the lonely jew

Etrog container. made of copper alloy, inlaid with copper and silver. dated to early 20th century, from Syria. now belongs to the Jewish Museum.

Sukkoth. oil on canvas by Edouard Moyse, c. 1860. Edouard Moyse, who took his father's first name as his surname, was the first French painter to depict scenes of Jewish life. Alongside Edouard Brandon and Alphonse Levy, he was one of the most significant Jewish artists in France in the 19th century.

for anyone who doesnt know. yom kippur is the holiest day in the year. there is nothing i can say anymore. i cant put into words how ashamed and horrified i am. nothing will ever be the same

Tashlich is a Jewish new year ritual of casting off the previous years sins/worries/fears/etc in the form of throwing bread into a river and this year about fifty jews watched in disbelief as my dog slipped quietly into the water and began pac man style sucking up chunks of soggy floating bread and we were absolutely powerless to stop her

Celebration of "Simhat Torah" in a synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, 1980

The jews after Jom Kippur

SHANAH TOVAH!!!!! 🎉 this rosh hashanah please consider including a donation to a palestinian family in need as part of your celebrations! gazafunds is a great resource to use if you’re not sure where to donate. consider also donating an e-sim, or donating to crips for e-sims. please don’t forget the palestinian cause in 5785!

Germans: Palestinians must die for the sins of my family

you never see these people suggesting that Germany should be offered as a Jewish homeland to atone for the sins of the Germans, strangely enough.

Other options missing here:

Make the rest of the world safe for Jews. Like... you could be a better person than your great-grandfather? That seems pretty basic? Telling Jews that the only way to be safe is to leave your country... seems pretty antisemitic to me.

Palestine can exist without exterminating Jews. Palestinians lived peacefully in the same land as Jews before Israel existed, they can do so again. Stop projecting your great-grandfathers sins on Palestinians.

Oh and finally... Israel obviously isn't a safe space for Jews now. It's shit for anyone that isn't a white ashkenazi Jew and even if you are, you've got forced military duty and the constant threat of full scale war because all your neighbours are understandably pissed off that Israel keeps doing genocide. And there is no end of that in sight. Israel is very clearly not a safe space for Jews.

Pro-Israel antisemitism is not an oxymoron. Arthur Belfour was an antisemite, Richard Spencer is an antisemite. The goyische Zionist who shot that antizionist Jewish protester is part of a long tradition of antisemitic Zionism.

Extremely good paragraph from an article exploring the concept of sentience in invertebrates

my favorite jewish meme: you can be in the middle of nowhere, miles from civilization, and what’s that? there on the horizon? a mirage? a dream? no, it’s a chabad house and they’re asking you if you have anywhere to stay for shabbos

I was driving to a job interview in a city I had never been to and I was feeling lonely and thinking about how far away I’d be from my friends and support network, and how scary that would be-

And right as I thought that I passed a Chabad house

It was deeply comforting. Right when I felt alone, I was reminded that the whole damn Jewish community is there.

One of my top ten comic panels of all time.

IMAGE ID: A panel from a Teen Titans Go comic where Starfire is saying “Although I did once visit a Lubavitch Outreach Center on my home planet of Tamaran” and Beast Boy as a cat is saying “those guys are everywhere.” END ID.

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

When you’re Jewish but you’re dating a non-Jewish person

Silk velvet Kippah from Afghanistan, early 20th century

A broken rose symbol appers on the matzevah of a person who died tragically young. The person name was Heinrich Hirsch, whose Hebrew name was Mose Hirsch HaKohen. He was born in 1855 and passed away in 1857, on the 6th of February.

The broken rose usually appears as a symbol of a life departed before time, on tombstones of children in both jewish and non-jewish cemeteries. With similar meaning, a broken tree could also appear on the tombstones.

The tombstone is located in the Mainz Jewish Cemetery, which is part of the Unesco World Heritage sites. Now I'm working on a new zine that will present this jewish heritage sites for all.

goyishe tumblr leftists seeing a quote from the torah: wow. i can’t believe they fucking mentioned israel. kind of problematic. fucking zionists.

when the genocidal settler state that calls itself israel falls, the jewish religious concept of israel will still exist. and leftists have to be okay with that. because the alternative is getting rid of judaism entirely. and you can see where that line of thinking is flawed.

if you can’t conceptualize that the state and the religious concept are two different things, then israel-the-state’s propaganda has worked on you. zionism and judaism are not the same thing, and if you think they are, you’re an antisemite. sorry.

this post has gotten way more attention than i expected it to. if you’re going to be annoying on this post or in my inbox i ask you to instead please pick any fundraiser from this vetted list and help out a palestinian in need. any amount of money can make a massive difference. thanks.

"How to turn grief into joy, despair into hope: laugh it down. It cannot defeat you if you laugh it down. Kill you, oui. But not defeat you." - from "Otterskin", by Peg Robinson and Macedon