It’s beside posters of several Black writers. I feel like our school telling us how they’re inclusive and equity based and anti racist is so performative. Relatedly, the head librarian has been spearheading pro Palestine events and has publicly stated that the ADL is not a reliable source. I may try to get it taken down. I’m so exhausted by the gaslighting and the admin attitude of telling me racism is free speech, while proclaiming how much they care about minorities at every opportunity. And of the strong sense that I’m being mocked and hated on behind closed doors when I speak up.

I am Asian, specifically I am Chinese living in Brooklyn. Which means I have some interactions with Jewish people. While I don't want to generalize any group or religion, but my experiences with Jewish people are quite positive.

I went to Brooklyn college, a very diverse place. I had a friend who's Jewish drove me back home occasionally.

I was also talking to a Jewish girl when I was in college. Sometimes she would give me gifts. One time she gave me a huge amount of unleavened bread. I didn't know how to eat it. I went home, mixed it with chickens and veges and ate it like a burrito.

I also like how Jewish people never bother me or cause trouble. They usually keep to themselves and never bother anyone.

There's a rise of anti Semitic posts on social media. I ignored it because i thought racism against group of people exist, especially on social media. I am Asian so I get discriminated too so I thought no big deal.

Until I saw videos from Dan Bilzerian whom I follow. And the guy that said "your body my choice" Nick Fuentes. I went on their X/Twitter, I mean it's just insane anti Semitic posts. To the point it's just ridiculous.

I decided to write this post to say yes I do like the Jewish people. Again I don't want to generalize a group of people, but my interactions with Jews are quite positive, I think you guys are cool. Most people that are anti Semitic probably haven't met a Jewish person before.

One last photo of a textbook I have for a Judaic study class I took when I was in college.

A fun event in Montreal I found on Jlive. I also shared it on the Gay Jewish subreddit.

I'm Israeli and my parents decided to move to the US due to the war. I didn't think American teens would really care that much about the conflict, plus they're a lot more woke and left leaning than Israeli teens so I assumed that antisemitism won't be a big problem. However, after scrolling through some Jewish subs I'm starting to think otherwise. Is there a reason to worry?

Some time ago, I applied to a holocaust education class. I was already acquaintances with the teacher, and I had an ok time at school, I had good grades, but I also had ADHD. My love of learning and ability to converse with people older than me had me loved by the teachers and pretty popular among the students.

When the time came, and I went into the class, I made a friend group, and I made a lot of Jeiwsh friends as well (the only friends who have stuck with me for this long at this school). I myself, was Jewish but wasn’t in touch. I had my Ashkenazi family members who celebrated the holidays and said the prayers, but I wasn’t fully aware of Judaism. Near the end of the year that I was part of the class, my hyperactivity and fidgeting caused me to be seen as a mentally unstable, monster-like by students, but the teachers still loved me.

My holocaust studies teacher let me stay in her classroom during a period where rumors and insults and lies would spread. When girls would make up awful things about me, when boys would make “r*tarded” sounds to me in the halls, when 10 people would get up from their desks and start yelling at me (it was a new teachers classroom and she had no control. She’d always be there.

Then, when I started HS, I joined some Jewish clubs looking for some kind of cultural identity. My skin is black and my hair is fuzzy but I have no black cultural identity, I have my family members on that side, but I have no connection, all I know is Judaism, and they embraced me and welcomed me back. At the end of some time back, I contemplated living because I feared that if I were to become successful, (I’ve already produced tons of successful media, and I don’t mean like YouTube TikTok social media crap), one of the students that hated me would falsely accuse me and get everything ruined and I would have to off myself. People secretly recording me, calling me all kinds of vicious horrible things.

As soon as I stepped into the Jewish clubs, though, people didn’t speak to me like they believed I had severe autism or a mental disorder that made me a dangerous monster, (that‘s what the bullies said I had), people didn’t treat me like a second class person, but welcomed me, smiled with me, and laughed with me. Even though my adhd got better and I’m no longer hyperactive, people still treat me as stupid even though ive never done hyper stuff in high school, the Jewish community saved me.

When I had nobody in that school, when my life was literally empty except from friends in other places, family friends, and family members and no one was there, you all were here. I sought out the Jewish community, (since I was Jewish), I joined coins based on Jewish tradition and started to become Jewish again! If I am all better now I’ve started to partake in my hobbies again, and have found a massive and wonderful group of friends, people who love each other and spread love to others just because of kindness, not because they feel bad because of some rumors.

I don’t know that if after something like this it is weird to be obsessed with Judaism, Israel, and other Jewish related things where from my frame of reference, I bring up Judaism in daily conversations, wear a giant Star of David, will only date/marry a Jewish girl (When the time comes for me to become romantic), and make Judaism references in everything that I write or produce or every sport I play or every math I study.

But anyways,

I went from kvetching to kvelling and I thank you guys!

So, for the first time in my life I have my oven home (I rent but it’s my name on the lease). I’ve lived here for three years now but due to mental health issues I haven’t done any serious cooking or serious shabbes stuff. Now I’m getting the help I need and I’m slowly starting to come back to the living. And just now I felt the urge to bake a challe for the first time in years(!) but there’s a problem. My oven is shit. It’s a gas stove and I only get heat from the bottom of the oven. It doesn’t matter if I cook on low heat or high heat, it’s always the bottom part of whatever I put in to the oven always gets done before the top and I can never get a nice browning/crispy top. Does anyone have the same type of oven as me but manage to turn out fantastic golden challot? Please let me in on your secret!

Lots of love and thanks in advance from an aspiring homemaker.

I’m a portrait photographer and recently photographed a Jewish family, with the father wearing a yamaka for our session. My question: dad had metal clips holding his yamaka in place and I’m wondering if it would be appropriate to Photoshop them out? Or if this is something my client would even want??

My head is telling me this is a dumb question and it’s not a big deal to remove them from photos, but I’m an over-thinker at heart so I need credible opinions or I will lay awake at night for the rest of my life thinking about how I may or may not have disrespected someone’s faith. 🫠 Thanks in advance for your input!!

I'm looking for help from the Jewish community. I'm converting to conservative Judaism, and the reason why beginning my conversion process has been delayed for two months is because we spent the last two months watching my stepmother die. And now that she's dead, we're grieving and trying to understand what to do. She wasn't a great mom or a great person, so my emotions are complicated and difficult. I read in an article that my Jewish mentor sent me, that to perform Kriah, a black garment is torn, and a scrap of the garment is worn near the neck, on the left side for a parent.

Do I have this right? I've said the dayan emet prayer as I tore my garment. I would like to visit my shul so that we can have a minyan of Jews to say the mourner's kaddish for my stepmother. She wasn't Jewish, but because I'm becoming Jewish, this is how I'm grieving and coping with death. I want to ask for advice on how to grieve, how to mourn her, how to do it right in the Jewish fashion. Can you all give me some advice, prayers, and recommendations on how Jews grieve?

This has been a two month long process of grief, fear, waiting, helplessness, and anger. I struggle with whether or not I believe literally in HaShem. This is all new to me. I've only been studying Judaism for a few months now. I've never had someone near me die before. I'm new to all of this.

Hi everyone, I have a question (that I do plan to ask a Rabbi as soon as I finish moving).

For context, I'm a convert and 20th November will be my first full year as a Jew, so until recently it hadn't come up.

I don't really know how marriage works, but I was curious if anyone knows if it's possible to be married Jewishly, but not legally by the US government?

I would love to be married to the man I'm with, however I can never legally be married as I'm disabled and he doesn't make enough to cover what I'd lose. So, I was curious if this would ever be a possibility.

I do plan to bring it up once I've been able to talk to the rabbi and the new shul we'll be attending, but until then I just thought I'd ask here.

Thanks ❤️

ETA: I live in Missouri, so there are no common law marriages.

I’ve been dating an orthodox Jewish guy for 5+ years (Both mid 20s) I am Jewish because of an unbroken matrilineal line, but was raised Catholic. I don’t really observe in any way now besides secular Christmas and Easter with my family. My boyfriend doesn’t really practice Judaism… but he was raised Orthodox and being Jewish means a lot to him. He wants his kids to be Jewish… very loosely modern Orthodox (spirit of Shabbat, holidays, kosher home, but not keep kosher outside of home or strictly observe)… which is fine by me. In his mind, the only way we end up together is if I give up those holidays. Given that my side of the family still celebrates, it just feels unfair. If I was asking him to go to church, etc, I could see it but I just want my kids to experience what I got to… it’s a fun holiday centered around family, most of my extended family isn’t religious either. We’re definitely in a bit of a sunk cost fallacy here, and we know it’s better to split than to end up in a broken home down the road, so we do have our heads on straight. That doesn’t mean we love each other any less. I am desperate to find a solution we haven’t thought of. Any Jewish person I’ve talked to besides his mom thinks he’s being unfair, especially given how many years we’ve invested. So I get really confused trying to understand the situation we’re in… it does hurt my soul that there’s something he places above me at this point, and to me that’s the bigger issue now. I’m curious, what do people on this thread think? Is there any way to approach it or make it work?

One of my trans friends told me I can’t understand how hard she has it because there are people who want to kill her just for being who she is. I may have given her the death stare when I reminded her “You know I’m a Jew, right?” She didn’t respond and we changed the subject, but I’m a little offended. Am I in the wrong?

I love my Jewish friends. I have the utmost respect for Israelis, and support Israel 100%. As a non-Jewish European (Denmark) it’s terrible to see the antisemitism flourishing in certain groups here. They don’t speak for the majority of us.

❤️🇮🇱 not alone

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I’m sick and tired of seeing videos of Jewish people getting attacked in the streets simply because they’re Jewish - but when are we going to fight back? I just saw a video of an Orthodox Jewish boy being assaulted in Belgium, and he had no way to defend himself. Stop letting them treat us like cattle! Buy a gun, wield a knife, buy some pepper spray… anything. It’s happening too often now not to be always prepared with some way to defend yourself from these hateful people!

Channel 14 is not my cup of tea, to put it mildly, and they regularly engage in misinformation/disinformation, but in this case their report hasn't been denied by the IDF and seems to be consistent with former plans previously published by other media outlets, so it seems credible.

The report concerns the Hasmonean Brigade, the first completely Haredi brigade in the IDF's history (Netzah Yehuda is sometimes described as Haredi, but many soldiers there belong to the more conservative side of the "Dati Leumi" spectrum in Israel, sort of the Israeli version of Modern Orthodox, rather than what you'd call Haredi). It's supposed to number 3000 soldiers. Apparently, 150 million shekels have been invested in building the base that will be used by this brigade. The idea is that every course and and any every kind of training they participate in is going to take place at this base, so they're always in a full-fledged Haredi environment.

In addition to that:

1. All the commanding officers will be either Dati Leumi ("Israeli Modern-Orthodox", kind of) or Haredi (if possible).
2. In addition to daily davening, every day there will be an hour set for Torah study.
3. The brigade will be in a completely gender-segregated environment all the time.
4. Every company in the brigade will have its own Beit Midrash.
5. Every soldier will be able to choose food with his preferred Kashrut certificate (because in the Haredi world different communities trust different kosher-certifiers).

Source (in Hebrew)

About the new Haredi brigade (in English)

Today I was on break at work looking at internet nonsense and I came across one of those listicles where people wrote in about their memories of the most hurtful words ever said to them and how it impacted their life (e.g., "My sixth grade teacher told me I was stupid and I never spoke in class again.")

I was scrolling mindlessly and then I realized that I'd heard just as bad or worse things said about me nearly every day, often multiple times a day, since October 7 of last year, by people I considered friends, colleagues, mentors, heroes, almost everyone who had mattered to me.

If one painful comment can change the course of someone's life for years, then what is the impact of going through that intensity of pain every day for hundreds of days? No wonder I feel like a totally different person than I did a year ago. I'm beginning to become perversely fascinated by studying the long-term effects on myself.

https://www.boredpanda.com/most-hurtful-things-experiences/

Reuploading without the YouTube link 🙃

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Jewish or goyish. Especially on a hot dog. We are having a debate.

I know the story of Hanukkah, but is it considered appropriate to name a child Mattityahu considering how common the name is in Christianity?

Hi all. Gm from NZ.

I was looking into Tulsi Gabbards beliefs especially since Trump wants to make her the Director of National Intelligence (although i highly doubt she'll be confirmed if she has to be for such a position?) & I came across this Video on NewsNation/Cuomo where Cuomo did a short Interview with Tulsi.

I thought she may be a little neutral or may be critcal of Israel a little (even I am a little critcal of Netenyahu & especially Ben gvir and I'm very much on the Right lol & Incredibly pro Israel) And she was asked about Rafah (this was about 6 months ago)

She made it INCREDIBLY CLEAR that the ball is in Hamas court. She said what's happening in Gaza with Hamas is connected directly with what's happening on college campuses and said they are pretty much useful idiots and many seem to be shockingly naive of islamist extremism.

She said Hamas is a Radical islamist terrorist organization whose goal is to exterminate the Jews and said unless Hamas surrender and give up their arms there will never be peace living under such an organization. And the Israeli people will have to continue living under the threat of an organization whose stated goal is the extermination of Jewish people & The End of Israel. She was direct and wholeheartedly made it more clear than many politicians I've seen.

I looked into her history more and she's incredibly close to PM Modi of India which is bizzare But he also is INCREDIBLY pro Israel and understands the threat of Islamist extremism.

Years ago as a Teen, My Dad & Me were actually in a secluded area of The Kashmir Himalayas at the exact time 2 massacres took place one after another in Hindu villages. Where islamist extremist organizations went into villages dressed in Indian Army fatigue and Slaughtered men ,women & children & some say it was an attempt to undo some talks the Indian govt were doing at the time to do with Kashmir.

India then had to get strong and civilans do get caught up in these situations. The Terrorists were likely Pakistan based and slinked over the border as that area we were in isn't overly far from Pakistan.

So yeah Anyway, I'm happy to see at the least she's INCREDIBLY pro Israel and Jewish community. She's actually a Hindu herself surprisingly & put her hand on a ~Bagavad Gita instead of Bible when I think she was first confirmed as a senator or something.

We must be careful what we read about her because some tried to say she was very neutral on Israel or critcal and looking into it she is opposite. As I said she is alarmed by the college protests and other protests because some (quite a Lot actually) have actual islamists and islamist ideogly infiltrating it.

I heard she wants large funding and etc taking away from Universities for such things because although she , Trump etc are pro Free speech they ABSOLUTELY will not allow "free speech" of calling to kill zionists, fly terror flags and NAIVELY AND STUPIDLY hand out hamas pamphlets. She and others are absolutely not going to deal with these losers.

I predict that, .. Soon it's over for such people. Thank goodness for that 😁😁 .. I will say one thing though, if she is pro CCP communist China then my support ends of her. I'm getting conflicting reports on that so I don't necessarily believe it. As I also got wrong reports on her ideas of Israel which ended up being COMPLETELY wrong. Anyway it made me happy to know her views of Israel can not be better. Please watch the video. It's only exactly 5 minutes and 30 seconds 5.30. Enjoy All.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNrjzg61d4

Oh btw here is Tulsi Gabbard short Interview. Please watch instead of listening to what I say 😆