Judaism AMA

[BrightShinyGirl]

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around now about Judaism, so why not clear it up?

Disclaimer: my answers will be from the perspective of an American reform Jew. If you asked an Israeli, a conservative Jew, or an orthodox Jew you’d probably get different answers. Which is cool because one of the first things you should know about Jews is that we disagree about everything.

Other Jews are welcome to join in and correct me. I’m not a rabbi and my Hebrew is pretty shaky.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I'll start. Are there any poor Jews?

 

[AnomalyLady]

Thank you for the thread. I have one thing that has been on my mind. As a fellow Jew, not practicing at the moment, I would like your opinion.

Eric Swalwell called Trump, “America’s Hitler” last weekend while promoting the Resist 47.

Do you think we need to control our use of “Nazi” or “Hitler?” Do you think it minimizes the Holocaust?

 

[Baztrachian]

I'll start. Are there any poor Jews?

Ethiopian Jews are relatively impoverished across the board.

In the USA about 20% of the nation's Jewish families would be classed as impoverished.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I'll start. Are there any poor Jews?

Definitely. There's a myth that all Jews are rich, but we're all over the economic spectrum.

 

[Baztrachian]

Definitely. There's a myth that all Jews are rich, but we're all over the economic spectrum.

Right. Just like everyone else.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Thank you for the thread. I have one thing that has been on my mind. As a fellow Jew, not practicing at the moment, I would like your opinion.

Eric Swalwell called Trump, “America’s Hitler” last weekend while promoting the Resist 47.

Do you think we need to control our use of “Nazi” or “Hitler?” Do you think it minimizes the Holocaust?

The Nazis and Hitler did lots of bad things in addition to the Holocaust, so using them as a point of reference is not inherently antisemitic.

However what does get my back up is using words like "genocide" to refer to the war in Gaza. It's intentionally hurtful and inflammatory. Criticize Israel all you want, but don't call us Nazis.

 

[Lance_Castro]

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around now about Judaism

we disagree about everything.

Well, i think you resolved your conundrum.

 

[Baztrachian]

To me calling anyone a Nazi just because you disagree with them diminishes 1) what the Nazis did and 2) what it means to be an actual Nazi.

It necessarily diminishes the crimes against humanity that the Nazi regime committed when they are equated to Israel defending itself against the psychotic Hamas regime. Or for that matter to call someone a Nazi for supporting US border security and deportation of people who have entered the US illegally.

One thing the Nazis were never accused of was deporting the people they didn't like. The Nazis murdered them.

 

[AnomalyLady]

To me calling anyone a Nazi just because you disagree with them diminishes 1) what the Nazis did and 2) what it means to be an actual Nazi.

It necessarily diminishes the crimes against humanity that the Nazi regime committed when they are equated to Israel defending itself against the psychotic Hamas regime. Or for that matter to call someone a Nazi for supporting US border security and deportation of people who have entered the US illegally.

One thing the Nazis were never accused of was deporting the people they didn't like. The Nazis murdered them.

Yeah, I agree. I think it minimizes what happened in the Holocaust to use the words Nazi and Hitler.

 

[Politruk]

Disclaimer: my answers will be from the perspective of an American reform Jew. If you asked an Israeli, a conservative Jew, or an orthodox Jew you’d probably get different answers. Which is cool because one of the first things you should know about Jews is that we disagree about everything.

Two Jews were shipwrecked on a desert island. They built three temples: "You'll go to yours, I'll go to mine, and we'll both boycott that sonofabitch on the hill!"

 

[Politruk]

One thing the Nazis were never accused of was deporting the people they didn't like. The Nazis murdered them.

But deporting them was the first step. Mostly to Poland -- then they invaded Poland and rounded them up.

 

[Baztrachian]

But deporting them was the first step. Mostly to Poland -- then they invaded Poland and rounded them up.

No, Poland was just one of the places where death camps were constructed. And these were not deportations because the victims were taken from one place under Third Reich jurisdiction and put into another place under Third Reich jurisdiction.

At no time did the supposed 'deportees' ever leave Nazi jurisdiction. Therefore they were never deported.

 

[Politruk]

No, Poland was just one of the places where death camps were constructed. And these were not deportations because the victims were taken from one place under Third Reich jurisdiction and put into another place under Third Reich jurisdiction.

At no time did the supposed 'deportees' ever leave Nazi jurisdiction. Therefore they were never deported.

No, Germany expelled its Jews before the war started.

 

[Baztrachian]

No, Germany expelled its Jews before the war started.

Taking away the breathless interpretations of history ninety years after the fact the reality is that the Germans in 1933-1937 deported non-German Jews to their countries of origin - mostly France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The immigration of these people to Germany to assist in the Western restitution regime after World War One was one of the Nazi justifications for their rise to power. Other non-Germans who had migrated into Germany after WW1 were also expelled.

German Jews were driven to emigrate as refugees which is still a horrible thing but it is not the same as deportation. The difference being that emigres pay their own way, select their own destinations, and deportees generally do not.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Religious folks are gullible dangerous idiots and have no place in proper society.

 

[Politruk]

The world would be better off if Abraham had been a pagan idolater -- or, better still, an atheist.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Religious folks are gullible dangerous idiots and have no place in proper society.

Atheists think all religions are like Christianity. Judaism is very different.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Jewish Karen should stick to pineapple husbandry.

Lol

 

[DeluxAuto]

Atheists think

Correct!




You're in a cult.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Correct!




You're in a cult.

If you believe Judaism is a cult, you don't know anything about Judaism, which is not surprising. Most gentiles don't know anything about Judaism except the stereotypes the Christians spread.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Vas iz dis juden doing using an internet machine on a Friday, ja?

 

[DeluxAuto]

If you believe Judaism is a cult, you don't know anything about Judaism, which is not surprising. Most gentiles don't know anything about Judaism except the stereotypes the Christians spread.

Most Jews don't know they're in a cult and don't know anything about atheists except the stereotypes Judaism spreads.

 

[Lazaran]

Correct!


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You're in a cult.

Bro, BSG is NOTHING like that ^, whereas EVERY "Christian" MAGAt is basically the same.



BSG = NOT a cultist.



"Christian" MAGAts = Cultists..



Also:

ANYONE who skipped (glossed?) right over 10/7 and IMMEDIATELY went full “From the river to the sea” / “Israel is the real bad guy” on 10/8 = Cultist.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Vas iz dis juden doing using an internet machine on a Friday, ja?

It's not sunset yet.