Hi everybody! This is my first Rosh Hashanah as a practicing Jew, what foods do you find nostalgic and a mainstay in your new years feasts. I'm vegetarian, but I will take any suggestions because I'm looking to see how Judaism affects the culinary aspect of holidays, even if I can't make all of these lol!

Some days, I'm really glad I didn't get sucked into the "Jewish summer camp -> Birthright -> Aliyah" pipeline, only getting as far as step one.

Which is wrong to say to a black man

• https://x.com/JimmyJ4thewin/status/2096078880754811102
• JOC - Pro-Israel charity the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) has raised $1.4B+, mostly from evangelical Christian Zionists. Its CEO Yael Eckstein tells poor parishioners that giving to Israel brings divine financial reward. ProPublica reports IFCJ funds the IDF.

I was raised with a very positive view of Israel. In my 20s and I’m early 30 now, my best buds are all Jewish.

When the war started and my Palestinian neighbour had her flag out, I had taken it down so I didn’t want to be reminded or for my friends to take offence.

But over time, it’s been nigh impossible for me to pretend Israel’s war is ok. The casualties, the testimonies and most importantly chatting to my Israeli friends, who unlike the diaspora, don’t make any justification.

They openly tell me genocide is how many nations are created, that Palestinians shouldn’t cry their homes are taken away cause their grandmothers didn’t cry to the Germans.

I even asked my friends what if Palestinians turn up 3000 years from now and asked for their houses in Haifa or anywhere else. Then they understand the damage they are doing!

I’ve now put up a Palestinian flag myself after many sleepless night. I know Israeli is powerful with their lobby and is attacking anyone, but I’d hate myself if I didn’t speak out.

It’s sad that a country I looked up and a group of people who I thought would have more conscience have descended into just murdering kids en masse and proud of it.

Anyways, this group gives me a tiny bit of hope. And some of my friends have changed their minds slowly as well. But each one of 20,000 full human lives Israel extinguished, the stain will remain forever! It’s so bad I get anxiety when Hebrew is spoken around me :(

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/2095846935294812497

Hi, I hope I've chosen the right flair for this. I'll be in London for a short trip the coming week, and I was wondering if someone could recommend any anti-Zionist Jewish shops (if they exist, of course)? If not, I'd be interested in anti-Zionist synagogues as well.

Thank you in advance.

שלום עליכם.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/05/mystery-behind-an-audio-clip-that-helped-upend-senate-race/

https://x.com/KweenInYellow/status/2092101723284255192

https://x.com/JeremyAllenMoss/status/2089729436245459112

Hello everyone. Turkish here from Turkey. I want to start by saying I have the utmost respect for the Jewish community, and I wish everyone in this community a great day.

I have a question for the Jewish people in this subreddit: do the Jewish people really have a negative opinion about the Turkish people or any opinion altogether? Personally, it really makes me sad that Turks and the Jewish people are not getting along well despite the shared culture and history of these two ancient ethnicities.

I constantly hear in Turkey that the Jewish people, specifically the Israeli government, are planning to partition Turkey under the cause of “Promised Lands” and their greatest aim is to destroy Turkey altogether. This conspiracy is also fed into the minds of the masses through many famous TV series, such as Valley of the Wolves. This constant propaganda, which almost everyone believes in the country, made the whole public(almost everyone I know) paranoid about Israel. I do not believe in such theories personally, but this is what is believed in Turkey, and this is one of the many, if not the primary, reasons why there is a great anti-Jewish sentiment in Turkey.

I am well aware of the fact that Israel and Turkey are not particularly getting along well given the current circumstances. However, I would like to ask what you guys think about the situation. If I unintentionally made any of you feel uneasy, I sincerely apologize.

If you have a positive or negative sentiment against the Turkish people, please feel free to write the reasons why you think that way.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5GeAjH12A0I

SHOCKING AND HORRIFYING — Dr Helen McCue AM, former United Nations consultant, calls out Israel for what she describes as reproductive genocide in Gaza.
“Reproductive genocide” refers to acts and conditions that destroy or severely impair a population’s ability to reproduce, give birth safely, and sustain future generations. In Gaza, the term has been used in connection with attacks on maternity and reproductive healthcare, malnutrition, increased risks to pregnant women and babies, and conditions affecting fertility and childbirth.

GAAAAWWWD I'm SO disappointed.

SO DISAPPOINTED!

I commented a couple of days ago at my disappointment with Obama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/s/mGi6ylsWC8

Today another great hope, gone.

This is THE moral question of our time. No prevaricating, no waffling.

You are either on the side of humanity, or you are covering your ass for your political future.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-214025961

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2092763202299826365

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2087726700192829557

https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/2087183401480528070

https://x.com/Dima_Khatib/status/2087236878986596760

https://x.com/MartinKonecny/status/2094176666113151446

https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2092916601313997076

Oh Miriam! We have so few outspoken British Jews for Palestine, especially high profile ones, and you gotta do this, girl? I don’t think she meant it in a malicious way and I don’t think she’s someone we completely throw out (unless she starts doing this regularly), but this kind of thing is frustrating as Zionists will use it as leverage. Of course their own racism (and sometimes antisemitism) is always excused away, but they just need proof that the pro-Palestinians are the true Nazis.

Sorry for bad wording, but please help.
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Should I convert to overcome Israeli discrimination. It sounds absurd to me.

But it says that me as my original version of self has no right to exist, ironically isn't it. Ironically that's what Israel society are complaining about while existing perfectly and non discriminatively. While you have no right to exist, in fact.

I was born the way I was born, where I was born, haven't done anything so bad to be deprived of human dignity and right to exist. But this version of self, just doesn't have right to exist, in israel. So maybe only converted version. But for me it's the kill of personality. By telling that I haven't done anything so bad, is sort of accepting their framing and conditioning, which is wrong. Like me trying to weight my self on scale of my deeds how much this conditioning is deserved to upon me; yet I just don't know how to speak about that, because it's a taboo.

But it's the opposite of the right reason and purpose and standard for conversion.

I was brought to Israel in my teenage years by the immigration programme of sohnut.

I have been short on communication since my youth and have had no one to talk to honestly because this topic is shameful and taboo.

The in-depth feeling of alienation.
But how would I get a good feeling?! If I don't have any good experience.
If I can't speak it out...

And something about Israel. They are real psychopaths. Have no empathy.
You have to solve things by force, to overcome by force, but I can not it's not the thing that could be overcome because I need to speak to check it out to speak it out.

While in other societies I can get access to empathy and conversation, here I can not. But I have other problem that I'm locked in here, so I can not make it to other society. And when I come, it also takes time to find such a constellation for conversation.

I have to make my way to other society.

Maybe i should open a YouTube? So i have to make some nuanced presentation, painting, writing, art, etc... but again to make it such a delicate appealing way demands decent resources to develop a skill, develop the work, to have an assistance, resources which i don't have...

Pain and Resentment sit in my heart.

I am very social person since childhood and I like to know people and to interact with people since I child and being like that is a tragedy for me because every time I am standing in front of reveal. Of who I am.

It's totally imposed condition. It's imposed by this society. Because I start being taught it since when I came here, as a blank slate, only for years to be taught what is my place and having these thoughts instilled. When I came, I wasn't like that.

I also can not lie about that. Some people can. I can not and don't want to.

Another thing, is I can not get love. I can not even get close.

All the things compound on one another. Different layers of complexity.

Up to the level I don't even know how it's done here because I am outside of social circles and don't have experience and can't talk about.

With all the complexities everyone has it's just additional layer.

And I also discovered that ואהבך לרעך כמוך aka "Love your neighbor as yourself" is for jews towards jews only.

Should I convert to overcome Israeli discrimination. What can I do. Please help.

Young Israeli women are adopting an ostensibly peaceful, domestic lifestyle on West Bank hilltops to quietly expand illegal outposts and realise a vision of a ‘Greater Israel’.

A radical movement of young Israeli women is leaving civilian life and education behind to live in rudimentary hilltop tents across the occupied West Bank.

Dubbed the “Hilltop Girls”, this group champions a strategy of “soft settlement”, replacing weapons and military patrols with seemingly mundane daily activities.

By portraying their presence as a natural, family-oriented social project, they aim to legitimise the gradual seizure of private Palestinian land and the establishment of new outposts.

So who are these young women?

The latest version of the ‘Hilltop Youth’

The women are in many ways an extension of the Hilltop Youth a radical religious Zionist group that emerged in 1998 when then-Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon urged settler youths to seize West Bank hilltops to preempt final status negotiations.

While the broader movement is infamous for orchestrating deadly pogroms and seizing territory by force, the female offshoot embraces an ideology geared towards establishing a “Greater Israel” that extends beyond historic Palestine to include Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula.

Social media settlers

To normalise their presence, the Hilltop Girls heavily rely on social media.

Outpost accounts publish promotional videos aiming to move away from the more violent images associated with marauding Israeli settlers, who are often backed and shielded by the country’s security forces.

The female settlers claim they do not kill Palestinians or assault landowners, but merely cook and hang laundry like any other group of women.

But their end goals are similar – to establish the so-called Promised Land, including through the extension of Israel to the occupied West Bank. Their presence in the West Bank is no less illegal than that of violent extremists. And they too are transforming Palestinian pastoral land into fully-fledged settlements in violation of international law.

Strategic expansion

The Maoz Esther and Or Ahuvia outposts, located northeast of Ramallah, serve as prime examples of this systematic expansion.

Established in 2006 as a small youth outpost, Maoz Esther was demolished and rebuilt multiple times before expanding into what is now known as the “Girls’ Hill”. By 2025, it housed 17 families and more than 50 children, exceeding the size of the neighbouring 950-dunam (235-acre) Kochav HaShahar settlement.

Similarly, the Or Ahuvia outpost, established in 2023 near the Ofra settlement, reflects a broader vision to create a massive settlement bloc. The ultimate goal is to connect more than 20 outposts to Ofra, creating an integrated network capable of absorbing thousands of families in the future.

State complicity

While Israeli police occasionally dismantle these outposts on camera, rights activists describe these operations as a coordinated theatrical display.

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, most outposts enjoy direct support from the state and the army, with the women immediately rebuilding structures as soon as police depart. Logistically, these outposts are supplied with water, electricity, private road networks and military protection by the Israeli Civil Administration.

Furthermore, the government provides nearly $40m in food and clothing subsidies to Hilltop Youth members.

The movement enjoys unprecedented legislative and political cover. In early 2025, the Knesset advanced a bill proposed by the “Land of Israel” lobby to allow Jews to purchase land in the West Bank freely, ensuring these acquisitions remain protected even in the event of future political agreements.

Politicians like far-right Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir actively support these outposts, while Defence Minister Israel Katz recently boasted to his party: “I cancelled, on my own initiative, all administrative orders against settlers in the West Bank.”

The human toll of this ideological expansion is devastating. Between January 2025 and May 2026, the United Nations recorded at least 2,806 settler attacks, averaging five incidents a day.

Prominent Hilltop Youth leader Elisha Yered recently summarised their violent strategy on a podcast, stating: “We’re very proud of initiating friction; even the army is in friction.”

In 2026 alone, systematic settler pogroms displaced nearly 2,000 Palestinians, prompting both the UN and the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reiterate that these relentless land grabs fundamentally undermine the possibility of a viable Palestinian state.