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What you're saying definitely makes sense, and in hindsight I can see where your arguments are coming from. I guess I'm just so starved for Jewish media that I'll take anything 😅 I actually talk about this a fair amount IRL with a friend of mine, usually about publications like Alma that have a very... let's say skewed views of us Orthodox folk

I wouldn't call this ironic, but it is rather funny to me that the jewish idea of not proselytizing drew me to judaism in the very beginning of me thinking about judaism

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(ID for previous tags: #I was literally just talking about that book on the first day of Pesach! #I really enjoyed it (also listened to the audiobook) EXCEPT there was so much snark towards Orthodox Jews that it really knocked the book #down a few pegs for me #you can tell the author has a lot of animosity towards religious Judaism #which hey that can be fair and valid don't get me wrong #but it's hard for me to listen to in that context especially from another Jew #I guess for me there are positive ways to express it and for me I don't see this as one of them /end ID)

Speaking as a ModOx Jew who tends to lean more Mod than Ox than his parents, I... half agree? To be honest I was going in expecting MORE Ortho-bashing than I ended up getting, but most of the religious snark came from the lesbian ex-chasidishe woman, so it wasn't completely out of context. But yeah, I do think that we need more Jewish literature out there (magazines and books both) that celebrate Jewish religiosity without going "ew, those ORTHODOXES" because the antisemites aren't gonna care whether we're orthodox or not so like why exacerbate it by imagining hate amongst ourselves y'know

I wouldn't call this ironic, but it is rather funny to me that the jewish idea of not proselytizing drew me to judaism in the very beginning of me thinking about judaism

#jumblr #personal ramblings #prev tags #jewish literature

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There's a Jewish joke I saw quoted in Adam Mansbach's book The Golem of Brooklyn (side note - MUST READ, incredible book) that conversion to Judaism is the most goyische thing a person can do, since no Jew has ever done it before

I wouldn't call this ironic, but it is rather funny to me that the jewish idea of not proselytizing drew me to judaism in the very beginning of me thinking about judaism

#jewish conversion #jumblr #converts I love you

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Me: hmm, I'm not really sure I have autism... I wasn't really diagnosed, I didn't know until I was in college... I dunno...

Also me: *meticulously peels garlic cloves one by one by hand while zoning out to music*

Also me: *must follow recipes and has a meltdown if I go off the recipe on the slightest of details*

Me: a dilemma for the ages I tell you

#personal #autism #please ask me how i found out i have autism #it's very funny

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My dumbass brain visualizing The Stormfather whenever he talks to Dalinar in Oathbringer

#stormlight archive #oathbringer #dalinar kholin #the stormlight archive #cremposting #monty python

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He was so right for this

So like Am Yisrael Chai and all that, don't get me wrong I'm so grateful for the superhuman resilience of Israelis (and really the whole Jewish people) because it's necessary

but damn, like

Could it just, for once, not be?

#jumblr #עם ישראל חי #fiddler on the roof #ישראבלר #jewblr

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The bean jar

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Got a job as a legal assistant at a boutique (like, less than ten employees total) at a Trusts and Estates law firm. Signed a 1099 and W4 and everything. The job was advertised as perm from the start but I was told on day 1 that it was actually going to be temp-to-perm, but I was fine with this, as both my wife and I were out of work at the time, and it was a job in a field I want to work with in the long run. (It also turns out that I was making $1000 less than the lower limit of the advertised salary, but again I was fine with this, because I figured that if I got brought on perm I could negotiate up to the salary band from the hourly I was on).

The only training I get is that I get asked to come in on my predecessor's last day to learn some of the ropes from her - otherwise, this job was a trial by fire. A lot is thrown at me, but I weather it, thinking that I'm gonna get the hang of things as I get settled into the office. It's also entirely in person but again, I'm OK with this (I like working in the office, I like having the separation between where I work and where I live).

Boss took me into a conference room yesterday afternoon, not ten days after I started. It's not working out, she says. It's a fast paced firm with a lot of moving parts and I'm just not working fast enough to meet pace with the lawyers. She says that I clearly know what I'm doing, I just can't do it fast enough and she just needs someone who can. I ask if there's anything I can do to assuage her that I can keep up if I acclimate more to the office. She says no. I'll be paid for my time there and she'll give me a reference if asked, but that's my last moment in the office.

I'm of two minds. One, good riddance to them, she was a nice enough person but not a great boss. Can't even let a new hire in for two weeks before cutting them loose. On the other, I genuinely liked the work I was doing, now I have to start from scratch with only two weeks of a new job on my resume, and while I can put "temp" on there I know that's gonna be another red flag to recruiters who are gonna wonder why this idiot was let go not even a month into a job.

Sigh. Back to LinkedIn I go. Any advice or commiserating would be appreciated.

#personal #jobsearch

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I love the story of the Corpse Bride. Nervous groom tests his wedding vows on a twig that turns out to be a demon who says "yeah we're married now, I love you husband" truly one of the GOATs

On a related note I will never forgive Timber Ton (Tim Burton in Humorous) for erasing all the Judaism from the story when he produced the movie version

Hey Jumblr, what’s your favorite Jewish story?

could be real or fiction, could be about Jews or just by a Jewish author/creator, could be from the Bible, from the Talmud, from folklore, from wherever, just reblog with your favorite Jewish story whatever it is

I’ll go first: I really love the X-Men, especially the arc of Magneto & Xavier’s relationship, and the story of the golem (I couldn’t pick just one lol)

#jumblr #jewish stuff #jewish stories

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It is with great displeasure that I must inform you all that tumblr antisemite arabian knight is posting again

And if you're arabian knight or one of his weirdo ilk who obsessively search for and harass people who post his username: Hi! I loathe you! Log off forever and go have an experience very far away from me

#jumblr #leftist antisemitism

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Fellow Jew chiming in! The classical requirements to study Kabbalah are 1) be over 40 years old, 2) be married with children, and 3) already know the entire rest of the Torah and Talmud.

Aside from the "going insane," the rabbis were worried that learning Kabbalah too early and without prior knowledge of all the rest of Torah and Judaism would lead to confusion, misinformation, and eventual apostasy.

Between what the occulty types did with w*ndigoag and what they're trying to do with Lilith, I think western occultists just really like bastardising malevolent entities from marginalized cultures and turning them into their Dark Edgy "Totally Not Culturally Christian Even Though You Can See The Christian Influences A Mile Away" Aesthetic

#jewish #jumblr #jewish stuff #jewish culture #mysticism

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squid gifs for you all this evening

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[image description: an edited version of the Bugs Bunny "I wish all a very pleasant evening" meme made to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant purim". Instead of just being in a tuxedo, Bugs is wearing a carnival mask and is holding a grogger in his hand. Next to him is a small image of a gravestone with white text on it reading "Bye Haman you loser lmao"]

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Rb for a bigger sample size!

#sorry no new answer #it was two frogs #and they were gay

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Rb for a bigger sample size!

#uhm actually it was a toad

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Can't believe I'm a third of the way through Fallout 4 and there's not even one Dunkin Donuts in the entirety of the Commonwealth, this is bullshit

#fallout 4 #massachusetts #dunkin donuts

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That's an alt account of arabian-knight, an old tankie and antisemite account on the hell site

not sure how well this fits into the blog theme but uh. came across this on an account i was really hoping was normal and i mean. surely im not the only one seeing how insane this is https://www.tumblr.com/libyan-knight/743942812662366208/look-at-how-damning-this-is-the-most-prolific?source=share

oh jesus christ what did i just read

I need to screenshot this, along with this reblog:

link for ease of clicking