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rotzaprachim · 11 months

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this would be a fantastic time for community leaders and Jews in general to recognize the intersectionality of many Jewish experiences and that community members might have deep intergenerational scars brought up by both the deaths of Israelis and Gazans actually

#This is personal but. I don’t have a direct family link to the Shoah #I do have a direct family link to the mass mass death of Filipino civilian populations in ww2 #This is a trauma that has scarred me and my family for life #I’m feeling it ever day #It’s jsut come up. Every day. Every day I’m remembering and feeling #Idk people carry many things those in our communities carry many things #Very very alienating to be a Jew of color rn very #I didn’t grow up with immediate contacts to much of the Jewish community but I did grow up with my grandfathers ghost #My ancestors ghosts #My auntie whose family fled Vietnam #My auntie born in the wake of the Korean War #Many Jews are feeling complicated overlapping traumas atm

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