"As a #Jew, she said she found it “a bit terrifying” that the federal #government “wants to know who the #Jews are through some text message and Microsoft Office form.”
...They then expressed dismay that Barnard did not tell them that the university was sharing their personal cellphone numbers with the government.
“Clearly, it made everyone scared”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/barnard-faculty-eeoc-text-jewish.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
"Judgement is mine and mine alone but I take cash for pardons" - the Gilded Cow with a goopy face
"you got it boss" - The #Christian
"when we are done clearing #Gaza I'm moving there and opening a titty bar" - The #Jew
Shame on all of you, shame
Christian, Muslim, Jew It’s Not What You Call Yourself—It’s What You Serve
https://youtu.be/Lu2KFOElWTw
#Christian #Muslim #Jew #Spirituality #ReligiousTruth
#Passover begins this Saturday evening. If you are a #Jew and you aren't calling out #Israel's #genocide and other #atrocities, you are no better than those doing the killing.
The #Torah may have once commanded Jews to wipe out the Canaanites, Amalekites, and the Midianites, but certainly no Jew today is equating #Palestinians with the Canaanites.
Even if there's a shared ancestry. An ancestry I might add that also includes #Lebanese, #Jordanians, as well as #Ashkenazi and #Sphardic Jews as well.
#NotInMyName #FreePalestine #FreeGaza
"As we learned more about #Christian #seders, it quickly became clear that not all of the seders are alike. In this #seder tutorial, Pastor Scott Stewart of Agape Church of Little Rock, Ark., explains how to celebrate #Passover, with barely any recognition that this is a #Jewish holiday. It felt like Stewart was even telling #Jews the proper way to lead a Passover seder.
However, other Christian seders focus on exploring the Jewish roots of #Christianity. For example, in this recording, Pastor Tom Holladay of Saddleback #Church teaches his congregants about how #Jesus, who was a #Jew, and his followers would have celebrated Passover in their time."
https://unpacked.media/why-are-christians-celebrating-passover-and-hosting-non-jewish-seders/
"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."
Mar 12, 1912: On this date, Polish Jewish resistance activist Ala Gertner was born. While a slave laborer at a munitions factory, she smuggled gunpowder to prisoners at Auschwitz to build grenades, who destroyed Crematorium IV & killed several SS officers. She was one of four women (the others being Róża Robota, Ester Wajcblum, & Regina Safirsztajn) hanged Jan 5 (or 6), 1945 for their role in the Sonderkommando Uprising.
"Last Friday I happened to start watching the discussion at the #WhiteHouse between #Zelenskyi, Donald #Trump, JD #Vance and Brian Glenn towards the end, when Vance was already yelling at the #Ukrainian president: "you're wrong!" I took in the tone and the body language, and my first, reflexive reactions was: these are non-#Jews trying to intimidate a #Jew. Three against one. A roomful against one. An #antisemitic scene.
And the more I listened to the words, the more that reaction was confirmed. I won't speak for how Zelens'kyi regards himself. Ukrainian, of course. Beyond that I don't know. These things are complex, and personal.
But not for the #antisemite."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office
Mar 9, 1922: Felice Schragenheim was born on this date in Berlin. She was a German Jewish resistance fighter during WW2 & known for her her tragic lesbian love affair with Lilly Wust who was married to a German Nazi soldier. Schragenheim & Wust remained a couple until August 1944 when Schragenheim was arrested by the Gestapo. (1/5)
I was raised #Catholic. I currently identify as #agnostic #pagan. Which is say, that #gods or #deities, or whatever exist because people treat them that way. Like how we have seven-day weeks, and 24-hour days. And, if treated as #metaphor for "stuff that exists/happens that I/we don't understand," makes #religion as a concept somewhat sensical.
The best book about #Jesus and/or #Christianity I have encountered is _Jesus for the Non-Religous_ by John Shelby Spong. I'll put a Libro.fm link at the end.
Spong takes the reader through the #Jewish liturgical year, connecting the gospels and their stories to the various Jewish holy days. Because not only would a historical Jesus have been a #Jew, the disciples would also be Jews who follow Jesus. Whether Jesus was a historical person or not, the disciples are certain they had an important experience together, and that experience is Jesus-shaped.
The gospels are about this true thing that cannot be explained. It changed the lives of the disciples, and it is Important.
This approach sets #ElissaSlotkin apart from many of her fellow #Democrats, though the difference is better measured by degree than kind. [The ex-#CIA officer] #Slotkin is quite familiar—as a #woman, as a #Jew, as the daughter of a woman who came out late in life as a #lesbian—with the plight of certain constituencies within her party’s coalition. It’s simply a matter of emphasis: Slotkin sees electoral success as the path to addressing America’s injustices, not the other way around.
“This #book is a response to the self-image of #Jews as scholarly #sages — not fantasy #warriors or #heroes — and an invitation to broaden our understanding of what it means to be a #Jew.”
So says J.S. Gold, author of the uniquely illuminating #novel The Sanhedrin Chronicles, a modern #fantasy where ancient #Hebrew #mysticism comes alive on the streets of #NewYork.
The #author adds, “Taken a step further, all good fantasy fiction uses the particular to illuminate the universal. The story considers identity through a uniquely #Jewish lens, but it’s by no means limited to the Jewish experience.”
https://booktrib.com/2025/03/05/author-draws-from-jewish-heritage-to-craft-urban-fantasy-novel/
"The #Jews are tired.” No one knows who was the first #Jew to post this cri de coeur on social media, but it certainly resonated and is a common online trope. While Jews are not of one mind on the bitterly contested issues of #Israel and #antisemitism, we can perhaps agree that it is incredibly gruelling to be so relentlessly in the public eye.
Jews seem to matter. Antisemitism, in its various forms, is fundamentally an assertion of Jewish importance in understanding the world and what is wrong with it. So it’s understandable that Jews have sought to fight Jew-hatred by showing how our existence has been a positive boon for the world. Jews have proactively gone out into the world and demonstrated how extraordinary and irreplaceable we are. We are a people of Nobel Prize winners, film-makers, novelists, songwriters and much else. Yet the Jews are still tired. Of course we are. We are on a treadmill, desperately trying to prove our worth and fight our corner."
https://www.thejc.com/life/why-arent-jews-allowed-to-just-be-be-ordinary-g15idnte
The language we use to describe systematic bigotry is important.
Only ever using the words 'minority' or 'minorities' to describe demographics that are subject to systematic bigotry and the inequality/lack of resources/widespread misinformation that comes alongside it can lead people to believe that to some degree the harms done are just an inherent thing that will always happen to a group that makes up only X percent of the population. Even people who know purposeful harms are being done are likely to subconsciously assign some part of the blame for the situation to inescapable ignorance by the masses because of the size of the group affected.
I’m not saying the word minority is not often accurate in these situations or that there aren’t any contexts where it is the best word to choose, but a lot of the time it is more meaningful to use language that reminds people that those with social/political power are purposefully choosing to say/do things and create societal systems that harm the demographic in question.
The two words I personally feel are the most productive and powerful to use when discussing systematic harm (and also apply if the demographic experiencing these things is not a numerical minority, ie women) are:
marginalized, which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group”
or
disenfranchised (which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “deprived of some right, privilege, or immunity”)
Both of these terms can be used *both* to describe the groups being harmed (ie ‘people with marginalized identities are being attacked’ or ‘disenfranchised communities need your help’) OR to directly describe the harm being done (ie ‘the disenfranchisement/marginalization of X group is something everyone with privilege has a moral obligation to fight against in whatever ways they can’)
I say this all as a member of many demographics that are minorities, but more importantly that are being actively and purposefully marginalized and disenfranchised by people who want us to keep us from having any social, financial, or political power.
The language we use has the power to highlight the reality of privilege and power in our world or to inadvertently downplay it and allow people to just accept it as the unavoidable status quo.
We need to be as purposeful about the words we choose when explaining harm to our communities- the people with power trying to keep us down sure as hell are.
Acho’s first question was expressing discomfort at the word Jew. This is so common but it gets me every time. Whenever I see people use “Jewish people” or some other circumlocution to avoid saying Jew, I get uncomfortable. I get that it comes from a place of trying to be respectful, but the effect is the opposite. #Jew #Antisemitism #Jewish
An estimated 30,000 Jews joined the Resistance in occupied Europe. This link describes some of the youngest Jews who fought with the Antifascist Resistance in WW2 including:
Eta Wrobel, a 20 y/o Pole
Brenda Senders, a 17 y/o Polish partisan
Bernard Musmand, who joined the French Resistance at age 12
Vitka Kempner who committed sabotage against the Nazis starting at age 19
Faye Schulman, Polish photographer & partisan
#WW2 #Resistance #antifa #Poland #France #Jew
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/holocaust-jewish-resistance-fighters
חג שמח
Happy Tu BiShvat
The 1st of Nissan — the “new year for kings and festivals”
The 1st of Elul — the “new year for the tithing of cattle”
The 1st of Tishrei — the “new year for counting years” (i.e., Rosh Hashanah)
The 15th of Shevat — the “new year for the trees” (i.e., Tu Bishvat)
Here is what I'm eating
#tubishvat #seder #jewishfood #jew #holiday #treelove #plantlove
"In the new #biography #Abraham: The First #Jew, Anthony Julius makes the case for the #patriarch as the first “self-authored human being.”
As related in #midrash, Abraham was a man who, through his own reason, determined that there was one #God and challenged those around him to think for themselves. But in a twist, Julius, who has been fascinated by the binding of #Isaac since he first encountered it in a comic strip as a boy, argues against Abraham as a unified personality.
If Abraham 1 was a philosopher and iconoclast, his near-death experience in a furnace at the court of #Nimrod transformed him into Abraham 2, the person of pure faith who first appears to us in #Genesis, heeding the orders of God to leave his home behind. Abraham 2’s inner life ends in terror on Mt. #Moriah, when an angel stays his hand during his near-sacrifice of Isaac. There is no Abraham 3 — unless we count us, his descendants, who contain all his multitudes."
https://forward.com/culture/books/695206/abraham-first-jew-anthony-julius-jewish-lives/
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