Old navy had a humentachen on theirs

So - I’m stuck working a not great job at the moment to pay the bills. I wore a hat for the first few weeks to scope it out before just walking around with a kippah.

😂FIRST DAY I decide that it’s a go, (LESS THAN 1 HOUR INTO ARRIVING)

The guy who trained me weeks prior, while I’m grabbing something says “so you are Jewish” He’d seen something I had, and asked me a week prior, and I just brushed it off since it’s not really something that matters. It’s not a topic in my mind.

Anyway he then goes onto start asking “So how do you feel about the war. What they’re doing to the Palestinians”. I just give the “it’s complicated“ (and it is)

But looking back, I’d make it a bit more fun. Instead of answering seriously, I’d just look around confused and grab at my back - I didn’t know my shirt said anything… does my shirt say ambassador?

But why I’m making this, is just to show that many people are going insane about a place they don’t know anything about. But I don’ accept that it’s about the place, as much as it is for the dislike of our people. I briefly point out a few facts, and fun fact - he didn’t even know about them… so again IT’S COMPLICATED. And perhaps people shouldn’t speak about something they don’t really care to understand.

Last thing😂 I saw a wedding ring on his hand, normal thing right? Well he’s now been like super ”friendly” with one of the ladies there.

My thought was “How about you worry about the conflict going on in your marriage before you a conflict between people people across the globe”

my bio has a jewish star so often when I leave a comment on something and someone disagrees (and they go to my profile before replying) they leave me a slur message or try to dm me something not nice.

does this happen to you?

it happens to me for almost every comment I leave (not on reddit because my profile does not note it).

I went to Hobby Lobby today (there’s my problem), and when I went to check out, the cashier gave the people in front of me Jesus stickers. She went to give me one when I checked out, and I just told her I don’t need one. She hesitated for a second and I told her I’m Jewish. She responded with “Well, Jews love Jesus!” I just told her I don’t hate Jesus or anything, I just don’t need a sticker. It was an odd interaction, especially her saying that Jews love Jesus. My goodness. Hobby Lobby has the best yarn in my area, so I don’t have much of an option for quality yarn. I wish there was a Michael’s in town. Walmart yarn just stinks.

I was at work the other day and an elderly lady told me “Do you know who Ben Shapiro is? You look like him.” I was confused and asked what she meant (since I don’t look like him at all) and she responded “Yeah you have the same little hat” I nervously chuckled and said “Yup that’s called a Kippah, lots of Jews wear it” and the conversation ended there.

I know she didn’t mean any malice but I still felt weird at the whole situation, and it’s hard not to imagine the double standard if this would’ve happened to another ethnicity.

Thoughts?

Misty from Cyberpunk 2077 wears a Magen David. I don't what the outer layer is surrounding the star though. I think that's interesting, since Poland used to have a large Jewish community.

I started working sound for a wedding band this year. I've worked a bunch of normal weddings where almost everyone is white and "enjoying themselves" by drinking a ton, laughing super loudly, and standing around in cliques watching a few couples dance. And there's always a few who had too much to drinkand are supported by friends as they stagger to the bathroom.

The Jewish weddings are completely different. The crowd is instantly dancing, with only a handful of folks not participating. I mean the oldies and the youngsters ALL dancing like crazy. I've worked three Jewish weddings and they were all like that. Plus, no one's been sloppy drunk, and I see no cliques. Everyone is hanging out with everyone. It's awesome. I'm a Jew and it's just awesome to see. And I hate weddings haha! But the Jewish ones are a-okay.

Jews of color… Particularly those with Ashkenazi mom… Do you have to answer the “are you Sephardic” question every time you meet someone? This past Shabbat, the person threw a curve ball and asked me if I was Mizrachi. The thing is, I get tired of having to explain all the time. It makes me feel “othered”. I even had to argue with someone once, who insisted I was Sephardic… He clearly doesn’t understand what Ashkenazi, Sephardic, etc actually mean…

I am just so fricking over it… ugh!

I just need help coping I am spiraling and very angry right now and I feel very betrayed and punched in the stomach and frankly he is going to have a tough time cleaning his slate every YK for as long as I'm on this earth

Wondering how any of the other single uncles or aunts feel. I’ve definitely gotten used to being single and now at 52 I don’t even know if I’m still able to live with another person, let alone raise a kid. But I feel it deeply at simchas, with 3 nieces and nephews having had their BMs and 2 more coming over the next few years. Not to mention the next generation of cousins all getting married off (the kids of my 8 first cousins, all of whom are married with kids).

This feeling of failure not having had kids creeps into Seders and high holidays too, and of course Hanukkah. I usually don’t feel like dancing and singing and just try to find ways to make myself feel useful, like cooking meals for the family or making speeches for my siblings’ weddings. But it’s not the same - I feel removed from the “generation to generation” aspect of these rites of passage and traditions, which I experienced as a kid but am not experiencing so much in the adult parent context. Anyone else?

This isn't important at all, this is just something trivial that always annoys me. I don't know if any of you guys are into gaming like I am, but if you are you're probably aware of the way Christian themes and holidays keep making their way into (for examples) life sims, rpgs and similar. The apparently non-religious Stardew Valley, a game that I LOVE by the way, is avoiding holidays like Christmas and Easter for example, but the so called festivals they celebrate are still Christian-adjacent. The "Egg Festival" in spring revolves around a community egg hunt and The Feast of the Winter Star has a "Winter Tree" on the town square and involves a "secret friend" element in which you basically do a Secret Santa without it being mentioned specifically.

It's specifically Christmas that keeps coming back as a so called non-religious holiday, take Winterfest in The Sims 4 or Toy Day in Animal Crossing. All of these involves decorated trees, gift giving and even though I don't celebrate Christmas and don't know every single tradition I still feel like most of them are included in these attempts of making these holidays secular. At least Animal Crossing has a Dreidel set, but that's all.

I don't mind Christmas in my games. It's a huge globally celebrated holiday and it's understandable that it's included. But what's the point of just giving it a different name and pretending it has nothing to do with the Christian faith. It's just really annoying to me that even in a fictional world I'm confronted with Christonormativity. Even when I'm the one who created the world.

Anyway, agame that, on the other hand, positively surprised me was Unpacking! Without explicitly you, throughout the game you discover you're decorating a Jewish woman's house!

I was hanging out with a friend today. We talked in passing about Israel and a recent SM spat involving someone who thought calling out a recent case of pretty obvious antisemitism.

And of course an SJW had to comment how it's bad that this called antisemitism because there is "real" antisemitism out there. But that's not what I'll harp on about.

We chatted and my friend is pro-palestinian but also wants good things for Israelis and Jews in general. She doesn't seem to understand that being antizionist means wanting Israel to not exist, which is the end point of most forms of "pro Palestinian" views.

But she is very sympathetic and kind and doesn't try to moralize and use an updated form of blood libel.

But we got to her house and her husband somehow mentioned Gaza hospitals and then how he's very angry and hates Israelis right now and blah blah killing babies. And I didn't say anything. There is no point. My friend pushed back and said no that's not true there is complications, nuance, different views, etc... I said nothing. I'm a half Jew and I think he forgot that.

And it just bothered me. And I just wanted to share that here because I knew I'd get sympathy.

Until a couple years ago, I was at least moderately antizionist. Now I'm neither pro or anti. I'm not sure. I question Israel a lot and wonder if I should be antizionist. But I can't say that I am. I used to think equating antizionism with antisemitism was an abuse of actual antisemitism (just like the SJW who opposes cultural appropriation, ignoring the voices of the marginalized, and loves land acknowledgements) literally tried to "Judaismsplain" Judaism so we Jews commenting understand why zionism isnt part of Judaism and thus our comments are invalid (so thoughtful, thanks for the help. Maybe next time they'll exain why we should give up our false covenant accept Jesus).

But I am unsure now.

And I just knew people would get it here, even if you disagree with me about many other things or even not being wholeheartedly, passionately prozionist.

Hi everyone ! 😊
I’m asking because I’m Jewish and live in Paris. When I see Jewish characters represented in American TV shows ( I'm discovering Long Story Short thanks to all the recommendations here ! 😊 )

I hear people talking about different Jewish denominations, and I’m not sure I fully understand them.
We have different Jewish movements in France too. Three main ones.
I think I may have figured out which American denominations correspond to the French ones, but I’m not entirely sure !
Here are the three main groups in France, as I understand them
:
1. Traditionalist Jews
These are Jews who are mainly attached to Jewish traditions and passing them down to the next generation.
Their level of observance can vary.
For example, some families might regularly get together for Shabbat and have a proper Shabbat meal without necessarily strictly observing Shabbat according to halacha.
Jewish traditions are still very important to them, though.
I get the impression that this is somewhat similar to Conservative Judaism in the US. Is that right ? 🧐

2. Liberal Jews
They believe the Torah should evolve with modern times.
For example, in some Liberal Jewish communities, there are female rabbis, women can wear kippot and lay tefillin.
Some also argue that driving on Shabbat is permissible because the Torah doesn’t explicitly prohibit driving, and it couldn’t have prohibited something like driving since cars didn’t exist back then !
I get the impression that this is somewhat equivalent to Reform Judaism in the US. Am I wrong ?
3. Orthodox Jews
And then there are Jews who could be described as Orthodox, which includes different movements, such as Chabad, for example.
Is this understanding correct, or am I getting something wrong ?

Are there other Jewish denominations in the US ? And how do the different movements view one another ?
Thanks in advance for your answers ! 😊

Normally, I would not post on Shabbat but I’ve been thinking about this all day and I really need to talk to someone.

Yesterday afternoon, I was gaming with some friends and we were having a conversation about AI. I don’t recall exactly what was said but I made a comment about how I, personally, do not like AI. My one friend asked, “is it because you’re jewish? Why don’t Jews support AI?” And before I could even respond my other friend said something along the lines of “well when Jews say they oppose something they actually secretly support it.”

I frankly didn’t know what to say. Frankly, I just didn’t say anything. My two friends just laughed. This friend has made similar comments before and I’ve mostly brushed them off because he is just kind of edgy like that to begin with. But its getting to the point where either him and I need to have a talk about it or I just cut him off.

I don’t want to cut him off though. We’ve been friends a long time and it would break our whole friend group. I’m also afraid to confront him about it… what should I do?

Edit: I did talk to him about it and he promptly apologized and reaffirmed he didn’t mean anything by it. I feel a little silly bringing it up but I do feel better at least. Thank you for your support.

when I was a kid my parents always used to sing kol haolam kulo with the wordplay/pun "גזר זר מעוד" (a very strange carrot) instead of the original lyric ״גשר צר מאד״ (a very narrow bridge). they left the second half as it was ("והעקר לא לפחד כלל״/"and the main thing is to be afraid of nothing"). but today i realized that איכר (farmer) would fit perfectly where עקר (the main thing) was, making it "all the world is a very strange carrot and the farmer should be afraid of nothing" and now i can't stop laughing because it fits!!! its so funny but it fits!!

also made me thing of Encanto:
"all the patching's farming's done by Hernando"
"...who is Hernando?"
"I'm Hernando and I'm scared of nothing!"

Hi, everyone. Does anyone deal with a monument place in Brooklyn that makes headstones for a decent price?

My girlfriend loves horror movies and we've been wathching the Conjuring series/universe. Christ and Christianity aside, demonology is fun. Anyway, she's extremely supportive of me embracing my Jewish culture, and she asked if there's any Jewish/Israeli Horror movies. I mean, there has to be, right? The only thing I could think of though is that awesome episode of the X-Files with the Golem, which I'm adding to the list. I also remember watching "A Stranger Among Us" as a kid, but that's not really a horror movie.

I also realize that an Israeli horror movie may not be explicitly "Jewish", like in the way The Conjuring is Christian, but we're open to it.

So, any suggestions?

Ok as the title says, i broke up with my longterm boyfriend ( not jewish) because he doesn’t really understand anything thats happening. He doesn’t care that much? He won’t read articles, when i do reference an article he genuinely doesn’t care or have anything to respond with or he changes the topic. He said he did research on this stuff and he never told me he did but watch a documentary on some things.

For context i live in the southern US, at my old job almost daily i was hearing really horrible things about jews, that they all are evil or rule the world etc. We have a neighbor that hurt preaching h*****, and this stuff is so overwhelming for me so i don’t entirely blame him for not having a response All these things have led me to not tell people that I am jewish though, he told me I shouldn’t keep it a secret. But when coworkers and neighbors are saying these things i really don’t feel safe to ( i am a short small girl for reference).

When i inevitably broke up with him he told me this is a stupid reason to end things. I have lost so many friends over these things, this destroyed my last relationship. When people ask why we broke up I feel I cannot even tell them anything because then they will know I am jewish. I guess I’m posting here because gosh I feel so alone and genuinely existing as a jewish person has become so difficult, before all of this being jewish was just a side piece of information about me or my life and no one had anything to say, I wasn’t afraid to tell people I was and I felt I could become friends or date most people because this wouldn’t be an issue ever for me.

Maybe I’m just looking for people that relate to this. I have no jewish friends at all and my family is all over the place. My last relationship he was cruel on the topic, this relationship he just didn’t understand at all not that he was unkind, but how can I have a kid with someone that can’t understand or doesn’t care to see whats going on? Or maybe can’t even find the words or have the context to have a conversation about it ? Uh

Hi all,

Reading MAUS for the first time and some Hebrew popped up in a panel. Was wondering what it says

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I am 28yr old and was raised in a recon synagogue and have more moderate views, I am also pro-Israel. I am looking at schools in Cleveland and I have heard there is a large Jewish population. I have also heard that Cleveland is great for late 20's single adults. All of this has made Cleveland one of the top places on my list to move. My extended family has also become interested in Cleveland and I have 2 young nieces that my family would like to raise around other Jewish children.I heard recently that Cleveland is now mostly older orthodox Jews and that there are very few children and that any children there are, are orthodox. I am wondering if that is true and what the Jewish community is like in Cleveland, both or a 20 something adult woman and for raising a family.

Thank you!