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Jüdische Studien<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Event" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Event</span></a> | @dubnow.bsky.social Lecture on Jewish Material Culture of Galicia |In enger Kooperation mit dem Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg »Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Galicia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galicia</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/MaterialCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaterialCulture</span></a></p><p>04.09.2025 | 5.15 p.m. </p><p>Dubnow Institute, Leipzig</p>
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLY<p>“It’ll be nice if one of my family’s generation didn’t have to go to a new country and learn a new language.”</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> Russian emigré Regina Spektor responds to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> hecklers in the audience. “You’re just yelling at a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>.”<br><a href="https://share.google/f1IZtWSVnS9zZsWUx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">share.google/f1IZtWSVnS9zZsWUx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
ZZ Bottom<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> Being a good x bad <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kXCdzt_us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=X5kXCdzt_us</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Now, that is real fucking comedy gold right there.</p><p>We made it up, WOCKA WOCKA! :fozzie_wocka_wocka:</p><p>"Two <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/comedians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedians</span></a> whose <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edinburgh</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fringe</span></a> shows were cancelled say the decision appeared to have been made on an incorrect pretext.</p><p>Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon told Times Radio that the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/WhistleBinkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhistleBinkies</span></a> venue told them the cancellation was linked to a “vigil for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/soldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soldiers</span></a>” held during Creeger’s performance last year, something the venue later ad­mitted had not happened.</p><p>Creeger, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a>’s only touring <a href="https://babka.social/tags/comedian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedian</span></a> who is also a practising <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Orthodox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orthodox</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>, explained: “They initially said that they believed we’d held a vigil for an IDF soldier, a fallen soldier, which is a thing that just hadn’t ever happened in either of our shows. The shows are not political, we’re not political performers and the IDF is not a relevant subject in either show.</p><p>“They later withdrew that and said they understood that that didn’t actually happen."</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/edinburgh/jewish-comedians-not-welcome-edinburgh-fringe-venue-v099h3gcg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thetimes.com/travel/destinatio</span><span class="invisible">ns/uk-travel/scotland-travel/edinburgh/jewish-comedians-not-welcome-edinburgh-fringe-venue-v099h3gcg</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>:facepalm: :oh_no_bubble:</p><p>"A venue at the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edinburgh</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fringe</span></a> has pulled the runs of two <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/comedians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedians</span></a>, reportedly over safety concerns.</p><p>Rachel Creeger (pictured) and Philip Simon were due to be performing at Whistlebinkies on South Bridge in the centre of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> capital during August, but it has been reported that the popular, well-established pub venue cancelled their bookings over "discomfort". </p><p>The performers, who also co-front the podcast <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> Talkin' To Me, were reportedly told that venue staff had complained of feeling “unsafe”.</p><p><a href="https://beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/16386/pulls-jewish-comedians#google_vignette" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/16</span><span class="invisible">386/pulls-jewish-comedians#google_vignette</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>“The <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Armed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Armed</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>: The Case for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Gun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gun</span></a> Ownership” by Youngstown State University’s Adam Fuller, associate <a href="https://babka.social/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professor</span></a> of Politics and International Relations has been named an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> Hot New Release. Fuller’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> which is currently the #2 New Release in Jewish <a href="https://babka.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a>, spent about two weeks in the No. 1 spot."</p><p><a href="https://ysu.edu/news/ysu-professor-reaches-amazon-s-1-new-releases-jewish-history" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ysu.edu/news/ysu-professor-rea</span><span class="invisible">ches-amazon-s-1-new-releases-jewish-history</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Primary and secondary <a href="https://babka.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, failed to investigate 49% of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> incidents reported to school officials, and more than 40% of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>-hatred instances involved <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> denial or glorifying <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a>, according to a government-commissioned survey on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewhatred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewhatred</span></a> in K-12 schools in the province.</p><p>The report, dated July 14, lists 781 instances of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a>. “Several times a day on multiple days in September 2024, a 13-year-old <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> girl in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Waterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waterloo</span></a> was surrounded by five boys repeatedly shouting ‘<a href="https://babka.social/tags/SiegHeil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiegHeil</span></a>!’ and raising their hands in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> salute. On each occasion, she begged them to stop, but they persisted,” it states. “In October 2024, a 6-year-old in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> was informed by her teacher that she is only half human because one of her parents is Jewish.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jns.org/ontario-schools-have-long-ignored-mishandled-jew-hatred-government-study-suggests/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jns.org/ontario-schools-have-l</span><span class="invisible">ong-ignored-mishandled-jew-hatred-government-study-suggests/</span></a></p>
James C. Kei 姬俊<p>MAGA is going crazy over Superman being a Jewish immigrant? Did they forget that Our Lord Jesus Christ is Jewish and was a refugee in Egypt, since Herod tried to murder him? <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Christ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christ</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Superman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Superman</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Dreyfus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dreyfus</span></a>’s promotion and the Polanski film’s distribution follow the launch in 2021 of the first museum dedicated to the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/DreyfusAffair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DreyfusAffair</span></a>, in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a> suburb of Médan. Now, another sign of renewed interest comes in the exhibit “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/AlfredDreyfus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredDreyfus</span></a>: Vérité et Justice,” on view at Paris’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Juda%C3%AFsme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaïsme</span></a> through Aug. 31. It too tells a story that feels more urgent than ever in this moment of rising <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> about the role the state, the media and the rule of law.</p><p>When, in 1894, evidence surfaced that a spy on the French Army’s General Staff was passing military secrets to the German Embassy, suspicion fell on Dreyfus. Accused of treason, he said: “My only crime is being born a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/07/07/ideas/interest-in-alfred-dreyfus-is-surging-his-antisemitic-affair-has-vital-lessons-for-jews-today" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2025/07/07/ideas/inter</span><span class="invisible">est-in-alfred-dreyfus-is-surging-his-antisemitic-affair-has-vital-lessons-for-jews-today</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>I adore Fran Drescher.</p><p>"In Drescher’s view, her character upset the “the fearful post-World War II mentality that a good <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> is an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/assimilated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assimilated</span></a> one.” “My character does not try to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/assimilate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assimilate</span></a> late to a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/WASP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WASP</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/ethnic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethnic</span></a> in appearance or speech,” she insists. “I speak <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> and celebrate the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> holidays” on the show."</p><p><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-nanny/?utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=later-linkinbio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">myjewishlearning.com/article/t</span><span class="invisible">he-nanny/?utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=later-linkinbio</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>“<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/comedians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedians</span></a> have gone in one of two directions recently. They’ve either become much more expressive of their identity, on and off stage, or removed it almost entirely from their material. There’s definitely an external expectation of being seen to be ‘the right kind of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>’: one who conforms to the widely held and loudly shouted views. There isn’t a great deal of knowledge or understanding of the rich diversity in Jewish history, thought and ­opinion, and this means that labels get placed on ­Jewish people without nuance or critical thinking.”</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/jewish-comedy/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">telegraph.co.uk/books/news/jew</span><span class="invisible">ish-comedy/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=activitypub</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Personally, I prefer to be called a filthy Jew not a dirty Jew when some maniac is threatening to murder me and my children, but I'm wacky that way.<br>🔥🔥🔥 :thisisfine: 🔥🔥🔥</p><p>"[I was cut off by a man in a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> who held up a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> flag to me and then rolled down his window and said that I’m going to cut your throat and your daughter’s. And he said you’re a dirty <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>. I’m going to f**king kill you all, and I know who you are and where you live,” Miller said in the transferred call.</p><p>Miller told the dispatcher later: “I have a weapon on me. I’m glad I didn’t use it. But, I mean, what is going to happen? This guy just said he is going to kill me. And said he is going to kill my daughter who is almost two years old. And he cut me off and clearly was trying to hurt me."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/congressman-max-miller-threat-man-charged-ohio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/co</span><span class="invisible">ngressman-max-miller-threat-man-charged-ohio</span></a></p>
PeachMcD<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>abcfeeds</span></a></span> </p><p>This <a href="https://union.place/tags/USian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USian</span></a> - <a href="https://union.place/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> so-called aid system is the most horrifically cruel fish-in-a-barrel scheme anyone has ever seen </p><p>What kind of mind thinks up something like this? </p><p>It's a stench in God's nostrils &amp; anyone who calls themselves a <a href="https://union.place/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> or a <a href="https://union.place/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> should be aghast</p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Opinion | I once embraced the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionist</span></a> dream. Now I’m protesting the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in Gaza on the streets of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <br> <br>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TorontoStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoStar</span></a> <br>By Michele Landsberg, Contributor<br>Michele Landsberg is a journalist and author based in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a>. <br>June 15, 2025 </p><p>"When I knew I had to do something, anything, about the war crimes in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> (I was haunted by my lifelong grief and outrage that no-one, no-one, no-one stood up for us when we were being annihilated in Europe) I was immediately attacked online by right-wing Jews. The usual condescending reproaches and violent insults were trotted out: I was giving aid to our enemies; I was spreading a “blood libel”; I was a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>-hater; I was “pro-rape”. None of these insults could touch me because I knew how ludicrously false they were. As painful as it is to lose cherished friends, I asked myself: Is this intense social pressure why so very few Germans stood up against the Nazis?"</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/vc8me" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/vc8me</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
jenblacker<p>There're few advantages to my annoying body, but access seating at gigs is definitely one </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JEW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JEW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JimmyEatWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JimmyEatWorld</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Nu, you! Yes you, rhetorical-you, why don’t you like being seen as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a>? Is it because you imagine the Jewish writer as a man with a long beard, peyes, and a fur hat? Is it because you imagine the Jewish writer as a prickly <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Sabra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sabra</span></a> holding a gun? Is it because you imagine them as old, or dead, or lost in one of the many cities we were forced to leave behind? Is it because when you picture the Jewish writer, they do not look like you? Why? You’re not religious? Fine! You don’t speak <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrew</span></a> or <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> or <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ladino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ladino</span></a>? Great! Is it because you’re interested but largely apathetic to the realm of Jewish policy and politic? Wonderful! You are still, if you want it, a Jewish writer. </p><p>You are a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> because you are a Jew and as a Jew what you write is Jewish. There is no expectation and there is no bar of entry – there is only you and the page."</p><p><a href="https://newvoices.org/2025/06/09/a-new-american-jewish-literature-rejecting-nostalgia-and-authenticity-for-reckoning-and-reflection/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newvoices.org/2025/06/09/a-new</span><span class="invisible">-american-jewish-literature-rejecting-nostalgia-and-authenticity-for-reckoning-and-reflection/</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>I wish our local union grocery stores had even a fraction of the kosher food at TJs. </p><p>"Let me tell you about the probably state of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> in your typical chain <a href="https://babka.social/tags/grocery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grocery</span></a> store. Most likely, there’s 10 percent of an aisle dedicated to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/kosher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kosher</span></a> items, and nine times out of 10, it is last year’s box of Passover matzo, chicken soup mix, and concord grape juice lining the shelves. So, you’ll understand if, as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>, I often feel underrepresented and underwhelmed at the grocery store. That’s until I moved to the U.S and became fast friends with a little place called <a href="https://babka.social/tags/TraderJoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraderJoe</span></a>’s.</p><p>Trader Joe’s gets it."</p><p><a href="https://www.aol.com/best-jewish-foods-trader-joe-110000112.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aol.com/best-jewish-foods-trad</span><span class="invisible">er-joe-110000112.html</span></a></p>
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLY<p>Ok, CNN’s Ari Melber just made me laugh out loud alone in my living room. “You are a literary, sophisticated, cultural <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a>; and that means you’re comfortable, to some degree, in the field of psychology”. 🤣 </p><p>I feel like Ari and I would definitely get along famously 😆🤓</p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Dr. Gross is an observant <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> whose faith is central to his life. After he was sued for medical malpractice, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a> trial <a href="https://babka.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> scheduled his <a href="https://babka.social/tags/jurytrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jurytrial</span></a> on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/YomKippur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YomKippur</span></a>—the holiest day of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> calendar. The court refused to move the trial one day, and it removed a Jewish <a href="https://babka.social/tags/juror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>juror</span></a> because she could not attend either."</p><p><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025/05/jewish-groups-urge-pennsylvanias-supreme-court-not-to-force-a-choice-between-faith-and-justice-opinion.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pennlive.com/opinion/2025/05/j</span><span class="invisible">ewish-groups-urge-pennsylvanias-supreme-court-not-to-force-a-choice-between-faith-and-justice-opinion.html</span></a></p>
Sofia Florina<p>Just to let you know that Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in relative peace in the Levant before the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism, especially before the establishment of Israel in 1948. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jewish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>muslims</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muslim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>muslim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/levant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>levant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arabnationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arabnationalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freepalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freepalestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestinewillbefree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestinewillbefree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/istandwithpalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>istandwithpalestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckisrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckisrael</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiisrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiisrael</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forpeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a></p>