#Shomer Israel

[zebratoys]

Thank you. 🤍

[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.



[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Joud Shomer was 5 months old. Her decomposed body was found under the rubble in Gaza. Pic is beneath cut. This is not an easy pic to look at. I usually don't use cuts or warnings because every single pic coming out of Gaza is so goddamn awful. But this.... Remember her. Don't stop speaking out against genocide.

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[morgenlich]

what is your most jewish opinion on something

the ashkenazi minhag re: kitniyot is incorrect and silly imo especially as someone whose ideal diet is mostly vegetarian (i know you can make vegetarian k4p food without kitniyot but like. cmon)

[transmascpetewentz]

Welcome to my blog! 🤍💙🤍

Hello everyone, I'm sure you already know me, but for the new people: I'm Lou/Eliyahu, I'm a bigender (in a Jewish sense) fem gay trans man, I'm white/slavic, and I'm converting to Judaism. There isn't really a theme to my blog, I just find sideblogs too hard to keep track of so I keep everything in one spot. New followers should be warned that they will see a lot of random shit on their dash.

Under the cut you'll find my tag filtering system and more.

To all the lurkers on my page, kiss the meowzuzah on your way in!

(all credit goes to @the-catboy-minyan)

Longer About Me

I'm converting to Judaism and am having my beit din soon (B''H), so that is primarily what I post about. I post a lot of jokes about tanakh/talmud because that's what I'm currently into studying. I am still active on shabbos bc I am not shomer shabbos.

I am finally good enough at Hebrew to say that I know it. I can read and write, but speaking and listening is hard.

Tag Filtering

So, I'm not very good at tagging, but one that I use pretty frequently is #ask to tag and it's a catch-all for anything that you might want to proceed with caution in. I also use #long post and #arguing a lot, for long posts and arguing respectively. Other than that, I'll tag most things about a certain bigotry with #[bigotry], including examples of that bigotry. If you're affected by said bigotry, you can and should filter the tag for your mental health!

I recommend that you filter out certain words entirely instead of just tags if you are triggered by a subject, since I oftentimes forget to tag posts with adequate warning tags. I don't like to tag things a lot, so if you are triggered by things I post about a lot and word filtering doesn't work for you, feel free to unfollow.

Although this is not an ED blog, I have an eating disorder and I post about it under the tag #ed talk. If you are uncomfortable with hearing that kind of discussion, block the tag and don't engage with the posts. If you are the kind of person who thinks people with eating disorders should have to censor themselves online for the comfort of others, do yourself a favor and don't follow me at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you a Zionist?

It depends on how we're defining Zionism. If we're defining Zionism as "support of the modern state of Israel," I am a post-Zionist because the state exists. If we're defining Zionism as "the right of Jews as a native people to live and have self-determination in their native land," (which is also my personal definition), I am a proud Zionist. If Zionism means "support for the murder of innocent Palestinian people," then I am anti-Zionist, but that is a definition that divorces Zionism from its historical context.

Can you reblog my donation post?

Probably not, unless we already know each other. Due to the amount of donation scams that have popped up on tumblr recently, I don't feel safe giving money to random people that ask.

[la-cosmonauta-extraterrestre]

Sometime in 2023, I became shomer shabat, to the best of my abilities, after having eased into it starting in late 2022. It's just something I did as a reconnecting Jew, trying to do something Jewish.

It was a total game-changer. It gave me a much healthier relationship with work and with screen time.

It also might have saved my sanity on 7th October 2023. I went to shul for shemini atzeret, found out from the rabbi that Israel was at war, but didn't know the details. I woke up the next morning vaguely aware that there would be a rise in antisemitism, but that didn't matter because it was simchat torah. Of course, soon I would have to face everything that happened.

[bitegore]

Check it out - Haymarket Books has a free collection of essays about Gaza. Description from the site:

In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Israeli officials have repeatedly made their intentions to do so extremely clear; talking of collective punishment, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing in newspapers, at press conferences, and on television. All the while, European and American states have continued to support Israel, to claim its murderous campaign is justified self-defense, and to send weapons, troops, war boats, and spy planes. While Western governments have supported the unjustifiable, or spoken inane words of condemnation while failing to take any concrete action, millions around the world have poured into the streets to denounce their complicity, to demand a ceasefire and a free Palestine. From the River to the Sea collects personal testimonies from within Gaza and the West Bank, along with essays and interviews that collectively provide crucial histories and analyses to help us understand how we got to the nightmarish present. They place Israel’s genocidal campaign within the longer history of settler colonialism in Palestine, and Hamas within the longer histories of Palestinian resistance and the so-called “peace process.” They explore the complex history of Palestine’s relationship to Jordan, Egypt, and the broader Middle East, the eruption of unprecedented anti-Zionist Jewish protest in the US, the alarming escalation in state repression of Palestine solidarity in Britain and Europe, and more. Taken together, the essays comprising this collection provide important grounding for the urgent discussions taking place across the Palestine solidarity movement. With contributions from: Reda Abu Assi, Asmaa Abu Mezied, Tawfiq Abu Shomer, Khalil Abu Yahia, Dunia Aburahma, Spencer Ackerman, Hil Aked, Yousef Al-Akkad, Jamie Allinson, Hammam Alloh, Riya Al’Sanah, Soheir Asaad, Tareq Baconi, Rana Barakat, Omar Barghouti, Sara Besaiso, Ashley Bohrer, Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, Nihal El Aasar, Mohammed El-Kurd, Sai Englert, Noura Erakat, Samera Esmeir, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Toufic Haddad, Adam Hanieh, Khaled Hroub, Rashid Khalidi, Noah Kulwin, Saree Makdisi, Ghassan Najjar, Samar Saeed, Reema Saleh, Alberto Toscano, and Eyal Weizman, alongside a number of Palestinian writers published pseudonymously. Published in collaboration with Verso Books Cover design: Tom Greenwood

[beardedmrbean]

Jewish activists are planning a protest against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when his book warning of antisemitism is released Tuesday — with them accusing him of failing to help stop antisemitism.

The 74-year-old Jewish Democratic senator from New York is slated to release his tome “Antisemitism in America: A Warning” — as the critics prepare to congregate outside an Upper East Side cultural center to protest what they say is his failure to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act.

“The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about Antisemitism is how to spread it,” Jewish activist Aliza Licht wrote in a statement.

“The Jewish community will not allow Schumer to masquerade as the self-proclaimed ‘shomer of the Jews’ when he has fueled Antisemitism in America with his double-speak and failure to protect Jewish Civil Rights,” Licht said.

Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, last year promised leaders in the community that he would attempt to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act to help curb antisemitism on campuses across the country.

But the effort stalled over disagreements between him and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) about how to push it through. Schumer wanted it tacked onto legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act involving more money for the military, while Johnson sought for it to be a stand-alone vote, Axios reported.

The antisemitism bill would require the federal Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism when looking into potential violations of civil-rights law.

That definition cites examples of antisemitism as “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”

Democrats have splintered over the proposed act, with some, such as Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish, raising free-speech concerns about the policy.

The proposed act has since been reintroduced in the Senate by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Tim Scott (R-SC).

The activists planning Tuesday’s demonstration against Schumer in Manhattan say they also are angry with his response to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil — something that has been paused by the courts.

Khalil, who has been staying in the US on a student visa, was a prominent student activist during the anti-Israel chaos that engulfed Columbia University last year.

Schumer denounced Khalil’s behavior but demanded that the Trump administration properly “articulate any criminal charges or facts that would justify his detention or the initiation of deportation proceedings against him.”

“I abhor many of the opinions and policies that Mahmoud Khalil holds and supports, and have made my criticism of the antisemitic actions at Columbia loudly known,” Schumer said on X in response to Khalil’s detention.

But “if the administration cannot prove he has violated any criminal law to justify taking this severe action and is doing it for the opinions he has expressed, then that is wrong, they are violating the First Amendment protections we all enjoy,” the senator said.

Schumer’s forthcoming book is intended to deliver a “warning” based on history about the consequences of letting the “world’s oldest hatred” to go “unchecked.

[drsonnet]

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Israeli officials have repeatedly made their intentions to do so extremely clear; talking of collective punishment, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing in newspapers, at press conferences and on television. All the while, European and American states have continued to support Israel, to claim its murderous campaign is justified self-defence, and to send weapons, troops, war boats and spy planes in support. While Western governments have supported the unjustifiable, or spoken inane words of condemnation while failing to take any concrete action, millions around the world have poured into the streets to denounce their complicity, to demand a ceasefire and a free Palestine. From the River to the Sea collects personal testimonies from within Gaza and the West Bank, along with essays and interviews that collectively provide crucial histories and analyses to help us understand how we got to the nightmarish present. They place Israel’s genocidal campaign within the longer history of settler colonialism in Palestine, and Hamas within the longer histories of Palestinian resistance and the so-called ‘peace process’. They explore the complex history of Palestine’s relationship to Jordan, Egypt, and the broader Middle East, the eruption of unprecedented anti-Zionist Jewish protest in the US, the alarming escalation in state repression of Palestine solidarity in Britain and Europe, and more. Taken together, the essays comprising this collection provide important grounding for the urgent discussions taking place across the Palestine solidarity movement.

With contributions from: Dr. Reda Abu Assi, Asmaa Abu Mezied, Tawfiq Abu Shomer, Khalil Abu Yahia, Dunia Aburahma, Spencer Ackerman, Hil Aked, Dr. Yousef Al-Akkad, Jamie Allinson, Dr. Hammam Alloh, Riya Al’Sanah, Soheir Asaad, Tareq Baconi, Rana Barakat, Omar Barghouti, Sara Besaiso, Ashley Bohrer, Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, Nihal El Aasar, Mohammed El-Kurd, Sai Englert, Noura Erakat, Samera Esmeir, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Toufic Haddad, Adam Hanieh, Khaled Hroub, Rashid Khalidi, Noah Kulwin, Saree Makdisi, Ghassan Najjar, Samar Saeed, Reema Saleh, Alberto Toscano and Eyal Weizman, alongside a number of Palestinian writers published pseudonymously. Published in collaboration with Haymarket Books. Cover design: Tom Greenwood.

[zebratoys]

שׁוֹמֵר יִשְׂרָאֵל

שָׁבוּעַ טוֹב 🤍✨💫 אָמֵן

Shavua Tov Blessings Amen ♡

[girlactionfigure]

ISRAEL REALTIME — SHABBAT MODE

THIS CHANNEL ON SHABBAT KODESH - life threatening alerts ONLY.

Dear Readers,

This channel/community is Shomer Shabbat, your admins are strict Shabbos observers.  However, IN CONSULTATION AND WITH PERMISSION OF OUR RABBI, due to war and the very serious pikuah nefesh (risk to life) - we have permission to passively monitor the situation and to write and send updates IF the situation is life threatening AND our message might help you take decisions for life and safety.

On Shabbat we will ONLY be sending a message IF a serious situation occurs in which you may take action.  We will NOT be posting info about politics, international, statistics, IDF announcements, actions or videos, or any topic not life and safety threatening.

It is a mitzvah to take actions to save and preserve life on Shabbat, not a violation.  BUT ONLY actions which do so.

Parshat Vayera -  SHABBAT in Israel starts tonight at 4:31 PM and ends at 5:26 PM Saturday night (+/- a few minutes depending on where in Israel.)

— ADDITIONAL SHABBAT PREP NOTE… leave lights on in your protected space / MAMAD and hallways to the shelter.  Do not hesitate to turn on lights if needed in an alert on Shabbat.

— TAKE WITH YOU or PLACE A PHONE, ON, in your shelter / MAMAD.  If you must call for help, you must have a way to do so quickly.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The 10 Commandments

1 And Moshe called kol Yisroel, and said unto them, Shema, Yisroel, to the chukkim and mishpatim which I speak in your ears today, that ye may learn them, and be shomer to do them.

2 Hashem Eloheinu made a Brit with us in Chorev.

3 Hashem made not this Brit with Avoteinu, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.

4 Hashem talked with you panim b’panim in the har out of the midst of the eish,

5 (I stood between Hashem and you at that time, to show you the Devar Hashem; for ye were afraid by reason of the eish, and went not up into the har) saying:

6 I am Hashem Eloheicha, Which brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim, from the bais avadim.

7 Thou shalt have no elohim acharim before Me.

8 Thou shalt not make thee any pesel, or any temunah of anything that is in Shomayim above, or that is in Ha’Aretz beneath, or that is in the mayim beneath ha’aretz;

9 Lo tishtachaveh (thou shalt not bow down thyself) unto them, nor serve them; for I Hashem Eloheicha am an El Kannah, visiting the iniquity of the avot upon the banim unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me,

10 And showing chesed unto thousands of them that love Me and are shomer over My mitzvot.

11 Thou shalt not take the Shem of Hashem Eloheicha in vain; for Hashem will not hold him guiltless that taketh Shmo in vain.

12 Keep shomer Shabbos to set Shabbos apart as kodesh as Hashem Eloheicha commanded thee.

13 Sheshet yamim thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:

14 But the Yom HaShevi’i is the Shabbos of Hashem Eloheicha: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy ben, nor thy bat, nor thy eved, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine donkey, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy ger that is within thy she’arim; that thy eved and thy amah may rest as well as thou.

15 And remember that thou wast an eved in Eretz Mitzrayim, and that Hashem Eloheicha brought thee out thence through a yad chazakah and by an outstretched zero’a; therefore Hashem Eloheicha commanded thee to be shomer Shabbos on Yom HaShabbat.

16 Honor thy av and thy em, as Hashem Eloheicha hath commanded thee; that thy yamim may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in ha’adamah which Hashem Eloheicha giveth thee.

17 Lo tirtzah (thou shalt not murder).

18 V’lo tinaf (neither shalt thou commit adultery).

19 V’lo tignov (neither shalt thou steal).

20 V’lo ta’aneh v’reacha ed shav (neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor).

21 V’lo tachmod (neither shalt thou covet, desiring) thy neighbor’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s bais, his sadeh, or his eved, or his amah, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

22 These devarim Hashem spoke unto all your Kahal in the mountain out of the midst of the eish, of the anan, and of the thick darkness, with a kol gadol; and He added no more. And He wrote them in two luchot of even (stone), and delivered them unto me. — Deuteronomy 5:1-22 | Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) Orthodox Jewish Bible Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011 by Artists for Israel International. Cross References: Genesis 15:13; Exodus 18:20; Exodus 19:1; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 20:2-3; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 20:21; Exodus 23:1; Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 19:11; Numbers 14:18; Matthew 5:21; Matthew 5:33; Matthew 15:4; Mark 2:27; Luke 13:14; Luke 18:20; Luke 23:56; Romans 7:7; Hebrews 8:9; Hebrews 12:18

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What are the Ten Commandments? What is the Decalogue?

[onmymasa22]

I use this nuxe oil on my hair cuz it makes u smell like u just came out of a hair salon in paris. And i just kind of spray it onto my hand and scrunch it into my hair. But then i remembered that I was using mahjpahj glue today for a revamping my guitar project. So basically we are rocking the fine smelling glue in hair thing today. Cuz emotionally I'm a taurus who likes nice things, but also got adhd, where I forget that I played with glue.

and the glue is still peely on my fingers...

I want to get better at painting landscapes

I will learn calligraphy this year, and that might turn into a regular art job. I will have a job. I will learn to paint landscapes. That might be just for myself or be something when it comes to photography.

overall I'm a sagittarius who will get gluey fingers and forget about

my fingers were full of maj paj glue cuz I'm working on revamping my guitar. Which means i wouldnt be surprised

I am a girl who can

I will get you a tlush schar when i get back to israel and start a job at a special needs home. I started the process before i left, but i dint have a tlush.

Major scales

C. D. E F. G. A. B. C

D E F#G A B. C#D

E F#G

Thank u hashem for healing my scabies. I dont really want to hang out with any of them. Not with asaf. Not with yaakov. Not with zev. Not with jack. Not with any of them. Im tired of boys not giving me what i want. U know what hashem. Do whatever u want. I want to be religious. As religious as i can be. Maybe ill be shomer negiah. Mostly. Just stay away from the guys who hug me. I want decent guys.

Hey guys. They last minute canceled my flight. The travel people got me a new flight to get to Israel November 7. That's the soonest El Al had a flight. Uzi gave me the contract, so I'm signing it and emailing it back from here. At the moment, I'm paying the rent from here. Let me know if there's other stuff to settle up.

[lightningbee12]

As sad as it is, the more the world calls for Israel to lay down its weapons without any guarantee for the Israeli people's safety (and I say Israeli and not just Jewish because how from what Oct 7 showed us is that as long as you live in Israel you can be targeted by groups like Hamas) the Israeli people get more and more radicalized.

As much as I hate Netanyahu and his fascist friends Ben Gvir and co. they rose to power due to real fear of Jews in Israel for their safety. The right in Israel rose as a response to the horrible attacks of the second intifada and the failure of the Oslo Accords. Likewise, the far right in Israel rose as a response to constant attacks from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and the attacks that happened in mixed cities during the Shomer Homot operation.

Every time anti-semitism, both in the West and in the Arab world (people seem to forget that the Arab world has ALOT of anti-semitism) is being proudly waved, and attacks on Jewish communities in Israel and abroad get more severe the Israeli public becomes more and more radicalized.

My biggest fear is that after this war is over, even if Netanyahu and his terrible coalition are replaced (which they hopefully will be), the public opinion toward using military force will just become worse. (it doesn't help that most of the Arab world has yet to properly condemn the acts of Oct 7)

As long as a proper solution that will guarantee both Israeli and Palestinian safety isn't reached (one that will include reparations for the Palestinians and a complete reimagination of the Palestinian education system, having a free government and some form of international peacekeeping force) the conflict will not end

I have a post that I'm not sure how to write (but am going to try anyway) about how the valid fight for the equal rights of Palestinians is directly tied to the fight against antisemitism; they are, in fact, the same fight.

Because the truth is that many of the worst Israeli policies and certainly Jewish support for them, comes directly from Jewish fear. And unless and until that fear stops being valid, those ideas will continue to have power and support for them within the community will continue. It's not paranoia or bigotry wearing the skin of fear if people the world over have, in fact, carried out numerous genocides and ethnic cleansings against your people. The Holocaust was just one of the worst in recent memory, but it is far from the only extreme mass violence against Jews. It is simply the culmination of 2000 years of anti-Jewish hatred and institutional oppression.

There MUST be a real, concrete answer to Jewish safety.

Anything less is sanctioning the violence already done to us and passively accepting more in the future, if not actively calling for it or starting those wheels turning yourself.

There are no ifs, ands, or buts about this.

Palestinians deserve an answer and justice. You will not get any argument from me about that. (Quite the opposite, in fact.) However, any answer to their safety that callously ignores the need for Jewish safety and self-determination is doomed to end in either another genocide against Jews or failure. It is as wrong as any form of Zionism-as-an-answer to Jewish safety that callously ignores Palestinian safety and self-determination.

Any answer that treats either people as lesser, as unimportant, that values their lives less, and does not flow from a place of truth, reconciliation, peace, and mutual respect is doomed to fail and likely to devolve into more bloodshed.

If you want to fight for Palestinian safety, freedom, dignity and self-determination, you must also fight antisemitism. If you want to fight for the safety, freedom, dignity, and self-determination of our brothers in Israel, we must also care about our Palestinian cousins. There is no other way. You cannot care about only one side and expect peace.

That's why I'm really drawn to organizations that have both Israeli Jewish and Palestinian leadership and fight for a shared vision of the future. They see that the only way forward is together, and those of us outside the land would do well to listen and adjust our advocacy and message accordingly.

[lordgodjehovahsway]

1 Chronicles 7: Historical Records Of The Sons Of Issachar

1 The sons of Issachar:

Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron—four in all.

2 The sons of Tola:

Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel—heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.

3 The son of Uzzi:

Izrahiah.

The sons of Izrahiah:

Michael, Obadiah, Joel and Ishiah. All five of them were chiefs. 

4 According to their family genealogy, they had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.

5 The relatives who were fighting men belonging to all the clans of Issachar, as listed in their genealogy, were 87,000 in all.

Benjamin

6 Three sons of Benjamin:

Bela, Beker and Jediael.

7 The sons of Bela:

Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri, heads of families—five in all. Their genealogical record listed 22,034 fighting men.

8 The sons of Beker:

Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. 

9 Their genealogical record listed the heads of families and 20,200 fighting men.

10 The son of Jediael:

Bilhan.

The sons of Bilhan:

Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar. 

11 All these sons of Jediael were heads of families. There were 17,200 fighting men ready to go out to war.

12 The Shuppites and Huppites were the descendants of Ir, and the Hushites the descendants of Aher.

Naphtali

13 The sons of Naphtali:

Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem—the descendants of Bilhah.

Manasseh

14 The descendants of Manasseh:

Asriel was his descendant through his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. 

15 Makir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. His sister’s name was Maakah.

Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16 Makir’s wife Maakah gave birth to a son and named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17 The son of Ulam:

Bedan.

These were the sons of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh. 

18 His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah.

19 The sons of Shemida were:

Ahian, Shechem, Likhi and Aniam.

Ephraim

20 The descendants of Ephraim:

Shuthelah, Bered his son,

Tahath his son, Eleadah his son,

Tahath his son, 

21 Zabad his son

and Shuthelah his son.

Ezer and Elead were killed by the native-born men of Gath, when they went down to seize their livestock. 

22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. 

23 Then he made love to his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family. 

24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah.

25 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son,

Telah his son, Tahan his son,

26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son,

Elishama his son, 

27 Nun his son

and Joshua his son.

28 Their lands and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages all the way to Ayyah and its villages. 

29 Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Asher

30 The sons of Asher:

Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.

31 The sons of Beriah:

Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer and Hotham and of their sister Shua.

33 The sons of Japhlet:

Pasak, Bimhal and Ashvath.

These were Japhlet’s sons.

34 The sons of Shomer:

Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah and Aram.

35 The sons of his brother Helem:

Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah:

Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 

37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

38 The sons of Jether:

Jephunneh, Pispah and Ara.

39 The sons of Ulla:

Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.

40 All these were descendants of Asher—heads of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number of men ready for battle, as listed in their genealogy, was 26,000.

[arpov-blog-blog]

..."Few Democrats have vocally supported Israel — and, consequently, its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu — as much as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. As Netanyahu thumbed his nose at Barack Obama throughout Obama’s presidency, even coming to Washington to try and scuttle the Iran nuclear agreement, Schumer steadfastly supported Israel’s longest-serving leader.

Schumer frequently invokes his Jewish faith and heritage, specifically talking about his late father Abe telling him, “If you are doing the right thing and you persist, God will reward you and will succeed.” But on Thursday, Schumer made clear that he will not reward Bibi.

In a floor speech, Schumer noted his surname comes from the term shomer, meaning “guardian” in Hebrew, and added that his “nuanced views on the matter have never been well-represented in this country’s discussions about the war in Gaza.” He spoke candidly about his youth in Brooklyn, and added that after “five months of suffering on both sides of this conflict, our thinking must turn — urgently — to how we can achieve lasting peace.”

Schumer called for “course corrections” and named three major obstacles he sees to peace. Unsurprisingly, he blamed Hamas, which launched the surprise assault on Israel in October last year, but added: “Palestinian civilians do not deserve to suffer for the sins of Hamas, and Israel has a moral obligation to do better.”

He then turned his attention to Netanyahu’s government, which the right-wing prime minister has filled with extremists and nationalists — such as Ministry of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has called for the subjugation of Palestinians. Schumer also criticised the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which has long lacked a democratic mandate.

To be clear, Schumer did not call for a permanent ceasefire like Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. Nor did he call for conditioning aid to Israel, like his fellow alumnus of James Madison High School in Brooklyn, Senator Bernie Sanders, who is also Jewish. At the same time, he did call for new elections in Israel, saying, “It has become clear to me the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7.”

Schumer’s remarks matter on multiple fronts. As the senator from New York, he represents the state with the largest Jewish population. Despite being Senate Majority Leader, Schumer is not a creature of Washington. He frequently travels all over the state and would not make such remarks without knowing many Jewish New Yorkers and many other Jewish Americans who simultaneously fear the rise of antisemitism and feel that the Israeli government’s actions have caused an unacceptable loss of civilian life.

Schumer’s words allow for Democrats in his caucus to feel safer in criticizing Netanyahu’s government. Like Schumer, Senator Ben Cardin, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is Jewish and he praised Schumer’s speech.

“I think October 7 changed things in Israel, and the Israelis need to speak as to their leadership,” Cardin, who is retiring at the end of the year, told reporters. Like many Jewish Americans, Cardin also had deep reservations about the Israeli government’s rightward lurch long before October. That move to the far right led to massive protests in Israel, which Durbin pointed out.

“All the demonstrations that led up to this October 7 event indicated there was going to be a change in Israel,” he said.

Senator Peter Welch, who along with Durbin supports a ceasefire, praised Schumer’s speech as “extraordinarily constructive and statesman-like and I am so thrilled to have him stepping up and saying what needs to be said.”