"Ich verstehe trans Frauen ja sowieso nicht, aber wenn der Uropa _vielleicht_ ein besonders toxischer Macker war, finde ich es sogar völlig inakzeptabel"

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(So nach der Logik mancher Gerfeindlichkeit in Deutschland)

#Judentum #Giyur #Gerfeindlichkeit #judaism #conversion #Mazeldon

Watching part 3 of Ken Burns’ The US and the #Holocaust. I think everyone should watch it. It is history that must be remembered, showing exactly what happened.

Especially those of us who are looking to convert to #Judaism should see it because although we may not have relatives who were direct victims, it will no longer be history of ‘those’ people but will be history of ‘our’ people.

We must answer, “why do you want to become a Jew?”

#mazeldon #JoiningTheTribe #Giyur #KenBurns #Jewdiverse

At Hanukkah I asked one of my Jewish friends how she learnt the tunes to the blessings and she said that she couldn’t remember because her family had done it since she was a baby.

As a future convert, how would I:
- learn the tunes (and *which* tunes? There are different versions)
- get over the crippling embarrassment of singing a blessing even in the privacy of my own home 😅

#JoiningTheTribe #Giyur #Judaism

Confession: I’ve still to see #FiddlerOnTheRoof. It’s not available for streaming here in Japan so I need to get the DVD.

Also, I got the DVD for Yentl but haven’t watched it yet.

I think when you have #depression the walk to the DVD player is like crossing an ocean.

#JoiningTheTribe #Giyur #JewishMovies #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

With my orthodox #giyur, of course I made a hard break with other religions, both what I tried to practice in the past, but also the dominant one here (even though I was never a part of that except culturally).

At the same time I am pluralistic minded. I appreciate when non-Jews send me wishes for our holidays and would like to reciprocate. But feelings are hard.

(cont'd)

I realised it was incredibly remiss of me to start asking about people’s experiences of conversion without giving my own (in process) story, so here it is for the others #JoiningTheTribe or those #Giyur who might be interested.

(Might be a few toots long; not sure about the convention for this):

I’m from the UK where you probably know there aren’t many Jews compared to the US. I’m also from the North, far from London and not from Manchester or Leeds where there are Jewish communities.

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