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I’m not Jewish but that doesn’t mean it’s not an issue. I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing about it wtf.
Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
Flag for the Jewish Diaspora — 2025
Disclaimer: This flag is not meant to be provocative or as a partisan statement on the current situation in Palestine-Israel or the activism that surrounds it. I made this flag for a much more personal reason, that being that I do not feel that the flag of Israel adequately represents me as a Jew. As much as I appreciate the idea of the flag being viewed by some as a "Flag for the Jews" I personally look at the Israeli flag as just that, a flag for the state of Israel.
I was born in Canada and have lived here all my life. I'm very happy with my life in Canada and with Canadian culture. But Israel, from what l've seen and heard, is a completely foreign land to me, both culturally and politically, I understand that the land itself is very culturally significant to the Jewish people, and I very much respect that, but even then, I feel a much more spiritual connection to the biblical Israel of ancient times than I do of the modern state. And finally, the political climate of the state of Israel has made its flag a most contentious symbol, and the harsh politicization of its image is unfortunately too much of a factor in its usage for me to feel comfortable calling it my own.
In short: The flag of Israel carries far too much baggage, both culturally and politically, for me to want to adopt it as a flag for myself being a Jew who is comfortable where she is. I don't feel that it adequately represents my identity, it is almost completely foreign to me, I've seen some Jews that feel the same way as me, and so that is the reason why l've created this Diaspora Flag.
Description: The flag features four colours, red, yellow, green, and dark blue. In the foreground of the flag is its centrepiece, the blade of a plowshare with the ten commandments sitting behind it, on the commandments are the first ten letters of the Hebrew Alef-Bet.
The design of the centrepiece is lifted from the historical diaspora movement "Am Olam" who's representative symbol was that of a plow and the ten commandments. The plow in this context represents the desire to build a safe and prosperous Jewish home in the diaspora, while the ten commandments represent the Jewish people as well as our Torah, which is the founding document and core of our people and our tradition.
The flag's background depicts a green field and a red sky with seven beams of yellow sunlight emitting from behind the centrepiece.
The green represents the hope that the lands we inhabit will be rich and providing for everyone, and the red sky represents dawn, in the hope that one day the sun may rise on a land where all people are equal and no one is subjugated or pushed out for their race, ethnicity, religion, etc. the seven beams of the sun also represent the seven branches of the Temple Menorah, which is a nod to Jerusalem, a place that still holds a major significance to the Jewish people and our tradition. No matter where we now choose to live, we shall always remember and hold with reverence the land from which our tradition came.
Golem
PT: Golem /end PT
ID: a flag with five uneven horizontal lines. The two first are bigger while the fourth one is smaller. Their colours are from top to bottom, dark brown, brown, beige, soft red and dark soft red. On the upper left corner there is a symbol, a brown circle with inside a small black circle on top and two black triangles underneath the circle, forming a golem's head. END ID
Golem: a queer Jewish individual who defines themselves as protective, defensive, supportive, helpful and/or have a tall, chubby, fat, an imposant body type/shape in any other way.
Everything in the design are in reference to the clay that golems are composed of.
Wanted to make a Jewish exclusive presentation label because I haven't seen any yet. I want to do more of those, inspired from creatures of the Jewish folklore! I don't have any idea yet, feel free to suggest anything. :)
Under cut separated parts of flag.
ID: the golem symbol isolated, on a transparent background. END ID
ID: the flag without the symbol on it. END ID
dog and cat jewish
Dog Jewish (first photo) is when you are connected to dogs in anyway and are Jewish cat jewish (second photo) is when you are connected to cat I anyway and are Jewish
[ID; the left flag ; four horizontal stripes, starting at the top is a dark sky blue next is a dark brown, then a dark blue, then a light brown; the right flag is four horizontal stripes, starting at the top is a egg white/tan, next is a light light brown, then a gray, and finally a dark brown End ID]
purple jewish
A flag for Jews who are connected to the color purple in any way
[id; a lilac purple with the Star of David in the middle end ID]
From now On I am Satoko Houjou Fan.
religion?
I was just wondering honestly you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to and I’m not doing this for anything I just wanted to know
this is honestly so endearing
Shana Tova everyone, and a happy holiday to all who celebrate! May this year be peaceful and fulfilling :)
why are all the Jews suddenly posting about cheesecake, you ask? because it’s Shavuot!
sorry, let me give you a quick guide to Jewish holidays
Rosh Hashanah: dip apples in honey, contemplate feeling guilty
Yom Kippur: feel guilty, don’t eat
Sukkot: build a treehouse, shake a lemon at God
Simchat Torah: dance with a Torah scroll
Hanukkah: resist tyranny, eat fried food, set things on fire
Tu B’shvat: hug trees, eat every type of fruit and nut you can acquire, do complicated wine math
Purim: put on a drunken play about a teenage beauty queen, cast shade at tyrants
Passover: don’t eat pastry
Maimuna: eat a ton of pastry
Lag B’omer: set things on fire, shoot arrows, learn about rabbis with laser eyes
Shavuot: eat cheese and stay up all night reading with your female friends
Tisha B’av: mourn, preferably AT people
Hope that clears up any confusion
If this were the Book of Jonah, it might make more sense, but I guess someone just wanted to make a fish case for their favorite scroll, and I can respect that.
Esther scroll in fish-like case, Eastern Europe, 19th century, The Jewish Museum, London
Jewish Resources (Assorted)
Since my last post seemed to be helpful to a lot of people, I thought I’d make another to share some additional resources. This list includes a bunch of stuff, meant for Jewish people in general. I would definitely encourage you to explore them! There’s a lot of useful stuff here. Goyim are welcome to reblog, just please be respectful if you’re adding tags or comments. Jewish Multiracial Network, an organization for multiracial Jewish families and Jews of Color Sefaria, a free virtual library of Jewish texts Sephardic Studies Digital Library Museum “The SSDC includes key books, archival documents, and audio recordings that illuminate the history, culture, literature, politics, customs, music, and cuisine of Sephardic Jews all expressed in their own language, Ladino.” (from their website) The SMQN, an organization for LGBTQ+ Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews Keshet, a group for LGBTQ+ Jews JQY, a group for LGBTQ+ Jews with a focus on those in Orthodox communities Queer Jews of Color Resource List (note: this list is way more than just resources, there’s a LOT there) JQ International: “JQ celebrates the lives of LGBTQ+ Jews and their allies by transforming Jewish communities and ensuring inclusion through community building, educational programs, and support and wellness services, promoting the healthy integration of LGBTQ+ and Jewish identities.” (from their website) Jews of Color Initiative, an organization dedicated to teaching about intersectionality in the Jewish community, focuses on research, philanthropy, field building, and community education Nonbinary Hebrew Project: It’s hard to describe, but they’re working to find/create/add suffixes that represent nonbinary genders in Hebrew. If you speak Hebrew/another gendered language, you might know what I mean about gendered suffixes. Jewish Mysticism Reading List (These are related to our closed practices, goyim should NOT be practicing these things) Ritualwell (you can find prayers and blessings related to specific things here, I personally like that they have blessings related to gender identity) Guimel, an LGBTQ+ support group for the Jewish Community in Mexico. The site is in Spanish. I’m not a native speaker, but I was still able to read a little bit of it. SVARA: “SVARA’s mission is to empower queer and trans people to expand Torah and tradition through the spiritual practice of Talmud study.” (From their website) TransTorah is definitely an older website, but there are still some miscellaneous pdfs and resources up on the “Resources” page. Jewish Disabilities Advocates: “The JFS Jewish Disabilities Advocates program was created to raise awareness and further inclusion of people with disabilities within Jewish organizations and the larger Jewish community.” (from their website) Jewish Food Society (recipes, have not spent a lot of time browsing here but maybe I should in the future) Jewish Blind & Disabled, an organization that operates mainly in providing accessible housing and living. Jewish Braille Institute International: “The JBI Library provides individuals who are blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped or reading disabled with books, magazines and special publications of Jewish and general interest in Audio, Large Print and Braille formats.” (from their website) Their services are free!)
Happy Passover to all my fellow Jews. May your holiday be peaceful and meaningful. I hope you got rid of your chametz at a non-stressful time.
Let my people know.
Memes of Judaism
…as he should be.
I forgot the name of Maimonides-
So I searched up "Jewish philosopher with opinions" and he was the first result.
Coincidentally, I had Jacob wrestling as my Torah portion at my Bat Mitzvah and my parents had one on leprosy protocols and what to do with mold-infested houses at their wedding. The rabbi said that he generally dreaded having to talk about mold and leprosy at weddings but that it was oddly fitting in the case of my (future) parents: a doctor and a mycologist.
there is not nearly enough media about the bar/bat mitzvah process. anyone remember watching a kid do their fun drash about jacob wrestling the angel and thinking How the fuck. am i going to write a speech about leprosy protocols
yeah no I’m okay. It’s just the fact that christians can get away with heinous crimes in the name of their religion while my friend got harassed for associating with me since I’m a jew by ethnicity.
I understand people that believe in a religion. Isn't every sunset that's partially hidden by an average day's clouds proof of the devine?
Emet is now available for $5 as a PDF download!
LINK
Debuted this @shortrunseattle and now it’s up for sale in my etsy
“Emet” is a short story about a woman and a Golem – $10, plus shipping 5.5 x 8.5, 12 pages, full color choose media shipping and save money!
I hope to post something about the awesome time I had at Short Run, but it might be a little while because I have about three grad school assignments I’m working on. Also there’s an election tomorrow and I will either be drowning my sorrows or celebrating having dodged the Apocalypse.
My Etsy: LINK / My Society6: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK
Debuted this @shortrunseattle and now it’s up for sale in my etsy
"Emet" is a short story about a woman and a Golem -- $10, plus shipping 5.5 x 8.5, 12 pages, full color choose media shipping and save money!
I hope to post something about the awesome time I had at Short Run, but it might be a little while because I have about three grad school assignments I’m working on. Also there’s an election tomorrow and I will either be drowning my sorrows or celebrating having dodged the Apocalypse.
My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK
It’s here!
“Emet,” my 12 page, full color comic will debut at @shortrunseattle on November 5th!
It’ll be available on my etsy store after Short Run.
(and before anyone goes “Women don’t wear tefillin!”, the gendered usage of tefillin varies based on the form of Judaism. The majority of Orthodox Jews feel that women should not/do not need to don tefillin, most Conservative Jews hold this view as well, although there is a growing movement of Conservative Jewish women who don tefillin. Opinions among Reform Jews vary from “Women don’t need to/should not don tefillin,” to “If that’s how you practice your faith, that’s great!” to “Why are you asking me? I don’t care.”)
My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK
GOD MADE TRANS PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON HE MADE GRAPES BUT NOT WINE WHO ARE WE TO DENY THIS DIVINE ALCHEMY OF THE SELF?
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.
Just a PSA, desecrating a Torah is not the same as burning a Bible.
Torahs are not mass produced, and cannot be mass produced due to how specific and strict the rules are for construction. They have to be handmade in a very specific process with specific materials (the scroll must be made of calf skin instead of paper, for example) A rabbi can reasonably spend about a year making a single torah. It must be written by hand in ink, and if a mistake is made on a page, the page must be thrown out and started from scratch. Because of this, torahs are often extremely expensive and delicate, and we have rules for how they are to be held and interacted with so as not to damage them. One of the most important rules is that you cannot touch the parchment of the scroll with your fingers, you have to use a pointer called a yad. This rule is for religious reasons, but also practical ones because the oils on your hands can damage the parchment very easily if touched regularly. That is how fragile these objects are.
In addition, if one is damaged, it is no longer considered kosher and must be replaced. There is obviously a spiritual reason for not wanting a torah to be harmed, but it’s also because they are extremely expensive, often very old heirlooms or artifacts, and handmade art pieces. Desecrating a torah is not just a symbolic gesture of disrespect to Judaism, it is destroying an expensive, old, and culturally significant art piece.
The Christian equivalent would be more along the lines of smashing stained glass windows in a historic church. Bible burnings as a form of protest are almost always done with copies you can buy for $15 at Barnes and noble. It is certainly meant to be disrespectful to the Christian faith, but it is not the same in terms of level of harm caused.
Bible burning vs torah desecration is a comparison made in bad faith I see occasionally to be like “why is antisemitism bad but being mean to Christians is fine?” But I’ve met a lot of well meaning gentiles who don’t fully know the cultural context or significance of the Torah and genuinely don’t understand the gravity of desecrating one.
The Goyim are fucking wild, the way I would have dumped that casserole over that woman's head, also divorce that wife.
Let's be real, as someone who isn't Jewish, I wouldn't even dare to do something like that to my partner's family, and if something like that happened with my family, I would be pissed off as fuck at my own family for disrespecting theirs like that.
On top of that, I hate the way many conservative Christians think they can just force their beliefs onto others. Fucking disgusting.
The Goyim are fucking wild, the way I would have dumped that casserole over that woman's head, also divorce that wife.
Hi! Gentile here, I've been reading your blog and find it very interesting + informative, thank you for being such a good source of information and explaining things so clearly and calmly despite all the nonsense you have to deal with.
I hope it's okay to ask this, since I understand it's a very solemn / sensitive subject. In a few of your posts that mention / discuss the Tetragrammaton, you mention that the knowledge of how to say or pronounce the name has been lost. As far as I understand, Hebrew has a phonemic orthography (ie each grapheme / letter corresponds to a phoneme / elementary sound unit). If that's the case, could one theoretically know how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton from combining the sounds those four letters make according to normal grammar / pronunciation rules, or is it the case that the knowledge of how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton exists independently of the knowledge of how to pronounce the constituent letters? Or is it something to do with how Hebrew orthography / phonology has changed over time, and modern Hebrew phonology wouldn't be accurate to the pronunciation as it would have existed before the fall of the second temple? Or is there a nuance in Hebrew orthography / phonology I'm missing?
I understand of course you wouldn't *want* to say it out loud anyway given how sacred and taboo it is, I suppose I'm just curious at the semantic properties of the knowledge of the pronunciation. (If this ask is inappropriate or offensive, I sincerely apologise and please do not feel obliged to post it / reply to it.)
Hi there, thanks so much for your kind words and happy Friday!
So there’s a few things at play here, because you are right, generally speaking, the Hebrew alphabet is a phonemic orthography which would generally lend itself to being pronounceable even in the absence of unbroken oral teaching (leaving aside theological and cultural boundaries on doing so, for the moment). But there are a few confounding factors:
1) Hebrew, both ancient and modern, doesn’t have vowels in its alphabet. To indicate vowels typically it uses nekudot, but that’s not done in texts meant to be read by fluent adult speakers/readers and Jewish holy texts don’t contain them. So we don’t have hard evidence of what vowels go with the Tetragrammaton’s consonants.
2) Some of the consonants in the Tetragrammaton can be used to indicate the presence of certain vowels, but they don’t always get used that way. So there’s no way to know of their presence specifically indicates those vowels or they’re being used purely as consonants and it’s coincidence.
3) Pronunciation of some vowels and consonants, although it does not seem to have been a substantial shift, has changed over time (and not in uniform ways, because of the diaspora).
So certainly scholars fluent in the various ancient forms of Hebrew can make educated hypotheses, but there are confounding factors. And, of course, because of the theological and cultural restrictions on the speaking/writing of the Tetragrammaton there is no unbroken tradition we can look at to confirm any of those educated guesses. And that’s before we even get to the limited number of Jewish scholars who are even willing to try to discern pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton for religious reasons.
Pride, Awareness, Acceptance, Remembrance, and Visibility Events Calendar
(This is an incomplete list and will be updated as needed.)
January:
Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
World Braille Day (Jan 4th)
Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity (Jan 22nd)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27th)
February:
LGBTQ+ History Month (UK)
Black History Month (USA/Canada)
Polyamory Week (Canada, week of Valentine's Day)
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (first full week after 14th.)
Chosen Family Day (Feb 22)
Rare Disease Day (February 28th)
March:
Women's History Month
National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
Bisexual Health Awareness Month (#BiHealthMonth)
Disability Day of Mourning (March 1st)
Zero Discrimination Day (March 1st)
Dyscalculia Day (March 3rd)
International Women's Day (March 8th)
National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (March 10th)
World Down Syndrome Day (March 21st)
Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 21st-27th)
Atheist Day (March 23rd)
World Bipolar Day (March 30th)
Trans Week of Visibility (week of March 31st)
International Transgender Day of Visibility (#TDOV, March 31st).
April:
Autism Acceptance Month
Queer & Trans Kink Month
Arab American Heritage Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
World Autism Acceptance Day (April 2nd)
International Asexuality Day (April 6th, may change yearly)
National Deaf LGBTQ+ Awareness Week (second or third week, alternates yearly)
Day of Silence (date varies)
National Transgender HIV Testing Day (April 18th)
Nonbinary Parents Day (third Sunday)
Anniversary of "Genderqueer" being added to the dictionary (April 20th, 2016)
Lesbian Visibility Day (April 26th)
May:
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
EDS and HSD Awareness Month
National Day of Reason (first Thursday)
International Family Equality Day (first Sunday)
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (third Thursday)
National Honor Our LGBT+ Elders Day (May 16th)
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (May 17th)
Agender Pride Day (May 19th)
Harvey Milk Day (May 22nd)
Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day (May 24th)
World Thyroid Day (May 25th)
World Multiple Sclerosis Day (May 30th)
June:
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month
Global Day of Parents (June 1st)
National Gun Violence Awareness Day (first Friday)
Pulse Night of Remembrance (June 12th)
Learning Disability Week (third week)
Autistic Pride Day (June 18th)
Anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges (June 26th)
National HIV Testing Day (June 27th)
Stonewall Riots Anniversary (June 28th)
July:
Disability Pride Month
Abrosexual Awareness Day (July 2nd)
International Femme Appreciation Day (First Saturday of July)
Queerplatonic Relationships Day (#QPRDay, third Saturday)
International Nonbinary People's Day (July 14th)
Nonbinary Awareness Week (week of 14th)
International Drag Day (July 16th)
National Parents' Day (USA, fourth Sunday)
International Self Care Day (July 24th)
August:
International Childfree Day (August 1st)
Autistic Dignity Day (August 8th)
Gay Uncles Day (second Sunday)
Polyamorous Awareness Week (third week)
International Butch Appreciation Day (August 18th)
Transgender Flag Day (August 19th)
Wear It Purple Day (Australia, last Friday)
International Day of Protest Against ABA (August 31st)
September:
Bi Pride Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15th-Oct 15th)
Bisexual Awareness Week (week of Sept 23)
Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Sept 23)
International Day of Sign Languages (Sept 23)
International Safe Abortion Day (Sept 28)
National Day For Truth and Reconciliation (Sept 30th, Canada)
October:
LGBTQ+ History Month (USA/Canada)
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15th-Oct 15th)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Awareness Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
ADHD Awareness Month
National Kink Month (USA)
Black History Month (UK)
International Lesbian Day (Oct 8th)
World Mental Health Day (Oct 10th)
National Coming Out Day (Oct 11th)
National Freethought Day (Oct 12th)
OCD Awareness Week (second full week of October)
Trans Cake Day/Cake For Trans Friends Day (October 14th)
International Pronouns Day (third Wednesday)
Spirit Day (third Thursday)
Intersex Awareness Day (Oct 26th)
Asexual Awareness Week (last full week of October)
November:
Native American Heritage Month
Autistics Speaking Day (Nov 1st)
Intersex Day of Remembrance/Intersex Solidarity Day (Nov 8th)
Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation (Nov 12th-20th)
Trans Parent Day (first Sunday)
Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13th-19th)
Nonbinary Children's Day (Nov 13th)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR, Nov 20th)
National Polyamory Day (Canada, Nov 23rd)
December:
World AIDS Day (Dec 1st)
International Day of People With Disabilities (Dec 3rd)
Bisexual Pride Flag Day (Dec 5th)
Gender Expansive Parents Day (Dec 6th)
Pansexual Pride Day (Dec 8th)
Human Rights Day (Dec 10th)
Listen, I know it's very much a thing that utopian leftists think that religions will simply stop existing once all of our material needs are met, but that is just not the case.
Human beings need ritual. If we are deprived of ritual, we make new ritual. It does not matter if you call it religion or state or whatever it is you call it, human beings will keep making up new rituals.
You cannot stop us, and saying 'this ritual which I like and doesn't hurt anyone else is fine, but that ritual which you like and doesn't hurt anyone else is bad' is just bigotry.
When I say 'you cannot stop us,' I literally mean you cannot stop human beings from making up rituals and religions. Leave a group of six year old girls alone near a mud pit for an hour and you will come back to a newly-minted faith. We make ritual. We make culture. That is what we do.
No, Judaism will not 'naturally cease to exist' when all of our material needs are met. What will happen then is that the Jews will get Jewier, because we will have all the time in the world to study Torah and write stories and make Jewish art. If you met all of my material needs tomorrow, two days from now there would be six more hamsas, a complete bound copy of all the volumes of the Talmud, and a shit-ton of giant Jewish art prints in my house.
You cannot stop people from making up culture and religion. It is, arguably, the thing which makes us human, one of the defining features of our collective humanity. We will always make up silly songs and new religions, and the idea that we'll just give all of that up for some vanilla yogurt and taupe jumpsuits utopian existence is absurd and beyond belief.
If you’re fine with queer culture being destroyed then you don’t deserve to be a part of it. Why do you think we should respect your religion when you don’t respect our existence? You post nonstop about how queer people hate Jewish people, but are you surprised when you endorse takes like that? Nothing would be lost from the world if there were no more Jewish people. If queer culture gets destroyed, then millions of queer people will grow up miserable. That’s the difference.
i’m not gonna publish the rest of the asks i got abt that post bc some of them are vile but i think this one is probably the most egregious.
“nothing would be lost from the world if there were no more jewish people.”