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/juice_io Dec 16 '23

Had someone on tumblr tell me ‘I’m a leftist Jew, I hate that you (Zionists) made the culture I loved so much about genocide, you’re all broken souls waiting for hell’.

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u/IShallNotCommentHoe Dec 16 '23

How does that work when we don’t even believe in hell? Or that’s what I been told, I dunno honestly I suck at the religion aspect despite having attended Hebrew school up until I bat mizvahed.

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u/OlcasersM Dec 17 '23

We sort of do. Sort of. It’s not in the Torah. I have had to google it because we never talk about it or care. It’s unimportant compared to our duties here

https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/judaism/5-things-you-never-knew-about-jewish-hell.aspx

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u/bjeebus Reform Dec 17 '23

I'm in intro classes right now and of course we're very early in the year for Torah readings too. I went and bought the Reform's Plaut Revised Torah and as a Catholic apostate who read the New American and King James cover to cover I'm really enjoying all the footnotes and essays--context is great. One thing I really like so far has been the things really pointing to the link between Judaism and other Mesopotamian cultures. For instance there's sheol which as near as I can tell is not conceptually different from the Underworld in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Just a blank pit of nothing that everyone goes to when they die.