19 August 2024 - 15 Av 5784

Someone shared this in my conversion groupchat and I thought y'all would appreciate it too.

my little cousin called my kippah a helmet and i said “yeah it’s to protect me from the ayin hara” and he said “what?” and i said “the evil eye” and he said “oh like the death star” so we’ve established the following:

the death star is the ayin hara

we wear kippot to protect us from the ayin hara, i.e. the death star

the L and K should not be so close on the keyboard the amount of times I've accidentally typed a very antisemitic slur while trying to type "like" is absurd. the only thing saving me from this is autocorrect and that feels like a flimsy barrier at best

HEAR ME OUT

A collection of kippot designed to look like the faces of various Pokémon. And the pikachu one? It’s called Pika Kippah, of course.

Jewish Holiday Miku - Shavuot 🐮🥛🧀

Words cannot express how much I hate the people that run JVP.

There is no universe in which calling to “reject the ADL” is anything other than horrifically antisemitic.

Every year Rosh Hashana reminds me that I don't hate red and green together, I just can't stand the relentless omnipresence of it during the four months of Xmas.

Anyway you heard it here first: green and red are Rosh Hashana colors now 🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏

One thing I’ve realized I love about Judaism is how there is less of a stress on the gender of G-d vs the feeling of G-d. When I think of the divine, I can’t picture a man or a woman but I do know the feeling of wind before a tornado, or seeing a shooting star for the first time, or feeling the first breeze of summer kiss your cheeks or-