#jews — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jews, aggregated by home.social.
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"What makes #Jewish #food Jewish?
“Not food #Jews eat,” said the late #GilMarks in an interview about his monumental Encyclopedia of Jewish Food in 2010.
After all, he pointed out, contemporary #Ashkenazi Jews probably eat more salsa and sushi than schmaltz. Jewish food, he said, is food that “almost becomes sanctified by its use in Jewish life.”
#Marks, a #rabbi, historian, and extraordinary repository of culinary knowledge, was born in West Virginia and died, far too young, in Jerusalem in 2014.
His words came back to me as I began going through my food lists and #recipes, stained from years of #cooking in preparation for #RoshHashanah.
What are the foods that have become sanctified in our family?"
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When Jews were expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent ships to bring them into their empire in the Eastern Mediterranean.
That is how Thessaloniki in Greece grew its large Sephardic Jewish community, until World War II.
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"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."
https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism
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"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."
https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism
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"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."
https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism
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"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."
https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism
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[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.
“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.
Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."
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[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.
“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.
Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."
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[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.
“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.
Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."
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[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.
“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.
Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."
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[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.
“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.
Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."
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"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”
The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."
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"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”
The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."
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"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”
The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."
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"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”
The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."
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"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”
The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."
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@nora #gofundme
#Holocaust #Jews #Socialists #Disabled #Homosexuals #Roma #Gaza #Bosnia #Rohingya #Genocide #Sudan #Rwanda #Nigeria
#MutualAid #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @Yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
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@nora #gofundme
#Holocaust #Jews #Socialists #Disabled #Homosexuals #Roma #Gaza #Bosnia #Rohingya #Genocide #Sudan #Rwanda #Nigeria
#MutualAid #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @Yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
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@nora #gofundme
#Holocaust #Jews #Socialists #Disabled #Homosexuals #Roma #Gaza #Bosnia #Rohingya #Genocide #Sudan #Rwanda #Nigeria
#MutualAid #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @Yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
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"For many #Jews, the morning of #Oct7 remains seared into memory. In #JoannSfar’s case, it was also the day of his birthday party, which included “as many #Muslims as Jews,” he told me. Amidst tragedy, #Sfar felt a profound gratitude for life, which seemed especially precious. It was a day of fear and uncertainty, followed by many more over the following months. For Sfar, drawing was the only way out.
To Life is Sfar’s #illustrated journal of his experience after Oct. 7, a reflection of his fierce peace advocacy coupled with a profound connection to #Israel. It follows several previous #books by Sfar, who is a #French #Jewish #graphicnovelist best known for The Rabbi’s Cat. His works touch on his #Sephardic heritage, highlighting a history of friendship and brotherhood between #Arabs and Jews.
To Life is the #English #translation of Nous Vivrons, which was #published in June 2024 as the first of a three-part series."
https://forward.com/culture/books/840947/graphic-novelist-october-7-to-life-joann-sfar/
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Not a flattering review given the lens chosen. IDGAF. My copy gets here today and I'm looking forward to it. Pun intended.
"A few days after I started #reading #DaraHorn’s new #book, I was called a “#kike” for the first time to my face.
It was a sunny afternoon and I was wearing my Newsguild shirt. A person on the sidewalk, deshabille, possibly collecting junk, asked what union I was in. Against my better judgment I engaged, believing them to be a fellow worker. I said I was a journalist. They then decided I was a “fascist” and “complicit.”
“Do you like writing about the #genocide in #Palestine? The war in #Iran?” they asked me, trailing me past a #Judaica store in a very #Jewish neighborhood.
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#Horn’s The #FinalSolution to #theJewishQuestion: A Love Story for the Living, her latest provocatively-titled #nonfiction book is a survey of #antisemitism past and present and the ways #Jews explain ourselves to the world. At its heart, it is about #education."
https://forward.com/culture/books/847643/the-final-solution-jewish-question-dara-horn-review/
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"Over the centuries, #American #Jews have built a vast religious landscape in which no single institution or orthodoxy can reign supreme or dictate how #Judaism should be practised. Such free market Judaism has produced a panoply of diverse religious #Jewish life, but it has also made collective representation more difficult.
Who ends up speaking on behalf of American Jews when #antisemitism spikes? Who testifies on Capitol Hill before Congress? Who can synthesise the concerns of #Orthodox, #Reform, #Conservative and unaffiliated Jews without pretending their differences don’t exist?
Whether #America ever gets a chief #rabbi again or a universally-accepted council of chief #rabbis may be beside the point. What isn't beside the point is that at a time of disturbing levels of antisemitism and a Jewish community fractured by politics, some kind of unity, however America chooses to build it, has never felt more necessary."
https://www.thejc.com/opinion/could-america-ever-have-a-chief-rabbi-rforj7x8
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"Last week, #DaraHorn was hosted on #HavivRettigGur’s #podcast, “#AskHavivAnything,” to discuss her past #book and her soon-to-be-released book, both of which argue that #Holocaust #education in the #UnitedStates commonly fails to teach about the #Jewish people and #antisemitism, with possible negative consequences.
As #Horn has famously put it, our world seems far more invested in teaching about “dead #Jews” than about Jewish life. She suggests that this approach may reinforce the very hatred it is supposed to inoculate against.
Within hours of that episode airing, #Instagram accounts were using clips from the podcast to accuse the #Holocausteducation organization I work for of harming Jews. I am certain this is not what Horn intends, but one consequence of her argument is that it can easily be reduced to the belief that “Holocaust education does not work.”
It does, in fact, not work and the positive indicators in the article make Horn's case not Cunningham's. 🙄
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-it-matter-if-kids-learn-about-dead-jews/
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Think about the Nazi and what they did to a “culture of people”. That is stage 4 Culture Cancer. The situation is truly critical.
That case of Culture Cancer left 6 million people dead just because they were “Jews” .
Speaking of Jews, Israel has systematically murdered, starved, and abused many tens of thousands of people in Gaza. Has destroyed hospitals, targeted doctors and journalists, refused to let food in leading to mass starvation, and overall leveled almost the entire Gaza.
Such a terrible irony….
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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#Ukraine #irony #satire #mudra #corruption #rabbi #jews
Послухайте, борці з корупцією і їхні прихильники — ви наблизилися до червоних, ми б навіть сказали до брунатних, каштанових ліній (а може аж до ліній кольору дитячої несподіванки). Якщо ви продовжите свій рух в цей бік і спробуєте (не дай їхній бог) звинуватити Його! Вам всім інкримінують антисемітизм і заперечення Голокосту. Потім не кажіть, що ми вас не попереджали... -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@calmeilles/117139062315511196
They have said the same thing about #Lebanon and #Syria. Their goal is to control all of the #Levant. They want an end to all #Christians and all #Muslims, and any #Jews from #Africa or dark skinned countries. They are an ethnostate enforcing apartheid with our money. We need to end support for Israel. Free #Palestine from the river to the sea.
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America hates Jewish, Muslim, and black Americans. Fact.
"#FBI data released this week showed that #Jews were targeted in 1,528 hate crimes in the #US in 2025, far more than any other religious group.
The figure amounted to 63% of the 2,408 religion-based #hatecrimes in the US last year.
Overall hate crimes, and those targeting Jews, decreased last year compared to 2024, although Jews remain disproportionately targeted.
The next most-targeted religious group was #Muslims, who were the victims of 205 hate crime incidents, meaning Jews were attacked seven times more often.
Overall, #Blackpeople were targeted the most, with 2,811 hate crimes against them, the data showed. The US Black population is around six times larger than the Jewish population.
Jews were targeted in 14% of all hate crimes in the US last year, despite making up around two percent of the population."
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The folks who want Jews to leave the MENA are the same who intimidate Jews in the diaspora... 🤔
"So the anti-#Israeli, anti-#Jewish demonstration at the #HeritageFestival last week was a performance aimed squarely at #Edmonton’s local Jewish and Israeli community.
That demonstration and the violent act of physically attacking our tent, the image of our cultural identity, sent a clear message to Edmonton’s 150-year-old Jewish community: “We don’t want #Jews and #Israelis in our city.” By allowing this to happen, you, the Edmonton Heritage Festival Association, have shown that your festival’s mission of “bringing the world together” is a farce.
I moved to Edmonton nine years ago from Israel to serve as #rabbi of one of this city’s #synagogues. My family and I have stayed because we love Edmonton’s diversity: the way it brings people from around the world together to build a kinder, more peaceful, prosperous society.
Do you see Jews and Israelis as part of this city?"
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"[I]ncidents documented in #London between July 16 and July 23 were essentially repackaged versions of the #antisemitic “#ZOG” #conspiracytheory — “#Zionist Occupied Government.” The theory claims that Western governments have been secretly infiltrated by “#Zionists,” a term that report authors say is used as a disguised substitute for the word “#Jews.”
The Campaign Against #Antisemitism noted that the term ZOG was coined in the 1970s by #American neo-#Nazi #activist #EricThompson, a fact that, according to the report’s authors, underscores that the rhetoric derives directly from #whitesupremacist ideology, even when it appears today in other political contexts.
“Antisemitic #conspiracytheories of this sort are nothing new, of course. But their now open popularity among #farleft #activists points to a troubling ideological convergence that should concern all who are committed to combating hatred, regardless of where it surfaces across the political spectrum..."
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https://mailchi.mp/standing-together/why-im-a-friend-of-standing-together (why im a friend of Standing Together)
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We asked Mailam Eltity, a Friend of Standing Together (FoST) who was born and raised in a Palestinian town in Israel and then moved to Germany, to talk about what it means to be part of a global community of allies fighting for peace in Israel-Palestine.Friends of Standing Together make so much of what we do on the ground possible.
By contributing to our movement monthly, they help us gain the financial stability needed to plan long term to change our reality and get access to exclusive webinars, content, and meetings with movement leaders.
How did you get involved in Friends of Standing Together in Germany?
“I’ve lived in Germany twice: first, at age 18 to study medicine, and then again in 2023, after completing my medical degree and doing my residency training at a hospital in Israel. Being based in Berlin, I joined the FoST WhatsApp group because I liked their message, which gave me a sense of sanity at a time as I was watching what was happening in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the division, hate and racism around the world, feeling increasingly frustrated, hopeless, and helpless. At first, I was only following their work and was not active myself.
Later, it came to my attention that close to 20,000 patients in Gaza need medical treatment that is not available there, and is not expected to become available anytime soon because of the destruction of the healthcare system. These patients are on WHO waiting lists for medical evacuation, and one of the main factors limiting their access to treatment (often life-saving) is the lack of host countries willing to receive them. Another important barrier is Israel’s restriction of access to treatment in East Jerusalem.
One thing that stood out to me was that Germany had accepted close to no patients from Gaza, even though it had done so in other conflicts and the infrastructure, as well as the willingness of several hospitals and cities, already existed. I decided to write a message in the WhatsApp group addressed to the organizers and activists. At the time, I didn’t know any of them and wasn't sure if anyone would reply. But I felt that a group focused on Israel and Palestine, bringing together Jewish and Palestinian voices in Germany, was exactly the kind of group that could address this issue because it lay at the intersection of Israel, Palestine, and Germany.
After that, I was contacted by several Friends of Standing Together activists, and a working group was started to actively address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Since then, I have become increasingly involved, primarily on the topic of humanitarian medical aid in Gaza (we started the Gaza Care Bridge together with another group called “Don’t Look Away”).
I also became more active within Friends of Standing Together through organizing, communication, the weekly vigil, and other activities and events.”
# How would you describe Friends of Standing Together to someone hearing about it for the first time?
“Friends of Standing Together Germany is a community of activists that started in Berlin and has since grown into a nationwide movement, with local chapters in northern and southern Germany as well as several working groups focusing on different issues.
The group brings together people of all ages and backgrounds who share a commitment to peace, equality, and social justice.
The movement organizes public events, film screenings, discussions, weekly vigils in Berlin and, more recently, in Hamburg, as well as meetings with politicians and political advocacy.
The movement also promotes co-resistance and opposes antisemitism, anti-Muslim racism, fascism, division within German society, Germany’s complicity in the war, and the criminalization of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Beyond public activities, we meet every week to discuss ongoing work, plan future actions, and support one another through what are often emotionally difficult times.
It is a welcoming community of dedicated activists who genuinely care for each other.”
# What has been the most challenging part of being involved in peace work?
“There are periods where the work might become overwhelming.
Constant exposure to suffering injustice is not easy, and one may feel that the problems are bigger than anything you can address.
There can also be fleeting moments of hopelessness, when it feels like nothing is changing or that everything is moving in the wrong direction.
Being involved means confronting the state of the world more directly.
In some ways, you lose the option of looking away.
But I would still choose that every day over being unaware or living with my head in the sand.
There are also practical challenges.
Some days, nothing seems to work.
Plans fall through, people cancel at the last minute, and despite the efforts, progress can feel painfully slow or non-existent.
Keeping people motivated during those periods is difficult, especially in voluntary work.
Another challenge for me is seeing people and groups that share many of the same values struggle to work together.
Sometimes disagreements over language or relatively small differences end up preventing us from reaching the larger goal and being united against the actual enemy.
In those moments, activism can feel more performative than practical, when what we need most is unity.”
# What’s been the best part?
“The best part has been the people.
Constantly witnessing war, injustice, and political failures, while at the same time seeing how much indifference and desensitization exist around us, can be exhausting.
It can even make one feel isolated.
Sometimes it may feel difficult to relate to people or to feel understood.
For me, Friends of Standing Together has been the antidote to that.
I’m lucky to be surrounded by people who share similar values, but even more importantly, people who refuse to be dormant in the face of what’s happening in the world.
They care.
Deeply.
And they act.
That has done more for my well-being than I expected. It has given a sense of sanity at a time when it can feel like the world has gone crazy.
The activists in Friends of Standing Together Germany genuinely make my day better.
There is something deeply reassuring about being around people who stand for equality, justice, and human rights, not just in principle, but in practice.
People who give their time, their energy, and themselves, because they believe it’s the right thing to do.
I continue to be amazed by how much they manage to accomplish with such modest resources.
Everything we do is voluntary, and I think that contributes to the unique atmosphere.
Nobody has to be there.
People are there because they want to be.
The energy, commitment, and generosity that come with that are difficult to describe.
And maybe that is the biggest thing it has given me: it replaces the feeling of helplessness with the feeling that, however small our contribution may be, doing something is always better than doing nothing.”
Become a Friend of Standing Together: https://standtog.org/456p4MT
# What has helped you remain engaged during such a difficult political period?
# What keeps you hopeful and committed?
“What keeps me engaged is often reminding myself to zoom out.
When I look at history, I think about all the things that once seemed impossible but eventually became our taken-for-granted reality.
Peace agreements that nobody thought could happen, human rights that were once considered radical ideas: women’s rights, children going to school instead of child-labor, even something as ordinary today as the weekend and the five-day work-week was once considered unrealistic.
So many of the things we now see as normal, inevitable, or simply “the way things are” only exist because ordinary people organized, resisted, and kept pushing for change.
At the time, many of those ideas were dismissed as unrealistic or utopian.
Remembering that helps.
It reminds me that history is not static but in constant change.
There is still a long way to go, but it is important not to forget how much has already changed because people refused to accept the status quo.
Another thing that keeps me going is the belief that I don’t have the privilege of being hopeless.
If we have the ability to contribute, however little, then I think we have a responsibility to do so.
I also try to turn anger, frustration and grief into action. Standing idly by in the face of injustice when it does not affect one personally is in my opinion dangerous.
Throughout history, injustices were not always committed directly by the majority, but often, it was the majority who simply carried on with their lives while the people in power did the harm to the minority.
I don’t want to be part of that silence.
I also try not to think about the world only from an individual perspective.
Real change has always come from people acting together.
It is easy to underestimate the power of organizing because its effects are rarely immediate.
I try not to measure every action by its immediate outcome.
Sometimes doing the right thing is worthwhile simply because it is the right thing to do, regardless of whether I see the results myself.
Of course, small victories help.
They lift people’s spirits, give hope and remind us that progress is possible.
But action can’t depend on always feeling hopeful.
Nihilism is a privilege we don’t have.”
In solidarity,
Standing Together#StandingTogether #Israeli #Jews #palestinians #FoST #FriendsOfStandingTogether
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"Es zol dir dunern in boykh un blitsn in di hoyzn. It’s an old #Yiddish curse that many #Jews know all too well: You should thunder in your belly and lightning in your pants.
The #Jewish community has long joked among ourselves that we are plagued by tummy troubles, whether that be #IBS, #lactoseintolerance, #acidreflux disease or just general #dyspepsia. But with 2026 quickly becoming hot diarrhea summer (thanks, cyclospora!), it begs the question whether or not the Jewish community is, in scientific fact, actually more prone to stomach issues.
Since at least the late 1980s and early ’90s, scientists have studied the prevalence of #inflammatoryboweldisease in the Jewish community."
https://www.heyalma.com/are-jews-actually-more-prone-to-ibs-and-other-gut-problems/
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Dara Horn is the hero we want. I immediately pre-ordered this book.
"If you thought People Love Dead #Jews — #DaraHorn’s 2021 #essaycollection examining society’s reverence for remembering deceased Jews while failing to support the living ones — was an awkward #book to read in public, just wait until you get your hands on #Horn’s newest title: The Final Solution to the #Jewish Question.
Horn, a celebrated #novelist who has become the bard of contemporary #antisemitism since Dead Jews was published five years ago, is in on the joke; she likes to say that both titles make great beach reads because no one will dare sit within several feet of you.
[...]
[T]he title of Horn’s new book serves as an eye-catching, subversive #dogwhistle that is meant to pique the interest of #antisemites — while also serving as a cheeky summary of Horn’s goal of actually trying to come up with a solution to the wave of antisemitism that has swept the world in recent years."
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/dara-horn-the-final-solution-antisemitism-bookshelf/
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A unique #theatrical #performance inspired by #Yiddish #folktales features dead #Jews dancing at a cemetery, a prophet appearing in the form of a bunny rabbit and a stone-munching worm named Shamir. It all takes place within the confines of a 2’ X 4’ box known as a #cranky and it’s coming to #NewYork later this month as part of the International #Puppet #FringeFestival.
For those unfamiliar with the decidedly low-tech medium, #crankies are portable stages through which a panorama is scrolled by cranking a pair of wooden dowels. The characters and scenery on the scroll are usually accompanied by #narration and #music, in this case a live #klezmer trio. In backlit crankies, #shadowpuppets can also be used for characters.
The cranky performance of #ShternaandtheLostVoice was created by the #MagidEnsemble, a far-flung interdisciplinary collective that includes a #storyteller, a #graphicartist and three former members of the #Boston klezmer band #Mamaliga."
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Playing games with stats isn't great. Also bet Muslim stats are way way way under-reported.
"#Jews, who make up about 10% of #NewYorkers, were the targets of nearly 70% of all #hatecrimes in the #BigApple last month, according to newly released city data, and anti-#Jewish hate crimes, which the city said it confirmed, were up 53.3% compared to the same period last year.
The #NewYorkCity Police Department said that it recorded 33 “confirmed” hate crimes in the city last month, of which 23 targeted Jews (69.6%). In July 2025, there were 15 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city, it said.
#Muslims were targets of five “confirmed” hate crimes last month in New York City, or 15% of all hate crimes, which was up from two such incidents last year in July.
After recording a 182% increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes in the Big Apple in January, in Zohran Mamdani’s first month as mayor, the city began publishing only “confirmed” hate crimes and not “reported” ones in February."
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"#Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the organization said in a statement. “Governments must stop reacting after #Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real #securityfunding, stronger laws and #socialmedia platforms that enforce their own rules.”
Fifteen Jews were #murdered at a #Hanukkah celebration on #BondiBeach in #Sydney, two were #killed at #HeatonPark #Synagogue in #Manchester on #YomKippur, two were killed at the Capital #Jewish Museum in #WashingtonDC, and one was killed in #Boulder, #Colorado.
The figure was the highest since 1994, when 85 people — including 67 Jews — were killed in the #AMIA #bombing in #Argentina."
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"#ComicCon attendees packed a panel room to learn about the often-overlooked role that #Jewish #creators have played in shaping the #comicbook industry.
#MarkSZaid, Esq., an Overstreet #Comic #Book Price Guide advisor, comic book #historian, #author, and #creator of #GIsRabbi); #DannyFingeroth, former #Marvel #editor and #writer, author of Disguised as #ClarkKent: #Jews, #Comics, and the Creation of the #Superhero; and Dr. #AndrewFogel, historian of popular culture and author of #Superman’s Jaw presented an engaging PowerPoint lecture titled “The Jewish Experience in Comics: Characters and Creators.”
The presentation explored how the Jewish identities and experiences of many of comics’ most influential creators shaped the stories they told and the #heroes they created."
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"The Forward compiled and reviewed video of 10 #pageants in the #US since 2020 that feature a #Jewish character named “zhyd,” “Moshko” or “Chaim,” and sometimes his wife, usually named Sarah. All were posted to social media, in many cases by the #churches themselves.
The pageants mix and match a few motifs, all showing these two #Jews in a negative light as they try to lure #Christians to commit sin. Some tempt the faithful with goods, loans or liquor. Some mock believers for worshipping #Christ; curse Christians; summon and collude with the #devil, or betray baby #Jesus to #KingHerod, who is seeking to kill him.
Most of the #actors playing the zhyd role wore what look to be #peyos, the sidelocks traditionally worn by #Orthodox #Jews. In one instance, the character wore an exaggerated #fakenose.
The Forward located photos from an additional eight pageants for which video is not publicly available that show actors with what appear to be peyos or a fake nose."
https://forward.com/news/839093/ukrainian-catholic-church-verteps-jewish-villains/
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"#Buildings tell us about the #art, #technology, and #economics of the eras that produced them. But they also carry human #stories — the #architects, #engineers, #entrepreneurs, #patrons, and communities who imagined and built them. #Scholars have never identified a #Jewish style of architecture. #StanleyTigerman, a generation later and the grandchild of Eastern #European Jewish #immigrants, broke directly into #Chicago’s top firms without needing that workaround. He spent a career trying to find a Jewish style of architecture, tracing lines all the way back to #SolomonsTemple in his 1988 #book Architecture of Exile — and admitted the connection was “a real stretch.” There isn’t one. What there is instead is something more interesting: #Jews living across different eras who helped shape the urban landscape around them while navigating questions of identity, opportunity, community, and belonging. This column will explore those #stories."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/chicagos-jewish-history-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/
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Nation and Race and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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"When the #Ginsburg family gathered in #Kaunas on June 22, 1941, fourteen of them spent the day arguing over a single question. Should they flee east behind the retreating #Soviets, or stay? They weighed the #Germans. Some recalled the German occupation of the #FirstWorldWar and reasoned that the Germans were not so bad, that life would be harder but better than under the #Communists. They decided to stay. Of the fourteen who sat together that day, #WaldemarGinsburg alone survived the war. Years later he explained what they had failed to anticipate. They had expected trouble from the Germans, “but the trouble came from a direction which we did not expect.”
That sentence contains the history of the two weeks that followed. Between June 22 and July 6, 1941, the #Jews of Kaunas learned that the most immediate threat to their lives was not the invading army. It was the people among whom they had lived. Neighbors. Tradesmen. Men from their own streets."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-kaunass-jews-learned-whom-to-fear/
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"When the #Ginsburg family gathered in #Kaunas on June 22, 1941, fourteen of them spent the day arguing over a single question. Should they flee east behind the retreating #Soviets, or stay? They weighed the #Germans. Some recalled the German occupation of the #FirstWorldWar and reasoned that the Germans were not so bad, that life would be harder but better than under the #Communists. They decided to stay. Of the fourteen who sat together that day, #WaldemarGinsburg alone survived the war. Years later he explained what they had failed to anticipate. They had expected trouble from the Germans, “but the trouble came from a direction which we did not expect.”
That sentence contains the history of the two weeks that followed. Between June 22 and July 6, 1941, the #Jews of Kaunas learned that the most immediate threat to their lives was not the invading army. It was the people among whom they had lived. Neighbors. Tradesmen. Men from their own streets."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-kaunass-jews-learned-whom-to-fear/
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"When the #Ginsburg family gathered in #Kaunas on June 22, 1941, fourteen of them spent the day arguing over a single question. Should they flee east behind the retreating #Soviets, or stay? They weighed the #Germans. Some recalled the German occupation of the #FirstWorldWar and reasoned that the Germans were not so bad, that life would be harder but better than under the #Communists. They decided to stay. Of the fourteen who sat together that day, #WaldemarGinsburg alone survived the war. Years later he explained what they had failed to anticipate. They had expected trouble from the Germans, “but the trouble came from a direction which we did not expect.”
That sentence contains the history of the two weeks that followed. Between June 22 and July 6, 1941, the #Jews of Kaunas learned that the most immediate threat to their lives was not the invading army. It was the people among whom they had lived. Neighbors. Tradesmen. Men from their own streets."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-kaunass-jews-learned-whom-to-fear/
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"When the #Ginsburg family gathered in #Kaunas on June 22, 1941, fourteen of them spent the day arguing over a single question. Should they flee east behind the retreating #Soviets, or stay? They weighed the #Germans. Some recalled the German occupation of the #FirstWorldWar and reasoned that the Germans were not so bad, that life would be harder but better than under the #Communists. They decided to stay. Of the fourteen who sat together that day, #WaldemarGinsburg alone survived the war. Years later he explained what they had failed to anticipate. They had expected trouble from the Germans, “but the trouble came from a direction which we did not expect.”
That sentence contains the history of the two weeks that followed. Between June 22 and July 6, 1941, the #Jews of Kaunas learned that the most immediate threat to their lives was not the invading army. It was the people among whom they had lived. Neighbors. Tradesmen. Men from their own streets."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-kaunass-jews-learned-whom-to-fear/
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"When the #Ginsburg family gathered in #Kaunas on June 22, 1941, fourteen of them spent the day arguing over a single question. Should they flee east behind the retreating #Soviets, or stay? They weighed the #Germans. Some recalled the German occupation of the #FirstWorldWar and reasoned that the Germans were not so bad, that life would be harder but better than under the #Communists. They decided to stay. Of the fourteen who sat together that day, #WaldemarGinsburg alone survived the war. Years later he explained what they had failed to anticipate. They had expected trouble from the Germans, “but the trouble came from a direction which we did not expect.”
That sentence contains the history of the two weeks that followed. Between June 22 and July 6, 1941, the #Jews of Kaunas learned that the most immediate threat to their lives was not the invading army. It was the people among whom they had lived. Neighbors. Tradesmen. Men from their own streets."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-kaunass-jews-learned-whom-to-fear/
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https://tbsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3mqmg266utk24
“Why do you say ‘Jews and Palestinians?’” Let’s talk about it :)
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We say “Jews and Palestinians” when referring to activists in our movement because we are Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel.
We work within Israeli society, and while we provide protective presence across the land, we don’t organize in the occupied territories.
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Saying “Israelis and Palestinians” would imply that we organize Palestinians in the WB and Gaza and Jews within Israel.
The reality: our movement is composed of half Palestinian citizens of Israel (who make up 20 percent of the population in the country) and half Jewish-Israelis.
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Why don’t you say “Jews and Arabs”?
“Arab” describes a broad cultural and linguistic identity.
Palestinian is how most members of our movement identify personally.
The term encompasses history, peoplehood, and connection to this land.
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It has been met with denial and erasure for generations, and Palestinian members of our movement won’t participate in that erasure by abandoning the word themselves.
The term affirms that Palestinian identity exists and that its history matters.
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We respect that identity is personal. Most Palestinians in our movement prefer the term “Palestinian” over “Arab” or “Arab-Israeli.”
Additionally, today most Israeli Jews whose ancestors immigrated from countries in the Middle East and Africa identify as Jews, not Arab-Jews.
(6/8)We do not say “Jews and Muslims” because our movement includes Palestinian Christians, as well as people of additional faiths and people who don’t identify with religion at all.
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The truth is that millions of Palestinians live here, and millions of Jews live here.
Neither people are going anywhere.
The only future worth building is one where both peoples can live – together – with freedom, equality, dignity, and real peace.
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"When #Jewish #immigration to #Brazil is mentioned, many immediately think of the large urban centers in the South and Southeast. Few know, however, that one of the most fascinating chapters of the Jewish #diaspora in the country began thousands of kilometers away, along the banks of the #Amazon rivers.
It was in the early 19th century that the first #Moroccan #Jews arrived in the Brazilian Amazon. Coming mainly from cities such as #Tangier, #Tetouan, and #Casablanca, they brought with them far more than merchandise: they carried centuries of history, a rich religious and cultural tradition, and above all, the hope of starting anew.
Descendants of #Sephardic Jews expelled from the #IberianPeninsula—especially from #Spain during the #Inquisition in the late 15th century and later settled in North #Africa—these families fled persecution and political instability in #Morocco. Their destination was a distant, lush, and virtually unknown land: the Amazon."
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"#Punkrock exploded out of the chaos of 1970s #NewYork, giving a voice to outsiders, rebels, and misfits. Yet many of the movement’s most influential #musicians, managers, club owners, and tastemakers came from #Jewish backgrounds. From #CBGB and #theRamones to the rise of #punk in both New York and #London, why were #Jews so prominent in a movement built on alienation, rebellion, and challenging the mainstream?"
https://unpacked.media/the-surprising-reason-jews-dominated-punk-rock/
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"A new initiative is asking #Canadian #Jews to make history by #writing #essays about their childhoods that will be stored in Canada’s largest #Jewish archive.
The Canadian Jewish Life Writing Project is meant to empower Jews to #write first-person accounts about the diversity and undocumented realities of Jewish life in Canada. The Association for Canadian #JewishStudies (#ACJS), which runs conferences, lectures and an #academic journal for Canadian Jewish #scholars, launched a call for submissions at the end of April 2026.
ACJS executive director #JoshuaTapper says the project was inspired by a #Polish writing contest from the 1930s that collected more than 600 #autobiographical #stories from Polish Jewish youth. Members of #YIVO, an organization that has preserved Jewish cultural heritage since 1925, created what Tapper calls “an incredibly rich resource for scholars today” by “going to the people” for their #stories."