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absolutely insane menorah

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Pride Mezuzahs

If I forgot your flag, tell me. Happy pride to the Jews in my phone.

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Hey you know when a christian does something bad. And other Christians go "oh well they aren't a real christian". And the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy?

Thats how you sound as a Free Palestine protestor when other people in the movement do antisemitic shit and you go "well they're actually a nazi not *actually* a Free Palestine protestor.

Be fucking accountable not dismissive.

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why isn’t there radical solarpunk Jewish futurism. Where’s the art of a future Levant where Jews, Palestinians and Samaritans live side by side in ecological-technological harmony. Where’s the art of shuls on mars. Where’s the art of post-apocalyptic and thriving shtetlakh. WHERE IS IT

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I hate when posts pointing out how fucked up small high control groups (which need to be addressed on a community level) will present barebones tzniut guidelines as a 'isnt this list so horrible and sexist and oppressive?' instead of the actually relevant problem 'people should be able to chose to follow modesty guidelines, instead of being forced to', like wow, you really give orthodox women 0 fucking credit just because they don't assimilate right

orthodox jewish feminists are not less empowered just because they chose to live in a way you find distasteful, just because you don't find following tzniut liberating doesn't mean it can't be for anyone

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it really is something watching people get mad at jews for running their own emergency services programs when everyone also talks about how “community is resistance” and “the system will not take care of us, we have to take care of each other.”

it’s almost like people who have resisted assimilation and have a long history of survival are good at building community. imagine the knowledge you could gain if you viewed them as neighbors and potential allies and just frankly regular human beings instead of threats worthy of immediate mistrust and derision.

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crazy that it's literally 80y since liberation of auschwitz with all these commemorations over and over again every year and still you gotta tell supposedly progressive ppl that nazism is about killing jews, that antisemitism is the core of nazism.

"but the institute for sexual science in 1933-" institute founded and lead by a jewish gay man, who also founded in 1897 first ever queer rights organization. institute that was heavily centered around queerness, which was considered by nazis a symptom of jewish disease rotting the world, as literally everything that nazis didn't approve off. everything that nazis viewed as wrong was the fault of evil jews.

words have meanings, if you mean "fascism", say "fascism", if you mean "ethno-nationalism", say "ethno-nationalism". "nazi" is not an umbrella term for every bad guy.

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no like fr the way that a lot of people look at israelis -- there's no group of people on earth i look at that way. literally no group of people where i'd look at posters of hostages from that group and go "that's obviously genocide propaganda i'm tearing it down." certainly not any group of people where i'd watch a video of their house blowing up and hear a woman crying for her dog in the rubble and point and laugh.

i can't even imagine having that response honestly. i can imagine apathy sure but glee? over people suffering? looking at a whole nationality that way? there's no way

i think that has to corrode your soul. i mean how can't it?

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it really is something watching people get mad at jews for running their own emergency services programs when everyone also talks about how “community is resistance” and “the system will not take care of us, we have to take care of each other.”

it’s almost like people who have resisted assimilation and have a long history of survival are good at building community. imagine the knowledge you could gain if you viewed them as neighbors and potential allies and just frankly regular human beings instead of threats worthy of immediate mistrust and derision.

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Yk fuck it Jewish positivity. From one Jew to another:

I love you Jewish people.

I love you Ashkenazi Jews. I love you Sephardi Jews. I love you Mizrahi Jews. I love you Beta Yisrael Jews. I love you Bukhari Jews. I love you Jews.

I love you Orthodox Jews. I love you conservative Jews. I love you reform Jews. I love you humanitarian Jews. I love you Jews.

I love you Jews who have had a faith crisis before. I love you Jews who have never had a faith crisis before. I love you Jews who are in a faith crisis. I love you Jews.

I love you queer Jews. I love you physically disabled Jews. I love you neurodivergent Jews. I love you mentally disabled Jews. I love you alterhuman Jews. I love you Jews.

I love you born and raised Jews. I love you patrilineal Jews. I love you matrilineal Jews. I love you convert Jews. I love you Jews.

I love you Jews who don’t practice. I love you Jews who do practice. I love you Jews who have a complicated relationship with Judaism. I love you Jews who find nothing but happiness in Judaism. I love you Jews.

I love you Jews. You are beautiful and wonderful and amazing and the world is better with you in it. You are precious and loved in the eyes of Adonai. He loves you. I love you.

I love you Jewish people.

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Tumblr leftists in a nutshell

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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Have you recently finished a work of art or a craft project? There's a bracha for that.

id: Baruch hanotein lanu kisharon litzor yofi v'lehenot mimenu.

Praised be the One who makes us able to create and to enjoy works of beauty./end id

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Being a queer Jew and seeing that every single person who has sent me hate messages and death threats OFF ANON has said in their bio that they are part of the LGBT+ community is so awful.

Over 90% of over antisemitism I've seen on Tumblr, comments, reblogs etc with the most rancid jew-hate has come from self declared members of the queer community. I've always known the queer community had some serious issues with racism and bigotry - spend literally 10 minutes on apps like Grindr to see anti-black hatred, anti-asian hatred, fatshaming, general body image shaming - but it's really something to have people literally hunting you down to abuse you.

The LGBT+ community is just as hate filled as every other group and I hope they can learn and grow in hindsight (I doubt it but I can hope) because I found so much belonging there before the antisemitism explosion.

Queer Jews are part of the LGBT+ community and always will be no matter how much some may be trying to force us out.

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It's hard to be a Jew right now, especially as a convert who is still learning and exploring how I feel about different things. I'm finding it very soul-nurturing to reread Heschel's The Sabbath. Creating, sustaining, nurturing, and experiencing sacred time during Shabbat has helped me reduce that background fear/anger I've felt so often recently.

As Heschel says, on Shabbat "Ye shall kindle no fire - not even the fire of righteousness indignation." In a world where much of our news & media is algorithmically pushed to create the strongest reactions and we are expected to ceaselessly consume images and posts of violence, fear, and divisiveness, having time set aside to celebrate my faith and community and focus on rest over anger, however righteousness, is incredibly healing.

I highly recommend reading it and considering how you create sacred time in your own Shabbat observances 💕

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good morning, we need some rent lowering gunshots around here. if you are gleeful about israelis having missiles explode on their houses and/or believe they deserve it, block me now kthxbai <3