#thoughts of a jewish girl

[paperconsumption]

people on tiktok r so weird about curly hair

#saw a post about clarissa from the new pjo show and top comment is like ‘why does she have RINGLETS she would not be doing all that’ #*clarisse #i dunno girl maybe it’s just naturally curly #like people post these ELABORATE hair care routines they do to make their hair look curly #so people watch and assume everyone with curly hair that isn’t 4c does the same #no curly hair doesn’t automatically mean you painstakingly style it every day. i’m on day two hair rn it looks wonderful #and i only put non frizz stuff in #i also dislike calling it ringlets it’s just curls call it curls #this is unrelated but once a girl told me she thought i was jewish bc i have curly hair. bizarre

[klinejack]

Why not just eat chocolate? Nobody will know and not eating things you like because of a religion seems kind of cruel? Obviously I get the pork thing - even though that stems from the time Piggys were gross and ate poop - but to not eat chocolate because men 3,000 ish years ago said 'Only eat simple bread and starve yourself" said so?

It just seems so wrong 😕 Religion should be about you and your god, not what people a long time ago said you can or can't do. I have this problem in my own faith. By rights I think it's a period of not indulgence is here or coming shortly. Yet I'm pretty sure main event guy wouldn't want people starving and whipping themselves over him. 🙄

80% of religions these days it going by what some man wrote or decreed, rather than about god and that is a giant same.

Please eat your eggs if you want. You shouldn't have to restrict yourself on word of what a group of men who lived 3000 years ago said.

there are so many things wrong with this ask but you sound so genuine and earnest and im just so fucking pissed right now that i have no choice but to answer asks in this horrible awful no good very bad new post format that im gonna make this brief.

1- i know i dont talk about it much anymore but i have my masters in jewish education and up until last year was working as a bar/bat mitzvah teacher and torah reader in my synagogue for the last like million years of my life. religion has never felt like a burden to me.

2- not eating piggies although its plausible does not necessarily come from the fact that theyre in close contact with poop. doesnt say anything about that in the biblical texts. keeping kosher is also not the same as the dietary restrictions for passover and the reasons for them are not necessarily related.

3 - not eating certain things (chametz - not "simple bread," its more complicated) on passover is not about starving yourself and its not about atonement (that holiday is in the fall), its about remembering important events in jewish history and keeping the sense memory of those events and lessons alive for thousands of years.

4- what religion is asking you to whip and starve yourself for god? sounds like a cult or a dan brown novel tbh

5- judaism is definitely based on shit some men wrote, but it most certainly was nowhere close to one man. we're talking lots and lots of very opinionated and highly intelligent and insightful men (also women if you know where to look, also some dumbass men) whose interpretations and decisions of law regarding how their society and religion could and should function without a central community or authority on earth were passed through millions of hands and thousands of more opinions through the centuries and enforced to many degrees in both extremes only to be falling apart in the last century or so thanks to inescapable global factors that have rolled through our disparate communities like indy's boulder on a rampage.

wait a minute i said this would be brief. fuck.

anywaynot eating my cadbury creme eggs is def not a burden i just enjoy complaining its probably all for the best.

also i hope this didnt come off rude i understand where you're coming from but i also invite you to do a little googling about judaism and the holiday of passover. happy holidays! ✡️🫓🍷

#jewish things #judaism #passover #personal #thoughts out loud #nice people #food mention cw #again i wasnt trying to sound antagonistic but please. religion is not always evil. #💗💗💗 #wait wait #i also have to add that #many things we enjoy can be found in a kosher for passover version during the holiday #im sure if there was enough demand for cadbury creme eggs during passover someone might make it simply for the $$ #unfortunately that will most definitely never happen s;dklfjgksdhfngjkfdh #but there is plenty of chocolate available to me on passover should i decide i need it #(i am not generally a chocolate girl. i just go through a yearly creme egg phase is all)

[britneyshakespeare]

throughout the series of drake and josh it pretty consistently implies that josh nichols is a christian (josh peck is jewish) and in the finale of the series helen (played by yvette nicole brown, not jewish[?]) is portrayed as a practicing jew

#i dont have a problem w either of those things necessarily i just find it interesting #if i had to guess. drake and josh was a mainstream that didnt wanna touch on religion generally #but josh was kind of a dork and usually when josh's religious beliefs are implied it is in dorkish ways #such as praying and thanking the lord after he has his first kiss. #but since dan schneider is jewish perhaps he wanted to make helen have a jewish wedding in the finale? #not that there needs to be a reason. but u do notice occasional jewish-related jokes in d&j but none of them are what you could call #offensive. in good faith that is. 'eric is a pacifist' 'i thought he was jewish?' like come on #text post #i have been rewatching drake and josh recently and i have had so many thoughts #im almost done. i just have left that stupid dance episode that they premiered last for the stupid reason #of a special dance-themed premiere night in fall 2007. they premiered the third episode of icarly and a new zoey 101 on the same night #which i think is so stupid. they should've aired really big shrimp last. it messed w my understanding of the series at the time lol #i remember not really knowing that the show was ENDING. like i knew icarly was starting & miranda was doing that #i thought really big shrimp was like just another special like go hollywood. #and then like two days later they premiered the helicopter episode for some reason #and i was like why is drake not famous in this. he just had a number 1 song in a superbowl commercial #and then a month later the dance one. which. if anything is satisfying about that as a final episode it's just that #that unnamed girl from the blues brothers episode who is obsessed w drake shows up again and congratulates them #and the very final line of the series is 'who is she?' because. because really who IS she? #that's a funny enough throwback to wrap things up with i suppose #drake and josh wasn't a highly serialized show so i can see how they could air those after the intended finale and act like it didn't matte #but i have to tell you it did fuck with my brain a bit at the time. lol. i still think of those episodes as having 'happened' after #and on paramount plus those episodes are still placed after really big shrimp. the injustice #but thats kinda messy. what a weird way to end such an influential and popular sitcom #season 4 had a few lowpoints while still also having some VERY solid episodes. #idk. ill have to continue my series review another time im getting way too longwinded here #helen dubois is jewish

[rainyraisin]

Hi yes sorry what the fuck

Wait until they find out I'm a tmnt4p donor they will be so pissed

#free palestine #i know jewish kids are suffering too but that doesnt mean we should ignore palestine??? #and the holocaust has nothing to do with this???? #when i read the start of the comment i thought aw thats so nice #and then i kept reading and went OH OH GOD NO #i was just reading from my notifs at first so i didnt know which reel it was on #otherwise the alarm bells wouldve been going off IMMEDIATLY #also girl why are you bringing my turtle art into a genocide #i dont know how you mangaged to reach that far but teach me thats a goddamn talent right there

[autistic-katara]

will forever think abt that girl i used to be friends with who when we were learning abt the holocaust in school she said she didn’t understand bcz “why would white ppl do that to other white ppl?”

#like babes they didn’t consider us white- #that was kinda their whole thing #like jesus christ our schools education on the holocaust is bad #(was also quite insensitive at times) #but also then again she was kinda antisemitic in general so it could justve been her #(like whenever she talked abt israel she would call the israeli government/zionists “jews” #as if it was a collective decision from all of us to colonise palestine) #she was also one of those girls who r OBSESSED w/ yaoi but was rlly weird abt sapphics and thought that being queer was a sin #and she was quite transphobic too #seriously glad im not friends with her anymore- #jewish #idk if i need to tag this but i will just in case #cw antisemitism

[bucksangel]

i absolutely love how you can say one thing, someone gets mad, and then they lie to everyone about what you said and their friends attacks you without knowing the whole story. it makes for a very enjoyable internet experience 🥰

#like it’s so just. ugh #everyone needs to leave everyone alone #this is abt when i was in the 1d fandom btw #it was years ago and i told someone who i didn’t know was jewish that maybe palestinians shouldn’t be massacred #and they went and told their friends that i called them a ‘filthy jew’ #and they started sending death threats and called me a ‘jew hater’ #what’s funny is that one of their friends sent me an anon #telling me to not take it too seriously bc the main girl i spoke to #was a convert who didn’t actually do all the homework #like she kind of speed-ran through it #anyway #𓆩♡𓆪 angel's thoughts 𓆩♡𓆪

[torahtot]

AJSJDJG GUYS IM SCREAMING i did nottt realize how many ppl are like actually actually christians i don't think i ever internalized it until right now when i saw a post from my schools catholic organization thing and a good number of people i know were in there like so excited to grow in faith and fellowship 😊😊

#& here i thought it was just one weirdo with a jesus is always the answer sticker.. #like idk i didnt think anyone was actually religious anymore 💀 i thought it was just for funsies #no turns out there are real life in the flesh catholics. normal teenagers who are just believing practicing catholics #it could be anyone.. #it's like that one girl who told me she had never seen so many 'jewish individuals' before in her life. im having that moment in reverse #well in retrospect i actually already knew that a lot of my friends are seriously christian #but it didnt hit until i saw that so excited to grow in faith and fellowship quote #people deadass say that.. normal seeming people.. mind blown #nachi speaks #this is my tuna bagel discovering wikipedia moment actually

[badolmen]

Do not underestimate my ability to seduce* shitty white guys with my good innocent Irish Catholic girl swag.

*force them to confront their biases and reconsider their political ideologies

#ra speaks #personal #I’m 2/2 on ‘straight guy thought he could fix me and I somehow fixed him instead* #like that’s not even trying that was just incidental bettering. I think if indulge in a little intentional manipulation I can enhance #my power tenfold <- meet w the college dean after mass bc we go to the same church and lament the school’s lack of support for the oppresse #despite the pope’s clear support for the people of palestine. he’ll never see it coming I am so unassumingly femme on Sundays #he won’t realize a gay tranny is talking him into not being a pos #I’m doing my part o7 they can’t misgender me in any way that matters #anyways this is brought to you by the student group looking for outreach advocates and like #as the not Jewish Not Muslim white guy in the crowd I think I’ll have some sway with the campus republicans #I’ll pull out all the demure and non threatening white girl stops. social shaming and disappointment at max levels.

[cruelsister-moved2]

i honestly want to read the quran like just out of interest + to be better informed but the reason i havent yet is its going to confuse everyone even more to see me reading it. sorry for having a curious mind

#also im an always reading religious texts with commentary truther and i have no idea how to find a commentary i would appreciate #also interested in the jewish annotated new testament just for the drama but i. literally think it might be too boring #like when i did these interfaith study classes....the new testament was so boring...girl...... #the priest got mad at all the non-christian ppl cuz there was some stupid story abt girls that didnt fill up their lamps enough #and the other girls wouldnt share their lamps and then a guy didnt let them in their house #and everyone waslike umm why didnt those girlies share their lamps then??? #and hes like nooo its a metaphor for heaven you cant treat it literally #well firstly what a shit metaphor and secondly then whats even the point-_- #i still get mad about the lamp thing periodically. those girls shoulde shared their lamps i thought thats like the whole point #omg and that reminded me of this one me and lewis were randomly looking up as well #where idk some guy doesnt invest well and then his boss gets mad at him #and i thought th eboss was meant ti be like the villain. but it was supposed to be jesus. #remember every time you dont buy stocks jesus cries

[asmoonlightthroughthepines]

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#i have been barely functioning what with the horrors of the world lately (and the horrors just keep piling on) #and am being v careful to not reblog anything so as to keep this place as gentle as poss because i’m probably not the only one who needs tha #(i’ve tried to avoid any kind of horrific details and even so the very little i read will haunt me for the rest of my life) #but i just CANNOT. for the life of me. wrap my head around how people can hear of such abject violence #being inflicted upon another living being -human or animal- and feel anything but absolute horror #like how much do you have to hate jews to be able to switch off any ounce of humanity and compassion for a living being? #the sheer number of folks - including close friends - i’ve unfollowed in the last week is staggering. #literally because i do not believe that anyone should ever get raped. like i thought we all agreed on this. #APPARENTLY NOT. i’ve never seen so many feminists brush off rape. #worst is these are all folks who love to post about punching nazis and who laugh at jewish jokes #when they’re from carrie fisher or mrs maisel or crazy ex gf or schmitt from new girl #but when it’s an actual pogrom - no more punching nazis all of a sudden #something broke in me this week to see that so-called activists who i thought were kind and decent - #don’t apparently believe that all human lives are created equal #it’s like we’ve all been working hard on being anti-racist but some of us didn’t feel that not being antisemitic was worth the bother

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

nightmarish (and probably racist) private school parents contributed significantly to the nightmare year that ultimately killed my willingness to continue with classroom teaching (aka the dream of my entire adulthood to that point) for good, and also several of them drove close personal friends of mine completely bugfuck crazy, so, like, i'm really not emotionally invested in defending private school parents as a demographic. but i do find that a lot of discourse around the motivations of private school parents in choosing private school feel to me misguided and more interested in moralistic grandstanding than in accuracy (on the INTERNET? crazy, i know). and i am saying this now and thinking about it now because the number of these things i had to deal with in high school was: zero!

#i mean there were other things about my high school experience i didn't realize were fucked up until i was an adult #and my high school experience definitely contributed to the Problems of me and several people i know #but. i dunno. #i think that people tend to assume private schools are basically the same as public schools but with like #different (whiter/richer) student demographics #and maybe more APs or whatever #that is really not true to my experience as someone who has spent a lot of time in both #(also residential segregation is so intense i think even the demographic question is more complicated than people assume) #(the whitest school i attended in my life was the westchester public school where i spent first and second grade) #(diversity in that classroom was like. me a japanese girl and a kid whose dad tried to keep his jewishness on the DL) #also i used to think private schools should be illegal so that rich parents would have to invest in the public school system #but i am no longer convinced that would make a difference partly bc segregation and partly bc like #parents also don't know what makes schools good #the private elementary schools i taught in the parents thought we were doing a great job pedagogically and we were Not as i came to realize

[wannaliveattheholidayinn]

it's my jewish ass and my favorite catholic characters against the world fr

#actually it's moreso the characters i hc as jewish and me against the world but i thought this would be funnier #anyways some of the aforementioned catholic characters are: #jed bartlet #cj cregg #dana scully #david acosta #matt murdock #sister michael #erin quinn #orla mccool #really just every character in derry girls #uh... idk #catholicism #(←a tag i'll likely never use again)

[dokani]

ok so one day, one room is probably my favourite house episode as of now

#house md #i just think the philosophical aspects to the show are neat #there’s a lot of religious undertone.:.. #like even the earlier judas metaphor… very interesting considering it’s a christian story and jewish character… #or that the girl’s name is eve… #could be after thoughts but i am a lover of religious allusions #and just the whole ideas of being remembered and what matters #what it means to be remembered… what it means to matter… #GAH!! #thoughts! #s3ep12 #03x12 #dokani thought hour fr #house party

[softness-and-shattering]

Hell Bent major spoiler

Still thinking about Eitans Chai necklace dissolving or burning or whatever when Alex drags him into hell. Chai means life. His life necklace cant exist in hell/when he's dead. It didnt protect him or anything it just disappeared.

Id love some context about different versions of the afterlife and what Alex's grandmother believed and how that synthesizes with Alex's experiences. Maybe ill write smth idk.

#mine #hell bent #alex stern #spoilers #also just gonns complain in the tags about a rlly good fic i read #where they had alex think something was like the rapture or apocalypse #my girl is jewish i dont think her first thought would be rapture #just peeve about characters jewishness not being acknowledged #anyway #im grousing here instead of commenting on the fic bc the writer doesnt deserve that

[gay-otlc]

I need to make it obvious to everyone in my vicinity that I am Jewish because if they assume I'm Christian then they'll be comfortable saying blatantly antisemetic things to my face and I would prefer they Not

#this girl in my class didn't realize i was jewish #so she was telling me about how jewish people were really rich and had too much political power #perhaps if i looked jewisher she would keep those thoughts to herself idk #jewisher is not a word but idgaf it is now

[casiavium]

I love the song O Children by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and yes I know it from Deathly Hallows part one but outside of that it's such a good song. It's about bittersweet death and Orpheus and Eurydice and the song just. Songs so good

And I WILL fight any self righteous ex Harry Potter fan that tries to pull some SHIT that it's about the Holocaust (and therefore should not have been used in the movie which I don't care about the artisy agreed to it so. Whatever. He got paid) IT'S FUCKING NOT you DUMB PIECE OF SHIT WITH NO MEDIA LITERACY show me a source that says this that's not some Harry Potter fan's Tumblr post from 2011. Show me it. Show me an interview with the artist. Show me exactly why you think it's about the Holocaust. Oh, trains leading to death? Because Harry Potter is a thinly veiled and pathetic attempt at WWII parallels? (and if we're going by that do you have a deathly hallows tattoo because if you're so 1:1 about this. you do know the deathly hallows is her fucking. symbolic equivalent to you-know-what. Oh that's offensive? YOU DON'T THINK???)

Because HAVE YOU WVER HEARD OF POETIC IMAGERY IN YOUR DAMN LIFE how could you have ever called yourself a Harry Potter fan without the basic ability to understand sometimes things are not LITERAL. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

#tw harry potter #very upset about how harry potter fans treat this song #someone said it's weird people play it at their wedding (fair they only do it because harry and Hermione danced to it) but thwir reasoning #was that it's about the Holocaust. and when I asked can you cite a source for this other than a fan post from when the movie came out #because this article interview by the actual artist said it's semi-orphean in symbolism #and they went well it says the word gulag so you shouldn't anyway. like. bitch. What The Actual Fuck #do you get upset over the muppets sending kermit to the gulag. did you get your vengance on harry potter adults by saying this song is Bad #fuck you #anyway once again ex Harry Potter fan feelings have made me SCREAM and CRY about the damage this series has done #still upset about telling some hp fan friends about the way rowling wrote the deathly hallows to be the damn. n@zi symbol like literally #(normal symbol for peace-> co opted by supremacist. lovegood wears it because of the 'original meaning' and krum is ready to FIGHT him #because Grindelwald used it before killing a bunch of people including his family. you can't say the only jewish wizard joining him is #anti-Semitic because they paint him as wizard hi ler and then say but but but it's offensive to say the deathly hallows is that🥺 because #it's so popular I liked it 😭 #i lost my train of thought #anyway told my friends this and they were like. hm. no. it's offensive to say that. and I was like OH YOU'RE SO. CLOSE. SO SO CLOSE #YES it's offensive SHE'S THE ONE THAT DID IT GOD POINTING IT OUT ISN'T. ISN'T MY FAULT #they're so haha fuck jk! and then this bitch is almost in tears because a club member is uncomfortable about Hogwarts legacy and she's like #but 🥺 I play it 🥺 are you uncomfortable with me🥺 i have a friend you don't know him he said it's okay🥺🥺 #so glad I never have to deal with those people again. I thought I could help because we DID have the girl who was my friend who needed #someone to speak for her because she was busy and couldn't come to meetings all the time and I. ahhhhhh #fuck harry potter. fuck harry potter fuck Harry Potter FUCK HARRY POTTER #rant