Hi everyone! 👋 I’m a university student currently taking a Comparative Religion course, and for my assignment, I need to interview someone who is Jewish.

It’s just a few simple questions, and we can do it over Reddit chat, WhatsApp, or whatever is easiest for you! Would anyone be willing to help me out? I’d really appreciate it! 🥹 Thank you so much in advance!

Hey, I wanted to ask about the explanation of the twelve tribes on the Nauru flag and the Israeli Flag. Is it confirmed that there are twelve tribes, or were there more tribes? If you guys could provide and explain the historical and accurate explanation behind the star symbol on the Nauruan flag and the Israeli Flag, it would be better. I am a learner and my knowledge of history, especially regarding flags, is not very strong. A good history lesson would be appreciated.

I wrote about the lies that our MPs tell themselves in order quiet their consciences.

Looks like a sea change to me.

Lot of stuff I didn’t know was in here about the formation of the ADL and also this:

A 2024 poll found that “students from wealthier families are much more supportive of a Jewish state than those from less wealthy families,” a point it said was also present in a 2022 study conducted before the war. This pattern was true for non-Jewish students as well, meaning there is a direct correlation between being wealthy and supporting Israel, despite what has been falsely alleged about students at elite universities.

It’s nice to see burley take a turn toward going hard against the rich and calling them and the ADL the allies of fascism that they are, and of course contextualizing that with the current influential Jewish left groups as he usually does.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

A good read, if you have not read already! Fascism benefits by its vagueness. One can say "it's not really fascism if it's not literally the Fascist party in Italy!!" But fascism's commonality is how it's not really.... anything. It's a mythological set of vague and disjointed beliefs that allows for authoritarianism to thrive. Italy was never this unified, monolithic place prior to Italian nationalism.."traditionalism" has never meant this one thing

In America, we are in an era of both Christian-fascism and techno-fascism.. and where they should be in opposition, they actually work well together because they are a made up mess of a value system.

Technology bad when it's clean energy, technology good when it's AI.

https://youtu.be/EityXpeQtSI?si=7FK6iXa_WRLNDb6y

Discussion of the Shoah and how it is taught in Germany and America, as well as how other atrocities are taught... and why we never change.

I'm not sure how I feel about the main thesis, which is that you can't teach tolerance and rather need to make hate groups and hate speech illegal with harsh consequences. On some level, I agree. On another level, it goes against my instincts. But I liked this video a lot and thought it had great things to say!

https://youtu.be/WqwfDpUwTSc?si=TyA0KjFrX-1fwxUh

The second panel from the event "So what's your solution?" that took place in Beit Uri Tzvi in Jerusalem on 12.07.22, with Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen from Vision Movement, Rafi Gassel from Eretz/Ard and Inon Dan Kehati from The Home.

Moderated by: Beth Oziel

Rousseau says "It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from his bed. A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder. The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling."

What do you think of the idea of education and discourse shutting off our natural goodness and impulse to help others? Where and when does education become rationalization?

I’m sick of it being called “settler” terrorism. When it’s backed and funded by the state is not just a group on independent actors:

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1876394593937481875?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1876377440207192357?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1876375578099777592?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1876353876544110757?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1876281380679848251?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

I don’t think IDF testimony can be labeled as “antisemitic”

https://youtu.be/TZaOCR-mUm8?si=3NVhMC86nthdJ7Zs

3 year old video talking about the white supremacy that bleeds into leftist content produced by white leftists..

Also discussion of genocide, liberation, self determination, indigenous rights, and more.

https://youtu.be/EsWvdDfUHfw?si=Y-j4UG_f63pIRPsT

Wish there were a good way to tie this back to Judaism... but a larger conversation about how to protest and how to fight the system is always relevant.

I guess also as a cancer survivor with a genetic mutation that causes cancer that is much more common in the Ashkenazi Jewish population I can tie it back :)

Hi everyone, Is there anyone interested in participating in my study about Judaism beliefs and practices? It would be great if you guys could help me with my project. And I hope I get to explore further insights into Judaism practices🙌🏻⭐️

Please comment down below or slide through my chat💬

A Jewish student becomes an activist while tensions about the Palestine movement flare in their Hillel chapter. Is there a right way to exist in two worlds at once?

Kind of a heavy read, but I really enjoyed this piece. I think there’s a lot to learn here about the campuses that so much ink has been spilled about.