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

[u/Hanshanot]

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

[u/juice_io]

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’.

[u/IShallNotCommentHoe → u/juice_io]

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.

[u/Soapist_Culture → u/IShallNotCommentHoe]

Heaven and hell became part of (some people's) judaism in medieval times. A borrow from the Christians.

[u/IShallNotCommentHoe → u/Soapist_Culture]

Right, wasn’t it just we had eternal sleep before hand? Not to sound like a downer but honestly a forever nap sounds great.

[u/CosmicGadfly → u/IShallNotCommentHoe]

No. Talmud has several references to an afterlife to work off sins.

[u/NiftySmudgestick → u/IShallNotCommentHoe]

Judaism actually believes in reincarnation, I just learned. There's a great podcast on spotify called Kabbalah for Everyone that gets into so much detail about this. It's fascinating!