#jewish felicity smoak

[sheena-is-a-punk-rocker]

Early in the Morning

My newest addition to my ongoing series of AtomicSmoak ficlets that you can read over on AO3! In this one we go back to the beginnings of their relationship to the morning after they first sleep together. This one... yeah this one got a bit spicy. I partly wrote it just to see if my ace ass even *could* write spice for this pairing. Anyway I expect like one person to read this but hopefully you enjoy it random Tumblr user!

Felicity wakes up slowly—feeling more well rested than she has in years. She can feel herself blush as she remembers the events of last night that led to her being so exhausted in the first place to have slept so well. Events that she would very much like to repeat—except a certain someone is conspicuously absent from the bed—having left only warm sheets behind.

She rolls over and stretches before swinging her legs over the side of the bed. She grabs a gray t-shirt off the floor and slips it over her head. It comes down to her knees when she stands up.

She's lured into the kitchen by the smell of bacon frying and fresh coffee brewing and finds Ray standing over the stove cooking breakfast. Smiling to herself, she creeps up behind him—wrapping her arms around him and burying her face between his shoulder blades.

His hand comes up to grab hers and kiss it. “Morning,” he says.

She kisses his back and mumbles, “Morning,” voice muffled.

“I uh, I forgot to ask if you keep kosher or not.”

She snorts. “Give me all the bacon, please and thank you.”

He turns around to face her—hands snaking around her waist to pull her close. “Sleep okay?”

She nods and buries her face in his chest—being in his arms is enough to almost lull her back to sleep.

“Are you falling asleep on me?” he teases.

“Maybe,” she says coyly, before rolling up on her toes to kiss him. He leans down so she doesn't have to strain her neck but she stills mutters, “Why must you be so friggin' tall?”

He chuckles and hoists her up onto the counter. She squeaks at the sudden movement and clings to his neck. “Better?” he asks.

She nuzzles her nose into his neck. “Much better.”

She realizes she's being extremely clingy right now but she can't find it in her to care. She doesn't think Ray minds either. She can't help it—she's never felt so cared for, so at peace before.

He kisses her temple and rubs her back soothingly. “So... I take it you're not regretting anything from last night?”

“Nope,” she says, popping the P. While it's true she didn't intend to sleep with him that quickly—it was only their third date after all—she doesn't regret a single second of it.

She's not gonna lie to herself and say she doesn't still have feelings for Oliver—she does. But the more time she spends with Ray the weaker those feelings get. Oliver Queen is the last person she wants to be thinking about right now though.

She smiles against Ray's neck and then bites him—gently. His breath hitches. “Whoa, not so sleepy now, are we?”

She digs her teeth in harder and then soothes the sting with her tongue. “Not exactly.”

His grip on her hips tightens as she trails kisses up his neck and along his jawline, ending with a kiss on his lips.

He kisses back immediately, one hand trailing up her thigh—under the hem of his shirt that she'd borrowed—and the other gripping the back of her neck. She moans softly as he starts trailing kisses down the length of her throat craning her neck to give him better access—and his hand is so close to where she needs it to be.

And then her stomach chooses to interrupt the moment by growling loudly.

Truthfully, she is pretty hungry, but she still whines when Ray pulls back—hand sliding down to her knee. “Breakfast first?”

She reluctantly agrees and hops down from the counter so he can finish cooking. As he cracks a couple eggs into a pan he leans down and whispers in her ear what he wants to do with her after breakfast.

After the last dish is put away he picks her up and carries her to the bedroom—and then makes good on that promise.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Happy Hannukah! 🕎

[comradesummers]

the least realistic thing about the entire arrowverse is the fact that they named a jewish girl felicity.

[dctvgen]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arrow (TV 2012) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen, John Diggle Additional Tags: Hanukkah, Friendship, Wine, Chocolate, Team Arrow, Yuletide Summary:

In a way, Felicity was kind of glad that Hanukkah and Thanksgiving weren't going to overlap for another 70,000 years.

[jewishcissiekj]

Feminism lost today huh

DC Comics JewShowdown round 5 - Finals

Yeah so this was predictable

Idk what would be the result of this poll tho

[sokoneedsagun]

Annual reminder that dc is full of Jewish characters and writers including in their mainstream comics

Batman, Batwoman, Harley Quinn, Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer, Felicity Smoak, and Nyssa Raatko (one of Ra’s Al-Ghul’s daughters)

That isn’t even all of them either, most of them are ethnically Jewish and not religiously but it still makes them Jewish either way

[jewishbarbies]

even in the CW DC show Arrow, Felicity Smoak, a Jewish character who is descended from holocaust survivors, is played by a non Jewish white woman. Her Judaism is only mentioned when it comes to holidays like Hanukkah though.

yeah, that’s typical for tv shows. jews aren’t played by jews and the only way you know they’re jews is random yiddish slang, they’re the butt of a joke, and/or they celebrate hanukkah (not usually on screen) or have a menorah somewhere in their house. to hollywood being jewish is just practicing a religion so therefore it’s no different than the character being a christian.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

List of Jewish Characters for the Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo

I've gotten a few requests for a list of Jewish characters to help people brainstorm for the bingo -- just as a reminder, Jewish headcanons and fanons are totally allowed for the event, so if you don't KNOW whether your character is Jewish, it's totally fine to make them Jewish for your fanwork! :)

But, since people asked, here is a little starter-list of 225 fictional Jewish and Jew-ish characters (characters who are "nebulously Jewish," played by Jews, are Jewish in at least one variation of the character, only make sense if they're Jewish, etc.)

Feel free to add! This list is alphabetized by first name.

Abbi Abrams (Broad City) Abby Stevenson (The Baby-Sitters' Club) Adam Birkholtz (Check Please!) Adam Sackler (Girls) Alec Hardison (Leverage, Leverage: Redemption) Alex Kerkovitch (Happy Endings) Alexis Rose (Schitt's Creek) Amy Green (FRIENDS) Amy Matthews (Boy Meets World) Angela Wexler (The Westing Game) Angelica Pickles (Rugrats) Ann Perkins (Parks & Recreation) Anna Stevenson (The Baby-Sitters' Club) Annie Edison (Community) April O'Neill (Rise of the TMNT) Arnie Roth (Marvel) Arnold Perlstein (The Magic School Bus) Aunt Gayle (Bob's Burgers) Bail Organa (Star Wars) Barney Guttman (Dead End Paranormal Park) Ben Geller-Willick (FRIENDS) Ben Grimm | The Thing (Fantastic Four) Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (Star Wars) Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek) Bernie Rosenthal (Marvel) Billy Kaplan | Wicca (MCU, X-Men) Breha Organa (Star Wars)

Bruce Wayne | Batman (DCU) Carl Foutley (As Told By Ginger) Cassie Howard (Euphoria HBO) Cassie Lang (MCU) Catherine Frensky (Arthur) Charles Deetz (Beetlejuice) Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Sex and the City) Cher Horowitz (Clueless) Chuckie Finster (Rugrats) Cindy Hayes (Orange is the New Black) Cole Tillerman (Central Park) Cory Matthews (Boy Meets World) Craig Manning (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy) Cyrus Goodman (Andi Mack) Darcy Lewis (MCU) David "Gordo" Gordon (Lizzie McGuire) David Rose (Schitt's Creek) Desi Harperin (Girls) Dil Pickles (Rugrats) Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) Dodie Bishop (As Told By Ginger) Eddie Munson (Stranger Things) Edward Teach | Blackbeard (Our Flag Means Death) Elaine Benes (Seinfeld) Elijah Krantz (Girls)

Emily Deetz (Beetlejuice) Emma Geller-Green (FRIENDS) Eric Matthews (Boy Meets World) Erik Lehnsherr | Magneto (X-Men) Felicity Smoak (Arrow) Finn (Star Wars) Ford Pines (Gravity Falls) Fox Mulder (The X-Files) Fran Fine (The Nanny) Fran Parker (Girls) Francine Frensky (Arthur) Frankie Landau-Banks (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks) Gene Belcher (Bob's Burgers) George Costanza (Seinfeld) Gert Yorkes (Marvel Runaways) Ginger Foutley (As Told By Ginger) Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) Grace Adler (Will & Grace) Grace Windkloppel Wexler (The Westing Game) Greg Universe (Steven Universe) Gretchen Weiners (Mean Girls) Hal Jordan | Green Lantern (DCU) Han Solo (Star Wars) Hannah Horvath (Girls) Harley Quinn (DCU)

Harold Berman (Hey Arnold!) Harold Hooper (Sesame Street) Helen (Central Park) Holly Wheeler (Stranger Things) Howard Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory) Ilana Wexler (Broad City) Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb) Jack Geller (FRIENDS) Jack Zimmermann (Check Please!) Jake Berenson (Animorphs) Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) Jake Wexler (The Westing Game) James "Bucky" Barnes | Winter Soldier (MCU) James Tiberius Kirk (Star Trek) Jane Foster | The Mighty Thor (MCU) Jane Kerkovitch-Williams (Happy Endings) Jane Smith (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) Janet Perlstein (The Magic School Bus) Janice Littman nee Hosenstein (FRIENDS) Jean-Ralphio Saperstein (Parks & Recreation) Jerry Seinfeld (Seinfeld) Jessi Glaser (Big Mouth) Jill Green (FRIENDS) Jillian Holtzmann (Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) Jimmy Brooks (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Jobal Naberrie (Star Wars)

Johnny Rose (Schitt's Creek) Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things) Josh Lucas (Clueless) Josh Lyman (The West Wing) Joshua Matthews (Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World) Joyce Byers (Stranger Things) Jude Lizowski (6teen) Judy Geller (FRIENDS)

Kady Orloff-Diaz (The Magicians) Karen Wheeler (Stranger Things) Kate Bishop | Hawkeye (MCU) Kate Kane | Batwoman (DCU) Kaydel Ko Connix (Star Wars) Kelsey Pokoly (Craig of the Creek) Kes Dameron (Star Wars) Kimi Finster (Rugrats) Kit Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Kitty Pryde (X-Men) Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons) Kyle Broflovski (South Park) Leah Birch (Big Mouth) Leia Organa (Star Wars) Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lenny Briscoe (Law & Order) Lenny Bruce (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Leo Markus (Will & Grace) Leonard Green (FRIENDS) Lexi Howard (Euphoria HBO) Libby Stein-Torres (The Ghost and Molly McGee) Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Lilly Moscovitz (The Princess Diaries) Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers) Lorna Dane | Polaris (X-Men) Louis Stevens (Even Stevens) Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers) Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) Macie Lightfoot (As Told By Ginger) Marc Spector | Moon Knight (MCU) Margaret Simon (Are You There God? It's Me Margaret) Max Blum (Happy Endings) Michael Moscovitz (The Princess Diaries) Michelle "MJ" Jones (MCU) Midge Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things) Min Green (Why We Broke Up) Missy Foreman-Greenwald (Big Mouth) Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek) Molly Tillerman (Central Park) Mona Lisa Saperstein (Parks & Recreation) Monica Geller (FRIENDS)

Moose Pearson (Pepper Ann) Morgan Matthews (Boy Meets World) Mort the Mortician (Bob's Burgers) Morticia Addams (The Addams Family) Ms. Frizzle (The Magic School Bus) Nadia Diamondstein (The View from Saturday) Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things) Natasha Romanov | Black Widow (MCU) Nick Birch (Big Mouth) Owen Tillerman (Central Park) Padmé Amidala Naberrie (Star Wars) Paige Hunter (Central Park) Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls) Penny Hartz (Happy Endings) Pepper Ann Pearson (Pepper Ann) Peter Parker | Spider-Man (All variants) Pietro Maximoff | Quicksilver (MCU, X-Men) Poe Dameron (Star Wars) Pugsley Addams (The Addams Family) Rachel Berenson (Animorphs) Rachel Berry (Glee) Rachel Green (FRIENDS) Rachel Menken (Mad Men) Ray Ploshansky (Girls) Rebecca Rubin (American Girl)

Ren Stevens (Even Stevens) Riley Matthews (Girl Meets World) Ron Stoppable (Kim Possible) Rose Krensky (American Girl) Ross Geller (FRIENDS) Roza Wasserstein (The Diviners) Ruth bat Seraph | Sabra (MCU) Ruwee Naberrie (Star Wars) Ryoo Naberrie (Star Wars) Sam Manson (Danny Phantom) Sam Windkloppel Westing (The Westing Game) Schmidt (New Girl) Scott Lang | Ant-Man (MCU) Sebastien LeLivre | Booker (The Old Guard) Sergei "Sam Lloyd" Lubovitch (The Diviners) Seth Cohen (The OC) Shara Bey (Star Wars) Shirley Cohen (A League of Their Own) Shoshannah Shapiro (Girls) Sola Naberrie (Star Wars) Spock (Star Trek) Stan Pines (Gravity Falls) Stanley Uris (IT, IT: Chapter Two) Steven Universe (Steven Universe) Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

T.K. Strand (9-1-1) Ted Moseby (How I Met Your Mother) Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things) The Children (How I Met Your Mother) The Goldbergs (The Goldbergs) Tina Belcher (Bob's Burgers) Tina Cohen-Chang (Glee) Tish Katsufrakis (The Weekenders)

Toby Isaacs (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Toby Ziegler (The West Wing) Tommy Pickles (Rugrats) Tommy Shepherd | Speed (MCU, X-Men) Tsabin | Sabé (Star Wars) Turtle Wexler (The Westing Game) Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo) Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Wanda Maximoff | Scarlet Witch (MCU, X-Men) Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family) Will Byers (Stranger Things) Willow Rosenberg (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) Yelena Belova | Black Widow (MCU) Yitzhak (The Old Guard) Zed Necrodopoulous (Disney Channel ZOMBIES) Zevon Necrodopoulous (Disney Channel ZOMBIES) Ziva David (NCIS) Zoey Necrodopoulous (Disney Channel ZOMBIES)

[fortressofserenity]

Dust in the wind

I have a hard time believing the idea that Dust is popular with comic book fans, since from my experience Muslim readers distrust her because she misrepresents Muslim women. Because of this, she never became popular with readers. Kamala Khan, on the other hand, is a character I neither like nor dislike. But she’s objectively more popular than Dust.

However, you have a bunch of pundits saying that she’s forced onto people, that she’s propaganda but I think she’s threatening to them for various reasons. She got the title of Ms Marvel from Carol Danvers, who no longer dresses skimpily at this point. Then she’s one of the least stereotypical Muslim characters in US comics, one who’s more relevant than their favourites.

Kamala Khan is sometimes said by pundits to be nothing more than Sana Amanat’s self-insert, but from what I’ve read she’s just a nonstereotypical Muslim character. These same folks are fine with self-inserts, for as long as they’re either WASPs or white and Jewish (Kate Pryde, Felicity Smoak). How’s that for a troubling pattern?

Let’s face it, if there are cartoon characters that are popular with the masses they’d be more like Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy than Felicity Smoak. Even if Felicity Smoak does have a fanbase, she’ll never be popular with the masses the way Cathy and Blondie are. But you won’t see that many people admitting or realising this, if because that’s because they’re only popular with certain circles.

I could say the same thing about Kate Pryde really, though you might accuse me of anti-Semitism here. But people poop on Muslim characters a lot, like they can’t stand characters that feel like threats to their cultural and religious identities. Yes, I’m saying this as a Christian. Kamala is a character that I don’t care much about either way, but she gets pooped on a lot by right wing geeks.

I even think she’s something of a whipping girl, considering how much flak she gets. Add to that she’s South Asian, I feel they can’t stand her because she isn’t white and a WASP. Kamala Khan has made headlines in normie newspaper websites, something DC’s Stargirl wasn’t subjected to. I guess this adds fuel to their disdain for her, since she’s more popular than Stargirl will ever be.

Like I said, I neither hate nor love Kamala Khan. But I feel she gets a lot of flak for being a Muslim South Asian, maybe too much flak from my personal experience. She’s one of the biggest characters Marvel has in recent memory, but she gets accused of being Sana Amanat’s self-insert often even though similar things can be said of others.

Especially those they like.

[imaginita-est-omnibus]

This, exactly. I have had this conversation so many times with my sibling as we grasp for representation in popular media. We both were raised lighting Shabbat candles and eating homemade Challah every Friday evening, attending religious school on a weekly basis, and observing most of the Jewish holidays both at home and in our synagogue. I am very religious and am planning to attend the JTS. My sibling doesn’t believe in God. But neither of us are able to find true representation in any media that isn’t explicitly about Jews.

This especially comes up in connection to superheroes, as my sibling loves Marvel and I love DC. They both have “Jewish” characters, and both have had their Jewish characters represented in live action, but on my side I’ve got the CW’s Felicity Smoak, who is the most Christian Jewish character I’ve had the displeasure to watch, Ragman, who spouts random Jewish trivia as is necessary to the plot, and the Kane family, who put stones on Kate’s grave instead of flowers. On my sibling’s side, they’ve got the Thing, whose Jewishness amounts to a Chanukkiah in the background of his childhood home, and Moon Knight, who has the best representation so far… in that we see his father sitting Shiva.

I don’t know what it says about the public conception of Judaism that the two best representations (for my experience) in recent TV were both about Jewish mourning rituals, but it’s definitely not enough, definitely not representing my culture, not to mention those who are even more observant than my family. Oh, and also the fact that one of those two is part of an ultra-rich family, and the other has an abusive home life. Hurtful stereotype or bad implications, take your pick Jews.

It hurts even more when you compare it to characters like Ms. Marvel and Daredevil, who we see frequenting their place of worship and drawing strength from their belief and community. There’s no characters like that for the Jewish community on the same level of popularity. My religion feels reduced to “they mourn their dead weirdly and celebrate Christmas with blue decorations,” and it really hurts. I feel more represented by that one old Jewish guy in the Sandman who said the Shema before dying than any of these “Jewish” characters.

my hot take is that, with some exceptions, making a canonically jewish character explicitly secular/detached from judaism is more often than not just lazy writing in shows not devoted to exploring religious themes

i can think of countless jewish characters across entertainment media, but i can name maybe two whose connection to judaism extends beyond their last name, mentioning hannukah during the christmas episode, and a few thrown-in jokes with yiddish words. that would be fine to a degree, but there’s always some sort of “explanation” for why they don’t connect more to their jewish identity, and that explanation is almost always appropriated from dechristian atheists/non-religious people and ill-matched to judaism (usually it’s that they don’t believe in god or the bible story, which isn’t required in judaism anyway)

it’s perfectly acceptable and necessary to show secular jews. but there is a massive spectrum of and between secular and extremely devout jews, with varying beliefs, perspectives, and cultural identities. if you don’t want to do the research to properly represent a group, then don’t do it at all. half-assed representation has the potential to be even more harmful than not representing in the first place

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[ao3feed-westallen]

whole lot better than one dad and mother

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/45604054

by Pastelglitchesxx

The first thing is that William gets sick. He’s running a fever, so, of course, that sends his parents running, too. Literally.

Or, the one where William's parents take care of him— all of them.

Words: 2289, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 59 of take me to your best friend’s house (I loved you then and I love you now)

Fandoms: Arrow (TV 2012), The Flash (TV 2014)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: William Clayton (Arrow TV 2012), Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, Barry Allen, Iris West

Relationships: Barry Allen/Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak/Iris West, Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen/Iris West, Barry Allen/Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak/Iris West, Barry Allen/Felicity Smoak, Barry Allen/Iris West, William Clayton & Barry Allen & Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak & Iris West

Additional Tags: Polyamory, Multiamory March, Multiamory March 2023, Prompt Fic, Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Family Fluff, References to Canon, Parenthood, Good Parent Oliver Queen, Canon Jewish Character, Timeline What Timeline, 5 Things+1 Thing

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/45604054

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

Felicity Smoak is Jewish and does deserve love this December! Because the CW's idea of giving it to her is to throw one single line about Hannukah into every Christmas episode. We can do better!

Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo

WHAT: A fanworks bingo celebrating Jewish (and Jew-ish) characters across any and all fandoms. Write fanfiction and/or create graphics (moodboards, edits, vids, whatever you like) to fill prompts on this overall bingo card. During the 8 nights of Hanukkah, submit your fills to the AO3 collection and/or post them on Tumblr to be reblogged and added to the Bingo Masterpost.

WHY: Jewish characters and Jewish fans are often overlooked or erased during the Winter Holiday Season in favor of “Secret Santa” exchanges, Christmas-themed fics, and the idea that ~Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas~ (which spoiler for all fics in this bingo: it’s not). This panfandom Bingo challenge is to celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe. :)

MORE INFO!

[chaoticbug]

Jewish Felicity Smoak Headcanons

I know Arrow ended like 2 years ago but I got into it over the past year and I need to share my Felicity Smoak judaism headcanons bc the show did not do enough to show it and it is my duty as a jewish fan to expand on that. (this is long and i am sorry)

She is a reform jew, she describes herself more cultural jewish than religiously jewish 

She went to hebrew school on sundays growing up

and that was a big deal bc after Noah left Donna marched down to the local synagogue and said “I can’t afford to put my daughter in classes right now but she is going to get a jewish education and be connected to her culture. I will pay when I can” and the director of education and the rabbi said “yeah sounds good”

Hebrew school was the only time Felicity was around kids her own age bc she skipped a bunch of grades as a kid.

This made Donna even more determined to keep Felicity in Hebrew school so she had peers her own age. This actually upset Felicity because she didn’t understand why she couldn’t also skip grades in hebrew school

The other main reason Donna kept felicity in hebrew school was that it gave her more time for Donna to pick up additional shifts to provide for them

When her classes would do purim spiels, Felicity would volunteer to play Vashti while the other girls in her class would argue over who got to play Esther

Felicity had her bat mitzvah a few weeks after her 13th birthday and her torah portion was Parashat Shoftim which has the famous line “justice justice you shall pursue” and she really took that to heart. (see her future of being a vigilante) 

One time someone asked felicity if she was shomer shabbat and she laughed in their face

she and Rory have played jewish geography, turns out one of Felicity’s friends from Hillel was Rory’s camp counselor

Speaking of, after space camp was a bust felicity tried to bargain to go to jewish sleep away camp for three weeks because her mom said the issue was felicity being away for so long. Donna was heartbroken when she had to say no.

In the original timeline, Felicity burst into tears when she realized she wouldn’t be able to give Mia a proper baby naming ceremony.

After several bad christmases, felicity introduces oliver to the joy of chinese food and a movie on christmas, like any good jew.

Felicity doesn’t have any tattoos because her mother had guilt tripped her enough with the “you can’t be buried with the family if you get a tattoo”

On that same note, Felicity HATES the trend of people her age tattooing their grandparents holocaust numbers on their wrists as a way of saying never forget or to honor their grandparents. She saw the pain looking at the number caused her grandparents and could never do that.

One night felicity asks oliver to make a kugel, she is heartbroken when he makes a sweet kugel when she wanted a savory one. 

Oliver doesn’t get why she is upset, it’s all the same food? Felicity is too frustrated to explain

 while felicity cannot cook, she is excellent at braiding challahs. she makes the coolest round challah come rosh hashanah 

Felicity refuses to be a “two-time jew” and always make sure she makes it to a few other holidays, mostly purim, simchat torah or sukkot at a synagogue and she always makes it to at least one shabbat service a year

one time rory calls her because they are short for a minyan and she races over

When they go traveling, Felicity makes her and Oliver stop in an hold synagogue in every city they visit (She was sick of all the churches)

Felicity takes yom kippur super seriously especially after she joins the team, because even if she knows she’s doing things for the greater good she is still technically participating in some bad things sometimes

after helix and havenrock she is 100% more focused on repenting 

during their breakup, felicity does apologize to oliver in the ten days between rosh hashanah and yom kippur

she makes oliver smash a glass during their wedding reception

Felicity commissioned a gorgeous ketubah for her and Oliver filled with little details about their relationship. (she signed it with a red pen)

she actually fought an ARGUS agent when they said she couldn’t take it with her when she went into witness protection. (she brought it anyways)

The ketubah was hung up in the cabin

 Felicity honors the yahrzeit for every person they lost, even Tommy and Moria who she didn’t know super well. She will always say the mourners kaddish for them

she puts a mezuzah on the door of the bunker and on the doors in the cabin

Felicity laughs every time she ends up one of those “celebrities you didn't know were jewish posts” because she has never tried to hide her judaism.

ok these are a lot lmk if you want more

[starks-anthony]

On the second episode of They Made It Out of Clay, I spoke with Rabbi Rachel Bearman all about canonically Jewish characters in superhero media (including the ones in this picture). We also dive into some of the issues with how many of the characters are portrayed, especially in more mainstream media.

Find links to the new episode here: https://linktr.ee/outofclaypod

[darcylightninglewis]

Where is my fic about Mia complaining about having to learn her Torah portion when William never had to. But then there’s a party and she’s suuuper excited until William goes out of his way to embarrass his little sister (Nana Smoak unknowingly adding to it by dancing as well) and Uncle Rory is the loud obnoxious DJ?

Or, you know, whatever...