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Formal Dress worn by Gayle Roebuck to her sister Elaine’s Bat Mitzvah

Holt Renfrew

Spring 1957

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.15)

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Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards the Erez crossing carrying symbolic aid for Gaza and calling to end the war. The police blocked them a few hundred meters from the border, and arrested 7 protesters. source

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Something I've found quite frustrating is that critics of the IDF's conduct in Gaza seem to be making easy and simple (but wrong) accusations, that then allow Israel/the IDF to respond to those accusations and ignore a real but more complicated problem (or at least distract from it).

The prime example of this is food aid: it seems like every criticism on this front is "Israel is stopping food aid entirely because it is deliberately trying to starve Gazans to death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" And then Israeli/IDF spokespeople can go "no, we actually let a lot of food in, here's a photo of all the pallets of food that have gotten into Gaza that no one has picked up and distributed yet" and then not have to talk about how right now the ACTUAL problem seems to be that food aid can't get where it needs to go WITHIN Gaza, and how that is actually at least partially the fault of the IDF invasion because it damaged or destroyed the literal streets trucks of food aid would take to get to where it needs to, as well as the logistical systems to distribute it, plus the fact that getting the food where it needs to go requires crossing areas that the IDF considers open-fire zones, and that sometimes means that food aid convoys get blown up by the IDF even though the IDF should know they're food aid convoys and not terrorists.

And to be fair the other side of the coin is Hamas and other armed groups stealing food for themselves or to sell on the black market, and the third side of the coin is organizations like UNRWA being incompetent at distributing the aid, and that after prodding by the US and others and several catastrophic failures the IDF/Israel appear to be making a serious effort to fix things, but still, people miss the point to make easy (and wrong) arguments.

This is a good summary of why entering Gaza was an obvious trap, why I could never come out fully in favor of it, and why I can't say with any real confidence that it has made anything better. Once you've destroyed a territory's infrastructure and roads, there are only so many times you can say "but that's not the real problem" when people are (allegedly) starving. With the whole world making accusations and asking loaded questions non-stop, just the sound of repeatedly having to answer them makes them seem unimportant. It's just as Colin Powell warned in 2003 - "you break it, you bought it."

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I'm pretty sure Avraham failed the test

like if I was given a test and the person giving the test very obviously told me that I was wrong and not to actually do the thing, I would assume I failed the test

also, that's about where the torah switches focus from Avraham to Yitzchak. There were no more tests after that, his story just kind of ends. His next big task is to just marry off his son and that's it he's done.

Like, I really don't think he passed that test I think he failed for refusing to question God for giving him a very unreasonable task.

And it's not like others haven't been rewarded for questioning or even fighting authority

like Yaakov is very definitely rewarding for tricking his Dad cause like right after it says he has a dream where God basically told him good job you will have many descendents. Then later on he literally fights an angel and it's a good thing cause he got renamed Israel as part of a blessing and now we're B'nei Israel

And Moshe definitely questioned authority that was like his whole thing. And even beyond Pharoah, he also had to reason with God to get them to not kill everyone.

Even Avraham that time he convinces God to not kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah if there are ten good people. There aren't but Avraham's questioning and reasoning with God is portrayed as a good thing.

Also, Judaism is generally very supportive of questioning authority and child sacrifices are very specifically banned in the torah, so It makes no sense that Avraham passed the test because he would've obeyed God even to kill his child. Like that moral is pretty inconsistent with the rest of the Torah.

so I definitely think Avraham failed that test.

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LMAOOOOOO

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something i love about us jews: if you put a bunch of us in a room, no matter how many different countries we're from, no matter what languages we speak - we'll be able to sing together

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Jews in Birobidzhan, Russian Far East (Jewish Autonomous Region), 1992

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hey its okay.....

.....kosher for pesach dinosaur chickie nuggies

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Hey, don't cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?

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get in loser we're overinterpreting the text

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this one goes out to all the Jews who change their names so goyim can pronounce them. All my Eliezers and Batshevas and Tzipporahs and Avishais and Rochels and Shimons and Benyamins and Me'iras and Elimelechs and Gershons and Yehudas and Devorahs and Zalmans and Yedidyas and Aharons and Noachs and Yitzchaks and Ya'akovs and Yissochars and Tzvis and all. Your names are beautiful how they are 💕🕎

#might change my name to be More jewish so when I say oh you can't pronounce it call me X #they fuckin believe me #tired of giving them 'thats good enough!' snaps #'oh that's not a Jewish name' it would be if youd pronounce it correctly

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Jewish artifacts found at an excavation site in Tayma, Saudi Arabia. Tayma was a Jewish oasis during the pre-Islamic era. It was the hometown of Jewish poet Shmuel Ben Adiya, famous for his unconditional loyalty towards Prince Imru al Qais in the 6th century.

Tayma, along with Khaybar were the two most important oasis in the Hejaz region (modern Saudi Arabia) that used to have a strong jewish presence until the fall of Khaybar in 628 (4388 - 4389 in the hebrew calendar) when the first muslims conquered the fortress and expelled most of the jewish population.

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Chag Sameach everyone!

Here's your annual reminder that it was a Plague of singular Frog (who must have been so big)

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Anybody else having a dramatic uptick in nightmares since October 7? Not necessarily of the atrocity itself, but the logical end conclusion of the public reaction to it?

Because I already have PTSD night terrors, but there is a whole new angle at play.

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arlene gottfried, “hassid & jewish bodybuilder, coney island,” 1980, vintage silver gelatin print

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dancing the hora to cotton eye joe

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you are cordially invited to my pretentious son's french new wave-themed bar mitzvah. you may note the ironic tone of his dvar torah and the use of jump cuts in his childhood photos slideshow.