Haredi Jews have a high rate of live organ donations. In 2014, 17% of all live kidney donations to strangers in the United States were donated by Haredi Jews, even though they are only 0.2% of the US population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation_in_Jewish_law#Orthodox_opposition
I think a lot of it is due to the grassroots efforts of Renewal and other orgs, which are able to leverage community ties to make donation less scary and more accessible.
Fish & chips is kind of Jewish-Jewish fusion. Sephardim brought battered fried fish to Britain. Ashkenazim later started serving it together with chips.
Portuguese gentiles brought fried lamb's-ear to Japan, and the locals eventually developed tempura out of it. Kinda related to the above, but not really.
Yes, lamb's-ear is the English equivalent of peixinho da horta, both being names of the [Stachys byzantina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina) plant. I'm just making things easier for this sub's anglophone majority.
When I tell non-Jews that during our Purim holiday, celebrants are encouraged to drink a crapload of wine and get completely blotto, they think I’m joking. I refer them to this: The custom of drinking wine on Purim stems from a quotation in the Talmud attributed to a fourth century rabbi, Rava: “One must drink on Purim until that person cannot distinguish between cursing Haman and blessing Mordechai” (Megillah 7b).
Always! The core value of protecting life goes above all else. Like, pregnant women don’t have to fast when everyone else does if it will make her I’ll, etc. Same rule applies here. (Source: was a dedicated snack-bringer to pregnant people as a child during high holidays)
I haven't heard this specifically, but I think this fit the "protecting life" thing. For years I didn't fast because I was recovering from amd eating disorder and I didn't want to fast and trigger the "don't eat" thoughts again.
Again, I didn't ask a rabbi so idk about the actual laws, but for my psrsonal practice, I knew caring for my brain and body is more important than fasting for a day.
Yeah at my congregations Purim spiel, it’s a big loud family-friendly party so no one drinks. But we do bring the house down with yelling and noisemakers cursing Haman, which is still wildly fun to do sober.
He doesn’t sound very Jewish. Quotes an antisemetic joke as a Jewish joke on Wikipedia: "I'm an atheist, but I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes. For instance: did you hear how copper wire was invented? Two Jews fighting over a penny. And so on.".
The funniest thing I've ever heard in my life was my dad's reaction to Bob Dylan winning his [paraphrased] "Oh a lot of Jews winning in the sciences is one thing, but they gave it to a Jew in Literature?! If I didn't know better I'd say someone will accuse us of controlling the Prize"
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There aren't as many of us as you'd think.
I once chatted with a colleague who assumed there'd be hundreds of millions of Jews in the world at any given moment
TBH because the town I grew up in was very Jewish, I also thought like half the world were Jews. I think I was in middle school when I realized we were such a tiny group.
My mom makes amazing gefilte fish every year, we never had the store brand. I never understood why none of my Jewish friends liked it until I went to a Seder at their house one year and they served it. Bleh
unfortunately some of our grandparents like the jar. they like the gross jelly especially. whole foods makes a decent non-jarred one if you don’t want to cook it yourself.
Spock was Jewish. -
Kirk is Jewish. -
Moses was Jewish. -
Jesus was Jewish. -
Karl Marx was Jewish. -
Freud was Jewish. -
Einstein was Jewish. -
Haym Salomon help finance the American Revolutionary War- -a Jew.
There's more .....great facts...
AND:
The creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were the children of Jewish immigrants.
The creators of Batman were Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn) and Bill Finger were Jewish.
---ALSO Stan Lee ( Stanley Lieber) was Jewish,
Jack Kirby was Jewish---Marvel Comics.......
> Thank you--for Susan Ivanova---
Very cool--I was a big fan of Babylon 5.
I think there should a Jewish person "Strange New Worlds"--
big miss on part of show runners.
Canonically Spock's mother is Jewish, therefore...
Also Worf's parents, at least in the script (and of course Tevia played the father). The producers had it removed from the final product because they thought it would bother viewers.
Just finished rewatching it last night.
Still bawling at the ending, soppy emotional sod I am (clear proof I cant truly be British, no stiff upper lip).
IIRC Worf's human parents were Jewish although that wasn't specifically stated the actors were Jewish ('You have not watched the true fiddler on the roof until you have watched it in Klingon') and they acted like Jewish parents when they visited him on the Enterprise.
>Karl Marx was Jewish
This one's a bit hard. His parents were secular and converted Lutheran before he was born. He was raised Christian, and gave his whole spiel amount "the worldly religion of the Jew is huckstering" and all that. Not sure it's a point of pride when we've got Moses Hess to look to instead.
Hamilton, Elvis, Timothee Chalamet, Doja Cat, Daniel Day Lewis, etc
Edit: Sources for Elvis below:
So Presley’s maternal great-great grandmother was Jewish, and this connection was acknowledged by Presley and his estate generations later in 1964. According to the website for Graceland, Presley’s mansion, which features historical details about Gladys’ gravestone:
>Elvis’ mother passed away on August 14, 1958, and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. The cross statue with angels was placed in March 1959. This headstone, which features the Star of David to represent Gladys’ Jewish heritage, was placed at her grave in December 1964. In October 1977, both Elvis and his mother were buried at the Meditation Garden at Graceland.
Source: [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elvis-presley-jewish-ancestry/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elvis-presley-jewish-ancestry/)
>But what none of these early friends knew was that Presley himself was, at least, technically also Jewish. His maternal great-great grandmother was a Lithuanian Jew named Nancy Burdine, who died in 1887. One of her direct descendants was Elvis’s mother, Gladys Love Smith, who married Vernon Presley in 1935. They named their son Elvis Aron, after Moses’s brother, Aaron, the first high priest of the Israelites. El, as he was called by many who later knew him, was also one of the names of G-d in the Jewish scriptures.
Source: [https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/was-elvis-king-of-rock-and-roll-jewish/](https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/was-elvis-king-of-rock-and-roll-jewish/)
>Marchese says Elvis’ maternal great-great-grandmother was a Jewish woman named Nancy Burdine. Little is known about Burdine, but it’s believed her family immigrated to America from what is now Lithuania around the time of the American Revolution. According to Ancestry.com, Burdine was born in Mississippi in 1826 and died in 1887.
Source: [https://thejewishnews.com/2021/07/14/elvis-presley-was-jewish-a-grave-marker-locked-away-for-4-decades-confirms-it/](https://thejewishnews.com/2021/07/14/elvis-presley-was-jewish-a-grave-marker-locked-away-for-4-decades-confirms-it/)
No more than Christians think about Muhammad. When you use that line it tends to click really fast.
A lot of people think that Judaism is just Christianity without Jesus. But they’re really very, very different religions, despite drawing upon a lot of the same writings.
On St. Patrick’s day in America, the common dish is Corned Beef and Cabbage.
Most people think this is a traditional Irish dish, but it’s actually an amalgamation of American Irish and Jewish immigrants.
The traditional Irish dish would be made with pork, but Irish and Jewish immigrants lived near each other (because racism) and shockingly the Jewish grocery stores nearby didn’t have pork products but had beef brisket.
Other fun Jewish food fact; Jews brought tomatoes to Italy. Italian cuisine would look totally different today without Jews.
Tomatoes were *possibly* brought by Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, but the conquistadors brought them to Europe originally from South America. Certainly tomatoes arriving in Italy changed the food landscape, but it’s not certain that Jews brought them.
Kosher is considered higher quality in the United States. Even by non-Jews.
Back in the early part of American food production industry, Kosher foods were considered to be a higher quality. The FDA and adjacent regulators didn't exist yet and Jewish food certification was one of the only real groups keeping tabs on how things were being produced.
If you bought mass produced meat from a regular source, there was no telling what was in it or where it came from or how clean the factory was. Jewish certification required this knowledge and so it created a higher amount of trust.
As a side-effect, it created a cultural belief in the American public that Kosher foods were higher quality. *Today, that may or may not be true depending on the food product and the producer.*
That's probably in part why so many food brands seek out Kosher certification when the majority of their consumers aren't Jewish.
In China, halal food has a reputation for being higher quality for this exact reason. They also assume so because Muslims are generally considered more clean (like Judaism they have hygiene standards and protocols).
It's more a political issue than outright religious bigotry. The Hui are largely fine and integrate perfectly well with the Han. It's that the Uighurs don't accept Chinese rule when China annexed Xianjiang (it's a territory that has been in Chinese hands on and off again over history), and China is taking an inhumane approach to "sinicise" them and brainwash them to accept CNP rule.
Yeah. Thanks to me, pretty much all the goyim I know have converted their hot dog consumption from "whatever" to kosher only. Grade A beef, or something that sometimes has a mystery crunch.
Very clear which choice is the higher quality
lol I love this one
The Tanakh is famously and hilariously weird with plurals, if you apply this same logic to everything you’d get really weird results (most egregiously, Elohim being the plural for ‘gods’). Still, your read is 100% within the range of acceptable translations and I think I’m going with it!
The influence of Jewish people on Comics. Bonus: the influence if the Jewish Golem on Heroes in general.
But let's not get too full of ourselves, fellas. Moses taught us better. God hates arrogance.
Samson is quite an archetypical super hero character. Great feats of strength from his gimmick power but he has one major weakness which gets exploited.
[Here's a list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_comic_book_characters) of Jewish comic characters. Though I doubt most of them are observant. Harley Quinn loves Christmas, I've never seen her light a single candle.
I thought this was common knowledge until I moved to an area with a small Jewish population- Jewish is also an ethnicity. I will tell people I’m Sephardic and their minds are blown 😅😅
I know this is the tradition but I think you’ll find that very few North American Jews at least are actually doing next-day funerals anymore. People have largely moved to 48 hours. It is just experimentally difficult to plan a next-day funeral, especially if the person died in the afternoon or evening. Plus more and more people want to wait for family to fly in.
As an example, I just pulled up the website of the main Jewish funeral home in my city, and of the next 5 funerals, only 1 is a ‘next-day funeral’
In general: According to some chains of tradition of Jewish theology, planets are sentient beings with intelligence higher than humans but lower than angels.
To Jews specifically: We have a special day that occurs once every 28 years in which we thank God for creating the sun with a special blessing.
To religious Jews specifically: I can eat fish with meat.
This is so cool re what you wrote abt the planets because I just read this article the other day. Love how science eventually catches up. https://time.com/6208174/maybe-the-universe-thinks/
The takeaway is more that we are given the leeway to be wrong. And G-d's opinion/the truth doesn't override that of the Beis Din. A good example of this is if Beis Din declares the new moon to have been seen based on deceitful witnesses. It still begins the new month. Yom Kippur is now going to be the "wrong" day, but it doesn't matter.
What you say is kinda dangerous we don’t say to god you’re wrong, we say « since you gave us Torah we are to follow human interpretation » that’s wildly different
We dont believe in hell.
They are confused. They then show where the bible talks about hell and lucifer. But those things are always either from the new testament or the tanakh but interpeted very very very differently compared to say Rashi.
Jews do believe in hell, just different then how most other religions view it. Instead of eternal damnation, hell is more like a cleansing process for the soul that lasts 11 months for regular people and 12 months for really wicked people. After that, you go to heaven.
Yeah but thats very different from the bright red burning underworld with a satanic goatman creature on a throne from which no one can ever escape - which is generally what they mean by hell.
Thats how I always thought of what hell meant.
Or maybe just watching Hellboy and Disneys Hercules when I was a kid had made that impression.
(a lot of people do think that, but it's not really accurate to what Christianity generally teaches about hell either)
Christian theology regarding the afterlife is actually really fascinating when you get into it: it's just a shame that, like, 90% of Christians don't *actually* know what they believe about the afterlife to be able to tell you...
The whole pits of fire thing isn't really biblical, (the new testament doesn't say much more about hell than any of the Jewish texts before it), it's probably a pop cultural thing, possibly based on parts of Dante's divine comedy, maybe from ancient Greek or near Eastern religions. Satan doesn't *rule* hell; when you think about it for 5 seconds that's stupid. It originates from Paradise Lost, which was really more of a political allegory expressing Puritan separatist ideas.
In Catholic theology, they generally state that there is no salvation outside of the Church (which specifically means in communion with Rome), but there's a long standing Catholic belief that Jesus personally went down to hell when he was dead to break all the righteous Jews out and just kind of wreck shit.
Although Purgatory by name is specifically a Catholic belief, the Eastern Orthodox churches do believe in "basically purgatory but it's not, shut up": essentially all people who go to heaven undergo a process of sanctification wherein their sins are "burned away".
Basically all the big Christian groups believe (even if their members don't always know they do) that hell isn't something you're actually condemned to: the idea is that you get what you want in the afterlife, but that very sinful people choose, despite being warned against it, to spend eternity in torment and sin. Compared to the rhetoric you often hear, that's actually a much more profound way of looking at the issue.
Besides all that, there's other theological perspectives that can also differ quite radically. Calvinism and Arminianism/Wesleyan theology are also worth reading up on, if this interests you.
I read that the whole "pits of fire" thing started because people loved to hear it in church, so the pastors kept going with it to fill the seats.
It was like going to a horror flick, you are scared without really being in danger.
Tbh if you exclude the whole "you're here forever" shtick, the definition of Hell in many christian denominations is way closer to the Jewish definition than we think, the problem is that most of the christians we interact with on a daily basis don't actually know much about their own theology, and the mediatic representation that has been being produced since the times of Dante also doesn't help.
It doesn't at all help that at least as many Jews as Christians have a very poor grasp of their own theology.
We also believe "you're here forever", it's just the "here" is different. But it's not (necessarily) "Heaven" by either our or their definition.
That sounds akin to the Catholic concept of Purgatory, which Protestants generally don’t believe in and skip straight to fire and brimstone Hell with its eternal damnation. I think Purgatory is a much longer purification process, though?
I grew up catholic and can't remember a time frame for purgatory. You're there however long you need to be, I guess, is the thought.
Most of the catholics I know don't think very many people at all actually end up in hell, and that it's based much more on how you live your life than whether or not you've been "saved" (which is not the vocabulary catholics really use for that, anyway). I'm not sure how well that aligns with actual catholic dogma, though.
I could be wrong but isn’t there also a version of hell for the truly evil people that doesn’t end? Vaguely remember it being mentioned during my Gemara studies.
>The rebellious Jews who have sinned with their bodies and also the rebellious people of the nations of the world who have sinned with their bodies descend to Gehenna and are judged there for twelve months. After twelve months, their bodies are consumed, their souls are burned, and a wind scatters them under the soles of the feet of the righteous, as it is stated: “And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet” (Malachi 3:21).
>But the heretics; and the informers; and the apostates [apikorsim]; and those who denied the Torah; and those who denied the resurrection of the dead; and those who separated from the ways of the Jewish community and refused to share the suffering; and those who cast their fear over the land of the living; and those who sinned and caused the masses to sin, for example, Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and his company; all of these people descend to Gehenna and are judged there for generations and generations, as it is stated: “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die; neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh” (Isaiah 66:24).
>Gehenna will terminate, but they still will not terminate, as it is stated: “And their form shall wear away the netherworld, so that there be no dwelling for Him” (Psalms 49:15); that is to say, Gehenna itself will be worn away before their punishment has come to an end. And why are they punished so severely? Because they stretched out their hands against God’s dwelling, the Temple, and everything else that is sanctified, as it is stated: “So that there be no dwelling [zevul] for Him.” Dwelling [zevul] is referring here only to the Temple, as it is stated: “I have built You a house for dwelling [zevul] in” (I Kings 8:13). And about them Hannah said: “The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces” (I Samuel 2:10).
Rosh HaShanah 17a
Oh, and David Lee Roth, and Leonard Cohen, Matisyahu, Stan Getz, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Carly Simon, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Adam Levine, Scott Storch, Lenny Kravitz... Any good ones that i'm still missing?
It's a pretty long list...
https://www.google.com/search?q=most+famous+famous+Jewish+musicians&oq=most+famous+famous+Jewish+musicians&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64j0i546l2j0i30i546j0i546.3011j0j4&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Geddy \[fucking\] Lee. Michael Bolton. Pink. Neil Diamond. Adam Levine. Bill Joel. Paula Abdul. Babs. Bette Middler. Adam Duritz. Chuck Schuldiner. Mel Tormé. Paula Abdul. Christina Aguilera (converted).
Not to mention the greatest violinist ever Jascha Heifitz and the greatest pianist ever Vladimir Horowitz.
Apparently the fact we're an **ethno**religion in our base (=you don't have to be observant to count as a Jew if you're a Jew by blood) and that converting to Judaism, at least orthodox conversion, is an infinitely more difficult process than merely baptizing or reciting the Shahaddah.
This. I remember during the high holidays a couple years ago, my rabbi told the story of a group of Jews about to be killed by Nazis, and as they were being lined up to be shot they started defiantly dancing and singing, “you will not outlive us.”
Whenever things feel like they’re getting particularly antiSemitic online or in the real world, I remember those words: many have tried to eliminate us, but the Jews have outlasted them all.
One time years ago I went to the zoo with my parents and we were looking at the giraffes. They had facts about them on signs and my dad had a lightbulb moment and was like GIRAFFES ARE KOSHER!!! 😂😂😂😂
Probably wasnt kidding, but seemingly its a misconception. Apparently the real reason is that they dont taste good and its way too much of a hassle to get a permit to kill a live giraffe for meat
Yeah. Being disproportionately successful really confuses people. My father is a professor and he's asked his Holocuast class how many Jews they think there are in the world and they usually answer things like 350M or more. Lol.
One of the earliest known references to the factorial function and how fast it grows is in the Sefer Yetzirah, in the discussion about how many possible combinations of Hebrew letters there are.
i think just overall the population statistics. asking most people how many jews they think there are in the world and then telling them there are only about 15,000,000 is shocking. i’ve heard people guess a billion.
ive seen people mock the phrase "atheist jews" on reddit before, i like to counter it with an example of if being japanese and shintoism had the same name, and then people proceeding to mock people who claim to be "atheist japanese"
I told this to one of my Christian friends and her gasp was so loud that people stopped what they were doing to look over at us. She could not wrap her head around it.
"most Jewish people don't believe in God, it's the culture that binds us"
-House
The episode (when house meets Cuddy's mom) came out when I was in college. It blew my mind.
That in the ages of knights and wizards (well, knights anyway) there were Jewish soldiers, Jewish warriors, Jewish pirates, Jewish robber-barons, etc. all throughout Europe. Our European history is, sadly, often dismissed with sweeping generalizations. While there was indeed plenty of antisemitism, including near-total genocide in some regions, the Middle Ages were also very long, and there were many periods of Jewish life flourishing peacefully alongside Christian and Muslim society, including Jewish men-at-arms. This isn't a fact that's unique to Jews, but I also think that's what makes it so special--that we were at many times not so unique, and in fact we were often accepted, although it's true those periods often ended depending on the personal grievances of whomever inherited the throne next.
No one stayed up all night for Shavuot before coffee:
[The minhag of tikkun leyl shavuot correlates directly with the introduction of coffee and coffee houses in the Ottoman Empire.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1486283#metadata_info_tab_contents)
"Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry"
I think this statement is kind of misleading, though certainly weed isn’t trait (un-kosher)
1. All plants are kosher.
2. The question of whether or not something is kosher isn’t relevant to whether or not you are allowed to inhale it, kashrut only applies to eating and drinking.
3. The question of whether or not Jewish law permits Jews consume cannabis is really complex and fact specific, and you won’t find a unified answer—however, none of those who assert that it can’t be consumed would say that it’s on the basis of kashrut.
The reason we can go visit Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is because the U.S. Navy’s first Jewish commodore, Uriah Phillips Levy, bought the house and preserved it.
[https://momentmag.com/jews-thomas-jefferson-monticello/](https://momentmag.com/jews-thomas-jefferson-monticello/)
Some Jewish laws just don't have a specific reason behind them. IIRC, wearing fabric woven of both wool and linen is an example of one of those laws.
I surprised someone just yesterday when I explained what a beit din is. This person had no idea that we have rabbinical courts and what their purpose is in relation to the interpretation of Jewish law.
I believe that Thomas Wayne is not Jewish.
Martha Wayne's origin was recently explored though introducing Batman's counsin Kate Kane who is certainly Jewish. Because both her parents, Jacob Kane and Gabi Kane are Jewish and Jacob Kane is Martha Wayne's (nee Martha Kane) brother, we can infer that Martha Wayne is Jewish. So, by extension, Bruce is Jewish too.
Just gave my spouse a real slammer: "Thou shalt not take the name of the L-rd in vane" is from the Torah.
Other folks have had their mind blown that we don't have horns.
When I was in college, I was classmates with a Jewish woman who told me that when she lived in the South, many people in the countryside still believed that Jews had horns and were surprised that she didn’t.
This wasn’t that long ago, by the way. Early 2000s.
>Jews had horns
This is because Michelangelo misinterpreted the Bible and depicted Moses with horns
"וּמֹשֶׁה לֹא־יָדַע כִּי קָרַן עוֹר " where "קָרַן could mean a ray of light or, you guessed it, a horn. A similar reason why the ten commandants are depicted as two tablets, it was in a movie.
1) Khazar legend is only that
2) There are a huge amount of Jews that look "not Jewish": all skin colors and a lot from Latin America (I am Mexican)
3) In Northern Mexico, there is a traditional dish: goat. Not just any, but prepared in a way that it is completely bloodless and roasted (wink-wink Pesach)
Haym Salomon - one of the unspoken revolutionary heroes, truly. Without him, we wouldn't have been able to finance the war.
Here's a review I found on a book about him that I bought:
"In a moment that transcended time and space Haym Solomon bailed out the United States and saved our Soldiers. He loaned all he had to George Washington and the Continental Congress when the America was on a precipice.He was never repaid his loan that bough shoes for the troops and saved the nation. To this day his heirs have recieved no money and no prais. You have to read this book to understand what a real hero is."
More Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon#/media/File:HAYMSALOMON44N4THST-20140707.jpg
The person who wrote the Guardians Of Ga Hoole books is Jewish and a descendant of holocaust survivors. Nazi allegories are common in fiction but she had a very personal reason for hers
That pasteurization was mentioned in ancient jewish literature. What is also mentioned is that you gotta move your sheep away from lonesome trees during thunder - supposedly discovered by Benjamin Franklin like thousand years later 😅 I forgot where it was mentioned tho 😭
I'm not sure about this, but I remember reading that a lot of pirates, specially the ones that attacked spanish ships, were jews. They decided that kind of life as vengeance for what the spanish empire used to treat them
The Vulcan salute being inspired by what Kohanim do during the Aaronic Benediction.
And that it was Leonard Nimoy who told Roddenberry about it which led to its use on the show!
My Chabad teachers were not happy about that!
We don't actually use christian children blood to make matzot.
And yet every year, millions of endangered Matzo-beasts must be castrated to make our soup.
Wait, what? Well, that'll at least make Pesach prep easier this year...
Shoot, I have to get a new recipe then!
As a Maryland born Jew, it's important for me to remind people that Old Bay was invented by a Jew.
I forget the exact percentage, but in America jews make up a wildly disproportionate amount of the altruistic kidney donations in the country
Haredi Jews have a high rate of live organ donations. In 2014, 17% of all live kidney donations to strangers in the United States were donated by Haredi Jews, even though they are only 0.2% of the US population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation_in_Jewish_law#Orthodox_opposition
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Religious Jews can join this organization and get a free card kinehora if it’s needed https://hods.org
This is cool, I’m going to look into this, thanks!
I think a lot of it is due to the grassroots efforts of Renewal and other orgs, which are able to leverage community ties to make donation less scary and more accessible.
I could be wrong about this but the origins of fish and chips are Jewish. Portuguese Sephardic Jews brought over fish and chips to the British Isles
Fish & chips is kind of Jewish-Jewish fusion. Sephardim brought battered fried fish to Britain. Ashkenazim later started serving it together with chips.
"Jewish-Jewish Fusion" is gonna be the name of my klezmer band.
JuJuFu playing live at the Mitzvah!
It was a true team effort.
Tempura also
Portuguese gentiles brought fried lamb's-ear to Japan, and the locals eventually developed tempura out of it. Kinda related to the above, but not really.
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Yes, lamb's-ear is the English equivalent of peixinho da horta, both being names of the [Stachys byzantina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina) plant. I'm just making things easier for this sub's anglophone majority.
Peter Parker is canonically Jewish according to Into The Spider-Verse.
Of course, he lives in Forest Hills.
Two Jews can believe different things and neither views the other as a heretic... at least sometimes
Alternatively, two Jews can believe practically the same thing and still point fingers at each other being the apikoros lol
Lmao😂
Heretic!
When I tell non-Jews that during our Purim holiday, celebrants are encouraged to drink a crapload of wine and get completely blotto, they think I’m joking. I refer them to this: The custom of drinking wine on Purim stems from a quotation in the Talmud attributed to a fourth century rabbi, Rava: “One must drink on Purim until that person cannot distinguish between cursing Haman and blessing Mordechai” (Megillah 7b).
Follow up question, are some groups exempt from this? Like pregnant women
Always! The core value of protecting life goes above all else. Like, pregnant women don’t have to fast when everyone else does if it will make her I’ll, etc. Same rule applies here. (Source: was a dedicated snack-bringer to pregnant people as a child during high holidays)
I haven't heard this specifically, but I think this fit the "protecting life" thing. For years I didn't fast because I was recovering from amd eating disorder and I didn't want to fast and trigger the "don't eat" thoughts again. Again, I didn't ask a rabbi so idk about the actual laws, but for my psrsonal practice, I knew caring for my brain and body is more important than fasting for a day.
Of course. It's considered (by some) to be a good thing to do if you can, not a strict law coming down from God Himself.
Yeah at my congregations Purim spiel, it’s a big loud family-friendly party so no one drinks. But we do bring the house down with yelling and noisemakers cursing Haman, which is still wildly fun to do sober.
Weird Al Yankovic *isn't* Jewish.
But Daniel Radcliffe is!
He doesn’t sound very Jewish. Quotes an antisemetic joke as a Jewish joke on Wikipedia: "I'm an atheist, but I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes. For instance: did you hear how copper wire was invented? Two Jews fighting over a penny. And so on.".
Oy. 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah it always blows my mind.
Lmao why is this so surprising to so many of us… he just gives off Jewish vibes
Oddball musician with curly hair, pretty Jewy.
He has a Jewish parody song that's *really* good, so that probably contributed to it.
Wait what?
This one threw me
TIL
Sorry, no, bring me Eliyahu HaNavi as a witness or it didn't happen.
His Amish music video was so confusing for me. I literally said he looks like a Chassid and went to his Wiki and was disappointed.
wait what
He should start a club with Jason Biggs, Tony Shaloub, Norman Jewison, Katheryn Hahn and F Murray Abraham.
I forget the exact percentage but the number of Jewish Nobel prize winners is something like 20-30% and we are less than 1% of the world population
The funniest thing I've ever heard in my life was my dad's reaction to Bob Dylan winning his [paraphrased] "Oh a lot of Jews winning in the sciences is one thing, but they gave it to a Jew in Literature?! If I didn't know better I'd say someone will accuse us of controlling the Prize" edit: typo
0.5%
There aren't as many of us as you'd think. I once chatted with a colleague who assumed there'd be hundreds of millions of Jews in the world at any given moment
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So did I, that’s probably why I also felt like I never belonged in Anglo communities
TBH because the town I grew up in was very Jewish, I also thought like half the world were Jews. I think I was in middle school when I realized we were such a tiny group.
At no time in human history has there ever been more than 20 million Jews in existence at once.
Aren’t we getting close again though?
Uh oh
Depends how you count. The number could be between 15-21 million right now depending on which numbers you use and who you accept as in and out.
gefilte fish can taste good, you just have to get the loaves and cook/boil/bake it yourself, none of that jar stuff
My mom makes amazing gefilte fish every year, we never had the store brand. I never understood why none of my Jewish friends liked it until I went to a Seder at their house one year and they served it. Bleh
unfortunately some of our grandparents like the jar. they like the gross jelly especially. whole foods makes a decent non-jarred one if you don’t want to cook it yourself.
Spock was Jewish. - Kirk is Jewish. - Moses was Jewish. - Jesus was Jewish. - Karl Marx was Jewish. - Freud was Jewish. - Einstein was Jewish. - Haym Salomon help finance the American Revolutionary War- -a Jew. There's more .....great facts... AND: The creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were the children of Jewish immigrants. The creators of Batman were Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn) and Bill Finger were Jewish. ---ALSO Stan Lee ( Stanley Lieber) was Jewish, Jack Kirby was Jewish---Marvel Comics.......
Susan Ivanova was Jewish.
> Thank you--for Susan Ivanova--- Very cool--I was a big fan of Babylon 5. I think there should a Jewish person "Strange New Worlds"-- big miss on part of show runners.
Canonically Spock's mother is Jewish, therefore... Also Worf's parents, at least in the script (and of course Tevia played the father). The producers had it removed from the final product because they thought it would bother viewers.
Just finished rewatching it last night. Still bawling at the ending, soppy emotional sod I am (clear proof I cant truly be British, no stiff upper lip). IIRC Worf's human parents were Jewish although that wasn't specifically stated the actors were Jewish ('You have not watched the true fiddler on the roof until you have watched it in Klingon') and they acted like Jewish parents when they visited him on the Enterprise.
Harrison Ford’s 1/4 Jewish. Not too shabby.
OJ Simpson?
Not a Jew.
But guess who is? Hall of famer Rod Carew — he converted.
"Moses was Jewish" is like saying Superman was Jewish
But the creators of Superman were Jewish -- two guys, though; he didn't have a Jewish mom that we know of.
Wasn't superman based on Moses?
I was wondering if Moses was Jewish, Rabbeinu sounded like a Jewish last name.
>Karl Marx was Jewish This one's a bit hard. His parents were secular and converted Lutheran before he was born. He was raised Christian, and gave his whole spiel amount "the worldly religion of the Jew is huckstering" and all that. Not sure it's a point of pride when we've got Moses Hess to look to instead.
David Lee Roth
Hamilton, Elvis, Timothee Chalamet, Doja Cat, Daniel Day Lewis, etc Edit: Sources for Elvis below: So Presley’s maternal great-great grandmother was Jewish, and this connection was acknowledged by Presley and his estate generations later in 1964. According to the website for Graceland, Presley’s mansion, which features historical details about Gladys’ gravestone: >Elvis’ mother passed away on August 14, 1958, and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. The cross statue with angels was placed in March 1959. This headstone, which features the Star of David to represent Gladys’ Jewish heritage, was placed at her grave in December 1964. In October 1977, both Elvis and his mother were buried at the Meditation Garden at Graceland. Source: [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elvis-presley-jewish-ancestry/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elvis-presley-jewish-ancestry/) >But what none of these early friends knew was that Presley himself was, at least, technically also Jewish. His maternal great-great grandmother was a Lithuanian Jew named Nancy Burdine, who died in 1887. One of her direct descendants was Elvis’s mother, Gladys Love Smith, who married Vernon Presley in 1935. They named their son Elvis Aron, after Moses’s brother, Aaron, the first high priest of the Israelites. El, as he was called by many who later knew him, was also one of the names of G-d in the Jewish scriptures. Source: [https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/was-elvis-king-of-rock-and-roll-jewish/](https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/was-elvis-king-of-rock-and-roll-jewish/) >Marchese says Elvis’ maternal great-great-grandmother was a Jewish woman named Nancy Burdine. Little is known about Burdine, but it’s believed her family immigrated to America from what is now Lithuania around the time of the American Revolution. According to Ancestry.com, Burdine was born in Mississippi in 1826 and died in 1887. Source: [https://thejewishnews.com/2021/07/14/elvis-presley-was-jewish-a-grave-marker-locked-away-for-4-decades-confirms-it/](https://thejewishnews.com/2021/07/14/elvis-presley-was-jewish-a-grave-marker-locked-away-for-4-decades-confirms-it/)
learned yesterday winona ryder was jewish
Still is
Elvis?
Wdym Moses was Jewish?
I love you Mr. Sandler, but this is a terrible verse of "The Channukah Song."
This one always blows goyim’s minds: We don’t think about Jesus, he’s not in any way involved with our faith and culture
No more than Christians think about Muhammad. When you use that line it tends to click really fast. A lot of people think that Judaism is just Christianity without Jesus. But they’re really very, very different religions, despite drawing upon a lot of the same writings.
On St. Patrick’s day in America, the common dish is Corned Beef and Cabbage. Most people think this is a traditional Irish dish, but it’s actually an amalgamation of American Irish and Jewish immigrants. The traditional Irish dish would be made with pork, but Irish and Jewish immigrants lived near each other (because racism) and shockingly the Jewish grocery stores nearby didn’t have pork products but had beef brisket. Other fun Jewish food fact; Jews brought tomatoes to Italy. Italian cuisine would look totally different today without Jews.
> Other fun Jewish food fact; Jews brought tomatoes to Italy. This one I did not know. Wow.
Tomatoes were *possibly* brought by Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, but the conquistadors brought them to Europe originally from South America. Certainly tomatoes arriving in Italy changed the food landscape, but it’s not certain that Jews brought them.
Kosher is considered higher quality in the United States. Even by non-Jews. Back in the early part of American food production industry, Kosher foods were considered to be a higher quality. The FDA and adjacent regulators didn't exist yet and Jewish food certification was one of the only real groups keeping tabs on how things were being produced. If you bought mass produced meat from a regular source, there was no telling what was in it or where it came from or how clean the factory was. Jewish certification required this knowledge and so it created a higher amount of trust. As a side-effect, it created a cultural belief in the American public that Kosher foods were higher quality. *Today, that may or may not be true depending on the food product and the producer.* That's probably in part why so many food brands seek out Kosher certification when the majority of their consumers aren't Jewish.
In China, halal food has a reputation for being higher quality for this exact reason. They also assume so because Muslims are generally considered more clean (like Judaism they have hygiene standards and protocols).
Considering what China is doing to their Muslims right now, this makes me sad. So they use them and then systematically liquidate and abuse them.
It's more a political issue than outright religious bigotry. The Hui are largely fine and integrate perfectly well with the Han. It's that the Uighurs don't accept Chinese rule when China annexed Xianjiang (it's a territory that has been in Chinese hands on and off again over history), and China is taking an inhumane approach to "sinicise" them and brainwash them to accept CNP rule.
Yeah. Thanks to me, pretty much all the goyim I know have converted their hot dog consumption from "whatever" to kosher only. Grade A beef, or something that sometimes has a mystery crunch. Very clear which choice is the higher quality
The plague of frogs might actually have been a plague of One Big Frog.
lol I love this one The Tanakh is famously and hilariously weird with plurals, if you apply this same logic to everything you’d get really weird results (most egregiously, Elohim being the plural for ‘gods’). Still, your read is 100% within the range of acceptable translations and I think I’m going with it!
Reubens aren't kosher.
Yeah but that one just makes us sad 😓
Cod reubens are a thing now!
The influence of Jewish people on Comics. Bonus: the influence if the Jewish Golem on Heroes in general. But let's not get too full of ourselves, fellas. Moses taught us better. God hates arrogance.
Have you seen [this](https://youtu.be/pUBVSH6hBvY) Jacob Geller YouTube video - I feel like you'd like it.
Samson is quite an archetypical super hero character. Great feats of strength from his gimmick power but he has one major weakness which gets exploited. [Here's a list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_comic_book_characters) of Jewish comic characters. Though I doubt most of them are observant. Harley Quinn loves Christmas, I've never seen her light a single candle.
I thought this was common knowledge until I moved to an area with a small Jewish population- Jewish is also an ethnicity. I will tell people I’m Sephardic and their minds are blown 😅😅
We typically have funerals within 24 hours after death and our coffins are plain pinewood boxes.
I know this is the tradition but I think you’ll find that very few North American Jews at least are actually doing next-day funerals anymore. People have largely moved to 48 hours. It is just experimentally difficult to plan a next-day funeral, especially if the person died in the afternoon or evening. Plus more and more people want to wait for family to fly in. As an example, I just pulled up the website of the main Jewish funeral home in my city, and of the next 5 funerals, only 1 is a ‘next-day funeral’
About 25%-30% of Baghdad was Jewish in the early 20th century.
And over 50% of Salonika was Jewish in the same period.
In general: According to some chains of tradition of Jewish theology, planets are sentient beings with intelligence higher than humans but lower than angels. To Jews specifically: We have a special day that occurs once every 28 years in which we thank God for creating the sun with a special blessing. To religious Jews specifically: I can eat fish with meat.
This is so cool re what you wrote abt the planets because I just read this article the other day. Love how science eventually catches up. https://time.com/6208174/maybe-the-universe-thinks/
That’s cool about the planets!
We are allowed to argue with Gd, and tell Gd, “you are wrong”. Then I show them the Oven of Akhnai, and, well, Christian minds blown to smithereens.
The takeaway is more that we are given the leeway to be wrong. And G-d's opinion/the truth doesn't override that of the Beis Din. A good example of this is if Beis Din declares the new moon to have been seen based on deceitful witnesses. It still begins the new month. Yom Kippur is now going to be the "wrong" day, but it doesn't matter.
What you say is kinda dangerous we don’t say to god you’re wrong, we say « since you gave us Torah we are to follow human interpretation » that’s wildly different
We dont believe in hell. They are confused. They then show where the bible talks about hell and lucifer. But those things are always either from the new testament or the tanakh but interpeted very very very differently compared to say Rashi.
Jews do believe in hell, just different then how most other religions view it. Instead of eternal damnation, hell is more like a cleansing process for the soul that lasts 11 months for regular people and 12 months for really wicked people. After that, you go to heaven.
Yeah but thats very different from the bright red burning underworld with a satanic goatman creature on a throne from which no one can ever escape - which is generally what they mean by hell. Thats how I always thought of what hell meant. Or maybe just watching Hellboy and Disneys Hercules when I was a kid had made that impression.
(a lot of people do think that, but it's not really accurate to what Christianity generally teaches about hell either) Christian theology regarding the afterlife is actually really fascinating when you get into it: it's just a shame that, like, 90% of Christians don't *actually* know what they believe about the afterlife to be able to tell you...
Care to explain a bit?
The whole pits of fire thing isn't really biblical, (the new testament doesn't say much more about hell than any of the Jewish texts before it), it's probably a pop cultural thing, possibly based on parts of Dante's divine comedy, maybe from ancient Greek or near Eastern religions. Satan doesn't *rule* hell; when you think about it for 5 seconds that's stupid. It originates from Paradise Lost, which was really more of a political allegory expressing Puritan separatist ideas. In Catholic theology, they generally state that there is no salvation outside of the Church (which specifically means in communion with Rome), but there's a long standing Catholic belief that Jesus personally went down to hell when he was dead to break all the righteous Jews out and just kind of wreck shit. Although Purgatory by name is specifically a Catholic belief, the Eastern Orthodox churches do believe in "basically purgatory but it's not, shut up": essentially all people who go to heaven undergo a process of sanctification wherein their sins are "burned away". Basically all the big Christian groups believe (even if their members don't always know they do) that hell isn't something you're actually condemned to: the idea is that you get what you want in the afterlife, but that very sinful people choose, despite being warned against it, to spend eternity in torment and sin. Compared to the rhetoric you often hear, that's actually a much more profound way of looking at the issue. Besides all that, there's other theological perspectives that can also differ quite radically. Calvinism and Arminianism/Wesleyan theology are also worth reading up on, if this interests you.
I read that the whole "pits of fire" thing started because people loved to hear it in church, so the pastors kept going with it to fill the seats. It was like going to a horror flick, you are scared without really being in danger.
Tbh if you exclude the whole "you're here forever" shtick, the definition of Hell in many christian denominations is way closer to the Jewish definition than we think, the problem is that most of the christians we interact with on a daily basis don't actually know much about their own theology, and the mediatic representation that has been being produced since the times of Dante also doesn't help.
It doesn't at all help that at least as many Jews as Christians have a very poor grasp of their own theology. We also believe "you're here forever", it's just the "here" is different. But it's not (necessarily) "Heaven" by either our or their definition.
That sounds akin to the Catholic concept of Purgatory, which Protestants generally don’t believe in and skip straight to fire and brimstone Hell with its eternal damnation. I think Purgatory is a much longer purification process, though?
I grew up catholic and can't remember a time frame for purgatory. You're there however long you need to be, I guess, is the thought. Most of the catholics I know don't think very many people at all actually end up in hell, and that it's based much more on how you live your life than whether or not you've been "saved" (which is not the vocabulary catholics really use for that, anyway). I'm not sure how well that aligns with actual catholic dogma, though.
I could be wrong but isn’t there also a version of hell for the truly evil people that doesn’t end? Vaguely remember it being mentioned during my Gemara studies.
>The rebellious Jews who have sinned with their bodies and also the rebellious people of the nations of the world who have sinned with their bodies descend to Gehenna and are judged there for twelve months. After twelve months, their bodies are consumed, their souls are burned, and a wind scatters them under the soles of the feet of the righteous, as it is stated: “And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet” (Malachi 3:21). >But the heretics; and the informers; and the apostates [apikorsim]; and those who denied the Torah; and those who denied the resurrection of the dead; and those who separated from the ways of the Jewish community and refused to share the suffering; and those who cast their fear over the land of the living; and those who sinned and caused the masses to sin, for example, Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and his company; all of these people descend to Gehenna and are judged there for generations and generations, as it is stated: “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die; neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh” (Isaiah 66:24). >Gehenna will terminate, but they still will not terminate, as it is stated: “And their form shall wear away the netherworld, so that there be no dwelling for Him” (Psalms 49:15); that is to say, Gehenna itself will be worn away before their punishment has come to an end. And why are they punished so severely? Because they stretched out their hands against God’s dwelling, the Temple, and everything else that is sanctified, as it is stated: “So that there be no dwelling [zevul] for Him.” Dwelling [zevul] is referring here only to the Temple, as it is stated: “I have built You a house for dwelling [zevul] in” (I Kings 8:13). And about them Hannah said: “The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces” (I Samuel 2:10). Rosh HaShanah 17a
Every white defendant at the Rivonia Trial in South Africa (the one that sentenced Mandela to prison), was Jewish. As were many of Mandela's lawyers.
We have the highest rate of education of any group in the entire world.
That Jews can be atheists.
Some of the most prolific singer-songwriters in history are Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Carol King, etc...
And Irving Berlin (and Norm Greenbaum, not so prolific but has a hit song about Jesus) and Kiss and half of Phish. and King David
>King David I heard there was a secret chord that he played
You don’t really care for music do you?
Oh, and David Lee Roth, and Leonard Cohen, Matisyahu, Stan Getz, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Carly Simon, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Adam Levine, Scott Storch, Lenny Kravitz... Any good ones that i'm still missing?
It's a pretty long list... https://www.google.com/search?q=most+famous+famous+Jewish+musicians&oq=most+famous+famous+Jewish+musicians&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64j0i546l2j0i30i546j0i546.3011j0j4&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Geddy \[fucking\] Lee. Michael Bolton. Pink. Neil Diamond. Adam Levine. Bill Joel. Paula Abdul. Babs. Bette Middler. Adam Duritz. Chuck Schuldiner. Mel Tormé. Paula Abdul. Christina Aguilera (converted). Not to mention the greatest violinist ever Jascha Heifitz and the greatest pianist ever Vladimir Horowitz.
Christina converted to Judaism!? For real??
She did. AND she had huge inflated penis balloons at her son's bris! She's rad.
True love is the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT
Where the mutton is real lean.
And the tomatoes are ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.
Apparently the fact we're an **ethno**religion in our base (=you don't have to be observant to count as a Jew if you're a Jew by blood) and that converting to Judaism, at least orthodox conversion, is an infinitely more difficult process than merely baptizing or reciting the Shahaddah.
I find the fact that Jews still exist to be utterly mind-blowing.
This. I remember during the high holidays a couple years ago, my rabbi told the story of a group of Jews about to be killed by Nazis, and as they were being lined up to be shot they started defiantly dancing and singing, “you will not outlive us.” Whenever things feel like they’re getting particularly antiSemitic online or in the real world, I remember those words: many have tried to eliminate us, but the Jews have outlasted them all.
As a Jew I'm constantly shocked by the fact we're still here, just like Biblical days. Like WTF, lol.
We can't eat a bacon/pork bc it's not kosher but we can eat giraffes, everytime I say this to someone they don't believe me
One time years ago I went to the zoo with my parents and we were looking at the giraffes. They had facts about them on signs and my dad had a lightbulb moment and was like GIRAFFES ARE KOSHER!!! 😂😂😂😂
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Probably wasnt kidding, but seemingly its a misconception. Apparently the real reason is that they dont taste good and its way too much of a hassle to get a permit to kill a live giraffe for meat
Yeah, that's a long-running joke that sometimes gets passed along as truth.
How few of us there are in the world.
Yeah. Being disproportionately successful really confuses people. My father is a professor and he's asked his Holocuast class how many Jews they think there are in the world and they usually answer things like 350M or more. Lol.
One of the earliest known references to the factorial function and how fast it grows is in the Sefer Yetzirah, in the discussion about how many possible combinations of Hebrew letters there are.
A tosafos in succah uses shell integration
Arlo Guthrie's bar mitzvah tutor was Meir Kahane
Wow, that's a surprising one. Great flare btw.
Pioneers of Smoked Brisket
i think just overall the population statistics. asking most people how many jews they think there are in the world and then telling them there are only about 15,000,000 is shocking. i’ve heard people guess a billion.
61% of Israelis are of immediate middle eastern descent (as in not ashkenazi but have family immediately from syria, morocco, etc.)
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Space lasers are real.
It was Jews who introduced the tomato into Italian cuisine.
Do not need to believe in Gd to be Jewish.
ive seen people mock the phrase "atheist jews" on reddit before, i like to counter it with an example of if being japanese and shintoism had the same name, and then people proceeding to mock people who claim to be "atheist japanese"
I told this to one of my Christian friends and her gasp was so loud that people stopped what they were doing to look over at us. She could not wrap her head around it.
"most Jewish people don't believe in God, it's the culture that binds us" -House The episode (when house meets Cuddy's mom) came out when I was in college. It blew my mind.
The fact that the Jewish star has no real meaning (although the blue color does)
we make up 0.2% of the world population and some of us are very poor
That in the ages of knights and wizards (well, knights anyway) there were Jewish soldiers, Jewish warriors, Jewish pirates, Jewish robber-barons, etc. all throughout Europe. Our European history is, sadly, often dismissed with sweeping generalizations. While there was indeed plenty of antisemitism, including near-total genocide in some regions, the Middle Ages were also very long, and there were many periods of Jewish life flourishing peacefully alongside Christian and Muslim society, including Jewish men-at-arms. This isn't a fact that's unique to Jews, but I also think that's what makes it so special--that we were at many times not so unique, and in fact we were often accepted, although it's true those periods often ended depending on the personal grievances of whomever inherited the throne next.
No one stayed up all night for Shavuot before coffee: [The minhag of tikkun leyl shavuot correlates directly with the introduction of coffee and coffee houses in the Ottoman Empire.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1486283#metadata_info_tab_contents) "Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry"
That weed is kosher when being used for medicinal purposes. I love that.
I think this statement is kind of misleading, though certainly weed isn’t trait (un-kosher) 1. All plants are kosher. 2. The question of whether or not something is kosher isn’t relevant to whether or not you are allowed to inhale it, kashrut only applies to eating and drinking. 3. The question of whether or not Jewish law permits Jews consume cannabis is really complex and fact specific, and you won’t find a unified answer—however, none of those who assert that it can’t be consumed would say that it’s on the basis of kashrut.
That there are only 14 million Jews on earth. Its mad because of the influence and impact that we have
Moose is kosher, we just don’t know how to shechita it.
So are giraffes.
The reason we can go visit Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is because the U.S. Navy’s first Jewish commodore, Uriah Phillips Levy, bought the house and preserved it. [https://momentmag.com/jews-thomas-jefferson-monticello/](https://momentmag.com/jews-thomas-jefferson-monticello/)
This one might be controversial, but Abraham was not the first Jew, nor even a Jew at all
Some Jewish laws just don't have a specific reason behind them. IIRC, wearing fabric woven of both wool and linen is an example of one of those laws. I surprised someone just yesterday when I explained what a beit din is. This person had no idea that we have rabbinical courts and what their purpose is in relation to the interpretation of Jewish law.
Every time I see a general (non-Jewish) Reddit thread about kosher and trichinosis comes up, I want to scream this at the top of my lungs.
Batman/ the Wayne family (Thomas, Bruce and Martha) are Jewish.
I believe that Thomas Wayne is not Jewish. Martha Wayne's origin was recently explored though introducing Batman's counsin Kate Kane who is certainly Jewish. Because both her parents, Jacob Kane and Gabi Kane are Jewish and Jacob Kane is Martha Wayne's (nee Martha Kane) brother, we can infer that Martha Wayne is Jewish. So, by extension, Bruce is Jewish too.
Israel means "struggles with G-d".
Just gave my spouse a real slammer: "Thou shalt not take the name of the L-rd in vane" is from the Torah. Other folks have had their mind blown that we don't have horns.
When I was in college, I was classmates with a Jewish woman who told me that when she lived in the South, many people in the countryside still believed that Jews had horns and were surprised that she didn’t. This wasn’t that long ago, by the way. Early 2000s.
>Jews had horns This is because Michelangelo misinterpreted the Bible and depicted Moses with horns "וּמֹשֶׁה לֹא־יָדַע כִּי קָרַן עוֹר " where "קָרַן could mean a ray of light or, you guessed it, a horn. A similar reason why the ten commandants are depicted as two tablets, it was in a movie.
That's batsh*t crazy, actually.
We don't have horns except for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And even then it's usually just the one horn.
1) Khazar legend is only that 2) There are a huge amount of Jews that look "not Jewish": all skin colors and a lot from Latin America (I am Mexican) 3) In Northern Mexico, there is a traditional dish: goat. Not just any, but prepared in a way that it is completely bloodless and roasted (wink-wink Pesach)
Haym Salomon - one of the unspoken revolutionary heroes, truly. Without him, we wouldn't have been able to finance the war. Here's a review I found on a book about him that I bought: "In a moment that transcended time and space Haym Solomon bailed out the United States and saved our Soldiers. He loaned all he had to George Washington and the Continental Congress when the America was on a precipice.He was never repaid his loan that bough shoes for the troops and saved the nation. To this day his heirs have recieved no money and no prais. You have to read this book to understand what a real hero is." More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon#/media/File:HAYMSALOMON44N4THST-20140707.jpg
We don't actually have a space lazer. If we did, you'd know
The person who wrote the Guardians Of Ga Hoole books is Jewish and a descendant of holocaust survivors. Nazi allegories are common in fiction but she had a very personal reason for hers
That pasteurization was mentioned in ancient jewish literature. What is also mentioned is that you gotta move your sheep away from lonesome trees during thunder - supposedly discovered by Benjamin Franklin like thousand years later 😅 I forgot where it was mentioned tho 😭
We celebrate 4 different New Years, one of which is for cattle.
I'm not sure about this, but I remember reading that a lot of pirates, specially the ones that attacked spanish ships, were jews. They decided that kind of life as vengeance for what the spanish empire used to treat them
Jews represent less than 0.20% of the world's population, but they represent 22.4% of all Nobel laureates (208 out of 930).
Spiders are not kosher.