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Jewish-Christian Solidarity is me and @mieczyhale making silly little headcanons together

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Sketchy Steve and Bucky animation :)

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"they're taking away our free speech and silencing our peaceful protests on campus!" you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye.

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Russia, 1881: We’re gonna kill any Jew that doesn’t flee Russia. We’re restricting Jewish emigration to Europe, but permitting emigration to the Middle East.

Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia, France, and others, 1933-1945: We’re gonna kill every Jew in Europe. Flee to the US or Palestine, or die trying.

The US, 1927-1952: Yeah sorry we’re restricting Jewish immigrants to like. 300 people per country. So good luck getting in. We recommend that Jews go to Palestine instead. Btw we are looking to take in Nazi scientists if you know any

Egypt, 1947-1950: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Iraq, 1951-1952: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Algeria, 1962-1965: We’re pressuring and intimidating Jews in the hopes that they’ll all leave the country and go to Israel

Egypt, 1956: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel (again)

Egypt and Libya, 1967: We’re rounding up, torturing, and killing all our Jews. The ones that survive can flee to Israel

Poland, 1968: The Jews in our country are already loyal to Israel. They will face dire consequences if they don’t leave our country and go to Israel

Ethiopia, 1974-1985: We’re going to marginalize and eventually try to kill all our Jews, and the only way they can escape is by being airlifted out of the country by Israeli helicopters

The US, 2023: Why can’t the Israeli Jews just go back to where they came from? Don’t they all have dual citizenship or whatever?

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Moody fishnets!

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If you are a proponent of the land back movement, but you are opposed to any and all solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that involve Jewish people living in the Levant (even 100% peacefully alongside other indigenous peoples), then you are an antisemite.

Why? Because you’re either denying Jewish indigeneity or you’re making an exception to your beliefs in order to deprive Jews of a right you willingly grant to others.

If you’re opposed to the land back movement at large, but have made an exception specifically for Jews returning to the Levant, then you presumably only support our right to return as a means to some other end, not on principle. If that other end is removing us from your country or using us as pawns to fulfill some kind of messianic prophecy, then you’re an antisemite.

Advocating for the creation of a Palestinian state does not require you to be antisemitic. Wanting Palestinian civilians to be safe does not require you to be antisemitic. You are choosing to be antisemitic when you could, instead, simply choose not to be.

I don’t know how to make this any simpler.

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The Rogers-Barnes Seder Plate: Finding Yourself in Tradition and Forging New Ones

The plate itself is lovingly hand painted by Steve under the careful guidance of his Jewish husband, Bucky.

The Traditional Seder Plate

Karpas – Greens (often parsley) In Tradition: When dipped in salt water, is symbolic of the tears shed by the Israelites while enslaved in Egypt. For S+B: Also represents regrowth and putting down new roots as we embrace the second chance we've been given at life.

Marror and Charzet – Bitter Herbs (often horse radish & lettuce) In Tradition: Symbolic of the bitterness of Egyptian slavery. For S+B: Also represents the bitterness of the ableism and antisemitism we have faced.

Charoset – Mortar (a mix of apple, nuts, spices & wine) In Tradition: Symbolizes the mortar used by Israelite slaves to build Egyptian structures. For S+B: Also represents the sweetness of us building a life together.

Zeroa – Shank Bone In Tradition: Symbolic of the sacrifice made on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. For S+B: Also represents the sacrifices we have made to survive and to do what is right.

Matzot In Tradition: Symbolic of the bread eaten by the Israelites after leaving Egypt, unleavened because their bread had no time to rise. S+B: Also represents us living through the Great Depression and learning to make the best of what we have.

Zeroa – Shank Bone In Tradition: Symbolic of the sacrifice made on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. For S+B: Also represents the sacrifices we have made to survive and to do what is right.

Beitzahv – Roasted Egg In Tradition: Symbolic of Passover sacrifices made at the Temple. For S+B: Also represents the symbolic end of our old lives in the 20th century and our rebirths into the 21st century.

New Traditions

The Orange – LGBTQ+ Jews The bitter seeds, which are spit out, represent denouncing the bitterness of homophobia, while the sweet and abundant Juice represents the fruitfulness for all Jews when queer Jews are embraced and welcomed as contributing and active members of Jewish life.

Artichoke – Interfaith Families The petals of the artichoke represent the diversity and beauty of the Jewish people, the thistles represent the traditional hesitance towards intermarriage.

When the thistles are softened, we find the heart of the artichoke, this represents us opening our hearts and embracing interfaith families within the Jewish community.

The Star Fruit – Bucky's Personal Exodus The unique shape of the fruit's flesh represents the star on the titanium prosthetic that replaced his flesh arm.

The juice of the star fruit is both sweet and tart. The tartness symbolizes the decades he spent in bondage, the struggle of healing from physical and mental trauma.

The sweetness symbolizes the miracle of his survival, the love that liberated him from HYDRA, the power of reclaiming control of his own mind, the beauty and joy of recovery, his innocence for the crimes of his captors, as well as symbolizing the home he has built with the man who whose love brought him back to himself.

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You Don't Have to Pick a Side, You Can Choose Humanity, You Can Choose Peace

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Sometimes being Jewish it's tempting to ask "why do they hate us so easily" but this is a mistake, there is no why, you only needed the opportunity to give yourselves and each other permission to hate us openly.

The endless success of documentaries on Nazi Wunderwaffe...

The endless success of alternate history "what if the Nazis won WW2"

It all lived in you already, we lived our lives with people using dead Jews as the punchline of their jokes, discovering we are Jewish and feeling instantly compelled to tell a holocaust joke.

You only needed permission to hate Jews, and the sugar that helps you swallow the poison that "hating 40% of the world's Jews is justified because Israel is the bad country and only evil Jews would live in the bad country"... "Hating and targeting this company above all others is ok, because they are owned by an Israeli" ignoring that you are in all practical terms targeting Jewish businesses, in no realistic terms are you different from the person who puts a brick through the window of a Jewish bakery.

You are lobbying your universities to cut ties with Hillel because they are based in Israel... Except it's based in the USA and operates in Israel because it's an organisation that supports students on campus with ritual observance.

You only needed permission to openly hate Jews

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

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The Rogers-Barnes Seder Plate: Finding Yourself in Tradition and Forging New Ones

The plate itself is lovingly hand painted by Steve under the careful guidance of his Jewish husband, Bucky.

The Traditional Seder Plate

Karpas – Greens (often parsley) In Tradition: When dipped in salt water, is symbolic of the tears shed by the Israelites while enslaved in Egypt. For S+B: Also represents regrowth and putting down new roots as we embrace the second chance we've been given at life.

Marror and Charzet – Bitter Herbs (often horse radish & lettuce) In Tradition: Symbolic of the bitterness of Egyptian slavery. For S+B: Also represents the bitterness of the ableism and antisemitism we have faced.

Charoset – Mortar (a mix of apple, nuts, spices & wine) In Tradition: Symbolizes the mortar used by Israelite slaves to build Egyptian structures. For S+B: Also represents the sweetness of us building a life together.

Zeroa – Shank Bone In Tradition: Symbolic of the sacrifice made on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. For S+B: Also represents the sacrifices we have made to survive and to do what is right.

Matzot In Tradition: Symbolic of the bread eaten by the Israelites after leaving Egypt, unleavened because their bread had no time to rise. S+B: Also represents us living through the Great Depression and learning to make the best of what we have.

Zeroa – Shank Bone In Tradition: Symbolic of the sacrifice made on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. For S+B: Also represents the sacrifices we have made to survive and to do what is right.

Beitzahv – Roasted Egg In Tradition: Symbolic of Passover sacrifices made at the Temple. For S+B: Also represents the symbolic end of our old lives in the 20th century and our rebirths into the 21st century.

New Traditions

The Orange – LGBTQ+ Jews The bitter seeds, which are spit out, represent denouncing the bitterness of homophobia, while the sweet and abundant Juice represents the fruitfulness for all Jews when queer Jews are embraced and welcomed as contributing and active members of Jewish life.

Artichoke – Interfaith Families The petals of the artichoke represent the diversity and beauty of the Jewish people, the thistles represent the traditional hesitance towards intermarriage.

When the thistles are softened, we find the heart of the artichoke, this represents us opening our hearts and embracing interfaith families within the Jewish community.

The Star Fruit – Bucky's Personal Exodus The unique shape of the fruit's flesh represents the star on the titanium prosthetic that replaced his flesh arm.

The juice of the star fruit is both sweet and tart. The tartness symbolizes the decades he spent in bondage, the struggle of healing from physical and mental trauma.

The sweetness symbolizes the miracle of his survival, the love that liberated him from HYDRA, the power of reclaiming control of his own mind, the beauty and joy of recovery, his innocence for the crimes of his captors, as well as symbolizing the home he has built with the man who whose love brought him back to himself.

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One of Bucky's favourite things about the present day is that he can easily buy matzah at the grocery store, year-round. Not only that but, "Did you know that you can buy flavoured matzah too, Stevie?! The future is great!"

His favourite flavours are Egg & Onion and Garlic & Rosemary, he always has an entire shelf stocked full of boxes and boxes of Manischewitz. He really, really loves them.

Steve semi-regularly finds Bucky standing alone in the darkened kitchen in the middle of the night, hunched over the island, stuffing his face with his beloved and technically not Passover kosher crackers.

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catch me at the beach this summer pairing an N95 with this t-shirt and a pair of matzah-printed booty shorts