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#100Days100Women Day 66: Rabbi Regina Jonas

Regina Jonas was the first ordained female rabbi (though other women had performed rabbinical functions, none had been ordained). She practiced her ministry in Nazi Germany, where she ministered to many older people who had already sent their families away. It is believed she had opportunity to leave herself, but due to her commitment to a Jewish community on Germany she stayed. Eventually she was detained and sent to a concentration camp where she meet and consoled people at the train in an effort to mitigate the shock and disorientation. In 1944 she was transferred to Auschwitz where she was murdered.

She was pretty much forgotten to history until 1991 where the opening up of East Germany allowed a small cache of her papers to be discovered.

It was - get rid of Finnick, people tell him too much and like him too much

It was - get rid of Mags (she’ll volunteer to save anyone), she’s always been too much of a rebel and cares more about the tributes than the games (i.e. hiding Finnick from cameras)

It was - get rid of Beetee, we’re finally done with him (I want to know why he’s suddenly disposable though). But let’s make it as awful as possible and remind him every day what his son was feeling in his own last days

It was - get rid of Wiress (and also show the world what she’s become) because she never should have won (and we’ll show people what happens when you think you’re smarter than the Capitol)

It was - get rid of Johanna Mason, we killed everyone she loved and it didn’t break her enough so now we can’t control her

And of course, it was - get rid of those rebels from 12

But it wasn’t just punishment for Katniss. She had no idea how influential and volatile of a group they were.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

(Jewish) pride month days 6 & 7: Some articles about queer Jews that I think you should read! + my hand-drawn original Gilbert Baker flag with Star of David done for a class project a while back about multifaceted identities

Jewish transgender man gives birth and embraces life as a single 'abba'

How Choosing Judaism Helped Me Embrace My Black, Bisexual Identity

Notes from an Asexual Jew

A gender-affirming bar mitzvah for a transgender man

Pride Built Us a New Closet - Hen Mazzig

How Do Nonbinary Jews Navigate Gendered Spaces?

Recent rumira commission! for the fic 'Only Entropy Comes Easy' on ao3 by CarrionFields