So by chance I read a wiki-page yesterday and one now.
Both people happened to be Jewish but their wiki-page only says ”Jewish decent”. Isn’t that weird or is it just me?
Maybe it’s just me. Two isn’t really a pattern..
But do you think there’s a difference, and is it important to distinguish between them?
Have you noticed something like this?
The fast-changing future for Jews in the West,
by Mijal Bitton, Future of Jewish, 2026-05-21.
> As the old integrationist dream weakens, many Western Jews will > increasingly need to rediscover the strength of family, community, > and peoplehood — cornerstones of the Sephardic Jewish experience. > > Western Jews have lately been sensing the end of what has been > dubbed our “Golden Age” or “A Jewish Century.” Looking back > longingly at the past hundred years, we question whether the next > century will be as kind to us and our children as the last one was. > > It’s a reasonable question, but as I’ve noticed, it tends to be > asked more often by American Ashkenazi Jews than by those whose > families came from Muslim lands across the Middle East and North > Africa, widely referred to as Sephardic Jews. > > There is a profound difference between how Western Ashkenazi Jews > from the lands of the cross and Western Sephardic Jews from the > lands of the crescent are experiencing this moment, and in that > difference lie competing visions of the Western dream, rooted in > each community’s pre-modern-day-West history.
I totally get why they did this. No hate on Sesame Street.
The Movement Against Antizionism recently had their first big political conferences recently. One of the attendees was Ben Shapiro. I am kind of divided about this. Since antizionism is a form of Jew hatred, all Jews are going to be effected. In fact, even antizionist Jews like Molly Crabapple will be effected once their use as tokens is over. Ben Shapiro is a Jew and as an Orthodox Jew is the most likely to be attacked because he is visibly Jewish. It would be uncharitable not to include him. At the same time, the people we need to convince that the antizionists are not acting in good faith and are really just massive Jew haters are going to be on the liberal-left side of the political spectrum. Ben Shapiro is not going to be a credible figure for this argument because most people on the liberal-left spectrum hate him. I have no way around this dilemma.
Ingredients List
For the Salmon:
4 salmon fillets (thick cuts work best)
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
For the Spinach Filling:
1 cup fresh spinach, chopped
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese
3oz shredded mozzarella
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes(optional for heat)
If you love extra flavor, you can also add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice or some crumbled feta to the filling.
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Step 1: Preheat the Oven
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees,If you’re using an oven-safe skillet, you can cook everything in one pan. Otherwise, line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2: Prepare the Spinach Filling
In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese, Parmesan, chopped spinach, mozzarella,minced garlic, and red pepper flakes. Stir until everything is well combined. The mixture should be smooth and spreadable.
Step 3: Prepare the Salmon Fillets
Pat the salmon fillets dry with a paper towel. Using a sharp knife, cut a pocket in the center of each fillet, being careful not to cut all the way through. This will hold the filling.
Season the salmon with salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning on both sides.
Step 4: Stuff the Salmon
Using a spoon, carefully fill each salmon pocket with the spinach and cream cheese mixture. Gently press the filling inside so it stays in place.
Step 5:Bake the Salmon
Transfer the salmon to the preheated oven and bake for 23-25 minutes, or until the salmon is cooked through. The flesh should be opaque and flake easily with a fork.
Step 7: Serve and Enjoy
Remove the salmon from the oven and let it rest for 2-3 minutes before serving. Garnish with fresh parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice for an extra burst of flavor.
hey all, wanted to make a little post here because i can’t really talk to my family about this because it makes them depressed
i was born in israel and moved to new jersey about 10 years ago when i was 10 years old. this gave me the very unique privilege of getting to directly experience the changing views on israel with the times. from “oh i don’t know where that is” “yeah i didn’t expect you to haha it’s a small country”, to “ahh i think i heard about that? it’s in the middle east right?” to “oh so you’re jewish?” to much more disgusted and noticeable reactions
i mean generally speaking the hate of israel and israeli people is pretty much inescapable in any (non Jewish exclusive) fandom, group, or area, it is insanely normalised and you hear it every day in jokes around campus. i learned to grow thicker skin around it, but the issue is it’s starting to get me into shit. i have a pretty strict personal moral code against not lying unless it’s for someone else’s sake. so i used to just avoid the topic, and then when asked when im from id tell the truth.
after a particularly bad event though at a halloween party when my (ex)friend’s roommate immediately left the room upon me revealing where i was born and then going on about how israel doesn’t exist and everyone from there is bloodthirsty and brainwashed, i began just refusing to tell people where im from.
this brings me to yesterday. i was hooking up with this guy and getting high. when im intoxicated, it’s harder for me to keep up an american accent, and my natural accent pops out. he noticed this and asked me where im from— which prompted me to say that i unfortunately no longer share that information as it’s not particularly safe for me to do so but he’s free to guess if he wants.
this caused him to excitedly bounce around country names. he named countries from all over the world with excitement and amazement, many of them with terrible histories and having committed an innumerable amount of human atrocities. after continuously rejecting his guesses, he began getting frustrated, and said, “dude i have no clue where you could be from! i feel like i guessed everything” to which i answered light heartedly, getting comfortable, “i gave you the biggest hint at the start!” “which was?” “that it’s not safe for me to reveal where i’m from anymore because it ruins my relationships.” this comment immediately shifted his mood. “oh… i, i actually was gonna guess that at the start but didn’t because i thought it was unlikely…” then, he tensely added, “so you were born there?” “yeah, and lived there for 10 years” “why did you move here?” “because we didn’t like the government” “oh thank god!” he noted, relaxing a bit, “i was worried you were implying something when you mentioned you’re from israel. like i was worried you’re a zio- well ah sorry i don’t mean to upset you. it’s… it’s cool” i could tell he was getting nervous again at this point due to the lack of me laughing along. “it’s okay,” i think i responded, “i don’t care about the nitty gritty politics. i don’t care what your position or anyone else’s is. i have my own opinions on the situation, but i don’t think it’s relevant to my identity whatsoever. i didn’t choose to be born in israel. i don’t think anyone should be judged based on things they can’t control. i don’t think anyone should die. i always align myself with the position i think will secure peace and prosperity to as many people as possible. i don’t judge people based on their citizenship” he completely agreed with me and we laid the topic to rest, but it kinda stuck with me. he was chill, but this is a conversation i have had so many times at this point just for revealing a fact about myself. and as previously mentioned, it doesn’t always go so well. what stood out to me though was how it feels like the assumption of what israeli people are like keeps deteriorating. it keeps going further down the “guilty until proven innocent” path, if the view holder even gives israeli people that sort of benefit of the doubt.
i guess i just wonder if there’s something to be done about it. i used to put in effort to show people israeli people aren’t some heartless monsters but it proved pretty fruitless, because my words were forgotten as soon as a popular leftist figure comes along talking about how terrible israel is. (don’t get me started on the new york times.) when i saw i wasn’t getting anywhere, i encouraged my family to give up the fight too and just ride this hate wave out until people get bored. but it’s increasingly feeling like people aren’t getting bored. the news and demonisation just keeps on coming and getting more extreme. so yeah i guess im a tad lost on the matter
The neighbors got the house: looting as structural infrastructure,
by Eliezer Aryeh, Eliezer’s substack, 2026-05-21.
> One of the comments from Reddit about the prior post asked > a question that historians have spent decades trying to answer > properly: to what degree was local support for the deportation of > Jews influenced by the prospect of prime real estate coming on the > market at must-sell prices? > > The neighbor who moved into a Jewish apartment within hours of a > massacre, the municipal mayor who forced a fire-sale deed at 2am > under threat of Dachau, the Reich finance minister redistributing > confiscated Jewish furniture to German bombing victims as social > welfare, these were not separate phenomena. The Holocaust was, among > other things, a transfer of wealth, and that transfer implicated > ordinary people at every level of German and occupied European > society in ways that go well beyond ideology.
Just curious how people observe Shavuot. I'm going to two events tomorrow at two synagogues. I am on the fence about staying up all night and attending the later, overnight events at one of them. I think I can only last until midnight. I went to part of the overnight one last year and absolutely LOVED it. I love learning and debating. 😄
How do you all observe or celebrate Shavuot?
France's Jews are leaving en masse — again,
by Melissa Brodsky
> The largest Jewish community in Europe is shrinking as antisemitism, > Islamist violence, and institutional denial drive thousands to > question whether modern-day France is safe for Jews.
Recently at a friend’s bday party I was talking to one of her boyfriend’s friends who I’d never met. Probably the first thing he said to me is “oh you’re Jewish right?” And I was like, yeah but who told you that etc etc. Not because it’s a bad thing OF COURSE but because I found it very strange that that would even be something worth mentioning. Especially because I don’t wear the Star of David or have any “outward symbols.” And he got all defensive and was like “oh no no no someone just said it in the same breath as like - no jokes about Jewish people tonight!” Literally ruined my night for so many reasons
to warn their antisemitic friend he couldn’t make his beloved jokes … then
Anyway, had to vent because it really was one of my first tastes of microaggression (at least for being Jewish, I’ve had ones for being gay of course before) … and it was not fun lol
Elon Gilad, who does short videos on Hebrew etymologies and some of the more obscure parts of Jewish and Israeli history, has a video on how Labor Zionist pioneers in the Jezreel Valley attempted to recreate Shavuot as a harvest festival before the Religious Zionists and the Rabbinate stomped it out. I'm always fascinated about the history of trying to create or recreate Jewish national culture in the pre-state and early state eras of Israel. It is really hard to find a lot of this information in English so anything is welcome.
Shavuot is not only about receiving the Torah. It is about what the Torah is meant to do to a person.
📌Why do we read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot?
📌And why does the Torah place such emphasis on kindness, humility, and responsibility for others?
This video explores a powerful question: if Torah learning does not transform the way we treat people, have we truly understood Sinai at all?
Chag Sameach.
Watch now 👉https://youtu.be/2zAMMYKXQQ4
Our community is rightly enraged. It’s sickening to see this gallery give this “artist” a platform where he profits off of the paintings of tunnels where beautiful Jewish people were held hostage, starved, beaten, raped and killed. There are many comments calling him out, but his responses are heartless and enraging. I don’t even know how to respond to this, I’m just hurt and angry.
Hi all,
I'm wondering if those with experience as parents/administrators in the Jewish day school world can chime in. I am an alumnus of Jewish day school (a Solomon Schechter) through 8th grade and loved my education there, and I want to be able to offer that for my future children. I am far from having kids (presumably need to get married first!) but BH hope to have them, and I am finding myself getting very worried about being able to send these future little ones to Jewish day school due to cost of tuition.
I'm wondering if anyone out there can quell my fears and tell me about your experiences with schools offering financial aid, etc. I unfortunately don't have a high paying job - I do fine, but I'm not a lawyer or doctor - and idk, this has just been really stressing me out. I would like to stay in the NYC metropolitan area, assuming my work (or future wife's work BH) does not move us elsewhere.
Thanks!!
I applaud the representatives sharing the evidence of threatening bigotry and hate but to what end? How do you counter the normalization of obvious antisemitism?
They have already started to blame Jews for the shooting in San Diego …. Sigh….
Rabbi David Ingber takes on his fellow progressive Rabbis by pointing out how some do not care enough about their own people. IMO, this is a thing but I am not sure if it as much as a thing as David Ingber is claiming. From my personal experience in the Bay Area, many progresssive Rabbis are basically trying to keep their synagogues together because of deep faction disagreements in the congregation itself on the current moment.
It will be the first weekend in June. The service is Saturday (have an outfit already for this), celebration is Sunday. Is this dress appropriate for the celebration? If not, is it the cut/style of the color that is wrong?