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I read The Familiar, a new book about a Sefardi jew living during the Spanish inquisition,only to see reviews online downplay the importance of her jewishness as if it isn’t the literal plot of the entire novel

Can't wait to be able to buy the book, I've been waiting for it since it was announced!

People seem to always find something to complain about. When it was announced we had people complaining that a goy shouldn't be writing about Jewish experiences and trauma... despite Leigh Bardugo being Jewish, definitely not a goy... But yeah, just ignore those reviews. I hope you still enjoyed it!

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I had an ugly thought, but the more I chew it over the more I’m realizing I’m correct

The reason that (white, Western) leftists are so eager to put a time limit on Jewish indigineity is because if you can time it out, then they know they can wait out having to contend with 1) what they did to indigenous peoples in the Americas, and 2) what they did to enslaved Africans. If they drag someone off their land and forcibly cut them off from their language and pieces of their culture, they just have to wait and then oops! Too late! Not my problem! Victim of the good ol’ cultural melting pot!

But if Jews are still indigenous and still keep our culture after this long, there’s this looming specter from other corners that they are so, so frightened to contend with

And rather than do the work to untangle all this, it’s just easier to lash out at us and revise history

I’m so tired of being their scapegoat

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I love Passover but i'm so sick of Matzah, i hate it. I want my bread back :(

Honestly same

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the fact that fucking ridiculous right wingers and likudniks think they get a free pass to use us as a shield after oct 7 is infuriating to me. like i expected this behavior but come ON. we may have less allies than we thought but you guys (rhetorical you) do NOT get to uphold nazi shit and then say that you're combatting antisemitism when you go after muslim communities!!! Back TF off!!!

this obviously goes the other way too w/ leftist organizations and antisemitism but we've talked about that a lot recently and hoooly shit with all the police activity recently i just... no. you (still rhetorical) don't get to do that.

i still believe firmly in helping other people, even if they wouldn't extend the same courtesy to me in the reverse scenario. i will not let oct 7 radicalize me into becoming a likudnik. i will not, i will not, i will not.

context note: i am israeli-american with family in israel.

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surprise- a casual vent in your inbox!

going on a camping trip, didn't realize it would be over passover. it is half of passover. what am i gonna do ):

Damn anon that really sucks. What are you going to eat? I mean maybe grilled meat, lots of fruit, hummus with veggies, etc. but that would be my personal biggest concern.

Hope you have fun tho! No need to get too anxious about it, think of it as an adventure. Just like Jewish people left their homes in Egypt to live in the desert for decades, so will you leave your home for a few days (hopefully not decades tho).

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I can't with this anymore uhhhhhhggggg

"AITAH for creating a private doc to keep notes on what my racist teacher said"

I have this teacher who said a lot of shit (eg. "Ashkenazi people were Europeans forcefully converted by invading Jews", "the Torah mentions Jesus and Mohammed", "Judaism started in Ethiopia because it's the oldest religion and therefore must come from where all people do", "getting angry at Houthis for attacking Israel is like getting angry at a l*nched man for struggling on the noose", etc.). No one cared that she said these things besides a boy she kept deadnaming, a girl who she used as an example talking about slave r*pe, and a kid who she humiliated in front of the class a few times.

When I reported this shit to the dean he was concerned as fuck and 100000% on my side because he's really cool. And to report the stuff, I'd been using a private google doc to keep track of what she'd said. The principal though was overly optimistic and decided instead of talking to the teacher in private, she would hold a class discussion! Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy. I was less than pleased by this, and at the discussion most people took her side. I eventually decided to share the doc with the other three kids so I could get better firsthand accounts.

But then the doc started spreading.

One of the other kids shared it with this boy who she used to mock and throw under the bus, and he shared it with his friend. Who shared it with another friend. Things went like whisper-down-the-lane until someone, I don't know WHO, got a hold of it and shared it to the whole. Fucking. Class. Including the teacher. People started claiming the doc was Islamophobic and didn't elaborate why, and saying we were only "attacking" the teacher because she was Muslim. Or that we only reported this stuff to get drama and attention. The principal herself even said that this was happening because we have varying cultures, which is BS because I have plenty of Muslim friends who have never said ANY of the shit this lady has. That is waaaayyyy more Islamophobic of a statement and I felt offended on my friends' behalf with that one.

I feel bad for the teacher for seeing that doc, but then again, I myself am suffering because someone leaked all my personal opinions to the class. I'm a super conflict avoidant person because I have severe ADHD and OCD and mild autism (ASD1, to be specific), and I hate being involved. I want to sympathize for her. I really do. But when asked to apologize for what she said, she started defending herself and saying we were all closed-minded for not thinking what we previously thought was wrong. My mom wants to take me out of the class to do an independent study project so I can pass the required course without being in that classroom. Because nothing gets in the way of Jewish parents. Especially during Passover.

My classmates are saying she's a sweet lady and it was wrong of us to get upset at her, so are we the bad guys and/or am I overreacting to this scenario.

Anon I'm going to be very honest here. You are absolutely NTA here. And you're not overreacting at all. Your teacher is being very offensive, not to mention historically wrong.

And the doc? If she didn't want to have her offensive opinions called out in front of everyone, maybe she should stop being offensive.

I'm going to say, personally if she were my teacher the doc would be the least of her problems. She would not like me very much.

I hope you're safe tho, you and the other students she's hurt. You don't deserve to be treated like this

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I'm a leftist israeli jew. I'm in favor of the two state solution. I think I might be a pacifist.

But I've lived here my whole life, and frankly? I don't believe in ceasefires anymore. I love the theory, but I don't believe in the reality of them. Do you know how many ceasefires we've had? What have they ever achieved? Two quiet weeks, and then it's all over again.

But this war pushed me to a whole new level. It hurts me to think this, and I would do anything to be proven wrong. But I don't think I believe that peace is an actual thing we can have anymore.

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always insane to me to see the difference in rallies - israeli rallies are peaceful, respectful. mostly just standing, marching, calling for the release of the hostages, praying, singing. and then the pro palestinian mob riots - screaming, assaulting, shutting down public spaces, spray painting swastikas. and i saw a post that had the NERVE to claim that "pro israeli protests are always more violent than the pro palestinian ones". this is how you know that person hasn't set foot outside in the past 6 months. anyone with eyes and half a braincell can see it.

I've said this before and I can say it again. I don't think I've ever met a Jewish person happy or asking for the death of the innocent Palestinian civillians who have been sadly killed in this war. But lots of people sure feel comfortable asking for the death of innocent Israelis or Jews in general. I am someone who is, on occasion when it is necessary, not against riots and violence against the government and stuff. In this case, that violence is unnecessary and misguided.

(I just want to point out, PLEASE for everyone who sends in vents, we understand your frustration and anger but i think trying to use ableist comparisons to imply a lack of intelligence or common sense isn't cool, it's not funny and it does more harm than good. Again i understand the frustration and that we sometimes can say things with implications we don't mean, but I'd just like to ask you keep that in mind when sending something in)

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I truly don’t know when this will be posted, but I want to put it out there anyways :3 im enlisting tomorrow (tazpitanit if it matters to y’all), and with all the scary implications and added responsibilities all I can really think about is diaspora jews - and how there’s really no one to protect y’all.

I know u guys are brave and amazing and can manage, but idk I’m just so anxious about y’all. u have no one to protect u guys, and it’s not like most gentiles really care about the rising antisemitism… idk maybe it’s just the jewish worry™️ but I can’t stop thinking about u guys :(

pls stay safe and remember that u are so loved and cherished, and that they can never break us. we as a people are about life and survival, and we’ll see the day the people that want us dead will keel over.

I love y’all sm diaspora friends, please stay safe <3

I hope you're safe too!

As for us Jews in diaspora, we are here for each other. I know it hasn't been easy in many places, and I'm also hoping everyone else is safe

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Nationalism destroyed my religion. It crept into our institutions, fed our 2000 years of paranoia, gave our enemies something to hope for. A state for the Jews. The diasporic Jew created what Judaism is today. Our wide variety of music, language, art, literature, and food. Cultures the whole world over. We made beauty of our pain. We hope to return, not as a right, but as a reward for doing what God wishes. To care for their creation, to balance it, to heal its wounds and the wounds of its children. Zionism took that away. Built on a desire to join the goyim in their push for states and land and borders. Just as we had begged for a king against the wishes of God all those years ago, now we wished for a "state of our own." And just as long ago we were given Saul, now we are given Medinat Yisrael. A monster.

I saw this post (not gonna link op as it's against the rules) and I'm kinda on the fence about how to feel?

I think it's normal to have complicated feelings about Israel and the need (or lack of need) for a country or a land for the Jewish people. It's a very nuanced discussion, and sadly that nuance is often lost in many people. I think having a state in the land Jewish people are Indigenous to is important, just as i think having the option to live in Diaspora is important, and the need to preserve the diversity we acquired. I don't think these things are mutually exclusive

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200 days

May they soon be released

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the way these protestors are all so VIOLENT man. eden golan, israel's representative for 2024 eurovision, is getting MURDER THREATS and people support it. noa cochva, miss universe israel 2021, got assaulted at a protest for having a star of david necklace and saying "am yisrael chai". anyone who says antizionism isn't antisemitism is so fucking stupid.

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a new mutual from a fandom I'm in seemed fine enough, I looked over their blog before following back, but then they started reblogging some really antisemetic posts and it sucks because it feels like you can't trust anyone to be human about this.

I'm sorry nonnie you had to go through this, it can be really isolating right now in online spaces when it seems most people are unwilling to even examine that what they post is damaging.

My only advice is when things like this keep happening over and over again, is to take a step aside from online communities and prioritize your well being and find activities that don't need outside input to be fun and relaxing and put your mind off these things. - 🧋

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this is not in any way condoning war or war crimes or civilian casualties, but to everyone who’s been screaming in the streets and calling Israelis and Jews genocidal and yelling ceasefire and intifada at the same time and condemning what’s happening in Gaza without ever once condemning Hamas - what did they expect Israel to do, in response to October 7th, in response to the worst massacre on Jewish life since the Holocaust? what did they think Israel should do? nothing? because doing nothing was saying that Hamas was free to come torture and rape and burn Israelis over and over again, as they’ve said they’d do. no country on earth would suffer what happened that day and do nothing. Hamas knew they were starting a war and thousands of their people would die and didn’t care. what response does the world think should’ve been seen? because it feels like the answer they want is for everyone in Israel from the river to the sea to lay down and die. I don’t understand how they think that’s an answer.

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you will never find people who go out of their ways to harass, assault, and threaten jews like pro palestinians do.

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there is no such thing as an antizionist passover seder.

what the fuck are you celebrating, then? the chance to eat matzo ball soup?

That and finding the afikoman, I guess. - 🧋

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Gettin real tired of seeing "silence is complicity!" type posts from goyim (and pick-me Jews) who had absolutely nothing to say on October 7th and nothing to say about the deluge of antisemitic hate crimes that have been happening all over the world.

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