#reform rabbi

[mossadspypigeon]

i find it funny that the same secular or reform (american version) or non denominational jews who shit all over the orthodox usually (not always) bend over backwards to be accepting of traditional movements in other religions.

for instance, so many talk about how abusive and hateful chabad is while claiming any criticism of wahhabism or islamism etc = islamophobia. like???

and those are movements led by people who ACTUALLY bastardized their religion due to intolerance.

just interesting how they don’t research their own religion and choose to express those views about their own people while accepting others. maybe extend that acceptance to your own.

if you want to criticize the orthodox btw? do thorough research. read books. LEARN. because most criticisms are extremely ignorant and stem from shit goyim say about us as a whole. same goes for criticizing any religion or belief system. learn about it extensively before you start typing or speaking.

[feygaleh]

this year four new congregants joined our synagogue who are all about the same age as me and all work full time or are full time graduate students. my rabbi saw that i was hanging out with them and he was thrilled and said we should all get dinner together sometime. i tell him “ok! i’ll text the girls” i text the girls. we pick a date. i text my rabbi. he replies “i can’t do dinners, can we do lunch?” like doing dinner wasn’t his damn idea

[faggotry-enjoyer]

guess who is now officially a conversion student

[gay-jewish-bucky]

The CCAR Worship and Practices Committee felt that bet mitzvah best reflected our determinants of inclusivity, honoring Hebrew, and using familiar or existing language.

Importantly, we do not intend for this term to replace “bar mitzvah” and “bat mitzvah” but rather to be an additional, inclusive option for families and youths. While “bet mitzvah” will be our default general term in CCAR materials, we hope that each student will be encouraged to choose the term that’s most meaningful to them.

[greenflower21]

Ok just hear me out:

Omega’s Bat Mitzvah

[unopenablebox]

it's possible that im just experiencing distorting nostalgia for the religious experiences of my childhood. but unfortunately i kind of suspect that the reason i respected and was moved by the sermons of rabbi [redacted for being an astonishingly googleable rabbi even though the rest of my post still makes it easy to google him and also im not even sure knowing this makes me more doxxable] is because he is an extraordinarily insightful, empathetic person who had the moral clarity and courage to vocally denounce the treatment of palestinians from the bimah for years until he eventually got thrown out and had to start his own congregation/work for the quakers instead. and it's possible that any rabbi who still runs anything resembling a mainstream congregation is also going to be, at best, kind of milquetoast/simply not interesting, or at least not obviously possessed of moral and ethical insights that i don't already have from things like "being able to read" and "already having thought about judaism before"

unfortunately i can't just go to the new congregation that rabbi formed bc it's 1. not in a city i live in 2. more of an activist group in kind of a vague congregation shape that mostly made me feel like i'm a disgusting western ashkenazi supremacist for wanting religious practice to involve melodies i know and can sing instead of a rotation of international sephardic melodies accompanied by hand drum

[deathbypufferfish]

Need to figure out FAST how to speak about something serious with an authority figure without wanting to throw up and cry

[rotzaprachim]

the vaguely fleabag-inspired awkward jewish dramedy of my dreams au

Well, Jyn may have had a list of methods to ruin her estranged father’s second marriage, but punching her boss’s shmuck of a husband during the rehearsal dinner sure wasn’t one of them.

And neither was shagging the rabbi.

[tea-is-fing-amazing]

Intro

Hi my name (online) is Scar, pronouns she/her. I’m aroallo so all of you nasty arophobes can F off. As per my url I love tea it makes me absurdly happy you don’t even know. I’m converting to Judaism ✡️ from a pagan religion. It’s relatively slow going but it’s going! I probably won’t post very much outside of communities but yeah. Anyway that’s basically me, hurrah!

[princessg3rard]

is it okay to eat the bible?

well ur not supposed to harm holy parchments, like it counts as disrespect and desecration- BUT a lot of bibles technically aren’t printed on parchments, and also any rabbi will tell u that we don’t count christian bibles as holy so u can technically have a nibble at any christian bible you’d like !! (from a jewish perspective the New Testament is kinda like a shitty sequel that is nothing like the og film)

as it stands with jewish bibles (tanakh singular, tanakhim plural), consult a local rabbi before consuming, but ur safest bet is ones that are paper printed with hard covers (so u can claim u want to protect the text and so on) :3

also we can go into what “eating” would be in that scenario, but that would make this post the next scroll in the bible so we can leave this one out for tlnext time :)

[hollywoodbabylondean]

Beit din next month!!!!

[feygaleh]

when i first moved here years ago my rabbi asked me if i had any jewish friends my age in the area bc he wanted to get me connected with young jews in the city and i said “i only have one jewish friend in the city right now” and she had such a stereotypical first AND last name that he asked me if i was MAKING HER UP

[biglisbonnews]

Rabbi gives a sermon written by AI Via Jerusalem Post: New York Senior Rabbi Josh Franklin, of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, surprised his congregation earlier this week by delivering a sermon written entirely by Artificial Intelligence (AI.) The rabbi used the ChatGPT chatbot, a free-to-access AI program launched in November of last year. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/30/rabbi-gives-a-sermon-written-by-ai.html

[roseband]

oop my fiance hired a justice of the peace for our wedding ceremony

his parents get nothing cultural cuz of the lies... fun fun fun

[thetovplace]

Do get half your knowledge from The Book of Jewish Knowledge

613 Basic Facts about Judaism

By Rabbi David E. Cahn-Lipman

Published in 1991

Please do not get even half of your information about Judaism from tumblr

[whoistheretosee]

Day 25, 26, & 27