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in a way i'm glad that so many people are showing their asses over the fuckin TERF protocol of the professors of hogwarts or whatever we're gonna call it cause now i know who would stab me if they had a chance
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My jewish community, friends, rabbi, and educators: We are very invested in helping you be jewish. Do you want to help read the haftarah? Here's a chanukiah! You can have it!! Borrow these books! Here's some books! You need more books... Come to pesach! Come to the chanukah party! When are your classes done? We need a minyan for once!
Me and my 50000 IQ: What if I am Secretly Appropriating judaism? What if I am doing a Cultural Appropriation........
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#there comes a point where your concerns about if you are an Appropriative Cultural Appropriator hinders your jewish journey#i think a comforting thing is knowing that my incessant fear about this is confirmation that i love judaism#i love it with my heart and soul and (i feel) i'd be a less realized person without it#and i think people who genuinely engage in cultural appropriation just Do Not Care about the cultures they appropriate from#they don't love the culture enough to respect it and that is a big reason that it even IS appropriation#especially when jewish people are INVITING you to do things... it's not appropriation#i dunno last night i was feeling very anxious about lighting the chanukiah candles because i'm alone#but i've also lit shabbos candles. and it's just like... why would i choose not to engage in this when one day i will have to?#this time next year i will have to light candles. as a jew. and if i have no clue how to do it myself then i'll just avoid it#plus... i love my chanukiah and i want to use it. it is currently decorating my room because i love it#i hope they'll let me take pictures of all the chanukiah that'll be at the party#i'm sure they will because they're very open and they are very accommodating. in fact i'm bringing my clarinet too#i haven't touched that thing in well over four years 😭#but jewish music without a clarinet is like a body with no soul. it's impossible. it is not what g-d wants i think.#i just hope my ability to play by ear hasn't been affected by my lack of playing. i don't have perfect pitch tbc#but i fully believe you can know your instrument so well that you develop an ear for perfect pitch#in fact... i refused to memorize my marching band music because i DID develop that 'perfect pitch' ear. that's my dirty secret#i didn't practice in part because i can't have a space where noone could hear me practice and it's embarrassing and private to me#literally EVERY jew in my life has been almost TOO ecstatic about my jewish journey. i'm very thankful for it#i guess i just didn't think i deserved to have people as happy about me being in judaism as i am#so to be clear this is my brain being rude and dumb. this anxiety has NEVER been reinforced by anyone but myself#so i take full responsibility for it. but i think that anxiety is something many/most converts/jews-in-progress feel
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i do just want to take a second to express mourning for the victims of the simchat torah massacre last year, and also grief for the betrayal, bigotry, and loss of safety that the jewish community has been experiencing since then.
#antisemitism#10/7 massacre#not that it was never a problem before but i've seen how hard it's been for you all as people just. stopped even pretending to care#i'm sorry that you're going through this. it's not okay#you deserve to live. you deserve to be jewish and find joy in it#(i am saying this in an ''i want to make my stance on this absolutely explicitly clear'' kind of way)
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I'm reading a mediocre, rather melodramatic novel from the 1880s--family scandals, secret heirs, all that sort of thing. There's two cousins, Georgina and Lucy. Georgina is married, Lucy isn't; Lucy gets pregnant, and they pass off the baby as Georgina's, to everyone, even her husband (he was out of the country). They name him Lucius. Later Georgina has a child of her own. They name him George. I don't think these people are very good at keeping secrets.
#and this is exactly why I'm reading mediocre novels from the 1880s#I can easily see how to improve them. this is not Beetle levels of bad but it's bad in several important ways (artistic and moral)#the only character I care much about so far is a female Jewish painter who was introduced for two lines for the purpose of being sneered at#and what I want for her is to be in a different book by somebody else (she cannot even meaningfully be said to be in this one tbh)#I take that back. I care about Lucy a bit#she's being written as a Bad Woman but none of the good women have much personality#...she's pretty much Dracula Adaptations Lucy tbh. except with no vampires. at least not yet#she's an appalling snob - awful to servants - and I *think* this is being criticized but it's not quite clear
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it never fails to make me so fucking uncomfortable whenever i see MENA goyim--or muslims from europe that like pretending they're from MENA--on here reblogging judaica and jewish culture for the middle east aesthetic, and then three posts later they reblog something calling for another intifada and insisting that israelis kill children.
like girl, that blood libel is stale and you are cognitively dissonant to the max
#lucky.txt#antisemitism#the amount of times a certain blog has posted jewish stuff for aesthetics only to turn around & post blood libel against israelis is nuts.#i've debated making a post about it for so long because it is really annoying but i'm not into callouts and i figured it might just be her#trying to pretend like the people in the photos she posts aren't jewish. but today she reblogged that pocket golem post and WOW i#did not anticipate how much that would make me uncomfortable. it is pretty clear at this point that she wants to use MENA jews as an#aesthetic while simultaneously denying us the right to our own homeland
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As someone who's primary language is English and doesn't really speak much else besides five different languages and counting of computer, if I'm looking for an as faithful as possible way to read through all of the Judaic religions religious texts given my lingual deficiency in Hebrew, where would I go? Is that even possible? And is this something as a non-jew I am able to do?
Because I know anti-Semites do bait well meaning Jews into pointless arguments and act interested for other cruel purposes (usually to gain trust to later exploit), I'll explain why I'm asking: If you don't follow me, missed the post, or just don't know, my family tree has Nazi's. Plural. Two that anyone can publicly look up if you know my dead lastname or you'll see if you just go through the registry of everyone the Military issued one to during WWII. Now I of course know their beliefs were wrong, terrible, and just disgusting. And as much as my father, my grandparents on my fathers side, and my great grandmother did their best to turn the family away from those kinds of ideals it's obvious that they didn't quite go far enough. With the little exposure I've had to the Jewish beliefs and culture, it's only highlighted the casual Anti-Semitism throughout my life growing up. And you can't fight back against something if you don't know what you're fighting for. Additionally, I've seen the world turn face, more than it already was, against Jewish people. The ongoing conflict with Isreal and Hamas and innocent Jews and Palestinians being caught in the crossfire of an ongoing genocide gone bloody certainly isn't helping, but much of the Anti-Semitic mentality was already there. It's just being said out loud now. And I'm seeing a lot of my great grandfather and his 'Nazi way of thinking' (for lack of a better way to describe it) being more and more commonplace. I can point to all the beliefs the Nazi's had and point out why they were wrong, but I don't know enough about Judaism or Jewish customs to really know how wrong. In the end, I want to do better. I want to learn, because I'm sure there's still things I'm not seeing. And I don't trust half the websites out there because I've been made aware that there's a certain group deliberately disguising itself as Jewish despite being Christian to be a dick (for lack of a better term ... maybe 'cunt' would have also worked? Whichever is harsher really.).
So ... any help is appreciated.
Oh, and just so it's clear: I'll always fight for Jews. This is me asking to be better. I want to be able to understand when a Jewish voice is speaking up to help platform their voice where I can, or when it's someone being harmful and their words are just disguised hate.
#jew#jewish#jewish tumblr#jumblr#jewblr#i'm just seeking knowledge here because it's honestly time to stop being at arms length because of a history I had no say in#also if its not clear#fuck nazi's#fuck antisemitism
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One might wonder why I'm so specifically hung up on the driving issue on Shabbat, when I tend to be liberal on other issues. So let me explain.
In addition to the fact that it is inarguably melacha (forbidden work), I have some major ideological and just practical issues with it, too.
First, by having your community within walking distance, you create a real community. People know where others live and eat by them and socialize more and better. You don't have the immediate "pack everyone up in the car and drive off" flurry after services, but rather more leisurely conversations as you stroll home or to another person's home, or to the park, or to mincha, etc. The instant everyone lives all over and has the ability to just take off to another part of town, you ruin both the slow pace of the day as well as lose out on the closeness of community. (There's also a lot that could be said about Jewish participation in white flight from city centers and how this enables it, but that's a can of worms that I'm not sure I want to open.)
Second, it's a way of treating creation as sacred, because that is a whole 25 hours during which you are not driving your vehicle and therefore burning more fossil fuels. Shabbat is meant to be a day of rest after the seventh day of creation; what better way to honor it than by reducing your impact on the environment?
Third, for those of us who commute, it's not just symbolic work, but invokes the atmosphere of workweek work (not just melacha, which is sometimes much easier than the shabbosdik workaround.) For me, it totally ruins the Shabbos atmosphere every minute I'm in the car, because it just feels like any other day going to my job or running errands.
So even just beyond the fact that it is melacha, there are solid practical reasons to avoid driving on Shabbat.
#to be clear#I'm not judging people who observe Shabbat differently than me#that is 100% your business and your relationship to Judaism and halacha#however I a lot of people have asked me what the big deal is for me about this and treated my observance as bizarre#there are compelling reasons to not drive#and I am not a fan of how people took the driving teshuva#I've read it#basically it says that driving is forbidden melacha but that not being a Jew lost to the Jewish people is better#if you won't be lost to the community it doesn't really apply to you#which is my position re: myself now#but again I am not judging other people's observance#if for no other reason than I too occasionally have to (or choose to for one reason or another) not observe Shabbos in a traditional way#I've had to make concessions for traveling‚ mental health‚ and shalom bayit with my goyische family#it is what it is#but my strong preference and belief in the ideal is to not
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Due to current events my for you tab has been taken over by gddamn antisemites. Like they're going full mask off n then get offended when they get called out on it too.
Guess fighting for human rights is cool and all until Jews are mentioned, then it's too much to ask to be seen as a person and not some fairy tale monster.
#like wtf are u ppl doing!!! the fucking mental gymnastics they go through to justify fucking genocide is olympic level#I'm gonna block on sight from now on. U say antisemitic shit? Good fucking bye.#I'm sick of explaining that yes we jewish people are in fact. u guessed it. people!!#N how tf do so many of these ppl identify as leftist n then turn around n spew borderline nazi to actual nazi propaganda?!#Btw if it's not clear enough I'm Jewish. if ur an antisemite fucking leave.#dy talks#also the jewish ppl who're also supporting this stuff?? like do u guys realize ur just being used or what??
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Serious question what's up with everyone making fun of country nowadays and invoking tropes I don't think I've even seen
"it's backwards and conservative" Do you have any familiarity with Johnny Cash? An activist for Native American rights whose iconic image is the Man In Black as a symbol for the disadvantaged? The songs Folsom Prison Blues? Man In Black? And I know Tumblr loves Dolly Parton as a person, for good reason - 9 To 5, her signature workers' rights protest, isn't quite country, but most of her discography is.
"it's too religious" Fair - several musically excellent songs lean too heavily into Christian themes for me to enjoy as a Jew (though I'm sure Christian audiences love them, progressive ones too). But many of those religious songs evoke more universally applicable ideas of brotherhood, hope, and justice - and are those really things worthy of mockery?
"the emotions are shallow" I See A Darkness is one of the most authentic portrayals of depression in music I know of. Many country songs have themes of love, heartbreak, and drama/tragedy - but those are common to music across nearly all genres, even if specific songs don't land for everyone.
At the end of the day it's just a music genre, yes, but one that does have emotional significance for many people, cultural significance for many others, and as much diversity in content and performer talent as any genre of entertainment.
And it's not very fun to have cherished childhood memories and music that genuinely resonates with you mocked just about everywhere you turn aside from people who are actually fans of it.
#not liking the sound or style of course is a matter of taste#there are plenty of musical genres I have no problem with but can't get into#inspired by a post going around which was plenty funny and 'satisfying'#but the punchline was getting revenge on someone annoying by forcing them to listen to country#to be clear I have no cultural stake in this#I'm Jewish have always lived in Asia and my American family members are just barely under the Mason-Dixon line#just grew up on music like Cash and Parton and am currently obsessed with a much lesser-known folk/country singer#I'm sure for people who do see it as their cultural heritage it's often still more unpleasant to see it mocked#also I'm trying to write a folk/country album myself#and when I told my d&d crowd the first reaction any of them gave was 'country? I feel sorry for your taste'#so uh maybe don't mock things that hold emotional value for people#is a lot of the thesis here
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Just to be clear, I absolutely support Jewish people, and all antisemitism is abhorrent and terrible.
#if you're a leftist and you've fallen into the pit of leftist antisemitism I implore you to read through#Jewish blogs with a clear head - come on unlearn this bigotry too don't be biased#and don't try to turn this post into something it's not#To my followers - I expect the best out of yous after all these years#but if this is too much for you - internalise my first two tags - it will do you good#i mean it with my third tag this post is about antisemitism and supporting people - it's no different to the banner posts of old I'm just#being clear about it because things are really bad out there with dogwhistles and outright antisemitism
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second weekend in a row in which a jewish student here was assaulted near campus. doing great
#strictly speaking jrc and hillel are taking the position that the more recent one was likely not related to antisemitism#and i'm generally inclined to believe them - not exactly unheard of for someone to get punched at a frat for no reason#and jrc has been in contact with the student who would presumably know#but especially in light of the previous weekend (which was really unambiguous) it can be hard to fully trust that yknow#when i say unambiguous i mean like. student was on a street near hillel and jrc#and a group asked if he was jewish then attacked him when he said yes#doesn't get much more clear cut than that
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Being a college student and a conversion student is actually kind of funny because...
Me in college: *silence* *more silence* *I am Not speaking*
Me in ITJ class: This will be my thirtieth time answering questions. This isn't going to be my last, btw. If you even care
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#the funny thing is my rabbi is married to the person running this entire program. and she told my rabbi i talk a Lot#i love both of them to be clear - i just think it's funny#i go days in college without speaking. i don't think i have gone one ITJ class without talking#tbc i love my degree plan (psych) but i don't feel the need to talk#i'm annoying about judaism and psych but in Very different ways
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People will see the Star of David and be like "Is this Zionist propaganda?"
#are you fucking kidding me#also 'i think i'm fine with being called an antisemite now' is not something the good guys say#like if you are capable of understanding why the collective cultural treatment of muslims in the us following 9/11 + the rise of isis = bad#you should understand why treating every jewish person as culpable or guilty by association for israel's deeds is also bad#like how are you all stepping backwards on this#you people will bend over backwards to clear yourselves of guilt when the us does anything so how are you not capable of doing the same#for jewish people??#like you understand this is the attitude israel counts on right?#the more unsafe jewish people are made to feel abroad the more israel's branding as the only safe place for jews#is proven right#be angry at what is happening but dont deny that jewish people have also been faced with a uniquely shitty situation#where people they thought they were safe with are now joining neo nazis and christian radicals and white supremacists#in spreading hate and targeting them bc of an apparent bloodlust and need for retaliation#retaliating against random jewish people is not helping palestine spreading antisemitic tropes is not helping palestine#making your jewish neighbors and friends feel like you're watching them for any excuse to prove theyre one of The Bad Ones is not helping#if you can't acknowledge that jewish people outside of israel feel rightly uneasy bc all u see is 'israeli excuses and propaganda'#YOU. ARE. AN. ANTISEMITE.
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heads up this person is a zionist. and they're also not jewish. they're just a zionist
unfortunately the person who reblogged this onto my dash isn't mutuals and has DMs closed and i can't notify them so i'll just post it here instead.
#i think it's weird to make a post referring to 'queer jews' when you're not jewish but i'm not jewish either so what do i know.#(edit because the person in the replies was also a zionist: to be clear i'm referring to the specific wording of 'queer jew' not the actual#intent of the post. but i guess 'jew queers' would be worse honestly)
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I attended an after kiddush singing event at my synagogue today and there was no one within 10 years of my age
#this happens a surprising amount too#I'm probably the youngest member on any of the leyning rotations#they're still very surprised when I lead anything#(to be clear my synagogue encourages young people to leyn#it's just that most people who actually want to are 50 years older than me#my posts#shul#jewish#judaism#the synagogue#leyning
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Listened to the podcast series 'Eight years hard Labour' which is about the Corbyn years of Labour, and they talk a lot about the Labour party internal divide- there was the internal right wing, who were more like centrists, and the internal left wing, which was the Corbyn side. To tell you where I stand on this man: I voted for Labour, and therefore Corbyn, in both the 2017 and 2019 elections but was absolutely not part of his cult of personality, and I found it disturbing how devoted people got so quickly. Mainly the leftist queer people section of my social circle were doing a LOT of facebook meme posting in the run up to particularly the 2019 election. I could literally look down my feed and see a very long, very detailed defense of how Corbyn could not possibly be even the teeniest bit antisemitic, and below that a different Corbyn devotee would be proclaiming that the only reason Jewish Brits would not vote for Corbyn was because they were all too wealthy. I mean....what more conclusion could I possibly draw from that?? I do not care to get caught in the weeds of whether Corbyn knew what was in the fucking mural or not before saying it shouldn't have been removed, and I know the tabloids really did do plenty of smear jobs on him, but the fact that I could see his devoted supporters becoming antisemitic before my eyes was incredibly damning and was all I needed really. Anyway, obviously Corbyn lost the 2019 election by a massive amount and it was a surprise to literally no one except Corbyn's fans who had been in social media meme echo chambers the whole time. Corbyn left the Labour party and now we have Starmer who leaves a lot to be desired, but is still the head of the most left wing mainstream party. But it made me think- what hope is there for left wing politics in the UK? Can we ever hope for a hard left of the left leaning party that doesn't go off in these weird antisemitic, Putin defending directions? (Oh god...imagine Corbyn being PM during the Ukraine war. :S) Do we always have to settle for centrism just to be on the left of the Tories? We have had leftist governments in our history that brought in genuine social change, the formation of the NHS being the biggest example, so it is possible, but why are things so right wing now, and for so long, especially while things are so objectively shitty for so many people? I don't expect anyone has any answers but I want to hope for better. There are massive limitations to party politics, but I'm not an anarchist and I do think running the country is a job someone has to do. I don't know how to make things better, I just know that genuine compassion for all people is needed in order to do it, not just some people, and I don't know if hard left conspiracy types can ever feel that for people they consider their enemy.
#uk politics#i'm just rambling#btw i did comment on both the corbyn defense screed and the 'jews are all rich' screed (2nd one unfriended also)#1st one i said maybe with the same effort someone made in making this long defense corbyn should put that effort into#meeting Jewish populations in the uk and reassuring them! The person posting it was even like '...oh yeah he probably should shouldn't he'#the corbyn campaign in 2019 was a mess anyway which the podcast goes into in more detail#btw the putin defending part comes from Corbyn's response to the poisoning of the Skripals#he said there was no reason to think it was russia and also said we should send the nerve agent to russia for testing#i'm not saying we should be like 'omg red scare russia is attacking!!!!' but there was evidence to suggest it was putin#which only became more clear- not to mention the accidental death of Dawn Sturgess which happened not long after as a consequence#genuinely so fucked up! this all happened in my hometown and the surrounding area so it's particularly close to home#Corbyn just reacted super weirdly to the whole thing- he was the leader of the labour party but behaving like an online commentator#which i assume is a plus for some and a minus for most#i've tried joining a local socialist group twice now and they are pushing for a socialist party in government#but it's all super corbyn-y vibes with them- i swear it takes very little for them to start ranting about how corbyn was smeared or w/e#like...can we move on from this please!!!#and lessons learned- forget it!#anyway i'm done rambling now.
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