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‘A Last Chance’: Israelis Fly Back to Vote, Hoping for a Reason to Stay
Hundreds of people streamed into the arrivals hall at Ben-Gurion Airport last Tuesday afternoon. There were hardly any…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #antisemitism #Israelielections #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/iran/341413/
‘A Last Chance’: Israelis Fly Back to Vote, Hoping for a Reason to Stay
Hundreds of people streamed into the arrivals hall at Ben-Gurion Airport last Tuesday afternoon. There were hardly any…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #antisemitism #Israelielections #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/iran/341413/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/341413/ ‘A Last Chance’: Israelis Fly Back to Vote, Hoping for a Reason to Stay #antisemitism #Israel #IsraeliElections #JewishDiaspora
The World Is Watching: The Global Stakes of Israel’s Election
Israel’s elections, now only six days away, will be decided by whatever proportion of its 7.3 million eligible…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #antisemitism #BDSMovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #breakingnews #GadiEisenkot #Israel #Israelelections2026 #Israelielections #JewishDiaspora #SaudiArabia #Turkey
https://www.newsbeep.com/780436/
The World Is Watching: The Global Stakes of Israel’s Election
Israel’s elections, now only six days away, will be decided by whatever proportion of its 7.3 million eligible…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #antisemitism #BDSmovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #GadiEisenkot #IsraelElections2026 #Israelielections #JewishDiaspora #SaudiArabia #Turkey
https://www.europesays.com/iran/338290/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/338290/ The World Is Watching: The Global Stakes of Israel’s Election #antisemitism #BDSMovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #GadiEisenkot #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #IsraeliElections #JewishDiaspora #SaudiArabia #Turkey
Israel on Demand: Amid Cultural Boycott, Israeli Streaming Services Thrive in the U.S.
For almost three years, the cultural boycott of Israel has cast a shadow over the country’s creative output.…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Israelboycott #Israeliculture #Jewishculture #JewishDiaspora #tv
https://www.europesays.com/iran/333247/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/333247/ Israel on Demand: Amid Cultural Boycott, Israeli Streaming Services Thrive in the U.S. #Israel #IsraelBoycott #IsraeliCulture #JewishCulture #JewishDiaspora #tv
A Decade Ago, These Jewish Scholars Broke With Zionism. Time Proved Them Right
An article published in Haaretz ten years ago by Jewish-American academics Hasia Diner and Marjorie Feld created a…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #JewishDiaspora #JewsinAmerica #Zionism
https://www.europesays.com/iran/317372/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/317372/ A Decade Ago, These Jewish Scholars Broke With Zionism. Time Proved Them Right #Israel #JewishDiaspora #JewsInAmerica #Zionism
https://www.europesays.com/iran/311485/ Netanyahu’s Shameful Two-Pronged Attack on Arab Israelis and Diaspora Jews #Aliyah #ArabIsraelis #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #JewishDiaspora
Why Canadian Jews Are Bracing for the Outcome of Israel’s Election
If the Israeli election returns a version of the current coalition, we can expect widening rifts between Canada…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Canada #Israel #Israelelections2026 #JewishDiaspora
https://www.newsbeep.com/750618/
Why Canadian Jews Are Bracing for the Outcome of Israel’s Election
If the Israeli election returns a version of the current coalition, we can expect widening rifts between Canada…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #canada #IsraelElections2026 #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/iran/311161/
Why Canadian Jews Are Bracing for the Outcome of Israel’s Election https://www.byteseu.com/2407536/ #Canada #IsraelElections2026 #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/3278603/ Why Canadian Jews Are Bracing for the Outcome of Israel’s Election #Canada #IsraelElections2026 #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/iran/311161/ Why Canadian Jews Are Bracing for the Outcome of Israel’s Election #canada #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #JewishDiaspora
Israel’s Law of Return Is for All Jews. Netanyahu Wants It Only for Rightists
We seem to have updated the Declaration of Independence: Israel will be open to Jewish immigration and the…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Aliyah #BDSMovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #breakingnews #Humanrights #Israel #Israeloccupation #Israelsettlements #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #Palestinians #WestBank
https://www.newsbeep.com/750150/
Israel’s Law of Return Is for All Jews. Netanyahu Wants It Only for Rightists
We seem to have updated the Declaration of Independence: Israel will be open to Jewish immigration and the…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Aliyah #BDSmovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #HumanRights #israeloccupation #Israelsettlements #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #palestinians #WestBank
https://www.europesays.com/iran/310864/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/310864/ Israel’s Law of Return Is for All Jews. Netanyahu Wants It Only for Rightists #Aliyah #BDSMovement #BenjaminNetanyahu #HumanRights #Israel #IsraelOccupation #IsraelSettlements #IsraeliPolitics #JewishDiaspora #palestinians #WestBank
Israel’s Embrace Is a Gift to Austria’s Far Right, but It Comes With Hidden Risks https://www.byteseu.com/2404161/ #antisemitism #Austria #Europe #Holocaust #IsraeliPolitics #JewishDiaspora #Nazis
Israel’s Embrace Is a Gift to Austria’s Far Right, but It Comes With Hidden Risks
When is an apology not an apology? On September 17, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli posted on X…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #antisemitism #breakingnews #Europe #Holocaust #Israel #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #Nazis
https://www.newsbeep.com/748575/
Israel’s Embrace Is a Gift to Austria’s Far Right, but It Comes With Hidden Risks
When is an apology not an apology? On September 17, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli posted on X…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #antisemitism #Holocaust #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #Nazis
https://www.europesays.com/iran/309214/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/309214/ Israel’s Embrace Is a Gift to Austria’s Far Right, but It Comes With Hidden Risks #antisemitism #Europe #Holocaust #Israel #IsraeliPolitics #JewishDiaspora #Nazis
British Jewry Must Demand of Itself the Same Complexity We Ask From Others
Just as it is wrong to blame British Jews for the actions of the Israeli government, it should…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #ANNEXATION #Israel #Israelsettlements #jewishdiaspora #u.k.
https://www.europesays.com/3267440/
https://www.europesays.com/3267440/ British Jewry Must Demand of Itself the Same Complexity We Ask From Others #ANNEXATION #Conflicts #Israel #IsraelSettlements #JewishDiaspora #UK
British Jewry Must Demand of Itself the Same Complexity We Ask From Others https://www.byteseu.com/2388029/ #annexation #Conflicts #Israel #IsraelSettlements #JewishDiaspora #UK
The Political Argument for British Jews to Support the Ban on Settlement Goods
The Labour government’s new policy against settlements is part of a broader effort to weaken populist extremists on…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Annexation #Israelsettlements #JewishDiaspora #U.K.
https://www.europesays.com/iran/299313/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/299313/ The Political Argument for British Jews to Support the Ban on Settlement Goods #Annexation #Israel #IsraelSettlements #JewishDiaspora #UK
Britain’s Sanctions Will Strengthen the Very Israelis They Are Meant to Weaken
Opposing a disastrous Israeli policy does not oblige us to support a misguided British response. The new set…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #annexation #breakingnews #Israel #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #U.K.
https://www.newsbeep.com/731081/
Britain’s Sanctions Will Strengthen the Very Israelis They Are Meant to Weaken
Opposing a disastrous Israeli policy does not oblige us to support a misguided British response. The new set…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Annexation #israelipolitics #JewishDiaspora #U.K.
https://www.europesays.com/iran/291265/
What American Rabbis Should Say About Israel at This Year’s High Holy Days
As millions of American Jews attend their synagogues in the coming weeks, they need to hear from their…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Israel #JewishDiaspora #JewsinAmerica #ReformJudaism #RoshHashanah
https://www.newsbeep.com/726327/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/286861/ What American Rabbis Should Say About Israel at This Year’s High Holy Days #Israel #JewishDiaspora #JewsInAmerica #ReformJudaism #RoshHashanah
https://www.europesays.com/iran/285555/ British Sanctions on Settlements: A Stunt for Burnham, a Gift to Ben-Gvir #Annexation #Israel #IsraelSettlements #JewishDiaspora #UK
https://www.europesays.com/dk/161287/ Netanyahu Drove These Israelis to Berlin. Now They’re Flying Back to Vote Him Out #berlin #Germany #IsraelElections2026 #IsraelPalestine #IsraeliElections #JewishDiaspora
Diaspora Jews Must Understand: Israelis Are Living in a Bubble of Denial
Most Israelis simply don’t see what we, Jews in the diaspora, see every day. The result is a…
#Israel #News #IsraelElections2026 #Israelipolitics #jewishdiaspora #telaviv
https://www.europesays.com/3226969/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/272767/ Diaspora Jews Must Understand: Israelis Are Living in a Bubble of Denial #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #IsraeliPolitics #JewishDiaspora
https://www.europesays.com/iran/265796/ Unprecedented U.K. Sanctions on Israel Are Coming. How Will British Jews Respond? #AndyBurnham #AreaE1 #Israel #IsraelSanctions #IsraelSettlements #JewishDiaspora #UnitedKingdom #WestBank
https://www.europesays.com/iran/264572/ Amended Montreal City Council Resolution Rejects Call to Suspend Ties With Israel #canada #genocide #Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelGazaWar #JewishDiaspora
Ashkenazi Jews
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Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.
This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.
After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.
This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.
Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.
The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.
As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.
The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.
The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.
In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.
Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.
As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.
Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.
In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.
In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.
The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.
On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.
Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.
From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.
As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.
Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.
France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.
One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.
The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.
But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.
By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.
Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.
In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.
Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.
Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.
Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.
While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.
Well-known differences in practices include:
The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.
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“Can enduring #human #communities reproduce themselves through networks, shared traditions, and mutual obligations rather than through exclusive #territorial #sovereignty? Dispersion need not be understood as a deficiency or an incomplete condition awaiting political resolution. Instead, it can constitute a distinctive mode of collective existence, one capable of generating cultural continuity, social cohesion, and even universalist forms of mediation between different peoples and civilizations. From this perspective, the #JewishDiaspora appears not merely as a religious, ethnic, or national phenomenon, but as one of history’s most durable experiments in translocal organization.”
https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/curated-article-the-civilizational
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Jews Like Gwyneth Paltrow Deserve Better From the State of Israel
Gwyneth Paltrow, an Academy Award-winning actress and founder of the global wellness brand Goop, isn’t one to shy…
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https://www.europesays.com/3100418/
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/106329/ ‘Are You OK Raising Thai or American Children?’: Why These ÉMigrés Are Choosing to Return to Israel #Aliyah #Israel #IsraeliPolitics #JewishDiaspora
How to love Israel, even when it is hard https://www.byteseu.com/1993597/ #AmericanJewishIdentity #antisemitism #DatingAndPolitics #IntergenerationalDifferences #Israel #IsraelDiasporaRelations #IsraeliSociety #JeffSalkin #JewishCommunity #JewishCulture #JewishDiaspora #JewishEthics #JewishIdentityCrisis #JewishPeoplehood #JewishRelationships #JewishThought #JewishValues #LiberalJudaism #ModernJudaism #PoliticalPolarization #ShalomHartmanInstitute #YehudaKurtzer #ZIONISM
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So the Islamic State is back then, and blaming all Jews for the actions of Israel 😔
https://news.sky.com/story/islamic-state-supporters-guilty-of-planning-most-deadly-gun-attack-on-jewish-targets-in-manchester-13485467
#IslamicState #Anitsemitism #Israel #JewishDiaspora #Fascism #Terrorism #IslamoFascism #Zionism
Ngày càng nhiều tài phiệt Ukraine chuyển đến Israel do nước này cấp quốc tịch nhanh chóng cho người gốc Do Thái từ Ukraine, cùng với môi trường pháp lý linh hoạt và ít chế tài kiểm soát tài sản. Israel trở thành điểm đến lý tưởng để bảo vệ tài sản và duy trì hoạt động kinh doanh trong bối cảnh bất ổn tại Ukraine.
#Israel #Ukraine #TàiPhiệt #DiDân #GốcDoThái #WealthMigration #IsraelImmigration #UkrainianOligarchs #JewishDiaspora #ChínhSáchDiTrú
Stand with Jewish people
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of."
Mark Twain – September 1897
#ChosenPeople #jewishdiaspora #riseofantisemitism #StandAgainstAntiSemitism
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/events-in-europe/stand-with-jewish-people/
#History #Politics #WarInGaza #Genocide
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... 👉the #JewishDiaspora will be the losers for generations to come.
#Antisemitism is at a level globally not seen since #WWII, for starters. IMO, the chief loss for all #Jews will be that they can no longer claim that they are a special persecuted people👈 (Babylon, Egypt, early Rome, Middle Ages, the #ThirdReich...)
The #NetanyahuRegime, the legitimately elected #Israeli government, has been comitting #Genocide on the...
"Judaism is not Zionism, and those who argue they are one and the same are being fundamentally dishonest. Yet collectively, Jews are often held responsible when the world's only Jewish state claims to act in our name.
For many Jews in the diaspora, Israel was framed as a beacon of freedom, a place of refuge in the event of pogroms or genocide.
But what if the victims of the Nazi genocide are now perpetrating a genocide against the Palestinians?
The Jewish community is undergoing a long-overdue moral reckoning with its identity, role and responsibility. Only some are meeting the moment."
✍️Opinion by Antony Loewenstein
🔗
The Jewish diaspora must confront what Israel is doing in our name
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/jewish-diaspora-must-confront-what-israel-doing-our-name
> The genocide in Gaza, backed by diaspora institutions, requires us to challenge the Jewish mainstream's embrace of a fascistic Israel
#stopZionism
#stopGenocideInGaza
#freePalestine
#jewishDiaspora
#judaism
I was thinking about a recent post by @daniellesatm about the fact that she has lost many followers, and revenue, simply for being a Jew.
I think that this has become a universal experience of diasporatic Jews. We've lost people in our lives.
In a recent episode of Unorthodox, Brett Gelman speaks candidly about this in his own life, as book stores have canceled his appearances- even local bookstores that he's bought books from for years.
While he's certainly a lot more spicy than I am (ie blunt to the point of somewhat offensive), between his bluntness, he addresses serious issues that not only Jews face from gentiles, but the issues that we Jews have faced from ourselves, the internalized antisemitism that the disaporatic culture has injected into us.
I have a more nuanced view than he does on these issues, but his anger and outrage are very understandable and completely relatable to me.
#Jew #LifeAsaJew #antisemitism #JewishDiaspora #InternalizedAntisemitism
We support our Jewish neighbours - Testimony
Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed
Psalm 2
#ShabbatShalom all!
I recently finished a #podcast series I think many of you will like called "Gatecrashers". It's a mini-series about the history of #Jews at the #IvyLeague #university
More than that, for me the series explores questions of #JewishDiaspora and identity- what does it mean to be a Jew in America? To be a Jew in the upper echelons of American culture? What the different ways Jews responded to these issues?
I really loved it, so I'm sharing it!
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/gatecrashers-podcast-jews-ivy-league
if anyone's following along, we're making chef michael twitty's louisiana-style latkes, recipe here: https://afroculinaria.com/2011/12/22/hannukah-oy-hannukah-my-african-american-jewish-version-at-least/
last year was jayne cohen's new mexican sweet potato latkes with lime-sour cream sauce. (no link - i have her amazing book, jewish holiday cooking.) red kumara worked really well.
«4 #Hanukkah #recipes from across Asia that meld local cultures with Diaspora #traditions» I like that the article includes recipes as well as descriptions. #JewishCulture #JewishDiaspora #FusionCuisine #Food #AsianCuisine #JewishCuisine #Diversity #Jewish #Chanukah #חנוכה #Ханука https://www.jta.org/2022/12/14/global/4-hanukkah-recipes-from-across-asia-that-meld-local-cultures-with-diaspora-traditions
I just wanted to share my silly #Hanukkah #tradition. Every year I make a different recipe from the #JewishDiaspora every night and to prepare I make a snacks board.
This year I'm making recipes from Spain, California, Mexico, Romania, Yemen, Italy, North Africa and Cuba.
