*It’s customary in Judaism to make donations in multiples of 18 as to bless the recipient(s) with good health and long life (the numerical value of the Hebrew word “chai” which means “life”), but by all means, just give what you can.
i dont get it… the money wont bring anyone back??? why do we need to donate exactly???
Gee, I don’t know, maybe they need funds to help clean up the blood, broken glass, and bullet holes. Maybe they’d like some money to bring in psychiatric professionals for their congregants. Maybe they want to start a fund in the names of the victims or provide for their families. WTF.
Not to mention the people who were injured and are going to be racking up medical expenses on top of everything else.
No, money won’t bring back the lives that were lost. But it will help make the lives of those left behind a tiny bit less horrible.
hey, in the wake of Squirrel Hill please remember that this isn’t just about gun control, but about antisemitism as well. gun control is important, but it’s not the reason this tragedy has happened. antisemitism has been on the rise in the united states for years, and no amount of gun control debate will stop that. take an active part in combating antisemitism when you see it, both in yourself and in others. keep an eye open, please, to prevent this from ever happening again
My mother called me to say “so, it’s starting again”.
My partner has expressed the fear that no one wants us to remain alive.
If you use this to talk about gun control and don’t address the fact that it is a manifestation of hatred and racism being spurred by open violent racists, then you are missing the point.
Yup. Trump made it a convo about gun control lest he have to denounce white supremacy, but that’s not what this is about. My synagogue has security officers; they are not armed. I’ve been to synagogues that did have armed security. We all know that it wouldn’t have mattered; people would still be dead, by people who want to kill Jews.
Don’t let Trump derail the conversation. Almost two years ago I started making plans and preparatory arrangements to get my six nieces and nephews – all of whom have one Jewish parent, and three of whom might not be allowed to emigrate to Israel because of patrimony bullshit – out of the country if necessary. That is the sort of conversation (white goyische) people need to be paying attention to.
Eight Jews Dead in an Antisemitic Hate Crime, and Trump is Already Victim Blaming
This morning, a white man named Robert Bowers entered Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, shouted “all jews must die,” and shot 14 people. At least 8 so far are dead.
When asked if this reflected on gun control, the president of the united states said, “If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better…if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn’t — he was able to do things that unfortunately he shouldn’t have been able to do.”
This is victim blaming. He is saying that because these congregants had chosen not to defile a house of g-d with instruments of death, they were shot.
When building the Temple in Jerusalem, it’s said, g-d required the stones not be cut with metal tools, as such things could be used to kill people. We believe that instruments of death have no place in the praising of g-d. We should not be required to sacrifice this value in order to stay alive.
May their memories be a blessing.
I appreciate that people are liking this, but please reblog as well
This TERF page run by Janice Williams- one of the TERFs who sabotaged
London Pride this year- is now promoting fascist antisemitic conspiracy
theories.
TERFs really are openly showing their true colours now as they go all out in stoking up anti-trans prejudice ahead of the government consultation closing.
I see they got a cartoon by an artist trained at the Watto from SW School of Antisemitic Caricatures
Another weird and frustrating phenomenon when you get sucked into an argument with conservative types (something I usually try to avoid bothering with anymore) is that there’s this very narrow set of people they’re convinced are key figures, even “leaders” on any given topic. Talk about climate change and they bring up Al Gore. Talk about women’s rights and they bring up Anita Sarkeesian.
To this day I have NO IDEA what any of those people have ever said on those topics, and in most cases, I never even heard of them outside of conservative complaints and memes. I would never know the name Anita Sarkeesian if she wasn’t one random blogger out of thousands that an obscure niche of people went positively ballistic over. I’ve never heard of anyone accepting the existence of global warming just because non-scientist Al Gore said to.
If I tell them this they never believe it. They’re completely convinced that the beliefs they hate actually revolve around some random youtubers or B-list politicians they randomly elevated into their own bugbears and the idea that the people they fight hardest against actually have barely any influence or fame outside their own subculture seems almost impossible for them to accept.
George Soros.
I always see people saying George Soros pays people like me to protest (I wish), or buses people to vote on battleground states, some way or another he has us under our thrall.
I don’t even know who the fuck George Soros IS
I don’t even feel bothered to Google him and find out- he’s utterly irrelevant to my life. But apparently all liberals are on his payroll somehow.
I, too, never heard of George Soros before just recently.
They could make up absolutely any name in these arguments and it would have just as much meaning to me. “You’re only pro-vaccine because you’re shilling for Jiminy Ferpendoodle!!!”
I’ve heard this referred to as the central fallacy of the authoritarian mindset: It’s not that authoritarians don’t care about facts, it’s that facts aren’t real until they are confirmed by an Authority. Of course no liberal believed in Global Warming until Al Gore said so! Why would they believe it, until Someone In Charge said it? And moreover, if you can prove That Person Isn’t Really An Authority, the facts will change! See also:
Why Creationists are obsessed with disproving Darwin – not his theory, but the man himself. As if casting doubt on Darwin-a-dude-born-in-eighteen-fucking-oh-nine-for-chrissake-’s personal beliefs will somehow completely disprove the ensuing two centuries of scientific research.
Why various idiot politicians try to legislate away Global Climate Change, as if making laws against the ocean will stop it from rising.
I’m sure you could add on ten thousand bullet points but it’s Saturday and I don’t wanna do the research when I could be cleaning my kitchen and playing Minecraft.
You ever notice that they have a huge reliance on buzzwords? I don’t think they know who George Soros is either, but it’s a buzzword that the Authorities have given them, so they beat the hell out of it.
More buzzwords that will drive me to screaming: Family Values. Christian Values. Patriot/Patriotism. Pro-Military.
I swear, they’re using immigration control and better education as buzzwords too. They make their world small so they have to use small words to fit better.
Friendly October reminder not to put Spock or other Jewish characters in costumes with horns
to clarify: it is an antisemitic idea that Jews have horns (dating to a mistranslation of karan (shone) v keren (horns) ) which was perpetuated in art by the likes of Michelangelo. this is not a thing of the past–some gentiles still believe that jewish people have horns, and putting jewish characters in costumes/aus with horns is insensitive at best and also really fuckin gross
also do not depict Jewish characters as demons there is a very long history of Jews being seen as demons and that being used to kill us
please do not dress Jewish characters in costumes that are priest outfit or nun outfit or with crosses
Just to give y’all an idea of how modern the horn issue is: My dad, when he went to college in the early 1980’s, was asked by someone who had never met a Jew before where his horns were. In the 1980’s. My dad was asked where his horns were. This was only 30 years ago. I have been lucky not to deal with that particular stereotype in my lifetime, but that was less than a decade before I was born. And I know other Jews in areas where Jews are scarce have dealt with this much more recently than the 80’s.
Yup. When my mom went to college, her freshman year roommate woke up the first Sunday and started getting dressed for church. My mom was still in bed, so the roommate came over and woke her up.
Roommate: Did you want to come to church with me, or do you have your own church you’re going to?
Mom: Well, I don’t really go to religious services, but if I did I would go to a synagogue, not a church, because I’m Jewish.
(Long silence. My mom opens one eye to see her roommate staring in shock.)
Roommate: You … you don’t look Jewish.
Mom: (Who looks VERY Jewish) What do you mean?
Roommate: Well, my pastor always told me that Jews have horns and a tail.
Long story short: they didn’t end up getting along very well.
I’ve been asked about my horns as recently as 1997. In a public school in New Jersey.
It would b cool of my non-Jewish followers to reblog this!!! Spread this bc it’s scary and real and you should know!
I see a lot of people in the comments focusing on the fact that it’s Spock in the OP example, and asking what he has to do with it since Spock is a Vulcan, not Jewish.
Apart from the fact that Leonard Nimoy is Jewish in real life – which should be enough all by itself since despite Zachary Quinto’s excellent turn as the character Nimoy is still the iconic cultural precept – but he also heavily and explicitly used his heritage to influence Spock as a character.
Spock’s outsider role on the Enterprise and among other Vulcans due to his mixed ancestry is based on assimilation issues and prejudice faced by Jews in American society.
Many aspects of Vulcan philosophy were based on various Rabbinic and Talmudic teachings.
The infamous Vulcan Salute itself is based on the raising of the hands during a blessing.
Spock as a fictional person might be a member of an alien species and not technically a follower of the Jewish faith, but the character was based on and embodies several aspects of Judaism in general and Leonard Nimoy’s experiences as a Jew in particular. As the original and basis for all later Vulcans, it extends to the rest of them as well. That doesn’t mean he can’t be portrayed participating in non-Jewish events and celebrations – I eat candy on Halloween and I join friends for Christmas dinner every year – but you can’t ignore the background and history of the character.
Remember that when you’re including him in Halloween or Christmas stories.
Along the same lines, Superman is also an inherently Jewish character who was written as a metaphor for Jewish immigrant experience, so don’t put horns on him either.
A LOT of comic book characters are Jewish because a lot of the early creators were Jewish. Magneto, Kitty Pryde, the original comic Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Polaris, Batwoman, Doc Samson, Martin Stein (part of Firestorm), Ben Grimm…there’s a lot.
Remember the shitstorm over nazi!Cap?
Cap’s CREATORS were Jewish. So making him a fucking Nazi was so many shades of wrong.
Also Jewish: Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan aka future Demiurge
Yeah. I didn’t go through the entire list because there really are a lot. The American superhero comic would not be the genre it is without an entire bunch of truly talented Jews.
“The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad Don’t fall for it!” he tweeted.
Trump claimed that billionaire liberal activist George Soros is among those funding the demonstrations against the judge, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. He did not provide evidence for his claim.
When you get sick of the world not ending so you decide to take matters into your own hands.
This is also why there’s such a push with American Christians to recognize Jerusalem as the capital and also why they don’t really care about the environment. They’re basically a death cult that thinks they can accelerate the world towards the book of revelation
The Vice President of the United fucking States is a huge proponent of this
It sounds funny, but they are literally trying to use Jews to trigger the armageddon, which they believe would cause all the Jews to die. Bullshit or not, its deeply rooted in antisemitism.
only half die, the rest convert which is somehow Even Worse
So anyway, I haven’t seen this video come up on Tumblr yet, but if people could refrain from endorsing this woman should it start making the rounds, that would be much appreciated. No matter how funny or quirky she is, she should not be rewarded for pillaging a culture that does not belong to her!
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