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I genuinely believe that some people could encounter a button that says “if you push this button everyone in the world has the opportunity to live a better life and your life remains exactly the same” and they would not push it.

They’d be like “well that button’s not fair to me, though,” even though there’s literally no other buttons around and nothing newly bad would happen to them if the button was pushed.

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prince of egypt is not a christian movie. the exodus is a jewish story. it’s found in other religions, and can even have a heightened level of significance, like for black (specifically african american) christians. but it is a jewish story from jewish scripture written from a jewish perspective about jewish persecution. enjoy it all you want. but don’t go on about how much you love prince of egypt then erase the fundamental jewish spirit of it.

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two of my friends i had a crush on (at the same time) confessed to each other that THEY had a crush on each other but not on me

WHAT IS THIS💀

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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

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chag pesach samech!

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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

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not to complain or anything but even just wanting to convert to judaism is not easy

as i've explained in another post the reform congregation i've messaged said they only convert people who have jewish partners. i will probably write them another email to ask if they're serious about that but if they truly are, then my options for finding another congregation are slim

where i live we have a few jewish communities. they're all orthodox, except for the reform one that i already messaged and a conservative one. the issue is that they're all really far away (2+ hour drive when using public transport, car is not possible for me)

the closest two are the reform one and an orthodox one (both around 40 minute drive with public transport). i think orthodox judaism is great in many ways, but i'm not the optimal candidate for it (gay, not quite cisgender)

so unless the orthodox congregation near me LOVES that i will have to use public transport on shabbat to get to shul and that i'm queer, my only options are to hope that the reform congregation was just playing or that the conservative congregation 2+ hours away will let me convert 🙂

or i pray that i coincidentally fall in love with a jew and marry them but i doubt that that will just happen because what are the chances lmao

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i just got an email back from the local reform rabbi i contacted and they said "conversions are only possible if the person has a jewish partner"

so that was that, i guess. there's only an orthodox congregation left in my city that i could ask, but i assume they would be even less likely to say yes because i don't live within walking distance of the synagogue

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collection

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i had a dream about eating hamantaschen tonight

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if you're orthodox jewish and queer, how have your experiences been?

i guess it depends on where you live and the congregation, but i'm quite curious because i've heard about super open minded and accepting communities, and the total opposite.

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This week, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

"I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!"

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life. - Dov Forman 

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Hello friend! Just wanted to share some Jewish joy :) I converted almost 3 years ago and remember the journey well! Some friendly advice: keep a conversion journal as a place to put down your thoughts and feelings. It’s fun to look back on and create responses too!

Fun fact: in Jewish illuminated manuscripts (written in Hebrew), the entire first word is illuminated, rather than just the first letter. This is because it would profane the text itself to separate the letter from the rest of the word, and also show “favoritism” by singling out that one character as being better than others.

hello to you too, friend! thank you for the jewish joy, i hope you're having lots of it as well

a conversion journal actually sounds like so much fun, i'll definitely do that!!

and the fun fact is kinda cute whattt. very nice to be so thoughtful towards the letters. i wonder who came up with that or if it just has always been like that

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image id: some cartoon dinosaurs are putting together a Seder plate. the text reads chag Pesach sameach

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