If Your First Reaction To Learning A Jew Is A Zionist Is To Start Being Antisemitic, You Were Antisemitic

You motherfuckers yes I hate Kamala too but when she is announced to be the Democratic candidate we are all going to shoot fireworks and go to the goddamn polls

Tashlich is a Jewish new year ritual of casting off the previous years sins/worries/fears/etc in the form of throwing bread into a river and this year about fifty jews watched in disbelief as my dog slipped quietly into the water and began pac man style sucking up chunks of soggy floating bread and we were absolutely powerless to stop her

Please try to find happiness.

I've seen so many of my jewish friends and people I look up to falling into despair, and I completely understand why. I feel that pull, too. But we must hold onto life. We must live, too.

I think what helps me in not feeling guilt over this is to know that judaism demands you live, as well, knowing that I will be useless as a community member if I myself am despondent and apathetic to life itself. I know this may not help everyone, but please remember, we must live. You deserve it.

Do good in their name.

Every year Rosh Hashana reminds me that I don't hate red and green together, I just can't stand the relentless omnipresence of it during the four months of Xmas.

Anyway you heard it here first: green and red are Rosh Hashana colors now 🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏

shabbat is for nervous system recovery it doesn’t matter if you’re not religious it still has so much meaning and importance!!! why do secular people not understand this!!! reducing it to ‘silly’ or ‘pedantic’ rules about not driving or shopping or using electricity is so patronising and ignorant. I don’t want to drive 3 hours on shabbat for a hike because it’s exhausting and this is a day about recovering from exhaustion. I don’t want to go shopping because the lights are bright and the crowds are noisy. I don’t want to cook or do laundry because it’s loud and/or messy and because this is one time in my week I allow myself to just Not Do Things!!!

I am literally sitting here on my phone. I was reading from my kindle earlier and I’m about to drive to a little hike about 25 minutes away. maybe my shabbat would be even more relaxing if I followed jewish law more closely, I don’t know. but this is something that works for me and so I’m strict about keeping it because it adds something positive to my life, not simply because it’s a religious law. why is it so hard for secular people, jewish or not, to consider judaism with even just the tiniest bit of nuance

Chanukah is the time to awaken the hidden light within us, to shine brightly even when the world around us is dark.

Lubavitcher Rebbe

One thing I’ve realized I love about Judaism is how there is less of a stress on the gender of G-d vs the feeling of G-d. When I think of the divine, I can’t picture a man or a woman but I do know the feeling of wind before a tornado, or seeing a shooting star for the first time, or feeling the first breeze of summer kiss your cheeks or-

im just really scared right now.

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walking into erev rosh hashanah services tomorrow like "what a fucking year, my man"

Gold Tone Enamel Acorn Dreidel from Quest Gifts