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Happy Jerusalem Day from my plush shark Maggie!! (She’s shy)

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Someone left a comment like “great time to convert when Israel is killing children, mazel tov 🎉” but when I opened the tumblr app they already blocked me 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I don’t have a screenshot but it’s hilarious anyway. That person is not one of the “there are good Jews!! Judaism ≠ Zionism!!!!! Jews ≠ Israel!!!!”, that one is not a hypocrite and admits that they simply hate every single Jew 🤷🏻

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I won’t post these videos with raging fire but I know what’s happening right now, and it’s terrifying. My heart is with Israeli people now (and always). 🙏🏻

Terrorists will fall, nature will heal.

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Surreal: A field of sunflowers in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, and behind it the ruins of the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

Nahal Oz was one of the Israeli villages invaded and brutalized by Gaza on Oct. 7. The terrorists that attacked the kibbutz came from Shejaiya.

They brought death and destruction, but they could not snuff out life in Israel.

And now they live in rubble.

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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You guys have a great strategy! Piss me off over and over again until I start to get cynical and then say “oh look how terrible she is!”

Btw that comment was a reply to this bullshit:

You can also find my confession of eating Palestinian babies, it’s somewhere in the comments too.

Btw do y’all know how my blog turned into politics blog? I was so sick of seeing “death to Israel” shit from my mutuals so I reblogged a few posts about hostages and then posted something like “I hope you will listen to Jewish voices too instead of just blocking me” and almost everyone in our little fandom just blocked me lol. Then I decided not to hide my opinion anymore, and I’m proud of this decision.

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Pomegrante Collar Pins // Crafts and Wonders

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Made by @aka-maayan

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fun fact, the talmud cautions men to “keep their wives away from” women who are known to have sex with women, which is amazing because in addition to that just being an incredible line, it implies that a) there are out queer women in the jewish communities in talmudic times!!!! and b) it is natural to assume that a lot of women who are married to men are bi — maybe even natural to assume they all are! also god just what a mood. imagine being gay wandering around 400 CE babylonia seducing all these married women so often that the leading religious authorities have to warn men about you. iconic

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Everybody gangsta until they have to let Arab refugees in lol

The Spanish government is telling diplomats to stop calling the war a genocide because Spanish law would allow Gazans to have refugee status in Spain

https://okdiario.com/espana/hasta-2-millones-palestinos-pueden-pedir-asilo-espana-acusar-gobierno-israel-genocidio-12913408

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My heart goes out to the people who are in the middle of their conversion journeys. In the past, long before October, I have joked "you know they're dedicated to convert at a helluva risky time"... But in all seriousness, it is fucking scary being a Jew right now, and I have so much love for my future Jews who see that, who don't have the supports around them of family, who have lost friends to rising Jew Hatred and are still on the path to being a part of our people.

I recognise how tough that is.

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AwEsOmE 😎👍😍

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When I read this on Instagram I cried 😭

Which I have so much anger inside of me it's hard for me to cry anymore !

That's so sad .

Anyways this Holocaust survivor touched my heart 💙🇮🇱

Please read the post 🙏

It's beautiful 💙

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Happy pride month 💖

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"The majority of Russian Jews lived in conditions even worse than the poorest of Russian peasants and workers. Many families were crammed into one small house, infant mortality was high, and labour productivity low....Even antisemitic Russian newspapers admitted that the bulk of Russian Jewry was exposed to slow death by starvation."

--Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism, page 57

But please, anti-Zionist antisemites, tell me about your theory that Ashkenazim had the good life, about how you think they were just a pampered little group of privileged folks who had never known hardship. Jews didn't found Israel as a colonizing mission for white supremacy. Jews founded Israel so our culture would not be completely destroyed by the force of our oppressors.

Seriously guys, please read this book if you haven't. Or any well researched history of Zionism written by a competent historian. I stg most people have no fucking idea what Zionism is.

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You are not a Rabbi and you have no authority questioning others conversion processes.

Glad for this ask, because I can clarify my thoughts -

Jews are an ancient people, transcending religious practices, race/ethnicity, language, location, and any other modern day label.

There are 2 ways to be considered one of the tribe: being born into it, or by converting.

First, let's examine how conversion is even possible, if Jews are also a peoplehood and ethnicity, not just a religion:

I'll refer you to @etz-ashashiyot eloquent post for a more in-depth analysis, but in short: when someone becomes Jewish, they are fully adopted into the Jewish people. They are obligated in the same mitzvot, just as a born Jew is, they take on our language (Hebrew, and get a Hebrew name for instance), they adopt our culture and traditions, they are absorbed into our ethnic identity.

Conversion must be done through an acceptable rabbi, one who has a recognized smicha (ordination) by other Jews. Not someone who has studied Jewish texts for 50 years, not someone recognized by a public institution, such as the state of Iowa, not someone who fancies themselves a rabbi.

Converts must learn the basics of Judaism. They learn our history, our fears, our triumphs, our commitment. They learn Jewish thought, and practice. And they must be turned away 3 times - for if they truly want to be Jewish, they would fight for it. Many do.

Of course, I think that's a beautiful thing. In fact, I've often thought that geirim were even cooler than born Jews, because they knew our history, and still chose to join us.

Now, am I questioning converts and how they did it? Usually not. Someone tells me they converted, or want to convert, I think that's dope.

But occasionally, I'll meet someone who claims to have converted, yet simply detests every aspect of their supposed Judaism (Anna Rajagopal comes to mind). Someone who has absolutely no understanding of Jewish thought or experiences. And of them, I will be skeptical. How can you claim to have converted but know nothing of antisemitic rhetoric? (Or even engage in it, as Anna does.) Or claim to have converted, but know nothing of Shabbat, of the meaning of the chagim, of chesed? And most often in those cases, when you investigate, they are not legitimate Jews. Their "conversion" was a joke, whether teacup style, or by some random person who fancies themselves qualified to bestow Judaism on another. Claiming those sort of people as Jews is dangerous. (See post linked if you don't understand why on your own.)

Similarly, if I meet someone who claims to be a religious Jew, yet does not keep shabbat, loudly and proudly eats a bacon cheeseburger on Yom Kippur, and in other ways does not follow Jewish law, I'd suspect if they're really Jewish, or religious. And it's happened before.

There are numerous examples of people, such as Jews for Jesus, pretending to be religious Jews, yet not being Jewish themselves, and infiltrating communities in order to proselytize. Or take the Lebanese Muslim man who pretended to be Jewish and married a Brooklynite under false pretenses.

Furthermore, even real, full fledged Jews can sometimes come under suspicion and be excommunicated, and be considered "not Jewish" anymore (of course they're still Jewish by blood, but the distinction remains nonetheless). Jesus, for one. So was Shabtai Tzvi, after essentially starting a cult and pretending to be the Mashiach. Similarly, Baruch Spinoza was kicked out of the Dutch Jewish community, for claiming beliefs that were simply antithetical to Jewish thought. I'm sure there are many others.

This is NOT to say that we treat everyone with suspicion. But when the occasion arises, it does not do us good to just accept everyone and move on. Jews only survived this long by protecting our boundaries. We are not going to stop doing that now.

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„They will never forgive the Jews for not being annihilated in 1948.“