#yomkippur — Public Fediverse posts

Handling the Jewish High Holidays after experiencing grief and loss

While this is not a column about the life of a two-year-old, but rather about my second year…
#Israel #News #death #grief #highholidays #jerusalem #Jewishholidays #magazine #mentalhealth #roshhashana #RoshHashanah #Sukkot #YomKippur
https://www.europesays.com/3234294/

With Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, & Sukkot approaching this month let’s learn to ask the question that is always at the forefront 🤗

#RoshHashanah #YomKippur #Sukkot #HebrewLanguage #LanguageLearning

With Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, & Sukkot approaching this month let’s learn to ask the question that is always at the forefront 🤗

#RoshHashanah #YomKippur #Sukkot #HebrewLanguage #LanguageLearning

With Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, & Sukkot approaching this month let’s learn to ask the question that is always at the forefront 🤗

#RoshHashanah #YomKippur #Sukkot #HebrewLanguage #LanguageLearning

With Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, & Sukkot approaching this month let’s learn to ask the question that is always at the forefront 🤗

#RoshHashanah #YomKippur #Sukkot #HebrewLanguage #LanguageLearning

With Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, & Sukkot approaching this month let’s learn to ask the question that is always at the forefront 🤗

#RoshHashanah #YomKippur #Sukkot #HebrewLanguage #LanguageLearning

"The #Seattle Police Department will work with local #Jewish communities to ensure their safety during the #HighHolidays amid surging anti-Jewish violence nationwide, #KatieWilson, #mayor of Seattle, told JNS.
“Seattle has no place for #antisemitism or hatred of any kind,” the mayor, who identifies as #socialist, told JNS.

“I know Seattle’s Jewish community is acutely aware of a rise in antisemitism and is feeling anxiety and concern,” Wilson said. “I believe every Seattle resident needs to be able to participate fully in civic life without fear, and my office welcomes dialogue with the Jewish community for sharing what they need to improve safety.”

Wilson’s comment to JNS appears to be the first time she has addressed #Jew-hatred in the city publicly since she became mayor in January.

#RoshHashanah begins this year on Sept. 11 at night and lasts two days. #YomKippur, which lasts a day, begins on Sept. 20."

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/scoop-seattle-mayor-pledges-more-security-for-jews-during-high-holidays-discusses-jew-hatred-for-first-time-since-assuming-office

"It may be the middle of summer on the #Gregorian #calendar right now, but on the #Jewish calendar, we are approaching the end of the year. The month of #Elul begins this year at sundown on August 13. Although Elul contains no major Jewish holidays, it is quite an important period of reflection and preparation for the #HighHolidays, which begin with #RoshHashanah on the first of the following #Hebrew month, #Tishrei.

According to Jewish tradition, our fates are written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed for the upcoming year on #YomKippur. Because of that, Elul becomes an opportunity to strengthen our connection with #Hashem, or G-d; ask for forgiveness; repent; and return to Him. This process, known as #teshuvah, invites us to reflect on both our personal behavior and religious practice.

However, asking Hashem for forgiveness is not enough when we have wronged another person."

https://unpacked.media/i-am-for-my-beloved-and-my-beloved-is-for-me-why-is-the-month-of-elul-so-important-in-judaism/

"#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."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-deadliest-year-in-decades-for-diaspora-jews-task-force-warns-hate-is-our-new-normal/

Questo tifo si poteva già sentire nei talk show televisivi venerdì sera, con i partecipanti che aspettavano con impazienza questo momento come se stessero aspettando il Messia.
Il rilascio è avvenuto sabato, durando solo fino al prossimo round di piacere, che arriverà prima del previsto.

Se un tempo Israele godeva di alcuni anni di tranquillità tra una guerra e l'altra – 8 dalla guerra del 1948 alla campagna del #Sinai, 11 tra quest'ultima e la guerra dei "Sei giorni", 6 fino alla guerra dello #YomKippur, 9 fino alla prima guerra del #Libano e 24 fino alla seconda, ora abbiamo solo pochi mesi tra una guerra e l'altra.

Un tempo, le promesse fatte dopo ogni guerra raggiungevano il cielo, il cielo delirante degli istigatori e dei sostenitori della guerra, che includono quasi tutti gli israeliani. ⬇️3

A group of British Jews camped outside UK Parliament on Yom Kippur in protest against the genocide carried out by the Occupation forces in Gaza.

#UKpol #Protest #YomKippur #Gaza #Genocide #Britain #Activism
@palestine

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

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, 2025

Protesters 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.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/rabbi-protest-new-york

#Israel #Palestine
#US #USpol
#news #politics @palestine

I know some gentiles who ask "What can I do about antisemitism?" and the answer here is simple:

1. Stand up to it. Make comments on antisemitic posts calling it out. Make the person who posted it have to deal with being called out.

2. Report the poster to your local admin. And follow up. If they don't take action, ask why not and see if you can get them to change their mind.

3. Repost these post. Get the word out.

4. Reach out to your Jewish friends. Reach out and ask "Are you okay?", check in to see how we are and offer your support.

When you do this, we feel seen and cared for. When you don't ever stand up for us, we notice. We might not tell you, but we do.

#YomKippur #ManchesterAttack #FediAntisemitism

The second post is one that's even more direct, saying that Jews are not only directly responsible for their own attacks, but that Jews aka "Small Hats" are also to blame for bringing violence to the UK.

https://mastodon.online/@muzwot/115307277192706557
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dRYxR

#YomKippur #ManchesterAttack #FediAntisemitism

The first post is one saying that Jews must make a loyalty pledge against Israel. Only if they pledge to disavow their connection to the Jewish homeland should they be safe from antisemitism.

This is the standard Loyalty Pledge trope brought into a modern context.

They follow it up with an image of children evocative of the Blood Libel trope.

https://mastodon.social/@TheAlexPerspective/115306046785616946
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yob5P

#YomKippur #ManchesterAttack #FediAntisemitism

It was the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur and there was a terrorist attack, a shooting targeting Jews in their place of worship. What did I miss on the Fediverse?

Two posts blaming Jews for the attack.

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#YomKippur #ManchesterAttack #FediAntisemitism

Thinking of the Jewish members of our community on their holy day of #YomKippur.

In light of today's terrible events in #Manchester, we hope ALL members of the local community can respect each other with understanding and empathy. We're stronger together, not divided.

We Just Read: Starmer says Britain must defeat rising antisemitic hatred after two killed in Manchester synagogue attack

READ HERE:👉 https://bvoices.uk/46Qq0Fs

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#Judaism
#Unity
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK

To all those who observe it I wish you Gmar Chatima Tovah.

#yomkippur

"Yom Kippur is the antidote to this theology. It is the Jewish insistence that all of us are seekers of an asymptotic truth, that we are equal in that search and owe each other grace and compassion along the way. Our theology says that the gates of repentance are always open, that teshuvah is possible, that it starts with working together to see the truth, to recognize its errors, to attempt repair, and to commit to a better future."

#YomKippur #repentance #remembrance #MAGA #Trump
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"The MAGA movement seeks to promulgate a triumphalist theology that attempts to determine the truth of America’s past and says that repentance is impossible because doing so would be 'corrosive' or 'disparaging.' This theology is built on the fundamentalist, extreme myth that it has the absolute truth of who we are as a Christian nation, and thus the only acceptable response is obedience."

#YomKippur #repentance #remembrance #teshuvah #Trump #MAGA #history #ChristianNationalism
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Rabbi Michael G. Holzman offers a Yom Kippur meditation on how the Trump administration's decision to lie about and obliterate American history militates against the most fundamental meaning of Yom Kippur — the call to remember, acknowledge, and repent of our wrongdoings.

He states,

"We are living in a theological crisis."

#YomKippur #repentance #remembrance #teshuvah #Trump #MAGA #history
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/political-triumphalism-is-contrary

To those who celebrate, Chag Semeach and have a meaningful fast ✡️💕 #YomKippur

An #YomKippur kommen diese Spinner ernsthaft auf die Idee eine Pro #Hamas Demo abzuhalten? Besser kann man nicht zeigen, dass man ein #Antisemit ist und einem die Kriegsopfer am Arsch vorbei gehen.

#Antisemitismus #StandWithIsrael #Freiburg

I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead

2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-respond-incident-outside-synagogue-manchester-2025-10-02/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Gmar Chatima Tova. #yomkippur

Horrifying, ghastly murders at Manchester synagogue #YomKippur
https://aje.io/i1t4tp

Any other non-practicing Jews inherently feel The Guilt around this time of year?

No? Just me?

#judaism #jewish #highholidays #highholydays #birthright #batmitzvah #roshhashanah #yomkippur #sukkot #fediverse #federated