#just jewish things

[luckys-last-brain-cell]

Every day someone's like "please tell me if this Hebrew/Yiddish is correct before i get it tattooed on me" and people go "don't get it tattooed on you" and the asker is like "is this because of the prohibition on tattoos" and the responders are like "no it's about not getting something tattooed that you need an outside source to verify is correct"

[the-lesser-light]

To every Jewish person:

I hope you are remembering to take care of yourselves.

I hope you are eating well. Staying hydrated. Getting plenty of rest.

I hope you are remembering to take a break from everything. Turn off social media and the news and find some joy.

I hope you remember how strong your people are and how far they have come.

I hope that you remember that you are also strong. Being strong doesn't mean you have to face everything alone.

I hope you look at the sky once a day and find beauty there.

I hope you remember to sing.

I hope you remember how much you are loved. Every single one of us is a gift. We will do what we do best and continue on.

[letsjewthisthing]

Yesterday in shul during the part of the Torah service when you say the shema, I saw a very tiny child in front of me cover his eyes very quickly when we started saying it and then his mother giggled and started to remove his hand. If you know anything about the shema and the Torah service you’ll know that when you say shema you cover your eyes, but you don’t when it’s part of the Torah service. I just thought it was so cute to see this tiny child obviously recognize what we were saying and go “oh! I know what to do here!” And then you could see the learning in real time! Absolutely adorable. Seeing little kids participating in and understanding Jewish rituals is so so special to me.

[twakiju2]

*sighs and unfollows another artist whose art i love*

[we-will-dance-again710]

They don't get to decide when we stop grieving

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

I see your “getting rid of the Christmas tree” and I raise you our “cleaning the wax out of the menorah.”

[avian-misdemeanors]

checking on a tumblr user's post history to see if they're normal about Jews before following or reblogging anything from them

[icemankazansky86]

[extraalligators]

I wish I could find the clip because it sounds like I'm making shit up at this point but I stg I heard Jackson Publick say it- when the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend go to her parents house her mom barely feeds him and won't let him finish a drink. She snatches his glass and starts passive aggressively washing it before he's finished. That's like the highest level of disrespect from a Jewish mom. She barely tolerates king butterfly man lol

[frownyalfred]

in love with the idea of Clark Kent being the bane of little jewish mothers everywhere because Kryptonian biology means he can't put on excess weight and all the little bubbes keep trying to feed him because he's so skinny and baruch hashem once of these days it'll stick (spoiler alert: it doesn't)

[ace7librarian]

At a sleepover with my friends. It's the middle of the night, we just finished a party and we're all drunk teenagers. What are we talking about? Are we talking about the party? Hardly. About relationships? Nope. About mental health? A little bit. We're talking about how fucking terrifying it is to be Jewish at a time like this.

[hachama]

My decorations, day 1.

[the-lesser-light]

Tradition

A Rabbi was embarking on a study of local traditions for Jewish groups. Their focus was in exploring smaller synagogues and finding out if they participated in any older or newer customs and trying to find out where they originated from.

Such as finding a remote synagogue that perhaps said certain prayers on Shabbat in a different order than the usual order.

While visiting a small synagogue in the south, they attended a Shabbat and were intrigued to watch as when they brought out the Torah and went on their rounds through the group. When the carrier or the Torah turned down the center aisle, they would dip down very low, almost as if bowing, for a couple of steps, then would rise and carry on.

They returned the next week and witnessed the same thing. What tradition was this? Some forgotten motion of bowing from one of the old countries? Perhaps something long lost from the days of the Temple?

They spoke with the carriers and they didn't know where it had come from either, but it was something they had seen their predecessors do so they did it too.

The Rabbi did some research into the synagogue themselves and finally spoke with a few members who had been there for a long time.

It turns out, ten years prior, the synagogue had been under construction and one of the beams above had broken and hung down across the path, causing the Torah carriers to have to duck down to prevent them from hitting their heads.

When the beams had been repaired, the carriers were so used to ducking that they continued to do so. The next ones to carry the Torah had seen this and they too started to duck down in the same spot.

Now, years later, head bumping hazard now gone, it was a tradition to always duck in the same spot.

The Rabbi that told us this story today smiled keenly after she finished shaking the Lulav and Etrog in the standard directions then gave a little spin in a circle while shaking them all about. "I hope that ten years from now, someone will pass on my tradition and wonder what grand meaning and ancient custom it comes from. In truth, it's just a personal reminder that this holiday is about joy and that sometimes we just have to be a little silly."

[pomegranteandpith]

last night someone came to the regular queer dance night i run wearing a t-shirt with shape of Israel in keffiyeh pattern and the arabic for 'from the river to the sea' on it. he is an older white man.

today has been spent explaining to the other charity trustees exactly why this contravenes our safe space policy and that no, i don't want him gone, i want the shirt gone.

just sigh.

[twakiju2]

people I thought were my friends stop being antisemitic challenge

[we-will-dance-again710]

OK I'm not trying to be funny here but do any of you actually know what a Zionist is?

All of you saying zionists dni you're evil!!! And then claiming you're not antisemitic?

Please do some reading it's just getting embarrassing

You can hate the Israeli government and be a zionist (a lot of us do!)

You can completely disagree with Israels actions and be a zionist

You can feel sympathy and pain for all those on both sides who are being killed and be a zionist

All zionism is, is the belief that Jews have the right to live in their indigenous land of Israel 🇮🇱

It is truly Not That Complicated

We just want a safe homeland

That's it.

And if you have such an issue with Jews having a safe place to live, you might be just the littlest bit antisemitic