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I think what got lost here is that when I say I don't want to participate in christianity, I'm not talking about rejecting colonialism or christian hegemony, I'm talking about how its literally against my religion to refer to jesus as "the lord". now I may have other political or personal reasons to dislike the Gregorian calendar, but the main reason i dont say ad/bc is that.

Gonna create this meme

saw this really horrible comment today about how “Jewish women love to lie about rape,” and yesterday I saw what’s basically the inverse, “Jewish men love sexual assault, the majority of them are predators and rapists” along with the “61% of Israeli men” disinformation, and none of this is new - both are actually very, very old, both Jewish women being portrayed as liars and “harlots,” and Jewish men being portrayed as innately predatory - but it’s so disturbing seeing the way it’s gaining traction, and knowing that quite a bit of it in these awful posts is stemming from denial of the atrocities of 10/7 and of what was inflicted on the hostages (and those crimes were perpetrated against Israeli victims regardless of gender).

in this world of ever-encroaching fascism and the degradation of free speech in the name of culling minorities into a false puritanical society, never forget your whimsy

passed a Rabbi on the street, immediately unzipped my jacket so the Star of David was showing

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Literally the only verse I know from this song but it turns out Asher Roth read Talmud

Trying to decide which Jewish book to read now that I'm Feeling Judaism again. Recs from this list are appreciated!

“The monstrous question to Europe, to Western Christianity, and to Catholicism is not How could you have murdered the Jews? Because again, it was the Nazis, not “Europe,” who murdered the Jews. Even discounting the Church-affiliated Germans who were among the perpetrators of the crime, the monstrous question is How could you have not cared that the Nazis prepared to murder, and then did murder, the Jews in front of you? How could that murder not have been experienced as directly involving you? And finally, when the roundups and deportations and transports began to be conducted openly in 1942 and 1943, when the killing of Jews replaced the war effort as Hitler’s main purpose, why did you not see that your passivity had effectively become collaboration? “How is it,” Cynthia Ozick asks, “that indifference, which on its own does no apparent or immediate positive harm, ends by washing itself in the very horrors it means to have nothing to do with? Hoping to confer no hurt, indifference finally grows lethal; why is that?””

if someone says "the fact that women are marginalized in most (if not all) countries in the world is proof that women are truly inferior and don't deserve equality," they are rightly labelled a sexist piece of shit