overheard in yeshiva
student 1: “so this rabbi—wait are they a man or a woman?”
student 2: “bro they’re a rabbi”
student 3: “i don’t think that’s a gender?”
sometimes the jewish experience is actually knowing nothing about your family. we don’t know anyone’s names beyond my grandparents. we don’t know my dad’s hebrew name. this place is insane.
things no goyim should be running their mouths about rn
- halacha
- jewish community dynamics and institutions
- hebrew vs yiddish/zionism vs yiddish culture
- “good jews” vs “bad jews”
- jewish culture, foods, etc
- the neturei karta. just don’t bring them up
this is not a defense of israel’s actions, which are morally bad whether or not you consider jewish law. i just hate non-jews getting preachy about halacha
i like how i’ll tweet something like “antisemitism exists” and 500 white people will flood my comments like “wowwww so you support the killing of palestinians??”
my sister is 22 years old and she is sick, and quite possibly chas v’shalom dying. on a day filled with so much grief and emotion, i am begging you all to daven for her. i can’t lose her. she’s my older sister. she’s so young.
esther bat rachel
@thatteenagejew
lmaooo being jewish doesn’t make you a zionist, regurgitating zionist talking points and recommending zionist literature with full seriousness is what makes you a zionist.
i wonder if jewish homophobes know just how much jewish homophobia affects queer jews.
i sit there on the bus to school 45 minutes every day thinking about how i go to school out of my neighborhood because i’m no longer safe there, because i was outed and it ruined my life.
I’m gonna be completely honest here - as a white American whose ancestors were English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish, the idea of having a “homeland” is a completely foreign concept to me.
To see so many people center their entire identity around where some of their
it pisses me off when jews mock "political correctness"... your religion is based around caring about the words you use and being both kind and precise. that's, like, 90% of what we do. it's literally such a big deal for us lol
@dayn_does_comix
honestly i am terrified of using mobility aids despite severe chronic pain and a job that requires me to be constantly moving. this thread really helped me see that as a good option. thank you.
interesting, though irrelevant, sidenote: people are using ashkenazi as a shorthand for “white” and sephardi/mizrachi as a shorthand for “brown”, which ignores both historical context and what makes someone ashkenazi or sephardi
“so ur mom converted to marry ur dad right haha” no my mom converted because she loved judaism and then my dad met her exactly once, thought she was the hottest woman he had ever seen, and became orthodox to date her.
protest at my shul today while i was walking home from mincha. just trying to get back home, all of a sudden i’m being charged with genocide by someone i have never met
hey please daven for my sister her name is esther bat rachel and she's hospitalized with covid, in and out of consciousness, screaming in pain and with a fever. there's not enough staff at the hospital to keep her there so they're releasing her but she has nowhere to go.
listen i hate kassy dillon as much as the next guy but this whole “treating converts as lesser” thing is NOT cute. she’s a bad person… but she’s a bad jewish person. i absolutely despise it when born jews mock converts for being converts. it’s not funny.
@trans_zero
gonna walk my male ass into their spaces and see how they like that. women only spaces are for WOMEN, including trans women. “afab only” includes men and non-binary people, which is not what they want i’m guessing?
@tashakaminsky
sfardi kid: oh that’s an ashki last name!
me: yeah
sfardi kid: do you have family in europe right now?
me: uh we have tombstones there with the same last name as me if that’s what you’re asking?
one of the earliest things i learned from my father is that if you choose to look like a jew in public, you have assumed the responsibility of helping anyone who you can help.
part of why it hurts so much to have orgs like yeshiva university publicizing hatred.
frum conservatives are so terrible. how did this guy invite us over for shabbos lunch yesterday just to insult my dad—calling him a “woketard”, mocking my sister for going to a liberal medical school, mocking me for being gay, etc
if you are unaware, this mosque is also a holy site for jews where the patriarchs & matriarchs are buried. jews are prohibited from praying there most of the time but are dancing in there because this week marks a large event in the calendar of the lives of the matriarchs.
@TMIJOS
i love how the conservative community is so accepting of all different levels of observance and types of jews.
i love the joy and friendliness of chabad.
i’m not upset that i’m queer. i wouldn’t change it. but it robbed me of my childhood. i’m not upset i’m queer. i’m upset that some people in this community—adults and children—could not find it within themselves to be kind to an eleven year old girl who had just been outed.
@grapejewsblues
growing up hasidic i heard a lot of “all jews were slaughtered together, now we must protect each other together” rhetoric and it’s like what happened to that lol
overheard in yeshiva
student 1: “fuck this i’m painting my gemara pink and making it hello kitty themed”
rabbi: “i’m afraid to ask, but what purpose could a hello kitty gemara possibly serve?”
student 1: “it’s serving alright!”
jewish schools are so funny because they’re so PERSONAL. most of my public school friends don’t know if their teachers are married meanwhile i have met every teachers whole family. i have eaten shabbos at ALL of their houses. i’ve probably met their parents
i was eleven when i was outed. i don’t think they understand that. i was eleven years old, and i wasn’t safe in my own shul, in my own youth groups, in my own school, in my own summer camp.
people would come and sit at our shabbos table and make homophobic jokes because they knew i was there. i was threatened with expulsion.
i try to put on a good face but it’s been four years and this shit is getting so tiring.
it finally happened!! many hours of learning, many tears, and a lot of very embarassing kriah practice later, i made my first siyum in fromt of a HUGE crowd!! hadran alach maseches kiddushin!!
i’m sorry but to say this you have to lack a basic understanding of history or indigeneity. “the only indigenous jews are palestinian jews” how do u fucking think they got there
they think that because the majority of american jews are ashkenazi all jews are ashkenazi. and meanwhile the sephardim are too busy literally living in israel
@alumnihilism
i told my sister i was queer while she was trying to organize the bookshelves and she paused for a moment then said “are you going to help me put away these fucking books or will i have to do it myself”
i like how i responded to a whole bunch of people condemning jews dancing in the maarat hamachpela by giving some further context and some of them responded like "oh ok makes sense" and some of them responded like "judaism is inherently violent and terrible" 😭
i find the jokes shloime has made about gaza honestly kind of disgusting but to attack his tweet about looking jewish in weird, antisemitic ways is ???????
i just don’t understand. do we as jews not know well enough the pain of being chased away from our ancestral homes? have we as jews not seen enough bloodshed? how could we do this to other people?
i have clearly defined labels but i like the ambiguity that “queer” affords me. it’s mysterious. maybe i have a boyfriend maybe i have a girlfriend maybe i have a birlfriend maybe i have a teenage boy who i have been pining after for months but who doesn’t like me bcs i’m a loser
@rachel_elisse
THIS. i was raised with very strict discipline—including physical punishment—and it made me disciplined out of fear, not out of a desire to be good. i don’t want my future kid to ever be afraid of me.
So what is the correct protocol for what to say when you interact with people from Israel? I just dropped my daughter off at a birthday party & had to talk to the Israeli mom of one of her friends. I asked how she was doing and she said we’re fine, we are all fine, my family is
nothing more fun than sitting in class with a bigoted rabbi and being told that you are the root of all evil for being queer and that you act as the sexual yetzer hara for other people. rabbi… i’m fifteen.i never even mentioned sex. please take a deep breath.
@stanzipotenza
got outed to my orthodox synagogue and jewish school at the tender age of eleven ✌️ now every time someone at synagogue tries to befriend me i have to be like “just checking you’re aware what people say about me”
@womaningoId
yonatan adler writes about religion and jewish history i don’t think he even mentions the state of israel in his book. you cannot just say lies like they are true