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March 2025: Jerusalem Orthodox Jews take part in a parade to celebrate Purim, a festival that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian Empire 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the biblical book of Esther Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

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I’m thinking back on like my rebel phase in my mid teens when I decided to didn’t wanna be frum anymore (I was going through stuff) and like honestly I was so bad at not being frum.

wearing pants? As long as it was underneath my skirt. Not being shomer Shabbat? I would secretly use my phone but you wouldn’t ever catch me sorting something on Shabbat. Not keeping kashrut? over my dead body! Like I can keep going it’s kinda sad tbh.

I was just so bad at it, I had to put in actual effort to not be orthodox. Like it’s not embarrassing enough that I went through a rebel phase, I had to be bad at it too. It wasn’t even a proper rebel phase, no one knew it was happening other than me and a few friends. I was just rebelling against myself lowkey.

Anyways I’m frum again now,,,shocker i know

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Non-Jews who don’t know enough Hebrew to know whether goyim is singular or plural calling themselves goyim is honestly so cringe. You don’t speak Hebrew. That’s totally fine. Just use English. Literally just say you’re not Jewish. It’s so easy.

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I've mentioned before that antisemites, to varying degrees, imagine Jews as lacking interiority, and what I am using that word to mean is "an interior emotional and mental experience." This often comes in the form of antisemites imagining that Jews make decisions and choices in order to trick or deceive them (or God), rather than for our own reasons. They see all of our actions as performative -- not in the sense of empty or fake, but in the sense of existing for the sake of their perception.

This shows up in many different contexts. One, which I've spoken about before, is the way some people view Jewish legal "loopholes." Take for example Shabbos lamp, which is a lamp with a wooden or plastic cover that can be rotated such that the lamp can be left on for all of Shabbat but can be covered when the user wants darkness:

This is because many Jewish communities hold that it's forbidden to open and close electrical circuits on Shabbat, so this enables people in those communities to be able to choose to lighten or darken their room without breaking Jewish law.

However, a lot of people who are not part of these communities do not realize that the prohibition is on opening and closing circuits, and believe it's about "using" electricity more generally -- and thus see a Shabbos lamp as "cheating." Those with a penchant for antisemitism take it a step farther and see this as an attempt by Jews to "trick God" into believing that we are pious and following all of God's rules when in "reality" we are breaking them. Some also believe we are trying to trick them.

Rather, it is our attempt to put into practice that the commandments are to enrich our lives, not make us miserable; we find approved ways within the laws to meet our needs. The laws are not for asceticism or proving piety, they are a system of holiness, and so finding solutions that the law approves of is not cheating. And God cannot be tricked.

That is to say: we have reasons for doing things based on our own spiritual, religious, and practical needs, not based on how it looks to others. And we are not trying to trick anybody.

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Can someone tell me why there isn't much mainstream criticism of the Talmud, despite the fact it should really be open to scrutiny like any other religious book.

It's bizzare when you consider how many white people follow the religion, though I suppose Israel's just a secular project anyways.

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locking in

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I frequently mourn the fact that so little is commonly known about the smaller details of traditional Jewish life. And I don't mean diaspora Jewish life, it's amazing how much we know and have preserved of various diaspora community traditions.

I mean ancient Judean lifestyles. And yes, the Torah outlines a lot of it, which is amazing. But I don't want to just know that Judean women wore jewelry or nose rings or etc, I want to be able to know what our traditional Jewish jewelry looked like. Smaller specifics instead of the broad strokes.

We can know what religious garb looked like, and even the general gist of day to day clothing. But I want to know specifically what colors people would dye their clothes for their personal tastes, the specific embroidery designs that were worn.

I want to know how traditional Judean women wore their hair, both how they wore their head coverings (knot styles, accessories for the coverings, etc) and how unmarried women would adorn their heads.

I want to know what traditional Judean makeup looked like, what toys the children played with, so so so many aspects of ancient Jewish life that I have been able to find nothing about.

Maybe, of course, I just don't know enough history. But I've tried googling these things and I have not ever found a satisfactory answer.

I wish to know what traditional, pre-occupation, pre-exile Jewish life was like.

If anyone knows anything about any of this, please please please reblog or send an ask or comment about anything you know.

This topic is of great interest to me but I'm not great at finding good history information, I've got more experience doing in-depth research on current events and politics.

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As usual—and as cosmically predicted—when an Israeli turned away from a Kyoto hotel, not for behavior, but for nationality, the internet applauds—47,000 people engaging in moral grandstanding masquerading as justice. Discrimination just got a standing ovation.

Meanwhile, posts from Jewish voices calling out the discrimination barely scrape 1,000. It’s a digital double standard: hate spreads like wildfire, but the people experiencing it struggle to be heard.

Posts dress up antisemitism as “activism"— hate becomes palatable when it’s wrapped in ideological jargon or partisan posturing. It’s brutal: hate is loud, proud, and viral, while those living it are drowned out and ignored. When did cruelty become more clickable than calling out cruelty ?

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Americans stop making the Israel/Iran conflict about them challenge impossible

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I’m genuinely so confused at where this idea that Jews have this tradition of grappling with the concept of G-D comes from like?? Last time I checked like the most important thing in Judaism is to believe in Hashem ?? Like am I missing something cause I’m so ??? over this

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by the way if you all needed any more proof of the horseshoe theory, nick fuentes is supporting zohran mamdani lol.

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Hashem give me strength. A Jewish man is mansplaining goyische misogyny. Jewish women truly suffer the Most

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I love you, Israelis in my phone. Stay safe.

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god i gotta get off reels. stumbled across one with a yemenite israeli being like "im not european, here are pics of my yemenite grandparents" and the comments are filled with "so you admit it, you're not from palestine, go back to yemen" you cannot possibly be this stupid

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no tf?

Don't forget to reblog and explain your choice in the tags!

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“I hate how Zionists have re-defined ‘antisemitism’ to mean any criticism of Israel,” say the people who have re-defined “criticism” to mean “unvarnished, murderous hatred.”