#jew crew

[gay-otlc]

"love is between a man and a woman" false! love is between me & my bagel :)

[when-wax-wings-melt]

jewish households tomorrow

[heyitsbramgreenfeld]

I’ve somehow never made Hamantaschen in my life, and I decided to change that yesterday. Cue spending hours of trying to make them perfect and still ending up with some burnt bottoms, some filling spilling out, and some of the triangles coming undone 😅 BUT I did it! They may not be the prettiest, but they are sooo good.

(oh, and I am bringing some to the friend I mentioned a few posts ago that really loves Hamantaschen!)

[rabbuy6]

They're laying so much blacktop nearby you can smell it all the way at home and it always reminds me of skipping lunch with the road crew to pick this up at yet another defunct record store.

[dreamofbecoming]

if i don’t immediately headcanon at least one of my favorite characters as jewish, did i really join the fandom?

[gay-otlc]

I was looking for a thorough list of recently published trans books and this list (plus the ones linked for other years) proved to be very helpful.

Except then.

Okay. A lot to unpack here.

Censoring the word Israel. Quite honestly, I always find it annoying when people decide to put an asterisk when typing a word they don't like. I mean, if it's not an actual curse or slur, the asterisk is clearly only there to make a statement "I don't like this thing! I think it's yucky!" and it's just. I'm tired of that in all situations but it's especially weird to censor Israel like that when the word doesn't even exclusively refer to the country- it's been used in prayers long before 1948 and I just. Idk. I've ranted too long about one asterisk.

Fucking weird to remove a book from a list just because an author went on a vacation you didn't like! For one thing, I wanted that list for informational purposes, I don't give a fuck if I agree with all of the authors ideologically. But even so, would they do this if it was any other country? Plenty of countries have done really shitty things. America has done really shitty things! Why is Israel being singled out (hint: antisemitism)

After some googling, I determined that the author is Jewish. Cancelling someone for travelling to Israel like that would be shitty for anyone, but especially if they're Jewish, because visiting the land of Israel is a really significant experience for a lot of Jews. Not because we want to legitimize an apartheid state, but because we have so much history there that we might want to connect with. A lot of people might also have family there! Is it problematic to visit family? And it's really important to many Jews to go to the Western Wall and pray there. Cancelled for wanting a significant religious experience, I guess,

Oh, also, it gets worse if you go to the 2021 book list.

Holy fucking shit. Both of these books did something the creators of the list objected to, except one of them faced much harsher consequences. If I were to guess which book would be met with "that's not great, but it can stay on the list" and "we cannot be associated with this book in any way because we can't support the author's actions," I wouldn't expect the book with the n word to receive the former and the Jewish author travelling to Israel to receive the latter!

Genuinely, these people think a Jew wanting to visit a sacred religious site is worse than literal racism.

Also, the absolute audacity of them to call this book out for antisemitism in the way their antagonist is written. If you actually cared about Jewish people, how about you stop being antisemetic dipshits!

This has been S with today's edition of Bullshit From Goyim. There will be more because goyim do so much bullshit.

[gay-otlc]

*puts on my nerd hat* Okay so! There's this one theory that the tenth plague was caused by bread in ancient Egypt being contaminated by this fungus called ergot. It was a cultural norm for firstborn sons to get prioritized within the family so they would have been the ones to eat the most of the bread. (Or if Egypt was suffering from, say, nine other plagues, it's possible there was little enough bread that only the firstborn sons ate it.) If there was enough of a pattern of Egyptian firstborn sons dying it's entirely possible that people would try to explain this using religion. (a bit more about it here)

It's also super possible that the story of the ten plagues had some different basis in reality or even that it wasn't inspired by any particular event, I just find this very interesting

Atheist here asking questions about the Moses story, could g*d have found a better way of punishing the pharaoh then killing their children? I feel like there could have been better options?

Mostly I’m curious as to what the interpretation of that is.

well I'm an atheist as well so keep that in mind, but I have no idea.

the story is from thousands of years ago, and many stories from that era include bloodshed (in ways we in the modern world may consider unnecessary).

you have to keep in mind that this punishment was the last one of 10, after 9 other plagues to pressure the pharaoh to release the Israelites. those were: turning the river to blood, a bunch of fucking frogs everywhere (or a giant frog, jumblr had a debate about it), lice, invasion of wild animals, a disease on their livestock, scabies, hail, locusts, and total darkness for three days.

Moses went to Pharaoh after every plague, but he didn't budge until the last one, the death of the firstborns in eygypt. and even after he agreed, he changed his mind and sent his army after the escaping Israelites (which lead to the miracle of the parted sea).

that was not Moses's decision to kill the firstborns, the Israelites didn't cheer for their deaths, and we don't celebrate it. I'd like to remind the audience at home of the start of the story, where the Israelites where slaves to the Egyptians, and the (previous) Pharaoh passed a law to throw every male baby to the nile river, that was a human decision enforced by humans.

many other cultures have their fair share stories of bloodshed being presented as good or even heroic, Judaism shouldn't be expected to be an outlier when it's one of the more ancient religions. not to mention the 10 plagues were never really presented as positive in my opinion, they were a necessary evil to free them from slavery.

thanks for the ask! i hope my answer makes sense. again I'm not religious so I may have gotten some things wrong.

[batboyblog]

So the mob was looking for israeli's at an airport. HM. They were demanding "jews" in general and not only israelis. HM. Almost like jewish people would NOT be welcomed with open arms if they left israel in droves. HM. Almost like "every jewish person just needs to leave, you will be fine" isn't a viable solution.

Yeah it seems there was a plane from Tel Aviv and a rumor flew around that it was full of Israeli refugees so a mob showed up to Lynch them.

video of the mob shows them pretty clearly saying "Jews" "give us the Jews!" "where are the Jews?!" "kill the Jews" etc, they rampaged through the airport "looking for the Jews" ripped the place apart it'll be closed till next week because of the damage, the Russian national guard landed military helicopters on the runway to break them up. They went to local hotels and run around the halls screaming for Jews

any ways the plane was not full of Israelis, in fact it doesn't seem like it had any Israelis. It was full of.... sick children and their families returning from Israel where they were getting advanced medical care. There's video of them on a bus begging and trying to tell the mob they weren't Jews and please don't hurt us.

It seems there were a few Jews or Israelis or both at the airport unclear if they were the flight crew or just locals or what, but they were locked up in a safe room in the airport while the riot went on, thankfully no one was murdered

it seems this kind of thing is happening all over the Russian controlled Caucuses, a Jewish cultural center in Kabardino-Balkaria was burned out and defaced with "death to the Yahudam." in Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria there have been protests demanding the authorities expel Jews or hand over the names of Jews so they can be hunted down

[heyitsbramgreenfeld]

Chag Pesach Sameach! And welcome a week full of Matzah.

[gay-otlc]

[id: tags reading #jews on tumblr responding to the second guy: hey maybe don't say that because it's antisemetic

#the second guy: i'm not antisemetic! i just think the world would be a better place if jews didn't exist]

Jews on Tumblr: Hey a lot of formerly Christian atheists are guilty of continuing to uphold harmful Christian Supremacist beliefs and behaviors and that needs to be addressed

Formerly Christian atheists: Hello! It looks like you’ve made a post about Me! Allow me to respond with multiple paragraphs detailing what I Personally think about religion, making several insidiously antisemitic comments along the way. My absolute favorite pastime is simultaneously ignoring and proving your point, with an infuriating lack of self-awareness :)

[troybarnesbucky]

the thing i want people to absorb into their brains for the next four years is that antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that takes many different forms and can look very different depending on who the person is.

elon musk (and his ilk) see jews as powerful and dangerous and elusive. he wants to pander to us for that very reason, hence his hatred of palestinians and his visiting israel etc. he sees us as threat to whiteness but he also fears our “power.”

aoc and her crew see us TOO powerful and, through the contemporary lens of human rights, view jews as oppressors in the oppressor versus oppressed binary. hence her refusal to condemn antisemitism on the left but her obsessed with pointing it out on the right and crying “nazis!” she sees us as a threat to the binary that her and other leftists are obsessed with viewing the world through.

the two of them still subscribe to the same conspiracy theory. how they understand it and how they act on it is based on their worldview more broadly.

it’s all the same. stop comparing or weighing which is better or worse. antisemitism is antisemitism. call it out and don’t let it slide whenever, wherever.

[greenflower21]

I would love to see religious Jews in Star Trek. I would love to see a bridge officer commanding while wearing a long skirt and a mitpachat. I would love to see another bridge officer wearing tzitzit under his uniform and a kippah. I would love to see him wrap tefilin before going to his post. I would love to hear someone offhand mention how those officers both can’t operate their replicators on Saturdays. I would love to see them search for the chabad house on every planet or starbase they visit. I would love to see them say Kaddish for fallen comrades. I would love to see them davening on the Holodeck (except for shabbos). I would love hearing them sing “Gesher Tzar Me’od” while their crew mates look on joyfully confused.

I would love to see at least a few of those things some day

[anshelsgendercrisis]

there is a very viral video in brazilian instagram reels where a girl is sharing “receipts” that the star of david was not ever a jewish symbol at all and is actually an ancient arabic symbol that was APPROPRIATED by jewish people. i hate it here i truly do how do people fall for this antisemitic shit

you know what i’m not even shocked anymore by the unhinged jew hatred crew.

[gay-otlc]

I was the aforementioned friend on tumblr and that was a wild discovery

Sometimes I wonder how many Jews on here I actually just know in real life but don't know that I know because I can't say anything and they can't either.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

"the stories of teenage jewish girls who joined the partisans in lithuania and the crew of jewish women who collected explosives for the auschwitz uprising" I'm intrigued by this—do you have any recommended reading? Or is this all stuff like bottled up in primary sources in an archive somewhere

what's immensely frustrating about literature on this topic (Jewish resistance during the Holocaust) is that a lot of the foundational historical texts from the ~70s are out of print.* the various studies, testimonies, memoirs, etc are scattered throughout archives, edited volumes, out of print books.

that said, here are some titles to get you started:

Laska-Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust

Ofer-Women in the Holocaust

Saidel-Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust**

Suhl-They Fought Back

Waxman-Women in the Holocaust

*Does this enable collective ignorance and idiot Americans who say shit like "the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if they Jews had had guns"? Possibly. Because bro they DID have guns.

**This one is difficult. More so than you would think. And I've been a Holocaust historian for over a decade. Be careful.

ETA: @ladyknightthebrave added: Olga Lengyel's 5 chimneys deals indirectly with the women in the Auschwitz uprising because she helped smuggle stuff between camps