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Got an email that was sent to my whole shul about how they just installed more security measures. Bullet proof and tinted exterior doors, two more armed security guards, a security committee, ect and I was reading it like you would read anything but I then just suddenly froze. The fact that we and all Shuls around the world need BULLET PROOF doors or armed security is just so insane and disheartening. We can’t even go to our own place of worship without being reminded of the people who want us dead. I’m so eternally grateful that my shul can even afford all of that but like I said it’s just so fucking incredibly disheartening and disgusting that we even have to do that and spend huge amounts of money when we could use that for other things. I could go on and make this a super long post but I’ll just end with saying please be safe and alert, even in your own shuls. You shouldn’t have to but this is the sickening world we live in. I love you all and am yisrael chai.

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UPDATE:

I bet YOU don't have debates at your job about whether you can afford a camel.

It's $60. It's not technically necessary but it would make our Yom HaAtzmaut for the kids soooooo much better...

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Time for my annual rewatch of this movie. ❤️

Favourite animated movie: 001

directed by Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner Simon Wells (1998)

The first one || Next

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It's my 8th year using this haggadah and I just learned something new.

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My seder table tonight!

Chag sameach!

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For my Nana, one year gone.

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I bet YOU don't have debates at your job about whether you can afford a camel.

It's $60. It's not technically necessary but it would make our Yom HaAtzmaut for the kids soooooo much better...

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At shul last night, and this little old bubbe is telling me about how she used all this LSD in the 60's. She told me how she was told her kids would be deformed but her son is just fine, and how her first trip was the best.

Boomers, man. They are something else.

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April 5, 2063

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do you ever just

*reads 'pikuach nefesh' as 'pikachu nefesh'*

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If someone were to walk up to you right now and ask you which way is north, and you couldn't look anything up, would you know immediately, would you have to take a minute to figure it out, or would you not be able to answer?

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Reblog if you are okay with people giving you lots of boops!

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Feel free to put what they are in the tags if you want!

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Special shoutout to those who are sober on Purim, for whatever reason. I know it can be awkward not drinking when moat other people are, but you don't need alcohol to have a good time!

Chag Sameach!

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being born and raised jewish i've never really experienced other mourning practices first hand, but i truly feel lucky to have the jewish traditions because i think judaism does mourning right. how quickly we bury because we believe mourning can't start until then but also that we never leave the body alone and treat the person who passed with such respect. there is so much structure in jewish mourning practices (the periods of time i broke down in my previous reply) that i find so much comfort in because it gives guidance from immediate mourning to long term healing and mourning and missing. and mourning in judaism is so so communal, such as the reading of the names but also shiva needs to have a minyan which means for the first 7 days after someone passes the family is guaranteed to not be alone... i just think judaism does it right.

I feel the exact same way... There's something comforting in knowing that, should something happen to you or a loved one, they/you will have people surrounding them. The respect, concern, and, ultimately, faith is something I admire and find deeply important.

I know for many, the idea of including the dead seems unnecessary (especially if you believe in an eternal afterlife), but to include them, to include people affected by death? There's something meaningful and kind about it, something deeply human and raw and powerful. Life is preferable, of course, but we can't ignore the dead, ignore the people who have been affected, and I appreciate that judaism prefers life but also gives space for death.

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I laughed aloud at this.

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Jewish women stay winning I’m so glad I’m a Jewish woman reblog if you’re glad to be a Jewish woman