Stop fucking judging people for medical diets. It’s none of your business why people can’t eat certain things or at certain times. Sigh and point out something simple on a menu to avoid what you perceive to be awkward or overly complicated food orders. If you’re taking an order, don’t ask why someone can’t eat something or try to be glib by saying something like “wow, what can you eat?” or “are you sure? The X is really good”.

Unless someone decides to tell you why they can’t eat certain things, it’s none of your fucking business, and you need to take them at face value. Just stop judging other people’s food choices.

Hot take: “I’m sure this work of fiction has artistic merit, but it does something that I’m sick to death of seeing, and I don’t want to consume it” is an entirely reasonable, valid position to have, and people don’t have to justify it beyond that.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Today we remember the more than 11 million people, Jewish and Gentile, who were slaughtered in the death camps, who succumbed to disease and the elements in concentration camps, who were sterilized to prevent the “dilution” of the “Aryan race,” who were worked to death, or nearly, in the works camps, who were imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs, who were sterilized or killed for being considered disabled, who were gassed to death in the Einsatzgruppen mobile gas chambers, who were shot into graves they had been forced the dig, and those who managed to survive all of that and were forced to remember the horrors they had seen and experienced.

May they rest in peace, may their memory be a blessing, may peace be upon them, and may we all say Never Again.

If you are a Jewish convert or a potential Jewish convert pls reblog this I’m going on a follow spree!

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Grand Synagogue of Edirne, aka Edirne Synagogue is a historic Sephardi synagogue located in Maarif Street of Edirne, Turkey. It was designed in the Moorish Revival style and restored in 2015.

Happy chanukah!✡💙🕎

Here's my menorah tonight! Today was my first time celebrating any Jewish holiday with other people, and it was wonderful. I didn't do a whole lot, my mom watched me pray and light the menorah and she listened to me go on about everything I've learned lately. My. Husband. He is amazing, he showed up out of the blue (we're back home on leave and we're staying at our separate parents houses) just to give me a little Chanukah gift! It's a big "comforter" bubble bar from lush, I was happy enough to see him, let alone getting a gift!!! Over all, it's been a really nice first day.

ANNOUNCING: The Chanukah Project

We enter the month of Kislev, which means Chanukah (also spelled as Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Hanukah, חנוכה and like ten other ways) is right around the corner!

Chanukah is the eight-day Festival of Lights. It celebrates miracles twofold.

The first: During the time of the story of Chanukah, the Holy-Land was ruled over by the Seleucids, who sought to suppress the people of Israel in their religion. A small band of faithful Jews led by the family of the Maccabees defeated the much larger Seleucid army, and reclaimed the Holy Temple.

The second: To rededicate the Temple, the Maccabees sought to re-light the menorah (a seven branched candelabra) but they found there was only enough oil to burn for one night, and it would take eight days to purify more oil. Miraculously, the oil burnt for the entire eight days, so that more oil could be purified.

“Chanukah” means dedication, referring to the rededication of the Temple after desecration by the Hellenistic influences. Among the customs of celebration, which include eating foods fried in oil, and playing a top called a dreidel, is lighting on each night an additional candle on a special nine branched menorah.

Chanukah is to be celebrated publicly. All around the world, menorahs are often placed in windows so that passersby are too reminded of the miracles.

So we will celebrate Chanukah publicly here, on Tumblr.

Starting December 24th, at sundown, each night of Chanukah, I will post a picture of my Menorah, in the proper stage of lighting. I invite each of you to reblog the post, adding a picture of your Menorah for everyone to see! Or, if you want, you can just post your Menorah separately, tag it #chanukahproject or #istodayajewishholiday if you want me to see, and I’ll reblog lots of them!

I’ll be doing this! I’ll probably post them on my own post but I’ll tag them #chanukahproject! Everyone should do this!!

brilliant!

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friendly reminder that since a lot of people have decided xmas now starts right after halloween: not everyone celebrates xmas or wants to participate.  don’t shame people for not participating in xmas traditions or blacklisting xmas. if people ask to not be wished a merry xmas, don’t wish them a merry xmas. don’t get upset if people express their frustrations with how christian normativity makes it impossible to escape this non-secular holiday for almost two months. if people want nothing to do with xmas, please just let them be.

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Is it okay to write in your Tanakh as long as you don’t ruin the text in? Is it respectful and okay or should it be avoided? I don’t want to deface anything. I’m starting to study with it and I need to know if I need to buy a separate journal for my notes or if I can just write them in. Thank you!

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being mentally ill is just being fed up with your own shit 24/7 like oh my god are we really going to do this again can I have like one hour of peace just one fucking hour oh my god p l e a s e

I feel like neurotypical ppl tend to underestimate MI ppls level of self-awareness abt our disorders. Like, believe you me, I am well aware that my brain is a rampant shitshow. That doesn’t mean I can make it stop doing shit though.

Growing up in an abusive household is a fucking trip dude……If you’ve never had someone angrily wash a dish at you or fold a sock in your direction then how are you gonna understand why I get nervous when you quietly do the laundry, or why I ask “are you mad at me?” when you set the bag of groceries down too hard? It’s a totally different way of living and it impacts you long after you’ve left the situation.