Christian, Muslim, Jew It’s Not What You Call Yourself—It’s What You Serve
https://youtu.be/Lu2KFOElWTw
#Christian #Muslim #Jew #Spirituality #ReligiousTruth

"As we learned more about #Christian #seders, it quickly became clear that not all of the seders are alike. In this #seder tutorial, Pastor Scott Stewart of Agape Church of Little Rock, Ark., explains how to celebrate #Passover, with barely any recognition that this is a #Jewish holiday. It felt like Stewart was even telling #Jews the proper way to lead a Passover seder.

However, other Christian seders focus on exploring the Jewish roots of #Christianity. For example, in this recording, Pastor Tom Holladay of Saddleback #Church teaches his congregants about how #Jesus, who was a #Jew, and his followers would have celebrated Passover in their time."

https://unpacked.media/why-are-christians-celebrating-passover-and-hosting-non-jewish-seders/

"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture

Mar 12, 1912: On this date, Polish Jewish resistance activist Ala Gertner was born. While a slave laborer at a munitions factory, she smuggled gunpowder to prisoners at Auschwitz to build grenades, who destroyed Crematorium IV & killed several SS officers. She was one of four women (the others being Róża Robota, Ester Wajcblum, & Regina Safirsztajn) hanged Jan 5 (or 6), 1945 for their role in the Sonderkommando Uprising.

#WW2 #Holocaust #Jew #WomensHistoryMonth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_Gertner

"Last Friday I happened to start watching the discussion at the #WhiteHouse between #Zelenskyi, Donald #Trump, JD #Vance and Brian Glenn towards the end, when Vance was already yelling at the #Ukrainian president: "you're wrong!" I took in the tone and the body language, and my first, reflexive reactions was: these are non-#Jews trying to intimidate a #Jew. Three against one. A roomful against one. An #antisemitic scene.

And the more I listened to the words, the more that reaction was confirmed. I won't speak for how Zelens'kyi regards himself. Ukrainian, of course. Beyond that I don't know. These things are complex, and personal.

But not for the #antisemite."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

Mar 9, 1922: Felice Schragenheim was born on this date in Berlin. She was a German Jewish resistance fighter during WW2 & known for her her tragic lesbian love affair with Lilly Wust who was married to a German Nazi soldier. Schragenheim & Wust remained a couple until August 1944 when Schragenheim was arrested by the Gestapo. (1/5)

#WW2 #Resistance #Jew #Holocaust #LGBTQ #WomensHistoryMonth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Schragenheim

“This #book is a response to the self-image of #Jews as scholarly #sages — not fantasy #warriors or #heroes — and an invitation to broaden our understanding of what it means to be a #Jew.”

So says J.S. Gold, author of the uniquely illuminating #novel The Sanhedrin Chronicles, a modern #fantasy where ancient #Hebrew #mysticism comes alive on the streets of #NewYork.

The #author adds, “Taken a step further, all good fantasy fiction uses the particular to illuminate the universal. The story considers identity through a uniquely #Jewish lens, but it’s by no means limited to the Jewish experience.”

https://booktrib.com/2025/03/05/author-draws-from-jewish-heritage-to-craft-urban-fantasy-novel/

"The #Jews are tired.” No one knows who was the first #Jew to post this cri de coeur on social media, but it certainly resonated and is a common online trope. While Jews are not of one mind on the bitterly contested issues of #Israel and #antisemitism, we can perhaps agree that it is incredibly gruelling to be so relentlessly in the public eye.

Jews seem to matter. Antisemitism, in its various forms, is fundamentally an assertion of Jewish importance in understanding the world and what is wrong with it. So it’s understandable that Jews have sought to fight Jew-hatred by showing how our existence has been a positive boon for the world. Jews have proactively gone out into the world and demonstrated how extraordinary and irreplaceable we are. We are a people of Nobel Prize winners, film-makers, novelists, songwriters and much else. Yet the Jews are still tired. Of course we are. We are on a treadmill, desperately trying to prove our worth and fight our corner."

https://www.thejc.com/life/why-arent-jews-allowed-to-just-be-be-ordinary-g15idnte

The Letter of Gratitude to the Ottoman Government from the Chief Rabbi of #Jerusalem for the Money Sent for the Poor #Jews, March 6, 1891 #Jew #Jewish #JewishHistory

#Zelensky of #Ukraine, who happens to be a #Jew, fully supported the #genocide in #Palestine committed by "#Israel", in case you don't remember

The language we use to describe systematic bigotry is important.

Only ever using the words 'minority' or 'minorities' to describe demographics that are subject to systematic bigotry and the inequality/lack of resources/widespread misinformation that comes alongside it can lead people to believe that to some degree the harms done are just an inherent thing that will always happen to a group that makes up only X percent of the population. Even people who know purposeful harms are being done are likely to subconsciously assign some part of the blame for the situation to inescapable ignorance by the masses because of the size of the group affected.

I’m not saying the word minority is not often accurate in these situations or that there aren’t any contexts where it is the best word to choose, but a lot of the time it is more meaningful to use language that reminds people that those with social/political power are purposefully choosing to say/do things and create societal systems that harm the demographic in question.

The two words I personally feel are the most productive and powerful to use when discussing systematic harm (and also apply if the demographic experiencing these things is not a numerical minority, ie women) are:

marginalized, which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group”

or

disenfranchised (which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “deprived of some right, privilege, or immunity”)

Both of these terms can be used *both* to describe the groups being harmed (ie ‘people with marginalized identities are being attacked’ or ‘disenfranchised communities need your help’) OR to directly describe the harm being done (ie ‘the disenfranchisement/marginalization of X group is something everyone with privilege has a moral obligation to fight against in whatever ways they can’)

I say this all as a member of many demographics that are minorities, but more importantly that are being actively and purposefully marginalized and disenfranchised by people who want us to keep us from having any social, financial, or political power.

The language we use has the power to highlight the reality of privilege and power in our world or to inadvertently downplay it and allow people to just accept it as the unavoidable status quo.

We need to be as purposeful about the words we choose when explaining harm to our communities- the people with power trying to keep us down sure as hell are.

*Yes!*Jews ask for signs!*Greeks desire wisdom!*but we preach Christ crucified!*which is offensive to Jews!*& foolishness to Greek!*but to those who are called!*both Jews!*& Greeks!*Christ is the power of God!*& the wisdom of God!*We preach Christ crucified!*because the foolishness of God is wiser than men!*& the weakness of God is stronger than men!

*Christ the Wisdom!*& Power of God!

*Yes!*Jews ask for signs!*Greeks desire wisdom!*but we preach Christ crucified!*which is offensive to Jews!*& foolishness to Greek!*but to those who are called!*both Jews!*& Greeks!*Christ is the power of God!*& the wisdom of God!*We preach Christ crucified!*because the foolishness of God is wiser than men!*& the weakness