@fegeleh

i am thinking about turning @fegeleh into a more serious thing tho….  like proper writing, essays and stuff. less reblogging and more original work. what do folks think?

therenegadegabbai:

therenegadegabbai:

Jewish Deaf Resource Center:

Youtube channel (ASL and captioned)
Website
NYC-are synagogues with interpreters for High Holy Days and Shabbat services upon request
UJA-Federation of New York Jewish Community Deaf Interpreting Fund

Jewish Deaf Community Center:

Website
Videos

Jewish Deaf Multimedia (Chabad-affiliated, also in Spanish and French)

Jewish Signs Glossary
Online school–ASL courses in ISL and written/spoken Modern Hebrew
Synagogue Survival Guide
Weekly parsha videos (ASL and captioned)

Our Way (Yachad)

Resource page (information on services, retreats, job assistance, ASL-translated prayers, etc)
Video phone  646-297-1973

Jewish Deaf Foundation

Website
Monthly ASL “Chai Hour” in NYC

Gallaudet University Hillel

Contact information
Interpreted Saturday morning services–Congregation Tifereth Israel, Washington, DC

Washington Society of Jewish Deaf (Washington, DC area)

Website

Jewish Deaf Congress, Inc.

Website

Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh (Reconstructionist)

Shema in ASL
RRC Profile
Congregation Kerem Shalom, Concord, MA

David Bar-Tzur

Interpreting in Jewish Settings
Written ASL gloss of interpreted services for all occasions in various denominations
“Jewish signs an educated interpreter should know” (ASL and captioned)

**I am a hearing Jew with Deaf family, and far from an expert on these resources or on Jewish Deaf issues. This list is definitely incomplete–please add more resources if you know of them (particularly outside of Orthodoxy, Ashkenaz, and NYC), and feel free to correct any wrong/outdated information.
**If you are looking for an interpreter for services in your area, please feel free to message me privately–the Jewish interpreting world is very small, and I can try to put you in touch with someone who can help!

@returnofthejudai, @deaflepuff, @rated-d, @witch-of-habonim-dror, something you might be interested in!

agnellina:

[Alexis’s note: the Jew Bill was the common name for the Jewish Naturalization Act 1753, which granted naturalization to Jews who applied to Parliament. It received royal assent in July of 1753, but was repealed in 1754 after widespread opposition, partially a claim of abandonment of Christianity.]

“[Linda] Colley adds, “increasingly as the wars went on, [the English] defined themselves in contrast to the colonial peoples they conquered, peoples who were manifestly alien in terms of culture, religion, and colour. Of course, as the preceding chapters have made clear, the English did not need to look beyond the Jews they had once expelled and who had now returned to their shores to find a people "manifestly alien” not only in their culture, religion, and physiognomy but also in their confused and confusing national identity… I believe that a far more complex set of projections, ones that include first and foremost the Irish as well as the Jews, the French, the Spanish, and the peoples colonized in these early years of the British Empire, collectively combine to redefine British and English identity. What was especially pernicious about the Jewish Other was that it kept trying to claim for itself a part of Englishness and indeed had already met with considerable success.

In exploring the response to such Jewish incursions during the course of the Jew Bill controversy, it is easiest to begin with the crudest sort of claims, ones that depended on showing the racial inferiority of those who were not English. Perhaps the most skilled at this in the 1753 debate was James Ralph, who concluded that Jews “cannot be incorporated with Englishmen without violating whatever Englishmen hold sacred.” Their “very breed,” he writes, “is in general of the lowest, basest, and most contemptible kind, distinguishable to the eye by peculiar marks, odious for that distinction, and what, if once communicated to a family becomes indelible.” Arguing that Jews should be excluded on racial grounds, Ralph points to the example of the Portuguese, who had degenerated as a race because of their contaminations with the “impure blood of the Jews.” Similar racial arguments appear in the London Evening Post, where a writer using the pseudonym “Old England” suggest that “had there been a law to inoculate the leprosy upon every man, woman, and child, throughout his Majesty’s British dominions, there had been less to complain of, than of the impure conjunction with Jewish blood, at the expense of all that can be called Christian amongst us.” A popular ballad published at the this charged that the Jew Bill would turn the Jews into masters and the English into their servants…

Other writers were careful to distinguish the unassimilable Jews from more acceptable immigrants groups. In the proceedings of the “Political Club,” published in the London Evening Post, one speaker argues that “the Jews are not like French refugees, or German Protestants,” for these “in a generation or two become so incorporated with us, that there is no distinguishing them from the rest of the people: their children, or grandchildren, are no longer French, or Germans, or of the French or German nation, but become truly English, and deem themselves to be of the English nation.” In contrast, “the unconverted Jews can never incorporate with us. They must for ever remain Jews, and will always deem themselves to be of the Hebrew, not the English nation.”

- James Shapiro, ”Shakespeare and the Jews“, p. 206-07

jewishhenna:

kuttithevangu:

i was going ask “if people say the lord’s prayer to get rid of christian vampires, would you say kaddish if it’s a jewish vampire?” just as an offhand question 

but then i was thinking like, that’s kind of cute actually… saying a mourning prayer for an undead creature… what if instead of being hurt and warded off by it they’re emotionally touched and change their mind about hassling you

I mean, the origin of the Mourners’ Kaddish, according to one medieval midrash, was to get rid of a ghost/undead spirit (see here and here):

A tale of R. Akiva. He was walking in a cemetery by the side of the road and encountered there a naked man, black as coal, carrying a large burden of wood on his head. He seemed to be alive, and was running under the load like a horse. R. Akiva ordered him to stop.“How comes it that a man does such hard work?” he asked. “If you are a servant and your master is doing this to you, then I will redeem you from him. If you are poor and people are avoiding you, then I will give you money.”“Please sir,” the man replied. “Do not detain me, because my superiors will be angry.”“Who are you,” Rabbi Akiva asked, “and what have you done?”
The man said, “The man whom you are addressing is a dead man. Every day they send me out to chop wood.”“My son, what was your work in the world from which you came?” “I was a tax collector, and would favour the rich and kill the poor.” “Have your superiors told you nothing about how you might relieve your condition?” “Please sir, do not detain me, for you will irritate my tormentors. For such a man [as I], there can be no relief. Though I did hear them say something—but no, it is impossible. They said that if this poor man had a son, and his son were to stand before the congregation and recite the prayer Barekhu and the congregation were to answer amen, and the son were also to say Yehe shme mevarakh, they would release him from his punishment. But this man never had a son. He left his wife pregnant and he did not know whether the child was a boy. And if she gave birth to a boy, who would teach the boy Torah? For this man does not have a friend in the world.” Immediately Rabbi Akiva took upon himself the task of discovering whether this man had fathered a son, so that he might teach the son Torah and install him at the head of the congregation to lead the prayers. “What is your name?” he asked. “Akiva,” the man answered. “And the name of your wife?” “Shoshnia.” “And the name of your town?” “Lodkiya.”
Rabbi Akiva was deeply troubled by all this and went to make his inquiries. When he came to that town, he asked about the man he had met, and the townspeople replied, “May his bones be ground to dust!” He asked about the man’s wife, and he was told, “May her memory be erased from the world!” He asked about the man’s son, and he was told, “He is a heathen—we did not even bother to circumcise him.” Rabbi Akiva promptly circumcised him and sat him down before a book. But the boy refused to receive Torah. Rabbi Akiva fasted for forty days. A heavenly voice was heard to say, “For this you mortify yourself?” “But Lord of the Universe,” Rabbi Akiva replied, “It is for You that I am preparing him.”
Suddenly the Holy Blessed One opened the boy’s heart. Rabbi Akiva taught him Torah, the Shema, and Birkat haMazon. He presented the boy to the congregation and the boy recited Barekhu and they answered Barukh hamevorakh le’olam va’ed. At that very moment the man was released from his punishment. The man immediately came to Rabbi Akiva in a dream and said, “May it be the will of the Lord that your soul find delight in the Garden of Eden, for you have saved me from the sentence of Gehenna.” … For this reason, it became customary that Ma‘ariv on the night after Shabbat is led by a man who does not have a father or a mother, so that he can say Kaddish and Barekhu.

So you’re actually right on track.

thegeekyblonde:

lunalab:

what would it mean to @ god? something to consider. not even prayer, but @ing him. calling him out. are you there god, its me and i have receipts. 

judaism

jurhfalastini:

jurhfalastini:

It’s not a hard concept to grasp that Israelis cannot exist in Palestine as they currently are and do. This is not saying that Jews can’t live in Palestine, quite the opposite. However, they cannot exist as a privileged class by virtue of their ethnicity. They cannot exist as settlers. They cannot exist while they continue to militarily occupy another people. They continue to have the upperhand even within Internal Israeli politics. They have the upperhand in pretty much every aspect of Israeli society, even over Palestinian citizens of Israel whom are Israeli citizens. There is no justification as to why Israelis need to maintain their current status quo. 

Israelis routinely get away with violence against Palestinians, they are hardly ever apprehended while Palestinians are always shot and killed on sight or sentenced to harsh sentences in Israeli prisons. 

homojabi:

Not all lesbians are thin white girls who wear Calvin Klein underwear and go camping every weekend. Lesbians are brown girls in salwar kameezes and bindis and black girls with dreadlocks and afros and Muslim girls in hijabs and Jewish girls in tznius, lesbians are fat girls and 5X+ girls and girls with big bones and girls who are 6 feet tall, lesbians are poor girls on welfare and girls getting food stamps and homeless girls and girls working multiple minimum wage jobs, lesbians are girls with depression and anxiety and girls with personality disorders and psychosis and girls in the hospital and girls who are suicidal, lesbians are girls with disabilities and girls in wheelchairs and girls with chronic pain and girls who are blind and deaf and girls who are in recovery and girls who can’t recover, lesbians are girls who are 5 years old and girls who are 85 years old and girls who have known their whole life and girls who just found out, lesbians are girls from literally all walks of life and all cultures and all religions and our stories are so unique and so vast and to reduce us to only a small group of girls who most of us aren’t is disingenuous of who we all are as a whole.

girlsuggestion:

protect Jewish girls