#jewish ask game

[hyperpotamianarch]

You know what, I'll join. I even won't putright answer all these questions here, which is totally not because at least one of those can get a rant from me!

Jumblr ask game:

🐷 Do you keep kosher?

🎂 Do you celebrate your hebrew, your enlgish or both birthdays?

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

🐈 Favorite pet?

🐢 Do you do Tashlich and if so arae you a first day or last day type of person

🤬 have you ever gotten hate mail before and if so do you have a really fun hate ask you'd like to share to be mocked?

👿 Do you have horns? what about a tail? (i.e. what's your favorite purim costume)

📕 Whats your favorite Jewish book to study?

🥔 What is your shameful classic Jewish food confession?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

👁️ favorite Jewish symbol

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[meshaamem-li]

🪿?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

you're getting a hebrew joke:

רב אחד ישב במרפסת ביתו ושתה קפה, ש��פתע 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.

[magnetothemagnificent]

🥔

🥔 What is your shameful classic Jewish food confession?

Maybe it's just the generational poverty speaking, but I think rich egg challah is gross and unnecessary, it just tastes too eggy and has a bad texture.

Thanks for the ask!

[beaniebaneenie]

🎉 (for the jewish ask thing!)

Favorite Chag (holiday)

This is an interesting question for me, especially in the current political climate. There are a lot of things I like about a lot of holidays, including the honey apple cake I make every year for Rosh Hashanah (even though it is a huge pain in the ass because it takes FOREVER).

But I think I'm actually going to say Hannukah.

Hear me out.

As a Jewish person, I spent YEARS reminding people that Christmas is not the only holiday that happens in winter, but also that Hannukah is not "Jewish Christmas". All of us are so used to the whole song and dance.

"no, it's not 'Jewish Christmas'. Just because it's in the winter doesn't mean it's the same holiday. It's not one of the High Holidays. It's not even that important."

A few years ago, when the "War on Christmas" fuckery was really ramping up, there was a popular tweet that made the rounds on Jwitter that said, "we're just saying, you don't hear us complaining about the War On Hannukah, and there actually WAS one."

Which is true. Hannukah is one of the 50% of our holidays that falls into the category: They tried to kill us, it didn't work, let's eat about it.

And the foods are incredible. Latkes, doughnuts, sufganiyot, basically anything fried and/or sweet or made with some type of oil? It's a Hannukah food.

But more than that, Hannukah is about community. It's about a light in the darkness (literally and figuratively, the candle and our people), one we were told would not survive.

Our hopes, dreams, traditions, our culture. From all directions, the message was clear: you will be snuffed out.

Hannukah is about us coming together and deciding that it may seem like a lost cause, but we will still fight for it. Because that light and our strength is fucking worth it. Because we cannot live with ourselves if we do anything less.

And because we fought, because we believed, and gave it everything we had, we did not lose. Our light kept shining.

True, it's not a High Holiday.

But I'm tired of saying that it's not a big deal, especially in view of the darkness that lies ahead. Sharing community, sharing light, and refusing to give up- no matter how deep the darkness or numerous the enemy- is so fucking important right now.

So, may your candles burn bright, and may the festival bring blessings upon you and yours. 💚

[disgruntled-detectives]

👁️ for the jewish ask game?

Ooooo a good one! I love pomegranates and the Star of David most I think. How about you?

[jewishicequeen]

🍷🍾Purim asks!🎭🎉

(Reblog and I'll drop one in your askbox)

1. What's your costume this year?

2. Favorite costume you ever did?

3. Favorite kind of alcohol?

4. Ever attended a Purimshpiel(a theater play of the Megila story)?

5. What're you like when drunk(if you know)?

6. Tell a story of something that went upside-down

7. Any "vort" for purim?

8. The ideal Mishloach Manot for you?

9. Ever wore a mask for a costume?(covid masks count if they're an integral part of the costume)

10. Name all the sons of Haman, without checking!

11. Do you ever cosplay outside of Purim?

12. Best hamentachen filling?

13. Tell us of a character you headcanon as Jewish and how you think they'd celebrate!

14. Give us the bare-bones for a role-swap AU for one of your fandoms!

*15(bonus question)* Any plans for Shushan-Purim?

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

something that really irks me in video games is this certain treatment of religion. specifically: when there is an explicit religion or belief system (explicit here meaning it has a name, describes specific beliefs or practices, or has its Creation Story described) and it's the Only One. no thought given to what other cultures might believe, hell, sometimes there's not even variations in the belief itself. worst though, is when this One Religion is also implied, or directly stated, to be True and Correct. Even whenever the game itself just. treats it to be True and Correct, and often so do fans!

of course, there's often a Singular Exception to this in a token athiest (or anti-theist) characterwho is often grouchy, grumpy, or Troubled in some way shape or form. their story arcs tend to revolve around them seeing the Truth of this particular (and only) religion, in a way that is often Miraculous.

a good example of this would be a certain popular farming sim which i'm not going to name because i'd rather this post Not explode.

in this farming sim we are only introduced to this one religion, something that even the ancient beings and cultures (possibly otherworldly) are shown to believe. some charaters believe more strongly, some believe more passivly, and one activly does not believe and drinks beer, is grumpy and grouchy, and generally a mean character at the start. we get Lore about this belief system, including excerpts from its religious text, items that mean to imply this belief system is True, and there's even a place of worship. as far as i am aware, in the base game we're simply not shown any other beliefs aside from the Lack of Belief (and look how good That character has it (no shame to him of course, i love him, but unfortunatly it is a fact of his character))

The entire thing, quite frankly, strikes me as Incredibly Christian. The lack of consideration of other religions, or what they may or may not believe, and how these religions are tied to different ethnicities and cultures and historie. thestrong beliefe that this One Religion is correct, absolutly so, and furthermore the importance placed upon the fact that it must be correct. The almost Evangalism of these atheist characters being shown to be depressed and miserable without this One True Religion, until their lives are made brighter and happier, usually after witnessing something that cannot be explained in a way Other than the One Religion being True and Correct. This last part doesn't always happen, but it does occur with enough frequency.

It's also incredibly frustrating as well with the homoginization of things, because in real life many many *many* religions are tied to herritage and culture and identity of shared history! It's frankly a touch disturbing seeing such a prominent lack of diversity in a setting, with such a heavy emphasis on all the characters sharing This Religion. No different histories, no different accounts, no different cultures.

i, personally, would just like to see more religions presented in video games, without one of them being Directly Confirmed to be the Good and Correct one that the other characters should be shamed for Not Following

[lostthenfoundmyself]

👁️

“Favorite Jewish symbol?”

I think it has to be חי.

Growing up, Judaism sort of had this association with death for me. None of my family wear a Star of David, so whenever I saw the most well-known symbol of Judaism it was almost always a yellow one. Being Jewish was what got people killed. And Jewishness in my family was something that faded over time, dying with the death of each generation.

And חי is just the complete opposite of that. Life. Living as Jewish, instead of dying. I went to a Shabbat Dinner at Chabad last year when I was feeling lonely and depressed by everything. And that was sort of when it hit me, like, wow, this isn’t some dying tradition. This is alive. Judaism isn’t just something that people are killed for, and isn’t just something staggering along that will die when my granny—the last somewhat-practicing Jew in the family I have regular contact with—dies. We’re alive.

So חי represents what Judaism has come to mean for me now—life, not death—and why it’s important to me even though I have huge amounts of imposter syndrome.

[frownyalfred]

Re ask prompt

Hashtag Jewish Bruce Wayne. My beloved.

Ah yeah!! It’s wild since I don’t think I’ve actually written him a lot in fics as Jewish. Mostly just in hcs here. I need to pepper more Jewish Bruce into my writing writing…

[enlitment]

Top 5 myths/legends/folklore? :)✨

Thank you for the fun ask! ✨ (and sorry for taking so long!)

1. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

I'm not exactly sure why, but it may be my favourite piece of Greek mythology. There's just something about it that resonates with me. I definitely prefer the versions in which Iphigenia gets saved at the last minute by Artemis (and I'm here for any potential queer readings).

I also think it's interesting how it highlights the parallels between a wedding ceremony and a ritual sacrifice (things like white colour symbolising purity, symbolic death of the bride for her old family, priest being present, a subsequent feast, even the fact that blood was technically expected in both cases). Something I've been thinking about ever since I watched the new Contrapoints video.

2. Hyacinth and Apollo

The original death of a twink! Jokes aside, it's quite a tragic story. What I find the most interesting about the myth however is how Hyacinth was mourned/celebrated during the Spartan festival of Hyacinthia. If you want to get really heretic, you could see the festival as a forerunner of some of the later Christian Easter traditions, with the whole death/rebirth motive.

3.  Lady Godiva

One of the earliest examples of women getting involved in British politics!

Again, jokes aside, I do appreciate this legend because it is essentially a story of a woman taking risks for a cause that she believes in. It also brings up the idea that femininity can be used as a weapon. That is not necessarily my most favourite take of all, but it's certainly interesting - and this old English myth captures that perfectly!

also the iconography is so cool I mean--

4. The Legend of El Dorado

I definitely think that the legend of the mythical city filled with gold located somewhere in South America can tell one a lot about European colonialism. Not an expert on it by any means (though I'd love to read more about it at some point), but I really enjoyed how it was portrayed in Voltaire's Candide!

5. The Golem of Prague

Okay, obligatory hometown reference. I do find Jewish folklore genuinely fascinating, and the story of a being made of clay that came to life is perhaps the most interesting of all! Some parallels can be traced with later stories - like Frankenstein - or even with things like robots or AI, if you stretch the definition a bit.

It can be seen as a warning that technology can turn against its creator which dates all the way back to the 16th century!

(I also find it really interesting how much emphasis Jewish culture places on the power of words, and the story of the Golem is a great example of it, since words are literally what brings the golem to life).

[columboscreens]

I hope it isnt rude or presumptuous of me to barge in and vent, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Columbos family. I just finished "no time to die" and I can't get over how bad that episode was. Maybe its me and my headcanons getting in the way but No Way is he from a family of cops. And not a single one of them sounds like they're Italian or new yorkers the blasphemy! To me that mans from an Jewish immigrant family, and proud of it.

combined with:

yeah the whole "family of cops" thing in no time to die came off as cheesy, contrived 90s copaganda, so i just kind of ignore it. it's hardly canon, so feel free to do the same! i picture columbo with a big, loud, italian family myself, in which he's just about the only cop.

I will say though, i actually totally agree that he comes off as more jewish than not. columbo is, in canon, a good little italian boy married to a catholic woman, so the natural assumption is that he, too, is catholic. but peter falk was a very organic, naturalistic actor--as a student of sanford meisner, his primary acting imperative was to live and behave truthfully to the self under imaginary circumstances. so for someone who was barely religious himself in the way "cultural jews" tend to be...

what i'd pay to hear the words "had the fuckin bar mitzvah'" come out of that man's mouth

...to me, falk's "truthful self" is just so jewish to his core that, because he puts so much of himself into the character, it bleeds clean through to columbo, and we get all these jewish mannerisms out of the supposed catholic! (jews, of course, have a rich and historic presence in italy, so there's no preclusion on that front.)

once you notice the little things, you can't stop. his phrasings, his gestures, the ways he interacts with others, his boiled eggs, his gastrointestinal sensitivity, even his sense of humor.

chag pesach sameach

there are, of course, more substantial pieces of evidence than ordering chinese food for his extended family or needing an antacid every time he eats too quickly. i'm not jewish myself, but i grew up in a very jewish neighborhood, had more jewish than gentile friends growing up, and my partner of seven years is jewish. to me, what really codes columbo as a jewish man is how well he embodies many aspects of specifically jewish ethos.

being honorable, sensitive, and humble, he's the ideal mensch. one tenet strongly prioritized in judaism is tzedek, or one's ethical obligation to righteousness, equity, and compassion. he is both moved by suffering and tenaciously committed to justice.

jews hold the deepest respect for both religious and civil law, and you will note that columbo is neither an outsider nor a vigilante--he is a sanctioned agent of the legal system respecting and following the process of the law in his pursuit of murderers. he functions within it, sometimes in spite of it, but not outside of it. when he gets creative, he toes, but never quite crosses the line.

he thinks for himself and thus has a strong moral compass; he treats everyone with kindness and empathizes readily with individual struggle. he is patient, courageous, and clever--all particularly valued qualities in judaism.

(rakish semitic looks aside)

paramount is columbo's intellectual curiosity, love of learning, and propensity to question, which is, too, seen as fundamental to a faith built entirely on asking questions. whether he's gently yet methodically poking holes in a suspect's alibi or wondering how much a random stranger paid for his shoes, he never has a shortage of them. he's a little guy bursting with chutzpah, perfectly at home both asking a prime suspect if he can have a closer look at his hand, and God Himself to spare sodom and gomorrah if he can only find a few good people...

if you really needed any further evidence that he's God's Chosen...

[cherrycurlsvanillapearls]

Shabbat Shalom to my first 10 followers, I'm so honored you decided to join me here 🩷

What are your favourite things to do during Shabbat?

[meshaamem-li]

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

my heart says Purim because Costume Holiday but my soul says Sukkot because of I-con, how am I supposed to choose??

ok I chose it's sukkot.

[magnetothemagnificent]

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(This is the main blog for @tzipporahs-well)

👿 Do you have horns? what about a tail? (i.e. what's your favorite purim costume)

I do not have horns or a tail, but my favorite Purim costume is......well.........I go all out every year for Purim, so every year has been a different costume lol. This past Purim I went all out with a Winter Soldier costume, the year before that I was Magneto as a Regency-era Dandy, this upcoming Purim I'm gonna be classic Bucky Barnes, etc etc. I'm a cosplayer so you know I take Purim very seriously lmfaoo.

I think my favourite costume so far has been my Regency Magneto costume, though, just because of how magnificent and fancy and ornate it is.

[mayybirds]

Important question, do more of the RE8 villagers survive in this version?

Yes, very much yes. I can't, at this time, guarantee any specific characters other than Elena (definitely) and Luiza (probably), and an undetermined number of unnamed villagers, but I definitely plan for some of the villagers to survive.

While the total wipe-out of the Village in RE8 is a lot more believable than other "total wipes" like Raccoon City or the Pueblo in RE4, as it seems significantly smaller than both RC or the Pueblo, and has a more intelligent breed of bioweapon under specific instruction to exterminate the Village, Resident Evil has a weird and kind of uncomfortable history with complete massacres over its long history that I'm always inclined to push against. It's lazy, uninteresting writing to me when it's a trope recycled so frequently... especially given it's very clearly mostly used to provide clean narrative "closure" between each game by eliminating any other survivors other than the main protagonists (and Wesker lol). Like... RE4, for example, functions as a contained narrative because the Pueblo dies at its end. Its function is over in the continued story of "Resident Evil"... it only matters going forth in the context of Leon, Ashley, and Ada as characters. But as a writer, I'm much more intrigued by a version of that story that involves other survivors. What would it mean to live through something like that, not as the hero outsider protagonist, but as a civilian? How do you even recover? Who would you be after?

The weight of the horror of the complete destruction of a place that's isolated to a single game becomes faded when it's the same shit in every game. I'm sick of it, and bored of it. It would hit harder if it wasn't every damn game... better to take it apart and try something new with its empty box.

[vasilissadragomir]

for the fake fic ask game:

a THG fic with: accidental marriage, political intrigue and mutual pining!

OOF this is so hard i’ve been thinking about this one for a WHILE but i think i got it!! in honor of Passover…a Jewish!Everlark (shtetl!District 12, really) AU set during Catching Fire.

The twin burns on their hands aren’t the only things binding Katniss and Peeta together that fateful night before the Passover Seder. When they tear the loaf to drop in the Mellark fireplace together, cleansing the house of chametz before the holiday, they’re transported to another time with another burnt loaf…until they look down to find a toasted piece of bread in each of their hands. And, worse yet, Mrs. Mellark saw the whole thing. Couldn’t they at least have waited to do the toasting under a chuppah? Oy, what a shanda!

As Katniss and Peeta are marched down to the Justice Building by Mrs. Mellark and the town rabbi, Katniss fears the repercussions from President Snow, whose perfect, goyische Capitol wedding was just ruined by the accidental fulfillment of the District 12 tradition.

A month after Peeta stepped on the glass in the Justice Building, making their marriage legal in the eyes of both the state and HaShem, they learn the consequences of their actions when President Snow announces the Quell. With nothing left to lose, Katniss and Peeta start to think that maybe the meshugas they caused could be what saves them in the arena. After all, being star-crossed lovers worked pretty well last time.

In the battle for their culture, their rights, their traditions, and their lives, they can’t help but wonder…is it beshert?

glossary for the goyim:

shtetl - small Jewish towns in Eastern Europe (generally pre WWII for obvious reasons)

Passover - holiday where we don’t eat leavened bread and we often burn it to ensure our houses are entirely bread-free before the holiday

Seder - super long ritual dinner we do on the first night or two of passover

chametz - leavened bread

chuppah - a big ritual tarp we get married under

shanda - scandal

rabbi - Jewish spiritual leader (comparable to a minister or imam)

goyische - goy-like (“goy” means non-Jew; serves a similar role to gringo/a in Spanish-speaking regions)

breaking the glass - wedding tradition where the groom steps on a piece of glass which usually ends the ceremony

HaShem - literally translates to “the name” but is just God (we’re not allowed to say God’s name)

meshugas - ridiculousness, chaos

beshert - basically destiny (“it would’ve happened anyway…”)