#jewish families

[pomegranateandhoney]

PJ Library sends free high-quality Jewish children’s books to families every month. These stories spark conversations that inspire the whole family to explore and celebrate what they love about Jewish life.

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PJ Library programs are now offered in 40 countries. That’s over seven million children’s books a year being enjoyed by families around the globe. But PJ Library doesn’t just send books — it helps families to connect to, experience, and strengthen Jewish community.

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[screamingfromuz]

look, I knew all the old Jewish families in Jerusalem are somehow connected, but I was not expecting the sheer size and the amount of gossip my mom knows about people how are either some level of cousin or connected through marriage.

we are going to sit down and write down all those stories, because I am not letting all of that get lost.

also, some of those stories are juicy- stealing grooms, madness, betrayal, love jealousy, kindness...

[babyanimalgifs]

When you let your Jewish grandfather babysit your dog...

(Source)

[a-s-fischer]

A US citizen was kidnapped, held for nearly a year, and now found murdered by his captors. Where, my fellow Americans, is your outrage? Did he stop being American because he is a Jew?

[frownyalfred]

I’m sure someone has written it by now but on the off chance they haven’t…I need a fic where Jason never learned how to swim and it never came up when he took on the Robin mantle (maybe he lied, by omission, or maybe it truly never came up in conversation) until a patrol gone wrong where he gets thrown into Gotham Habor and almost drowns. Bruce has to teach him how to swim while dealing with his own guilt over never fully verifying if Jay could swim, because he grew up rich and had lessons in the pool out back and never fully put together — until that awful moment, seeing Jason’s head disappear underwater — that swimming isn’t often an instinct, but something that absolutely has to be learned. and practiced. and they both have to untangle their prides and guilt and do something as simple as jump in the pool together and swim.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Mathias at HuffPost:

A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations. “We commend the students who are exercising their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelming atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retaliation, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza — with U.S. weapons and funding,” the letter states. “These students have come forth with clear demands that their universities divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupation, and demanding safe environments for Palestinians across their campuses. ” Groups that signed the letter include Gen-Z for Change, Working Families Party, IfNotNow Movement, Young Democrats of America Black Caucus, Movement for Black Lives, Sunrise Movement, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Some 900 students have been arrested during anti-war encampments and demonstrations at American universities in the last 10 days, per a tally from Al Jazeera — a tumultuous period that mirrors volatile demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when police arrested at least 700 students. The open letter Monday represents one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests, and makes clear the divide between establishment Democratic figures and social justice groups when it comes to U.S. support for Israel. President Joe Biden has refused so far to condition the sale of weapons to Israel. “Our communities have been horrified to see the militarized and violent response to students protesting an ongoing genocide funded and supported by our government, and our coalition of organizations join millions of our members across the country in standing in solidarity with the students’ efforts in support of the people of Gaza,” Yasmine Taeb, one of the main organizers of the letter, told HuffPost. Taeb is a human rights lawyer and political director at MPower Change, a Muslim social justice group.

“Instead of attacking young people mobilizing for Palestinian human rights, President Biden needs to listen to the majority of Americans who have been calling on him to stop funding and supporting the atrocities committed against the people of Gaza,” Taeb said.

[...] Israel has killed over 33,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, when the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched an attack in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed. In January, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s siege of Gaza — which has displaced 85% of the population and put the occupied territory on the cusp of famine — left Palestinians at risk of experiencing a genocide. Last week, health officials in Gaza said medics had discovered mass graves at hospitals raided by Israeli troops. “We join [the students] in calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” Monday’s letter states. “As we stand in solidarity with the students protesting in encampments across the country, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn the university administration officials’ violent response to their activism, and demand that universities remove the presence of police and other militarized forces from their campuses,” it continues.

[...] Meanwhile, Republican Party officials and right-wing media figures have accused the demonstrations of antisemitism, falsely equating criticism of Israel with bigotry towards Jews. Although there have been scattered reports of actual antisemitic incidents at or near the encampments, many were not perpetrated by students but by interlopers. Many of the student protesters across the country are Jewish. Far-right agitators, including Christian nationalist activists, have also targeted the encampments, with MAGA pastor Sean Feucht leading hundreds of Christian and Jewish Zionists on a march around the Columbia campus on Thursday. The rally ended with pro-Israel demonstrators yelling through the gate at pro-Palestinian Columbia students. “Go back to Gaza!” they screamed.

More than 185 groups, including IfNotNow, Jewish Voice For Peace, MPower Change, and Working Families Party, signed a letter in support of the campus protests against Israel Apartheid State's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

[rodeodeparis]

trump winning mostly due to channeling the economic concerns of american voters into a better campaign (and probably also a few bomb threats) being blamed by hardline dems on arab/muslim/jewish voter treachery is pretty medieval europe coded i have to say

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

[softpinkpomegranate]

*I can’t remember the person who made them.*

[darkhatcatbad]

Thank you to stunning @beccadrawsstuff for inspiration.

To https://www.tumblr.com/beccadrawsstuff/763782425703858176/nice-day-for-a-toxic-old-man-yaoi-wedding-its?source=share

[ichooseyoupikajew]

White Queer People: Listen, Jews. You need to accept that your Israeli family members are evil and admit that they need to die. Israel/Palestine is *not* that complicated!

Also, White Queer People (who are related to GOP State Senators who are directly voting for transphobic policies): How dare people tell us to disavow our family members! You don’t get the right to tell us queer people how we should react to our Republican family members. It’s very complicated!

[screamingfromuz]

The British really fucked us all over lol.

Anyway, have a family story that you might find entertaining:

My grandpa (from a really old Jerusalem family - his mom and dad moved to Tzfat when he was a kid due to family drama reasons i won't be getting into) once accidentally 'stole' a British truck (this was during Mandate times). The Brits had parked their truck while they went to get a drink at a nearby shop, and my grandpa (who was like 10 or early teens at the time) decided it would be cool to pretend to drive the truck, so he climbed in (they hadn't locked it - i don't know if that was common practice at the time) and played with the buttons and switches and whatever he could get his hands on... until he accidentally struck the parking brake. Anyways given that Tzfat is basically a huge mountain, this meant the truck had to obey the laws of gravity. So there went my grandpa in the truck, being chased by two very upset British guys. Somehow he managed to stop the truck before getting into a traffic accident, but his mom was even more furious than the Brits.

First, your grandpa is a brilliant man and I hope he knows it.

Second, between a British General and an Angry Jewish Parent TM, the British is the easy way out.

Third, knowing the kind of Drama that accrued with Jewish families on the Jerusalem Tzfat line... I can guess it's one of like 5 things.

[morgangalaxy43]

He’s rich, he dresses like a bat, he bisexual, he’s autistic, he’s a father of six, he’s Jewish on his mom’s side, he has three awesome parents, he never got out of his emo phase, he’s total a loser and I love him

[botslayer9000]

I've been itching to draw folk costumes for a while now so i figured i'd jump on the international Miku trend! These Mikus are from Ternopil, Ukraine; and Tula, Russia - one for each side of my family <3

Here are the sources I used for each costume:

TERNOPIL -

TULA: