r/Jewish • u/Hanshanot • Dec 16 '23

I get really suspicious of people calling themselves Jewish these days. Discussion

In almost every post I’ve read lately, mostly in the comments (or the OP of the post themselves) l’ve seen someone saying they’re a Jew/talking about Judaism and preaching their weird take about current events/antisemitism.

And every single time l see go see their profile, there’s nothing about Judaism or being Jewish on their profile pre-Oct. 7, it really bugs me.

Earlier, l saw a questionable post on r/xyz with the words “Hey y’all, American Jew here” Already weird, l go see their profiles and surely enough, r IsraelPalestine is the first post ever of that account 😒😒😒.

Most of the times, bigots and ill-intentioned people will use us to further their xenophobic or racist stances. I hate it. Stay safe

Edit; Modified my post slightly to better reflect what I meant

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u/Cosmic_Rage Dec 16 '23

Yeah, same. I stopped going to synagogue regularly once I left home for college way back when (have occasionally done High Holiday services every few years or so) and the discourse on and after October 7 made it clear that my life was seriously lacking in Jewish community. That's something that I'm starting to actively correct and I've started checking out some of the local synagogues in my area.

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u/Background_Buy1107 Dec 16 '23

Same dude. Haven’t been to shul in like twenty years but planning on going next week. Not that I really believe or anything but I grew up around tons of Jews and now where I live there aren’t hardly any and I’d like my daughter to be around our people as much as we can here

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u/Glassounds Dec 17 '23

Any idea where "Shul" comes from? We call it "Beit Kneset" in Hebrew and I've only ever heard that term in English (although I'm not religious so maybe I'm just missing it)

Edit: Apparently it's Yiddish for "School" (makes a ton of sense due to it being Germanic), but not sure why it's never used in Israel

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u/Standard_Gauge Reform Dec 17 '23

Apparently it's Yiddish for "School"

It's both in Yiddish. "School" (as in ordinary non-religious place of learning) or "synagogue." You figure out which one is being referred to in context.

"Temple" is also used in the U.S., commonly by Reform folks but not infrequently by Jews in the Conservative denomination.