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i can’t think. the new images and videos of evyatar. i’m sick to my stomach. that is not the young man i remember. bring him home.

bring them all home.

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Spanish Synagogue in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, Italy. Photographs by PG.

“The Spanish Synagogue is one of the two functioning synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, northern Italy. It is open for services from Passover until the end of the High Holiday season…[it] was founded by Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsulain the 1490s who reached Venice, usually via Amsterdam, Livorno or Ferrara, in the 1550s. The four-story story yellow stone building, designed by architect Baldassarre Longhena was constructed in 1580 and was restored in 1635. It is a clandestine synagogue, which was tolerated on the condition that it be concealed within a building that gives no appearance being a house of worship form the exterior, although the interior is elaborately decorated.”

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this is gonna sound weird and terrible but i think we need to use our discretion listening to some older wealthy jewish voices. they lived in the golden age of jews in america and heavily benefitted from it. now they use that nostalgia to undermine present antisemitism. i’m looking at mandy patinkin specifically. like yoda he has grown complacent and blind to the world around him. antisemitism is never the fault of jews.

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james from big time rush wearing a magen david at their concert in wantagh new york (pronounced waan taa or in my accent waan taw)

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i’m on the bus and just witnessed a man carrying a druze flag get chased down the street by white guys is keffiyehs. before you ask for more information: i am on a bus

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Everyone needs to be very clear about what it means that when someone hacked Elmo on Twitter, Elmo the muppet, everyone's favorite little red furry friend, they didn't just use him as a mouthpiece to yell about Trump and Epstein.

People have isolated the one tweet that says that Trump needs to release the Epstein files and calls him a "child fucker." But there was a series of tweets, and the mention of Trump and Epstein came within the context of advancing the centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews control the world, Netanyahu specifically controls Trump because of Trump's association with Epstein and came with two explicit and unvarnished calls for the murder of all Jews.

Viewing this single tweet about the Epstein files in isolation makes it appear like the hacker had some noble purpose. They did not. Their only purpose was to call for antisemitic violence.

The hacker cannot be applauded for any part of what they did.

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Reblog if you would sit next to prev at shul dinner

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this is gonna sound weird and terrible but i think we need to use our discretion listening to some older wealthy jewish voices. they lived in the golden age of jews in america and heavily benefitted from it. now they use that nostalgia to undermine present antisemitism. i’m looking at mandy patinkin specifically. like yoda he has grown complacent and blind to the world around him. antisemitism is never the fault of jews.

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leftists are now wholesale promoting that AIPAC and israel were affiliated with epstein somehow and have a vested interest in keeping his client list hidden. how do they not hear themselves

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this quote got a lot of reblogs but it's a reply and tumblr doesn't keep track of those well so I'm reposting it here:

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality? 

Mark Twain, Concerning the Jews.

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Rita Levi Montalcini

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I’m curious about something. And I’m tagging jumblr because it’s obviously a largely Jewish tag but I’m not asking jumblr specifically I’m asking any converts, post conversion:

Please don’t vote if you’re not a convert, just say you aren’t and share in the tags if you have something to say

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My dad told me there was this famous rock band that played Hava Nagila on a tour in Japan in the 70s

Do y'all happen to know who it was and if so, do you know if there's a video of it?????

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Is there anything more modern Jewish than sitting on the floor in a half-dark sanctuary with sheet music scattered all over the bimah in front of me, eating from the heel of a challah, tip tapping at my keyboard like a freshman during finals week, when High Holy Days are still over two months away?

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I'm a diasporic Jew who is really fuckin shit at Hebrew but after doing some digging on google translate, I've changed my username to "perakhfeyah" (פרח פֵיָה) which apparently translates into "flower faerie." I know that google translate sucks, so if there are any native speakers to tell me that I'm actually spelling it wrong, let me know the right way and I'll change it.

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I can tell you that the majority of people I talk to who are pro Israel think about the lives of Palestinian civilians. They are deeply concerned about the welfare of those living under hamas. Most of those who are pro- Israel are worried about the threat of terrorists.

In regard to the person who told you to ‘slit your wrists’ it’s interesting that in an effort to defend the humanity of Palestinians they forgot you are a human too.

Israelis have done more to help Palestinians than any western leftist arguing online and donating $5 to a scam charity.

Israelis, prior to Oct. 7, had created community and social systems designed to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. There were all sorts of initiatives with different focuses.

A program which Israelis drive Gazans, particularly children, to hospitals for treatment (which has helped over 2,000 patients since 2010).

Schools created to integrate Israeli and Palestinian communities and bridge the wide societal divide by bringing our children together.

A program for Israelis and Arabs to foster community relations by working on joint projects such as improving road conditions, helping women start their own businesses to become economically independent.

A program to facilitate conversation and healing between families of victims who died in the conflict, both Israeli and Palestinian.

All of these initiatives have done more to repair our relations than anything an american teenager posts on the internet. Because despite what they believe, simply killing all Israelis or dissolving the country's government will not solve anything and won't bring about peace in the Middle East.

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I'm on vacation without my iPad so I am drawing these jewish husbands in my sketchbook instead.