#jews — Public Fediverse posts
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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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#Holocaust #Jews #Socialists #Disabled #Homosexuals #Roma #Gaza #Bosnia #Rohingya #Genocide #Sudan #Rwanda #Nigeria
#MutualAid #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #Genocide #geopolitics
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#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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@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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"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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"The #Hellenization of #Judea and the #assimilation of #American #Jews obviously have radically different etiologies. One occurred in the context of #Hellenistic #imperialism; the other largely through voluntary #integration into a liberal #democracy that offered Jews unprecedented security and opportunity. Yet their morphology may contain a recognizable similarity: cultural encounter, selective assimilation, reinterpretation of #Jewish identity, competing visions of #Jewishness, and eventually intra-Jewish conflict.
The point is not that modern anti-#Zionist Jews are simply modern #Hellenists. Rather, the Hellenistic crisis provides a historical model for understanding how assimilation can eventually turn a disagreement about how Jews should relate to the surrounding world into a conflict over what #Judaism itself means."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-jews-assimilate-into-the-world-around-them/
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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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#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol(3/n)
...apart from some occasional #JerusalemPost headlines, but the global backlash, and even the classification of their military 's deeds as #Genocide, made it very obvious that there would be a reckoning:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/115129530425980355
It is extremely unfair to all the #Jews in the global #Diaspora who did not have a hand or even opposed the #Israeli regimes actions in #Gaza (and now elsewhere,)...
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My people came from Vilna. I have zero desire to go visit Europe. Its just one giant Jewish graveyard in my mind.
"A rare "antisemitic incident in #Lithuania: A local #blogger and #socialmedia activist was arrested after being filmed spitting at three #Israeli #rabbis visiting #Vilnius and urging others to do the same.
According to #Lithuanian authorities, the suspect, #GintarasLiutkevičius, posted a video on social media showing him approaching the three #Jews, who were wearing traditional religious clothing, spitting toward them and encouraging others to follow his example.
“I heard you love to spit on #Christians ... what if I spit on you?” he is heard saying in the video. “You need to go home. This is not your home. This is Lithuania — go home.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/rjjjgezefe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.
Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.
The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."
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"I do not always feel #progressive spaces are offering a safe haven from those that threaten my community. This is where these disquieting edge cases play in. Some leading advocates may not be outwardly #antisemitic and go to great lengths to avoid crossing that line. That effort itself is good and it is appreciated when people are conscious of not being explicitly bigoted. But when a #Jewish person is faced with questions about our relationship with #Zionism (that are not asked of other potential coalition partners) as a pretense before we are welcome in a political movement, it makes our acceptance conditional on litmus tests. That doesn’t just hurt #Jews. It hurts movements. It chills the desire to join coalitions by a large, reliably progressive demographic with a history of strong support for #civilrights and #democratic #freedoms.
I am not arguing that Jews respond to this by isolating ourselves. I am writing this because I believe the exact opposite."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-should-aim-higher-than-not-quite-antisemitic/
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"I do not always feel #progressive spaces are offering a safe haven from those that threaten my community. This is where these disquieting edge cases play in. Some leading advocates may not be outwardly #antisemitic and go to great lengths to avoid crossing that line. That effort itself is good and it is appreciated when people are conscious of not being explicitly bigoted. But when a #Jewish person is faced with questions about our relationship with #Zionism (that are not asked of other potential coalition partners) as a pretense before we are welcome in a political movement, it makes our acceptance conditional on litmus tests. That doesn’t just hurt #Jews. It hurts movements. It chills the desire to join coalitions by a large, reliably progressive demographic with a history of strong support for #civilrights and #democratic #freedoms.
I am not arguing that Jews respond to this by isolating ourselves. I am writing this because I believe the exact opposite."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-should-aim-higher-than-not-quite-antisemitic/
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"I do not always feel #progressive spaces are offering a safe haven from those that threaten my community. This is where these disquieting edge cases play in. Some leading advocates may not be outwardly #antisemitic and go to great lengths to avoid crossing that line. That effort itself is good and it is appreciated when people are conscious of not being explicitly bigoted. But when a #Jewish person is faced with questions about our relationship with #Zionism (that are not asked of other potential coalition partners) as a pretense before we are welcome in a political movement, it makes our acceptance conditional on litmus tests. That doesn’t just hurt #Jews. It hurts movements. It chills the desire to join coalitions by a large, reliably progressive demographic with a history of strong support for #civilrights and #democratic #freedoms.
I am not arguing that Jews respond to this by isolating ourselves. I am writing this because I believe the exact opposite."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-should-aim-higher-than-not-quite-antisemitic/
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"I do not always feel #progressive spaces are offering a safe haven from those that threaten my community. This is where these disquieting edge cases play in. Some leading advocates may not be outwardly #antisemitic and go to great lengths to avoid crossing that line. That effort itself is good and it is appreciated when people are conscious of not being explicitly bigoted. But when a #Jewish person is faced with questions about our relationship with #Zionism (that are not asked of other potential coalition partners) as a pretense before we are welcome in a political movement, it makes our acceptance conditional on litmus tests. That doesn’t just hurt #Jews. It hurts movements. It chills the desire to join coalitions by a large, reliably progressive demographic with a history of strong support for #civilrights and #democratic #freedoms.
I am not arguing that Jews respond to this by isolating ourselves. I am writing this because I believe the exact opposite."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-should-aim-higher-than-not-quite-antisemitic/
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"I do not always feel #progressive spaces are offering a safe haven from those that threaten my community. This is where these disquieting edge cases play in. Some leading advocates may not be outwardly #antisemitic and go to great lengths to avoid crossing that line. That effort itself is good and it is appreciated when people are conscious of not being explicitly bigoted. But when a #Jewish person is faced with questions about our relationship with #Zionism (that are not asked of other potential coalition partners) as a pretense before we are welcome in a political movement, it makes our acceptance conditional on litmus tests. That doesn’t just hurt #Jews. It hurts movements. It chills the desire to join coalitions by a large, reliably progressive demographic with a history of strong support for #civilrights and #democratic #freedoms.
I am not arguing that Jews respond to this by isolating ourselves. I am writing this because I believe the exact opposite."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-should-aim-higher-than-not-quite-antisemitic/
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"What does it mean to be a #barmitzvah? How does one keep up the momentum long after reaching the age of 13? What are a girl’s obligations when she becomes a #batmitzvah? These questions and more are thoroughly explored and answered in the newest #book by #Rabbi #YehoshuaAlt. Phenomenal Insights about Bar Mitzvah and #Tefillin gathers insights from throughout the Torah to present more than 50 engaging #essays on the significance of bar mitzvah and tefillin. #Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is suitable for #Jews of all ages, and would especially make a wonderful bar mitzvah present."
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Israel must fight back against antisemitic bullying disguised as journalism
In the past, The New York Times was considered one of the symbols of free journalism in the…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Europe #GideonSa'ar #Hamas #Holocaust #IDF #Israel #jews #Journalism #TheOctober7Massacre
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025
By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship.
In the deadly confusion, Miller reported to an officer, who told him to help move the ship’s mortally wounded captain off the bridge. Unable to move him far, Miller pulled the captain to shelter. Then another officer ordered Miller to pass ammunition to him as he started up one of the two abandoned anti-aircraft guns in front of the conning tower.
Miller had not been trained to use the weapons because, as a Black man in the U.S. Navy, he was assigned to serve the white officers. But while the officer was distracted, Miller began to fire one of the guns. He fired it until he ran out of ammunition. Then he helped to move injured sailors to safety before he and the other survivors abandoned the West Virginia, which sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
The next day, the United States declared war on Japan. Japan declared war on America, and on December 11, 1941, both Italy and Germany declared war on America. “The powers of the steel pact, Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany, ever closely linked, participate from today on the side of heroic Japan against the United States of America,” Italian leader Benito Mussolini said. “We shall win.” Of course they would. Mussolini and Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, believed the Americans had been corrupted by Jews and Black Americans and could never conquer their own organized military machine.
The steel pact, as Mussolini called it, was the vanguard of his new political ideology. That ideology was called fascism, and he and Hitler thought it would destroy democracy once and for all.
Mussolini had been a socialist as a young man and had grown terribly frustrated at how hard it was to organize people. No matter how hard socialists tried, they seemed unable to convince ordinary people that they must rise up and take over the country’s means of production.
The efficiency of World War I inspired Mussolini. He gave up on socialism and developed a new political theory that rejected the equality that defined democracy. He came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.
Italy adopted fascism, and Mussolini inspired others, notably Germany’s Hitler. Those leaders came to believe that their system was the ideology of the future, and they set out to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way.
America fought World War II to defend democracy from fascism. And while fascism preserved hierarchies in society, democracy called on all men as equals. Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in the war, more than 1.2 million were Black American men and women, 500,000 were Latinos, and more than 550,000 Jews were part of the military. Among the many ethnic groups who fought, Indigenous Americans served at a higher percentage than any other ethnic group—more than a third of able-bodied Indigenous men between the ages of 18 and 50 joined the service—and among those 25,000 soldiers were the men who developed the famous “Code Talk,” based in tribal languages, that codebreakers never cracked.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: December 6, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
#BlackAmericans #CodeTalk #December71941 #DorisMiller #Facism #Germany #HeatherCoxRichardson #Hitler #Italy #Japan #Jews #LettersFromAnAmerican #PearlHarbor #Post #SteelPact #USSWestVirginia #WorldWarII
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025
By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship.
In the deadly confusion, Miller reported to an officer, who told him to help move the ship’s mortally wounded captain off the bridge. Unable to move him far, Miller pulled the captain to shelter. Then another officer ordered Miller to pass ammunition to him as he started up one of the two abandoned anti-aircraft guns in front of the conning tower.
Miller had not been trained to use the weapons because, as a Black man in the U.S. Navy, he was assigned to serve the white officers. But while the officer was distracted, Miller began to fire one of the guns. He fired it until he ran out of ammunition. Then he helped to move injured sailors to safety before he and the other survivors abandoned the West Virginia, which sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
The next day, the United States declared war on Japan. Japan declared war on America, and on December 11, 1941, both Italy and Germany declared war on America. “The powers of the steel pact, Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany, ever closely linked, participate from today on the side of heroic Japan against the United States of America,” Italian leader Benito Mussolini said. “We shall win.” Of course they would. Mussolini and Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, believed the Americans had been corrupted by Jews and Black Americans and could never conquer their own organized military machine.
The steel pact, as Mussolini called it, was the vanguard of his new political ideology. That ideology was called fascism, and he and Hitler thought it would destroy democracy once and for all.
Mussolini had been a socialist as a young man and had grown terribly frustrated at how hard it was to organize people. No matter how hard socialists tried, they seemed unable to convince ordinary people that they must rise up and take over the country’s means of production.
The efficiency of World War I inspired Mussolini. He gave up on socialism and developed a new political theory that rejected the equality that defined democracy. He came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.
Italy adopted fascism, and Mussolini inspired others, notably Germany’s Hitler. Those leaders came to believe that their system was the ideology of the future, and they set out to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way.
America fought World War II to defend democracy from fascism. And while fascism preserved hierarchies in society, democracy called on all men as equals. Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in the war, more than 1.2 million were Black American men and women, 500,000 were Latinos, and more than 550,000 Jews were part of the military. Among the many ethnic groups who fought, Indigenous Americans served at a higher percentage than any other ethnic group—more than a third of able-bodied Indigenous men between the ages of 18 and 50 joined the service—and among those 25,000 soldiers were the men who developed the famous “Code Talk,” based in tribal languages, that codebreakers never cracked.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: December 6, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
#BlackAmericans #CodeTalk #December71941 #DorisMiller #Facism #Germany #HeatherCoxRichardson #Hitler #Italy #Japan #Jews #LettersFromAnAmerican #PearlHarbor #Post #SteelPact #USSWestVirginia #WorldWarII
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"[Rabbi Benay] Lappe added, 'The question is not "Why so many queer people?" but rather, "Why is this extraordinarily good news for the future of Judaism?"'"
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Asaf Elia-Shalev reports that a new national study shows 51% of rabbinical students surveyed identify as LGBTQ+.
"'If you take a historical perspective, it is rather astounding, given the fact that rabbinical schools weren’t even accepting LGBTQ students until the 1990s or later,' said Jonathan Krasner, a professor of Jewish studies at Brandeis University."
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"How can we break the cycle of these toxic dynamics? How can we create a political horizon to prevent this all from happening again (god forbid) in five or ten years?"
#rabbis #Jews #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #genocide #ZohranMamdani
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"Instead of continuing this long path of reflexive fear responses – where we allow ourselves to be totally paralyzed into a state of rage and fight response at any inkling of change on the Israel question – I think we need a real spiritual renewal as a Jewish people. How did we get here? For what do we bear communal responsibility?"
#rabbis #Jews #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #genocide #ZohranMamdani
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"I am deeply skeptical of rabbis who get up on the bima and chalk that up to 'Israel is flawed as any country/of course we don’t like Bibi' and then lambaste anyone who actually uses strong language to call out these absolute desecrations of God’s name. If you can’t re-examine your relationship with Israel, and even re-tool it, after these two years, why should I listen to your moralizing about antisemitism?"
#rabbis #Jews #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #genocide #ZohranMamdani
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"It is just entirely unrealistic, and in my view unreasonable, to expect the world’s position on Israel to remain unchanged after two years of horrific war crimes in Gaza – the utter annihilation of an entire civilization, of whole bloodlines, of children, etc."
~ TPM Reader AF
#rabbis #Jews #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #genocide #ZohranMamdani
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Happy Yom Kippur, 2-3 October, 2025, for all of my Jewish friends who are celebrating! ✡️
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #jew #jews #jewish #yomkippur #yomkippur2025 #judaism #judaismisnotzionism #zionismisnotjudaism
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Dozens Arrested as 1,000+ #Jews Demand Gaza Ceasefire at Rabbi-Led Yom Kippur Protest in #NYC
Protesters blocked traffic to the Brooklyn Bridge, embodying the ancient Jewish tenets of justice, righteousness, and saving life.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. #NYPD officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.
Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let #Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.
Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of #YomKippur, as a #Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the #Palestinian people in my name.”
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CW: CW terrorist attacks and antisemitism
The terrorist attack in #Manchester on #YomKippur came as a shock, but not as a surprise. #Antisemitism in the UK has been high since the 7th October attacks. Attacks on Yom Kippur are common: it is the holiest day in the #Jewish calendar, with the largest congregation of #Jews in synagogues.
The media suggests some Jews in the UK are questioning whether it is safe to live here. This might be exaggerated. Personally I don't know anyone who is thinking that. But the question of safety is part of the Jewish experience. Tzipporah's song How Do You Know expresses this beautifully (lyrics in first comment).
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Associations representing Reform congregations & Conservative #rabbis — denominations that encompass nearly half of American #Jews — have called for #Israel to release additional #aid, citing Jewish values & what one group called a “moral priority” to feed the hungry. Nearly three dozen rabbis were arrested in demonstrations in #NewYork & #Washington last month, calling for more aid to #Gaza & for Israel & its prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, to end the #war.
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Your will not to penalize #war #criminals , a concept that arose after #WWII , is in #insult to the #millions of #Americans (and #other #nationatilities ) that gave their lives and fought for #Freedom against the #nazis .
Among the #insulted are also the #millions of #Jews who lost their lives in #WWII
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West Bank attacker was prisoner freed in hostage exchange
Tariq Daoud was shot dead by the IPF after he opened fire on an Israeli man
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/west-bank-attacker-was-prisoner-freed-in-hostage-exchange-c171ck21
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"Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."
"Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."
Francesca Newton writes: https://vashtimedia.com/election-labour-victory-keir-starmer-shehecheyanu/ 🧶
#farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews
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The Greek Jewish Festival in NYC is today, which means making my annual guess at how many delicious borekas I can eat there without my wheat intolerance kicking the daylights out of me. Woohoo! 😀 Check out the festival if you're in the area!
#Sephardic #Romaniote #GreekJewishFestival #Mazeldon #Jews #Jewish
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This year's Greek Jewish Festival in New York City will be on May 19. It's a fun (and, increasingly, crowded) celebration of #Romaniote and #Sephardic cultures, including food, music, and dancing. It's held annually by the Greek synagogue on the Lower East Side, Kehila Kedosha Janina.