray. The second color is a dusty lavender. The third color is a very light peace. The fourth color is similar to the first, only a bit lighter. In the middle there is a dark blue Star of David. In the top left corner there is a cartoon cat face, the same color as the star.] End ID]

[transmascpetewentz]

i made a jewish audhd catboy creature :3

i stole the template itself from reddit and just added the other stuff.

[aoife-asturmaux]

since t'zekh can't actually visit aoife's island, i did a little crime magic to get my jewish catboy in the sukkah, heheh (he could technically make one of his own now, but he doesn't have island sanctuary unlocked yet...)

he looks so at home there ;v;

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

Why are there so many jewish catboys? Because of how many cats their are in Israel.

[svartikotturinn]

OK, @the-catboy-minyan, I thought your post about Pharaoh being humanized in Jewish tradition (which you posted while entirely ignoring the above evidence to the contrary, in a flagrant display of the Dunning–Krueger effect) was the dumbest thing you’ve posted, but you’ve decided to outdo yourself by necroposting this.

I was talking about the tenuous connection some non-Israeli Jews have to their own ancestral traditions that could lead to such a display to begin with.

This analogy is so profoundly stupid I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Seriously, you managed to stumble into making my case for me: Autism Speaks is not headed by autistic people, it speaks over autistic people, and it refuses to engage with actual autistic people and our experiences and culture, and it is good and right to point this out—how the fuck did you manage to look at their example and think that would be an apt comparison to make?

200 years ago Jews did speak Hebrew you ignoramus. If they didn’t speak it natively (and some did), they spoke it as a lingua franca with Jews from other communities. It was very much a spoken language that connected Jews beyond their immediate community—it has always been a cornerstone of Jewish culture. (Like, seriously, read some damn שלמה הרמתי before you run your mouth.) Once again, as for some reason you repeatedly fail to get my point: without knowing Hebrew, spoken or written, you might be connected to your own community, but your connectio to the Jewish cultural canon as a whole will be hobbled.

Is this why you’re following me? To find opportunities to get owned?

Now, @prismatic-bell: I’m sorry to hear that, it’s a shame your earnest attempt was not successful. But unfortunately, you do not get a whole lot of points for trying. At the end of the day, you won’t be able to read, say, Agnon or Shmu’el haNagid in the original (even if with commentary) and at least have a taste of the original flavour, or actually understand the liturgical texts you engage with rather than motions to go through. It doesn’t mean you don’t have a culture of your own, with its own cultural canon and whatnot, but I would label it ‘American’ or ‘Ashkenazi–American’ or something rather than ‘Jewish’.

שומע יא אידיוט תפסיק לתקוף יהודים אמריקאים ולקרוא להם לא יהודים? מאיפה אתה חושב שאנחנו הגענו? לפני מאה שנה גם אנחנו היינו בגלות. תחשוב מה שאתה רוצה על יהדות רפורמית אבל מאיפה הטימטום לחשוב שלראות את האויבים שלנו כאשכרה אנשים זה לא יהודי, ומאיפה הטמטום שיהודים בגלות ברחבי העולם הם לא יהודים.

סתום ת'פה ותפסיק לפגוע בקהילה של עצמך כפרה.

I’m gonna take the opportunity and respond both to your stupid bullshit and the stuff I got from @spacelazarwolf and @the-catboy-minyan with this image:

This kind of bullshit is a perfect example of why so-called ‘American Jews’ get on my last nerve. They are not actually a part of the culture, they engage with it on an extremely shallow level, and then have the nerve to barge in and pretend they fucking own it. (Here is another example. Here is another one.) So no, I am not ‘threatened’ by them, I am deeply irritated. (Much the same way Irish and Scottish people in those countries are irritated by Plastic Paddies boastfully claiming to be descendants of Robert the Bruce, by the way.)

I don’t know who you are, anon, but I do NOT appreciate your bullshit strawmanning. I did not say this applies to all Americans, and certainly not to all Jews living abroad. I am talking about this type which does not do the absolute bare minimum, which is, first and foremost, speaking Hebrew. This is the one major thing that Jews have in common outside of religious practice: the lingua franca Jews have used for millennia (yes, even beyond religious practice—read some Shlomo Haramati), without which you might be in touch with your own community but your link to Jewishness as a whole will be hobbled.

Now, as for Pharaoh, here is what Jewish scripture and exegesis has to say about him. Notably, here is how the Talmud describes him physically. This is not a flattering description, it’s barely humanizing, it repeatedly refers to him as evil with the only thing resembling a redeeming characteristic being that he charged at the front of his advancing army as a form of showing respect to God by confronting him personally at that one particular time. The thing about ‘forgivenss’ is particularly galling, as it is specifically pointed out that he explicitly refused to repent, and he is outright stated to be an evil fool. Compare and contrast with Christian scripture. (EDIT: Also, you claim to be Jewish yet are entirely unfamiliar the lyrics to Dayenu. Curious.)

This is another thing you need to be meaningfully Jewish: you need to actually engage with Jewish tradition and texts (and to do that, you need to—once again, say it with me—speak Hebrew). Once again, that brand of ‘American Jews’ are not doing that, but rather watering down the real deal to something palatable to their own sensibilities, regardless of whatever actual traditions they might have to trample along the way.

And the worst part of it? Now Israeli teens who socialize primarily online and speak English instead, a language they are not native speakers of, are getting in on this bullshit and become indistinguishable from their ilk at a glance. Hell, a few years I even saw one claiming the Jewish Bible was originally in Yiddish on Reddit.

So quit your LARPing, quit your harping, and kindly fuck off.

[velvetvexations]

Bringing up Schrodinger as a response to the claim that catboys copy catgirls has got to be the funniest way someone could possibly respond to anything ever. Made my day, thank you.

I made a jokepost of it where it was that person saying catboys often wear stereotypical early transition tgirl outfits followed by an image of Schrodinger and the Gunshow "I guess!" meme. It was, to me, maybe the most hilarious thing I'd ever created.

But I showed it to literally a Jewish friend, another transfem, and a Jewish transfem to check that it wasn't in poor taste, and none of them thought it was offensive but none of them thought the reference to the discourse about some trans women having been 4channers pre-transition was very clear. Apparently it's more niche discourse than I thought.

[tungledotedu]

this is anshelsgendercrisis, spacelazarwolf's alt account.

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apparently this blog is for posts that are too obviously anti-palestinian for their followers to keep believing their claim that they aren't a zionist.

they're not even a cryptozionist, they're pretty open about denying simple facts like israel being the product of western colonialism.

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the author of this article, adam kirsch, also wrote 'Is It Time to Retire the Term ‘Genocide’?' definitely someone you can trust to have reasonable, unbiased views on palestine.

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apartheid is just a bUzZwOrD to these racists. they don't want palestine to be liberated because that's 'perpetuating cycles of violence'. never mind that israel has never faced consequences for its innumerable atrocities and war crimes since its establishment, let alone the fact that it was founded on stolen palestinian land under the auspices of western colonial powers.

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[ID: a post by anshelsgendercrisis, dated 20 november 2024. it includes a waterlogged screenshot of a post that reads: ' Spacelazarwolf has me blocked???? Literally what for?? Being pro Palestine?'

their response: 'why do these ppl always think they are the main characters of my life.' end ID.]

[ID: a reblog from the-catboy-minyan, dated 7 november 2024. the reblog is a post by gefiltefishdefender that reads: 'boycotting Pro-Palestinian and pro-peace Israeli authors just proves that no matter what they do you just see Israelis as inherently evil

'this comes from a continuous attempt to frame I/P as a western colonialism story which just silences Jews and erases Jewish history'. end ID.]

[ID: a reblog from corvidcrybaby, dated 28 august 2024. the reblog is a link posted by adisquietfollows, titled 'The False Narrative of Settler Colonialism'. it is published by the atlantic and subtitled 'The rise of an academic theory and its obsession with Israel'.

the first paragraph of the article reads: '[L]ong before October 7, the Palestinian struggle against Israel had become widely understood by academic and progressive activists as the vanguard of a global battle against settler colonialism, a struggle also waged in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries created by European settlement. In these circles, Palestine was transformed into a standard reference point for every kind of social wrong, even those that seem to have no connection to the Middle East. […]

Although Israel fails in obvious ways to fit the model of settler colonialism, it has become the standard reference point because it offers theorists and activists something that the United States does not: a plausible target.' end ID.]

[ID: a reblog from azcrowleyfell, dated 21 july 2024. the reblog is for a post by jewish-sideblog that reads:

'Me: Oh this is awesome! The ICJ finally took a stand on the West Bank settlements and recommended reparations, which means we might finally get to see some real progress towards peace and reconciliation in the Israeli Palestinian conflict The internet, for some fucking reason: hahahahaha get fucked zios! Israel is now officially an aPaRThEiD sTaTe!!! Genocide next! We’re coming for you! Globalize the intifada! Me: interesting. I’m now less enthusiastic about the whole peaceful reconciliation thing. This should have been good news but it seems like we’re still intent on shouting buzzwords and perpetuating cycles of violence'. end ID.]

[the-catboy-minyan]

Important question: cat ears have fur on them. Would catboys need to cover their cat ears under a kippot or would it be OK for them to wear normal kippot?

HUH,

imagine asking a Rabbi this, that would be hilarious 😂

but... well a kippah doesn't hide your entire head, right? so I don't think it'd be necessary to hide the ears, especially if you're supposed to hear from them. think of a cat in a kippah, actually wait just google it:

so like that

(I should give my pfp a kippah)

[jewish-anime]

it's a little early, but happy hanukkah! nyanukkah if you will

rescued a doodle i never got around to finishing from last year; my catboy t'zekh is intentionally jewish coded and i wanted to draw something fun just for him ;v;

[edenfenixblogs]

Love you all (personal)

Leaving my phone in another room for awhile. I'm not ignoring any of you, and I have seen and will respond to all your EXTREMELY KIND messages, even if it takes awhile.

I was attempting to take a break from all this over the course of the week, because I felt myself growing weary and needed a recharge. Then my ceiling collapsed in heavy rain and I had to turn off my "Work Hours Focus" setting on my phone. It was supposed to silence all notifications and alerts from non-work and non-family phone numbers and block all non-work apps.

LOL...not really possible to have that setting on when coordinating with a bunch HVAC/Roofer dudes I've never met before.

But still. Jewish law commands us to find joy somewhere even when we're miserable. And while I know that is a sentiment that does not work for a lot of people, it has always been helpful to me.

So, despite all this, I am grateful for the shift in my plans this week for several reasons.

I'm grateful we were able to band together to help @rabid-catboy with an actual urgent issue. It feels very good to do something that you know helps someone. If my phone was in work mode I never would have seen this message in time to do anything about it. I had a similar experience in high school and I still think about it often. I get upset at how much was being asked of me and how much I was expected to know so that I could educate my peers and educators to do better. I didn't have the words to describe why something was so upsetting to me and why I know that it was wrong. Years later, I found the words and was so angry that I was expected to have them even when I was a child. It's an unfair burden, and I'll always be grateful that, even though I didn't find the words in time, I could help someone else find their words.

I am glad to have seen how active allies have been over the past week. I'm pretty emotionally drained by this all the time, so I may not say it as clearly or as often as I should, butt you give me hope. I am not used to relying on other or sharing my grief. It's actually a big problem. I don't tell people when I'm upset, because I'm afraid to inconvenience people or seem dramatic. that's part of the reason I struggled through undiagnosed PTSD for 13 years before reaching out for help. With the help of my BFF and my therapist, I chose to start being more open about my emotions with people. It's been a mixed bag. The people I knew would be here for me have continued to be here for me, thank goodness! But all (except 1) of the people I THOUGHT I could trust have simply stopped interacting with me at all. And I'm a lot less pushy/aggressive/vocal about all his suff IRL than I am when I have time to compose my thoughts and answer questions on here. It's been cataclysmic and devastating. To see so many people I've never met IRL not only lend emotional support to me personally but also provide emotional and temporal labor into fighting antisemitism and supporting Jews more broadly has gone a long way to restoring the faith in humanity that this conflict is trying to erode within me. I know I'm not he only Jew who feels this way right now. Please never underestimate the impact you have just by visibly existing in this space with us.

It's been nice being able to channel my anxiety about my ceiling into something productive.

Reminder: I love you all. Sorry for delayed replies. I'll be back. <3

[thedeafprophet]

Alex is a jewish catboy which means he celebrates purr-im