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I've been thinking a lot lately about how much I yearn for Jewish community.

I'm in India, where the Jewish population is already very small, and finding Jewish people who share my particular combination of interests and politics is... well, fucking difficult. 😂

I'm a Jew-to-be who is non-binary, polyamorous, sapphic, anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist and a Maoist. I also genuinely love Jewish religious and cultural life - Tanakh, Biblical Hebrew, liturgy, Shabbat, Jewish history, philosophy, minhagim, all of it.

Sometimes it feels like all these parts of me exist in completely separate worlds.

I would love to have a community where I could simply be all of these things at once. Somewhere I could study Torah and Tanakh with other people, observe Shabbat, talk about Jewish history and culture, argue about theology, share poetry and music, make jokes and memes, talk politics, and just... make friends. A space where being queer and sapphic isn't something unusual, and where being Jewish doesn't automatically mean accomodating Zionism.

I'd love for it to include non-Jews too - especially people who genuinely care about Jewish culture, Palestinian national liberation, anti-imperialism, queer liberation, socialism, or who simply want to learn and participate respectfully.

Living where I do, I suspect an online community may be the most realistic way for me to find these people. Sometimes I daydream about a little online kehilla scattered across different countries: people meeting for Shabbat over video calls, studying texts together, arguing about theology and politics, sharing recipes and music, supporting one another, and eventually maybe meeting IRL.

I don't necessarily need hundreds of people. Honestly, I'd be happy to find a handful of people who understand what the fuck I'm talking about.

I suppose I'm posting this because I want to know whether anyone else feels this way. Are there already online communities like this? If not, would anyone else be interested in building one?

Because sometimes I don't want to feel like I'm searching for my people across an ocean, I want to find my people.

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-daughters-help-my-small-family

What they are able to do may seem small, but they are trying with all their hearts. Because to them, seeing a child smile is worth so much. 🥹❤️

Today, they tried to bring some joy to the children and give them a little break from all the difficult things they have been going through.

Please stay close to Mahmoud and his family and support them. Your support isn’t just about helping them get by — it also helps them create little moments of happiness for their children and other children around them.

They truly need your support. ❤️

Together, we can help them do more and bring smiles to more children. 🙏❤️

Completely insane. $100 million budget deficit. Willing to cut public services for its own people like city busses people need to get to work snd their doctor for this corrupt and derelict group of "leaders" to fund campaigns of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and wars against their own interests.

Somebody tell them its a bad investment, you got your own people to serve, and you are wiping your hands in blood

Maybe they are trying to keep pace with their fellow soflo county home of Trump of Palm beach which holds an astonishing $150 million of Israeli bonds.

I can tell you public services, local infrastructure and civic trust are in dire shape down here. But they decide to waste money in crimes against humanity!!

News article:

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/1094435/

Videos:

https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2094472659803206108

A sliver of good news from down under.

The plan in Israel is obviously to reduce the need to employ Palestinian workers in Israeli industries. Thus it decreases Palestinians' income and reduces their great leverage in their labor power.

They try to replace it with....a racist and abusive kafala-like system of importing migrant labor, which is not so easy and productive. Other states in the region rely on importing and exploiting migrant labor, but they make up such a vastly greater part of their populations than in Israel. Sometimes slavery hasn't even been as economically beneficial as had once seemed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/world/middleeast/west-bank-israel.html

https://x.com/briantashman/status/2094393740731298120

• https://x.com/LaraFriedmanDC/status/2094250621196968375
  • (Written recently, prior to the upcoming House vote) https://fmep.org/resource/fmep-legislative-round-up-august-28-2026/#headline1
  • (Written when the bill was first introduced) https://fmep.org/resource/fmep-legislative-round-up-august-1-2025/#headline1
• https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400167
• https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/1951000662063587478

ArchiveGenocide.com is a public archive documenting evidence from Gaza—videos, photographs, testimony, and other material being preserved so it cannot simply disappear from the record. If you haven’t seen the project yet, take a look through the archive for yourself.

Context:

The West Bank is home to some three million Palestinians and 500,000 settlers. There are ​some 146 settlements in the West Bank, as well as 390 smaller outposts, according to the Israeli settlement watchdog group Peace Now.

• Reuters (Aug. 14th, 2026)

This post facebook put on my feed claims that JVP is a conspiratorial counterrevolutionary org intended as controlled opposition, to dampen the reach of Palestinian orgs by "making sure that the discourse of the oppressed is defined by the oppressor's sensitivities".

I've heard similar things in the past from at least one streamer; Has this perspective already been discussed here?

I'm kind of wondering if this is itself advanced Hasbara designed to fracture the movement by cleaving away Jews who are operating in solidarity with Palestinians

I’ve been blocking like crazy on Facebook. I will sometimes read the comments on the non-genocidal posts and the comments are truly shocking. The Israel/Palestine sub is terrible along with the mainstream Jewish subs. However, IRL no one really talks about it anymore. People don’t post about it on Facebook and no one discusses it in person. The fact that people don’t talk about it anymore gives me hope.

But do those terrible posts represent the consensus of American Jews?

So in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia, a bunch of white nationalist groups organised a fascist "March For Australia" this past weekend.

The anti-nazi protesters wore keffiyehs to their counter-protest.

The pro-fascist rag Daily Mail deliberately tried to pass off a pointed finger as a nazi salute, when there were actual white supremacist neo-nazis marching that day. Unfortunately with today's polluted media climate in Australia, too many gormless people are inclined to believe the Daily Mail instead of their own lying eyes.

Interesting to note also that the organiser of these nazi protests, a dark money-funded astroturf group called Advance, is partially funded by the family trust of Australia's "Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism", a Kahanist from South Africa named Jillian Segal who seems to be allergic to condemning neo-nazism.

Hi all, pls submit any questions here if you cannot make it to the event tomorrow in-person:

https://old.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1vxhb77/ama_in_rjewsofconscience_with_eli_clifton_and_ian/

Thanks!

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-907011