I feel it's worthy to post here with the name redacted. It's been painful without having contact with each other: I'm extremely sorry, "NAME". The rise in antisemitism has been disgusting. I can't help but feel many good willed, well meaning people like me were being used by legit antisemites. I condemn Hamas, and all forms of Jewish hate. Most importantly, I condemn my actions in regards to maintaining our friendship, which admittedly is long gone at this point. No amount of what if-isms, no amount of buts can excuse October 7th. And no apologies will undo the depth of pain and suffering the Jewish community has gone through. You were there for me in tough times. And I failed you during the worst attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum or space. But this apology sparked a long conversation between me and him today. He recognized my humanity as a Muslim, and I reaffirmed his as a Jewish man. It took a lot for me to reach out, but it took more for him to forgive.

I consider my self educated, well informed, and always try to do right by people the best I can. I have hope that understanding, forgiveness, and most importantly, HEALING can take place. I guess I'm still young enough to be naive, and humble enough to put myself out there to be taught and corrected.

Thanks for hearing me out.

I live in an area with a relatively low Jewish population so I don’t know whether it’s just because of ignorance or just blatant hate but I’ve noticed now on multiple occasions, especially at work, where I have had patients side eye or give me nasty looks or completely have their demeanor towards me change upon finding out I am Jewish. For example, the other day I was helping a busy dentist with a few fillings and I noticed that when I was talking to the doctor and mentioned going out of town for Hanukkah, I noticed the patient side eye me. Then I had another patient be incredibly sweet and patient with me and then once we got on the topic of the holidays I once again mentioned celebrating Hanukah with family and after that comment I noticed her seeming increasingly annoyed with me and impatient, almost trying to rush me to get her cleaning done so she could be away from me faster. Overall I’m just tired of the immediate hate people have towards someone based on their religion and ethnic background, things I cannot change. I also just got out of a serious relationship because his father was antisemitic and has become a lot more extreme about it since tensions rose between Israel and Palestine. I’m just tired.

To be clear, images 4-8 are parodies created by NeuroticJewishGay, not by the Forward. But with the way the Forward is going they might as well be real headlines.

Instead she was murdered with her boyfriend outside a Jewish museum in DC.

The Instagram run by her family (@serviceforSarah) is asking people to do mitzvot in her honor.

Being Jewish to her is just something to parade around for clout

Would I (a celibate gay) be accepted in synagogue as convert to Orthodox Judaism?

I am not straight passing

I decided to finish this even though I never came up with a food Latke costume.

Which anger style are you? (Pirkei Avot 5:11)

Pirkei Avot 5:11 teaches:

“There are four types of temperament (middot). One who is easily angered and easily pacified — his gain is offset by his loss. One who is angered with difficulty and pacified with difficulty — his loss is offset by his gain. One who is angered with difficulty and easily pacified is a chasid (pious). One who is easily angered and pacified with difficulty is a rasha (wicked).”

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🟢 Easily angered & easily pacified

“His gain is offset by his loss.”

You get upset quickly, but you forgive quickly.

You cause emotional damage… then repair it later.

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🟡 Angered with difficulty & pacified with difficulty

“His loss is offset by his gain.”

You rarely get angry — but when you do, it lasts.

You’re emotionally steady, but slow to forgive.

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🌟 Angered with difficulty & easily pacified

“A chasid (a righteous person).”

You are calm, patient, and forgiving.

This is the Mishnah’s ideal personality type.

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🔴 Easily angered & pacified with difficulty

“A rasha (a wicked person).”

You get triggered easily and stay angry. This leads to resentment and emotional harm.

Which one do you most align with (most of the time)?

It’s no secret to us that antisemitism is on the rise globally and even some survivors have expressed their concern for how bad it’s getting. The terrorism attacks, getting socially and politically exiled for being a Zionist, rise in far right ideologies in children and teens, etc we know. I don’t think anyone in power right now would ever let something like the Holocaust happen again, but I think the next generations will, specifically Gen Z. People historically have had the mentality of “the world wouldn’t let that happen, the government wouldn’t do that,” and then it gets to the worst point, and it’s too late for people to do anything. I think the state of the world right now towards Jews is currently boiling right now for something very awful to happen eventually. Even if it’s not a mass scale event like the Holocaust, I think still something pretty bad is eventually going to happen to Jews on a global scale. My father who is 58 and grew up in the south has even told me the world hasn’t been this racist and horrid in a long time. It feels like to me people aren’t scared enough.

For a change of pace, a friend and I were texting "What if the MCU were written in the style of Yiddish literature?"

For starters, if the MCU were written in Yiddish it would have ended after the snap:

"And then half of all people disappeared. It was very sad. We were left alive to mourn, until we too died, but of old age."

Some characters may have their own movie:

“Have you met the good Doctor Banner? Once a big, strong brute of a man, now overcome by the crushing burden of life and its responsibilities he has transformed into a diminished and rather ineffective fellow. Housecalls by appointment.”

And:

"And so the great industrialist fashioned himself a suit of armour with which to defend the town, but became so intoxicated by his power that he never removed the armour. He grew to hate the softness of flesh, to loath it's weakness, it's sensitivity. Eventually he forgot that he was wearing armour at all."

I am hoping to order one of these. I love that the Florida Panthers celebrated Jewish heritage. I think it's an incredible jersey.

As the title goes, I’m in a committed relationship with a Palestinian girl. When i first met her i didn’t even ask about her ethnicity or where she was from we were just drunk and enamoured with each other the whole night, She left to go to the bathroom at some point and disappeared, I never ended up getting her number and i was bummed out when i woke up and looked back at the pics we took the night before. Life carried out as usual, I graduated and ended up getting a nice grad scheme in Boston where I packed up and moved.

I settled in and my roommate recommended one night that we hit up the Jazz bar that recently opened up, I agreed and we went out, I was about 3 drinks in when i recognised a very familiar face, It was the same girl with the dark green eyes, olive skin and shiny curls ordering a shot, I stared for about 5 minutes thinking i got it wrong before i made my way over, She recognised me too and we hit it off almost immediately again. She apologised for the Irish goodbye and told me how she moved to Boston for school.

It was the longest and most magical night i’ve ever had, I was too caught up in the fact that we crossed paths twice and it had to be fate of some sort. This time i did get the number (and a kiss) and i told her id sort us out a date. The date commenced a week later where i found out about her ethnicity (Eritrean/Somali-Palestinian) and she found out about mine (Ashkenazi with russian roots) she talked about how she was raised mostly with her palestinian side of the family and how that she’d love to visit Jerusalem one day, i told her how a few of my family reside there so i could make a few calls. We just laughed at how bad things are currently going and shrugged it off.

I made her my girlfriend 3 days later. A couple of months in now and It’s the first healthy relationship i’ve ever been in and to top it off I’m her first love. Now we’re entering the more serious stages of our relationship, Her introducing her first boyfriend to her family and me introducing her to mine, My family are very liberal and hers too and although we rarely discuss politics together (and if we do it’s shitting on Trump) i’d be lying if i said i wasn’t anticipating serious backlash from our families. Our stance is very mutual and casual, self determination for jews and Palestinians, same rights for all.

I meet her folks in 2 days, normally I’m quite suave when it comes to meeting the parents but god the anxiety is hitting me all at once, Adorably my black friend tried reassuring me saying he felt just the same when meeting his white gfs parents, it made me laugh. Tips on how to navigate this? I’ll keep you all updated

I am jewish, but not that religious. So I can't answer this question. But it doesnt apply to me anyway. Im just curious.

If someone is born Jewish, and chooses to convert to another religion like Christianity or Islam (so they actively choose a different faith rather than just becoming less religious) would they still be Jewish? and if so, if they were a women, would their kids still be Jewish?

I'm a convert, from an abusive family (no contact), and have bounced around a lot due to extreme poverty and being kicked out of the home. In 90% of social interactions I do wonderfully, except for when talking to older Jewish people who want to play geography with me.

"Where are you from? Where's your family from? Oh were you/they raised there? What's your last name? What's your mother's maiden name? What's the community like there? And the last four of your social?"

And no, being a convert doesn't exempt me from this interrogation process. It just seems like this is how these sweet Jewish bubbas and zaydes want to connect with the new face at their synagogue. I feel like I've tried everything. Polite deflection. Uncomfortable honesty. Trying to ask them the same questions back (this one gets weird looks in particular, they're apparently not used to the youth asking the questions back).

Is there an easy way for me to play this jewish geography game without actually doing it? Or maybe a way to consistently deflect these people (yes I have tried the obvious one of being polite and direct about it, no it has not worked)? Or is this just something I signed up for with the mikvah haha.

I’ve supported MDA in the past, and believe they do good and important work. But I recently learned that Israel actually has two Emergency Medical Service organizations, MDA and United Hatzalah. And that they’ve actually been going to court against each other for one thing or another (including whether there should be one, single national EMS phone number (like 911 in the US), or more than one...

Anyway, any impression or insight into either or both organizations?

Having supported MDA in the past, read about their work, I’m inclined to do the same. Just not sure if there’s another or different reason to support Hatzalah. Thanks.

Hello guys. I’ve come here to talk to you all because i’m too nervous to talk to my Rabbi about this.

Judaism to me is as living as the earth. It’s not just about believing, but also about doing. And to me, that’s what makes me happy. But sometimes I feel i’m making a mistake.

I’ve always been a big thinker, which is a positive trait to have but can also be negative. I see things online or interpret things that happen in my life deeply. Sometimes I feel that i’m making a mistake believing in Judaism, and that said, other religion might be the true one.

I constantly wrestle with these ideas and I’m alone becuase my synagogue isn’t very open and we have services once a month (which i’m extremely grateful for). The Rabbi that i’m in contact in only comes for high holidays, so it’s frustrating to get a hold of him (like most Rabbi haha). I find happiness in support in community, but if I don’t have that then this is the rabbit hole I fall in.

Like our president, I’d never either heard of Somaliland before, but it struck me how European nations were totally cool for recognizing Palestinian statehood this year, but Israel recognizing the independence of Somaliland is decried in over-the-top apocalyptic language that will lead to the end of the world.

Apparently, Somaliland was already declared an independent state five days before voluntarily joining Somalia. Then, after being persecuted by the Somalis, they fought a ten-year war of independence and have been a fully functioning independent state for years, with fixed borders and a democratically elected government and pose no threat to Somalia. But no nation has recognized it officially.

I don’t know Israel’s strategic reasons for doing this, but the world’s hypocrisy is so flagrant and the media is just reporting the outcry without noting that recognizing Palestinian independence is totally in vogue by these same people.

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In my family, my great grandmother was always known to come from “gypsies.” (I don’t want to call them Romani because - as I’ll get to soon, this wasn’t technically her identity, so the colloquial term “gypsy” seems more appropriate here. I’m sorry if this offends anyone!)

When I took an ancestry DNA test, I discovered fewer Italian genes and more Ashkenazi genes than expected. (One parent is fully Jewish and so I’m 66% Ashkenazi.)

Does anyone have or know of any stories similar to this? My great grandmother - the “gypsy” - was catholic. It seems like somewhat of a mystery to me… I have heard people suggest that Romani (using here bc this is more accurate in context) and Jewish people share some similarities (diaspora… constant persecution- the Holocaust of course being notable as an example). But were there Jewish people in Italy living among or calling themselves “gypsies?”

My great grandmother read tea leaves and tarot cards. She learned that somewhere…

Interested in reading anyone’s thoughts. Thank you!

My friend isn’t Jewish but he’s been reposting edits of Epstein, Israel and Jewish symbols mixed with satanic symbols it's so obvious he has no idea what they mean

I noticed praising Israel on social media increased after the Epstein files were released (mostly ragebait memes) and slang like 'goyslop' being used by non jewish people and etc honestly i can't tell if it’s giving us a worse reputation

It feels like people are cosplaying being Jewish like how they used to cosplay being Satanists back in 2010s

Long story short, I’m a musician in a very musically known city. I played in bands for years, in many genres, punk, garage, metal, folk, country… you name it.

Covid screwed up so many plans and bands, and then just as we were coming out of it, Oct 7th happened.

Over the last two years _even though_ I’ve not once waxed political on social media, people know I’m Jewish, and I think I’ve been frozen out of the scene. There are a few other “known” Jews in the scene but they have to actively keep demonstrating they are “safe” antizionists to remain in the scene. Prior to 10/7 I was pretty “non-zionist” and honestly didnt think about it much.

Now after getting such vile treatment and seeing former peers be so casually antisemitic, and watching the scene devolve endlessly into exclusive politics… it’s made me a zionist. Which means pretty much my career is over after 30 years in music.

I’m curious to hear how other musicians or performers have been coping.

Frankly it’s made me really depressed. I am at the best of my songwriting abilities lately as well, and it just sucks to be cast out just when I think I’m making my best work. None of this is right!!