-Yes (I’m Ashkenazi)

-Yes (I’m Sephardi)

-Yes (I’m Mizrahi)

-Yes (I’m Yemeni)

-Yes (I’m something else)

-No (I’m Ashkenazi)

-No (I’m Sephardi)

-No (I’m Mizrahi)

-No (I’m Yemeni)

-No (I’m something else)

-Don’t speak Hebrew/Not Jewish/show results

What even is orthodox? Lots of different groups get included in orthodox so what core beliefs unite Hassidic, Yeshivish, Modox, etc. as distinct from for example Conservative? I know some people also use terms like ultra orthodox and modern orthodox but are those different beliefs or just different customs?

ultra orthodox is pretty much exclusively used by non orthodox people as a (sort of pejorative?) term for everyone not modern orthodox, who they consider radical.

modern orthodoxy is a little hard to define, it might mean:

orthodox jews who culturally assimilate into the secular world

the incorporation of secular knowledge into one's jewish practice/philosophy

whatever charedi (haredi) rabbis decide is bad this month

probably more

the difference between modox and conservative can sometimes be blurry (modern orthodoxy is a huge spectrum) , and i think mostly comes down to shabbos, and kashrus (and taharas hamishpacha methinks but i wouldnt know from that) about which modern orthodoxy is still strict

yeshivish usually refers to any "ultra orthodox" people who arent chassidish (hassidic).

chassidish jews are a diverse group, being part of any of a few dozen branches of a more mystical/spiritual form of judaism. chassidus stems from an 18th century spiritual revival headed by a man* called the baal shem tov.

the point of this post isn't "Christians follow the Bible" the point is that a lot of the laws outlined in the Bible are also laws outlined in the Torah that Jewish people still follow. when people call these rules silly or absurd and say no one would follow these they erase and mock the very real Jewish communities that still follow those laws

At least they took a couple more generations to get to the second Hillel, but wait until you hear about Yehudah Nesi‘a, the grandson (or great grandson?) of Rabbi Yehuda haNasi.

Just tuck "elder" at the end if you're talking about the earlier ones, and don't bother talking about post Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Nesi’im. They're not relevant, since we go by the Babylonian Talmud.

Like the command says "You Must Not Wet Your Hands With This Specific Substance", and there's one faction that has decided that since it's practically impossible to not ever touch the thing, your hands won't be touching it if you're wearing gloves. Another sect has decided that it doesn't count if you only handle the substance when it's frozen solid, so your hands don't get wet from touching it. A third one has figured out how to obtain or produce some substance that is essentially identical in every way, but has a slightly different chemical structure, so it's not the same substance.

Problem: this was published in 1871 and obviously does not provide specifics like modern recipes

Solution: I'm crowdsourcing answers

cheese curd meaning...cottage cheese? Ricotta? Smth else?

We're talking 3 egg yolks + 1 egg white? Or 5 egg yolks + 3 egg whites?

2. 3 eggs with one full egg and two yolks. That's my understanding as an avid watcher of eating history with max I forgot his surname. So I may be wrong.

3. Victorian ovens were often between 375f and 450f. So I assume just pick whichever is closet to pastry label temp

i say this not to be pessimistic or not as a casual observation but rather as a fact that i was told from a long-time agunah activist: if the system cannot be reformed as it has been in the past to meet our needs and realities, jewish women will, in time, refuse to participate in the jewish system as a whole, and will stop believing in its importance.

and why should we? why should we accept a system that chains women to marriages at the will of any man? how is that acceptable? how is it that divorce proceedings were more lenient towards women in the medieval era than they are now?

Happy birthday Magnus Hirschfeld!

Hirschfeld was born 14 May in 1868 into a German Jewish family. A pioneering sexologist, he advocated for the acceptance of queer identities, including the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in Germany. He founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin – the world’s first sexology research centre – which developed some of the first modern gender-affirming surgeries.

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