#rating: jewish

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

hello! saw your post a few days ago about being wary of messianic informational sites that masquerade as proper jewish resources. have you heard of one called myjewishlearning [dot] com , and if so is it a proper resource or is it a messianic pretender? i was doing some research before i found your page and wondered if it's an accurate one.

it doesn't look particularly messianic from my surface-level research (and by that i mean i've made it about as deep as the About Us page lol), but wondered if you knew any better! thanks in advance, answer whenever, and have a good day!!

Rating: Jewish

[doberbutts]

Thank you for defending Nazis. They're just little guys. Just misunderstood, with genuine grievances. I noticed you accidentally forgot to defend child rapists. Dumb commies like you are all the same 🙄

Piss on the poor! Also I'm not a commie and never claimed to be one.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

[koshercosplay]

it's time for yet another year of chanukah ratings! that's right folks here are my Very Important Ratings of chanukah memorabilia (or, as I wrote last year with the pun of the century, menorabilia) for this year. Buckle up everyone for a wild ride!

none of these have anything to do with chanukah, but as we all know, chanukah IS the jewish holiday of all time which means it's time to bring out every single piece of even vaguely jewish-related merchandise! 5/10 the transliterations are incorrect

this is most likely a translation error but the thing is I still don't know what was supposed to be there. I want this pillow. I'm gonna start peppering this into my conversations. 7/10 many menorah!

oh no. no no no. why is there always at least one of these. I'm so tired. we have never wanted jewish santa. actually this looks like regular santa just stole those items from a jewish household. maybe santa IS christian after all! 1/10 santa has descended into a life of crime and thievery

it's very funny to me that to goyim chanukah is the live laugh love peace light and joy holiday because of the ~pretty lights~ when in reality it's about a rebellious uprising against our oppressors. AND latkes. 4/10 why is the t in latkes lowercase

no no you see the big floating magen dovid behind thomas jefferson isn't antisemitic, it's just a friendly reminder that jews control the banks! -102938473732/10 hey walmart what the fuck

I for one am ready to accept the hanukkah armadillo as part of the tribe. unfortunately the designers of this were cowards and didn't even give him a kippah or menorah. 6/10 free the menoradillo from bland christmas capitalism and give him a latke

this feels like an advertisement for "I Spy". the menorah isn't kosher. aladdin's lamp is there for some reason. is he jewish? good for him. mizrachi jewish icon. 5/10 scroll back up and read the hebrew

I saved the best for last purely because Tis The Season of the Boob Donuts. once you notice the Boob Donut you can't escape. that's not even how jelly donuts are filled and yet, here we are. 9/10 for boobs and no christmas imagery

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

At my venom lab, we have yearly inspections as mandated by our state to make sure we're up to code/following all regulations/etc. The people who conduct inspections at my lab are alway the same two guys from our state capital, and they always set the date of the inspections around late September.

All this is fine - except they want me to be there (since I do a lot of training and such) and they always, always manage to schedule these inspections either on or the day before Yom Kippur. Literally the only times this hasn't happened is when Yom Kippur has fallen over a weekend.

And then they're like "why isn't the wildlife center guy here?" and my boss has to be like "because he's Jewish and you scheduled this on Yom Kippur again." And they're always like "oh. Yom Kippur? We'll remember that. We'll check next year. Tell him to be here next year."

My boss texted me earlier. Guess which day they've scheduled inspections for.

[slyandthefamilybook]

I've been seeing Fran Drescher get a lot of (well-deserved) love for The Nanny lately, as the show has been having a bit of a fan resurgence on tumblr. So I decided to read up a bit on it and found something that didn't shock me so much as disgust me

Fran Drescher is, obviously, extrenely Jewish, and so is the character Fran Fine. It's one of the things I love about her; her unapologetic nature and her pride in her Jewish identity. But apparently not everyone felt the same way

[thatrandombystander]

Are you fucking kidding me. With all this pinkwashing propaganda the Israeli state puts out about how they will protect and cherish LGBT+ rights unlike those evil homophobic Palestinians which is why you should let us genocide them

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISN'T EVEN LEGAL IN ISRAEL??????

[spacelazarwolf]

Can alternative dairy products like soymilk or almond milk served with meat be considered kosher? Or is it still dairy in spirit?

tbh "still dairy in spirit" is kind of the perfect way to describe how non dairy milk with meat would be viewed under jewish law and discussions of it. like is it technically meat and dairy? no. but one of the arguments against it is basically like, if another jew walked by and saw you eating a burger with a non dairy milkshake, he's not gonna know the milkshake is non dairy. so he might assume that you're eating meat with dairy! and he might assume that if you're doing this that the prohibition of eating meat with dairy has been lifted! which means he might go eat a burger with real dairy, and before you know it you have accidentally caused this poor man to violate halacha! so to be safe, if you're gonna eat meat with non dairy alternatives and are worried about leading others astray, eat in private.

[astriiformes]

On that note. In a coincidence that has my head spinning a bit (exactly one week after I got an official top surgery date??) Guess who has an officially scheduled mikveh date

[quantumfizz]

I kinda get why X-2 changed Stryker from a religious zealot to a fed considering this was made after 9/11 and this kind of critique of the government doing insanely evil shit for the sake of national security was very common and relevant at the time, but it really reduces the impact of the God Loves, Man Kills storyline.

As great as it is, I don't know if you could really adapt that nowadays without some major changes (Kitty's N-word line, even if you understand the context of WHY she's saying it and how it is meant to be uncomfortable and fucked up to say, is something I really don't think you could get away with portraying verbatim). Also for content rating purposes, I don't know how your average producer for Disney-Marvel would be willing to show the opening scene of two Black mutant children being lynched on a playground either

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

is jewishvoice[dot]org jewish?

Rating: Absolutely Not Jewish, Creeptastic Messianic Missionary Site.

This is blatantly messianic propaganda that a) directly targets Jews for conversion to Christianity and b) encourages Christians to have a sense of "ownership" over Jewish traditions in an appropriative, ahistorical, supercessionist, and frankly creepy way. I've put direct quotes from their website under the cut as citations so you can choose to read or not, but on the whole, our recommendation is "Do Not Interact."

~Mod Leora

A: "We want every Jewish person to know that God's plan for them includes Jesus the Messiah."

B: "Want to live more like Yeshua (Jesus)? Take ownership of the heritage you've been grafted into by learning to embrace the traditions and cultures that Jesus Himself celebrated."

[thewingedwolf]

i keep seeing “it doesn’t matter if this post about anti semitism was made by a zionist, it’s still relevant” and i think this is a really deranged thing to say, but it’s a deranged thing that happens all the time so i guess it makes sense that people keep saying it. like, this was also a discussion when the crypto terf thing started going off, where people would say “it doesn’t matter if the op is a transmisogynist it’s a good post” but the op is specifically including trans women in their argument about male privilege which means their fundamental argument is incorrect and at odds with any and all feminist discussion!!! the same way that like, it doesn’t actually matter whether jackson hinkle is making a good point about palestine or not, he’s a far right anti semitic pos grifter and we should be blocking him any time he tries to engage because his fundamental argument is not “palestinians deserve a right to life, dignity, self determination, return, and safety” his argument is “the jews are controlling the media” a zionist will follow up their post about anti semitism with some shit like “i mean these leftists get mad when you call it the israel hamas WAR instead of a genocide, bc they’re anti semitic” while pictures of mutilated children’s corpses are being blasted all over my twitter feed. yes objectively anti semitism is on the rise, but that doesn’t mean you start platforming genocide deniers, sorry. there are plenty of people who don’t like, straight up refer to palestinians as rats that you can reference when discussing the rise in hate crimes!!

[wilted]

qanon genuinely broke my mothers brain she used to be such an intelligent and kind and caring woman now she supports palestine only because she hates muslims less than jewish people

[contemplatingoutlander]

I had no idea that there were more than two genders acknowledged in the ancient Jewish tradition. Given that Christianity is an offshoot of that tradition, one might hope that certain right-wing “Christians” who are currently leading the anti-trans legislation in our country would pay attention. Here are some excerpts from this article by Rabbi Elliot Kukla:

A 2021 study published by The Journal of Adolescent Health found that for people younger than 18, receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy was associated with nearly 40 percent lower odds of having had a suicide attempt in the previous year. It’s not being transgender or nonbinary that kills young people, it’s the shunning, lack of acceptance and transphobia they encounter in the struggle to be who they truly are.

This year, more than 450 bills have been introduced in 44 states, according to the Trans Legislation Tracker, that make it harder for transgender and nonbinary youth to get the support, respect and health care they need to survive. [...] This legislative attack is often framed as a battle between traditional religious values and modern ideas about gender. But we are real people, not ideas, and we have always existed, including within age-old religions. In my own tradition, Judaism, our most sacred texts reflect a multiplicity of gender. This part of Judaism has mostly been obscured by the modern binary world until very recently.

There are four genders beyond male or female that appear in ancient Jewish holy texts hundreds of times. They are considered during discussions about childbirth, marriage, inheritance, holidays, ritual leadership and much more. We were always hiding in plain sight, but recently the research of Jewish studies scholars like Max Strassfeld has demonstrated how nonbinary gender is central to understanding Jewish law and literature as a whole.

When a child was born in the ancient Jewish world it could be designated as a boy, a girl, a “tumtum” (who is neither clearly male nor female), or an “androgynos” (who has both male and female characteristics) based on physical features. There are two more gender designations that form later in life. The “aylonit” is considered female at birth, but develops in an atypical direction. The “saris” is designated male at birth, but later becomes a eunuch.

There is not an exact equivalence between these ancient categories and modern gender identities. Some of these designations are based on biology, some on a person’s role in society. But they show us that people who are more than binary have always been recognized by my religion. We are not a fad.

In fact, Judaism sees us as so ancient that according to one fifth-century interpretation of the Bible, the very first human being, Adam, was actually an androgynos. This explains why Genesis says, “And God created humankind in the divine image, creating it in the image of God,” referring to Adam, the first person, with a singular pronoun. But then, the very same verse says: “creating them male and female.” (1:27). “Them,” in this ancient interpretation, also refers to Adam: a single person who is both male and female. In other words, in this reading of the creation story, the first human being is described with a singular “they” pronoun to express the multiplicity of their gender. In the Mishna, the oldest and most authoritative source of Jewish legal theory, composed in the second century, we learn that anyone who kills or harms an androgynos (either accidentally or on purpose) is subject to the exact same ramifications as someone who hurts a man or woman. That chapter ends with a conversation about whether the androgynos is more like men or women. One of the sages, Rabbi Yossi, suggests that “he is a created being of her own.”

This phrase plays with the gender in Hebrew grammar to poetically express the complexity of the androgynos’s gender. The first time I learned this text, I was with my study partner, a transgender rabbi named Reuben Zellman. “Rabbi Yossi is right,” he said, “but not just about us. Everyone is a created being of their own.” [...] The growing wave of anti-trans bills in the United States represents not just a trans crisis, but a humanitarian crisis. History has shown countless times that when a government limits one group’s legal rights, it will eventually do the same to other groups.

I might be accused of having a “trans agenda.” I do. And it’s the same as my religious and my human agenda. I want trans kids, and all young people, to survive.

[derseprinceoftbd]

I'm just going to say it; Anarchism is, inherently, anti-ethnic minority.

This stance was sparked by all the fuckin "I would actually be a Zionist if I actually believed in states" people in my circles. Like, is this seriously the best we have? People who want to see us die in theory? Because that's what happens to unpopular minorities without statehood.

Without states to protect our rights, the people will hunt and kill us; it only takes a few to wipe out far too many.

States are fundamentally good in concept and often in practice. States are necessary, ideal, and important. People are not so universally harmonious as to be trusted without an entity controlling the monopoly of violence.

[secular-jew]

Truth; Malmö, Sweden is the rape capital of Europe and Marseilles France is the crime capital. What do they both have in common? A high % of Muslim immigrants - where in Marseille, Muslims represent roughly 45% of the city population.