I want to be prepared for Rosh Hashanah this year, so give me your fav dishes #roshashanah #jewish #Jewishcommunity

@jzitt @mlevie @johndoepe @mazeldon

Ugh, I hate this tiny character limit. I am thus attaching my concluding thoughts in this picture (click to enlarge text.)

#Achdut #AhavatYisrael #Jewishcommunity

#AhavatYisrael #JewishPeople #Jewishcommunity #Ahavat #JewishUnity #Israel #terrorism #JewishLivesMatter

@PYMundGenealogy

#AhavatYisrael #JewishPeople #Jewishcommunity #Ahavat

@PYMundGenealogy , something that I love <3

In 1976, the #Lubavitcher Rebbe added the #mitzvah of Ahavat Yisrael (love for a fellow Jew) to his mitzvah campaign - a shortlist of practical actions he proposed with the goal of encouraging every Jew, regardless of his or her degree of religious observance, to do a G‑dly deed.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/142444/jewish/Because-Were-All-One.htm

#KlalYisrael #Jewishcommunity

The pressing need and opportunity for Jewish unity - Never since the end of the second world war has there been more of a need for all Jews to work together. And never has there been more opportunity.

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/the-pressing-need-and-opportunity-for-jewish-unity/

@mazeldon

#Hope #Tikvah #Achdut #antisemitism #antisemitismus #Jewishcommunity

@ekim97532 @mazeldon

Do you think such a question helps? We should instead ask - how do we get more Jewish people to make friends in real life, build #kehillah? I am sometimes a bit concerned about Mastodon's #Jewishcommunity: whenever someone brings up collaboration, it gets a poor response. We can do better than assume the worst - we should instead work for the best! What do you think of these examples of Jewish collaborations? (click link)

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/orthodox-and-non-orthodox-jewish-collaboration/

As Jew we should never accept broken & dysfunctional as okay or the norm for the #JewishCommunity. We should always strive for collaboration, compromise, and Ahavat Yisrael. For example see White Plains, New York - There's 5 shuls (Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, & 2 Orthodox.) The rabbis are close and there are 5 shul events from time to time. They even study together. They ignore criticism from the religious far right & left, and do the right thing. Kol Hakavod!

@mazeldon

Jewish sisters and brothers, in a world where extremists on the right chant “Jews will not replace us” – and extremists on the left chant “globalize the intifada” - we must remember that Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Bazeh. All of Israel Are Responsible for One Another. (Talmud Bavli, Shevuot 39a)

Reform, Orthodox, Sephardic, and Conservative Jews need to reach out to each other with love, support, and understanding. We should want to find ways to work #together.

#JewishCommunity #KlalYisrael #Achdut

@ekim97532 @mazeldon @emilyk

In fact there are 2500 Jewish people with us in Coffeehouse Torah Talk, who believe that #Jews can be friends with, learn with, and support Jewish people of any denomination. Our mission statement is old fashioned #AhavatYisrael - which scares & threatens those on the far right or far left, who attempt to gain power by seeing other Jews as an enemy. We disagree. We are stronger together.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/coffeehousetorahtalk

#JewishCommunity

Too many rabbis speak about politics and exclude anyone who doesn't totally agree with their demands. Yet Judaism is not only for right-wingers or left-wingers. If a rabbi picks one and says that view alone is Torah, that is alienating, divisive, and often false. So we here want you to know that Torah is not the property of any one party or social media account.

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/jews-and-elections/

@judaism
@mazeldon
#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #politics #Jewishcommunity

The repair of the world in accordance with the Kingdom of God is possible. The Earth's inhabitants are able to attain the level of recognizing that every person is formed in the image of God without any difference of race, color or religion. Yet they can only attain this through loving others and protecting the rights of others, enacting justice and love for all.

Hakham Avraham David Shalem / Eshed haNahalim / 3:112-113

@judaism
@mazeldon
#Jewish #Jewishcommunity

In our havurah someone asked - If God has decided to do something, can we change God's mind? Any ideas or examples you'd respond with?

@judaism
@mazeldon
#Jewdiverse #Mazeldon #Jewniverse
#Jewish #Judaism #Jews #God #theology #Tanakh #Jewishcommunity

@judaism @mazeldon

Another great article here in Tablet magazine about replacing the older dues model in synagogues with something else.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/over-dues

#synagogues #Jewishcommunity

What is the Right Dues Model for a Synagogue? Fixed dues? No way. Far too many problems. But how about the Fair share model, Voluntary commitment model, Tiered service model, or something else?

https://urj.org/blog/what-right-dues-model-my-congregation

@judaism
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#Jewdiverse #Mazeldon #Jewniverse
#Jewish #Judaism #Jews #dues #synagogue #synagogues #Jewishcommunity

WAPO—The #dhs on Wednesday warned that domestic terrorists were maintaining “a presence online in attempts to motivate supporters to conduct attacks,” citing increased risks for #racial and #religiousminorities and #gays and #transgender people, as well as government institutions. “Recent incidents have highlighted the enduring threat to faith-based communities, including the #Jewishcommunity,” it said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/

As more people trickle in, I figure this is as good a time as any for an #introduction post.

I'm M. Shaw, #IndieHorror darling, author of (most recently) 'One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve' from Tenebrous Press, as well as a bunch of other weird fiction, poetry, and the odd bit of CNF. My work has been characterized as "David Cronenberg by way of Samuel Beckett," which I think sums things up pretty decently. I don't necessarily post about all of that stuff here, but I have a website and email newsletter that are in my profile.

Interests and other relevant shit:
#HorrorCommunity #BirdPhotography #IndiePublishing #Poetry #Surgery #HRT #ForeignFilm #SpecFic #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseMusic #JapanesePhotography #Alchemy #Transit #Cycling #ACAB #Ornithology #PaleoArt #BogBodies #Death #Werewolf #Lunacy #Punk #Archery #Fencing #Kendo #Occultism #JewishCommunity #FuckedUpDeer #ParisCatacombs