starter pack for when your third mutual twice removed will not stop posting about how mid heated rivalry is and how they do not understand why anyone would bother watching it when there are queer characters in shows that are completely different to HR in every way
As much as we talk about how being visibly Jewish can be scary (especially since a lot of us have had to deal with antisemitism because of it), the human connection I’ve made because people see my magen david mean I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
I’ve gone places and had people get excited because they’ve never met any other Jewish people in our area. I know doctors and mathematicians and people who have lived full, marvellous lives because we initially connect about our Judaism. I’ve gone to events and had little moments I treasure because people saw my necklace. Now that I’m in WWII history spaces, people see my necklace and make sure to introduce me to veterans who liberated Dachau or to shoah survivors. There’s something so beautiful about the bonds and the human connection that simply come from being visibly Jewish
hey man if you being jewish is only relevant when you want to trot it out and do a little song and dance “as a jew,” i can say with certainty you are not acting jewishly. you’re just being a cunt
every time someones says “hey how are you” and i say “good” and forget to add the “how about you?” i feel like i’ve missed a quicktime event
most important thing i drew today
israel = jews. that is our name for ourselves. it comes from our patriarch, yaakov i.e. yisrael and it is the name we’ve used to refer to our people for millennia. we are called bnei yisrael (the children of israel) in the torah. that is why the modern nation-state is called israel – because that’s our name. when you say “fuck israel” or “death to israel” you are literally saying “fuck jews” or “death to jews.” there is no way around it and no excuse. you cannot separate am yisrael (the jewish people) from medinat yisrael (the jewish state) any more than you can separate the greek people from greece. jews ARE israel.
group of like 30 freshers just walked by under my window filling my flat pleasantly with the drone of group conversation and then above the din someone shouted “LADS. LADS. WHERE ARE WE GOING” in the tone of someone who’s already asked 30 times. like a wildebeest in the very back of the great migration.