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A word on Shabbes

Posted on November 7, 2020November 7, 2020 by Miriam

I never notice how much stress I’m carrying in my body until I uncover my eyes and am bathed in the light of the Shabbes candles, letting it flow over me like warm water, carrying with it the tension of the week. In fact, Friday afternoons are the hardest, as I’m running around cleaning and…

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How the dreidel illustrates the way “Ashkenormativity” is misapplied outside Israel

Posted on November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

In Medieval Eastern Europe, a game began to spread using a four-sided top with letters printed on it. Those letters stood for “all”, “none”, “half”, and “put in”. When this game was adapted by Yiddish speakers, they used the Yiddish letters gimel, hey, shin, and nun to stand for “gants” (all), “halb” (half), “shtel ayn”…

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The Jews are tired, part 389

Posted on October 20, 2020October 28, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

[Image: The “Is this a pigeon?” meme. An android marked “Goyish leftists” holds his hand up to a yellow butterfly labeled, “Basic things about Judaism,” and asks, “Is this Zionist propaganda?”]

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Drashe for Yom Kippur 5781

Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 by Miriam

Here on Earth, in our lives, is where we learn the meaning of being human; we hurt and are hurt, we cry and laugh, we make mistakes and are given the chance to make up for them and learn from them. When we left Ganeyden, we left with a newfound knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, harm and reconciliation. It is so integral to who we are, as beings with free-will.

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The fabled “Labor Zionism”

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

Spotted on Haaretz English.

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Now more than ever, American Jews can’t afford grifters and bullshitters

Posted on September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

Brooke Goldstein’s article “The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement” takes an opportunity to make an argument for Jews and uses it instead to take cheap shots at trans people, anti-ICE activists, and Palestinians.

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Was Karl Marx a shining example of Jewish leftism?

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

Marx was baptized, raised Protestant, and knew nothing of Judaism his entire life. His father had gone to great pains to escape his Jewishness and provide a better life for himself and his son, even changing his name. As a result, Marx was inevitably brought up with a considerable amount of internalized antisemitism.

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Does Judaism try to control the lives of Jews?

Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 by J.L. Feinstein

Someone asked in a comment on The Queer Diasporist facebook page whether or not Jewish communities try to control the lives of its members. Here’s my attempt at an answer:

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Bundism wasn’t about opposing Zionism

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

Bundism wasn’t created to oppose Zionism; it was created as a solution to the very same crushing oppression faced by European Jews of the time that Zionism was created to solve.

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Jews were the first people to be called a “diaspora”

Posted on August 13, 2020August 14, 2020 by חבֿרטע רבֿקה

The word “diaspora” was originally coined for the scattering of Jews from Eretz Yisroel, and later extended to any other group of people living away from some point of origin. Now we have a strong tendency for certain leftists to act like this original diaspora was a myth or a lie.

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