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Challah is a centerpiece 🌺 🌼

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i love love love discovering gaps in my jewish knowledge. there's something immeasurably beautiful about knowing i will spend the rest of my life as a perpetual seeker

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I'm feeling sentimental over converts. i love you. i love seeing Jews-in-progress in my community and on my dash discover things about Judaism that I've taken for granted and take delight in them. I love seeing Jews-in-progress roll up their sleeves and dive enthusiastically into a culture and identity that on my worst days, when being a Jew is just so fucking heavy, I felt like I can't escape. I love watching yall willingly and enthusiastically grapple and wrestle with contradictory ideas and ideals. I love watching you learn a language that I myself can't speak fluently but still grew up with. I love watching you actively, deliberately, conscientiously choose to be a part of my family.

Being a Jew is choice. Even when you're born into it. Thank you for reminding me of that and for giving me the strength, every day, to keep choosing to be a Jew.

Am Yisrael Chai 💜

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… new… Torah… just dropped?

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So it’s not buried at the bottom of a reblog chain-

“Rabbi” May Ye, a lead organizer with JVP Philly, was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2023.

However, according to RRC's requirements for rabbinical candidates (taken from their website)

Candidates must be born of at least one Jewish parent and raised as Jews, or be Jews-by-choice. For Jews-by-choice, we accept conversions from all denominations.

and Ye's own statements to the press:

“My paternal grandfather was incarcerated in the concentration camp at Dachau. I definitely heard stories about the Holocaust and gentle nods to Judaism from my dad in my childhood, but it was never a part of my life growing up,” Ye said. “We were very secular, meaning we didn’t observe Shabbat, we didn’t go to holidays, I didn’t go to Torah school—I really didn’t do anything.”

May Ye does not meet the Reconstructionist standards for being a Jew, and therefore should not have been eligible to attend RRC in the first place.

TLDR: The only Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in the world ordained a goyishe Rabbi who is now leveraging her degree to promote antisemitism.

Stay tuned because I know a couple of Reconstructionist ordained Rabbis that will be very mad about this because it makes a total mockery of their degrees (and because they don't like it when people harass Jewish young people like JVP does). I'm thinking about starting a petition to have her degree rescinded because this is absolutely ridiculous, and it highlights a serious problem of prioritizing "progressive" politics over creating a safe and inclusive Jewish community in the Reconstructionist Movement.

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… new… Torah… just dropped?

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If you hate Jewish people, I hope you break all of the bones in your feet and hands

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Just a short and quick intro to the Jewish holiday Shavuot, which takes place this year from May 25 to May 27. There is so much more to this holiday, and if you'd like to learn more, here is a helpful article! Chag sameach!

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shavua tov and chag shavuot sameach!!!

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The Book of Ruth is a short biblical book that tells the story of a Moabite woman named Ruth who, after her husband dies, follows her Israelite mother-in-law, Naomi. Ruth gleans in the fields of Boaz, a wealthy landowner who is a relative of Naomi's. Ruth and Boaz eventually marry and have a son, Obed, who is the grandfather of King David.

The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

* The Book of Ruth is a story of redemption and hope. Ruth. who is a non-Jew, not only is welcomed by Jews but eventually becomes the ancestor of King David.

* The Book of Ruth is also a story of kindness and generosity. Ruth shows great kindness to Naomi, even though Naomi is not her biological mother. Boaz also shows great kindness to Ruth, by marrying her and providing for her and her son.

* The Book of Ruth is also a story of harvest. The story takes place during the barley harvest, and Ruth's act of gleaning is a reminder of the importance of agriculture and the land. Shavuot, is also a holiday that celebrates the first fruits of the harvest.

Unlike social media- Ruth was not out to get followers or fame. She simply loved genuinely and was loved in return. In her famous words... But Ruth said, "Don't force me to leave you; don't make me go home. Where you go, I go; and where you live, I'Il live. Your people are my people, your God is my god; where you die, I'Il die, and that's where l'll be buried, so help me GOD-not even death itself is going to come between us!"

Afshine Emrani

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i don't think I can make it this year but. Please look at los siete sielos, a shavuot challah !! the rings are meant to symbolize clouds around sinai!! (at least this is the greek sephardi explanation i know!) it makes me happy

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Good ways for Ashkenazi Jewish Americans to learn about other Jewish traditions and create more inclusive Jewish communities:

go visit your nearest sephardic synagogue (all the oldest congregations in the Americas follow sephardic rites)

go to events organized by SAMI if you're a college student

check to see if your nearest jewish museum has any upcoming events featuring jewish speakers from whatever minhag you're trying to learn more about

and if you absolutely cannot find any non-ashkenazi jews or jewish organizations near you-

get on a plane

go to Israel and say hi

Bad ways for Ashkenazi Jews in America to learn about other jewish traditions and create more inclusive Jewish communities:

advocating for the death of all zionists

making up random shit about how much fun jews had under muslim rule

denying that all Jews are one people

imposing a cultural boycott on all things israeli

refusing to engage with any jewish voices outside of american jews that are hoping to assimilate into the american mainstream by cutting themselves off from all other jews

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I'm reform but I think wearing tichel after marriage is such a beautiful concept and if I'm ever blessed by marriage I think I'd want to start covering

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It must suck to be Jewish and hate the color blue especially in the West

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If you’re not Jewish, you can kindly shut the fuck up about the following:

The Talmud

Zionism

What is or is not antisemitism

The word “goy/goyim”

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