"I’m 17, I love #Liverpool, and I’m proud to be #Jewish. But over the past year, being openly Jewish while following #football hasn’t always felt straightforward. That’s why last week, when more than 80 Jewish #Reds came together in London for the launch of the #JewishLiverpoolSupportersClub, it felt so important — and so needed.

This group wasn’t started to make a statement or react to #antisemitism headlines. It grew from something much simpler: the feeling that Jewish supporters wanted a space to come together — to watch Liverpool, talk football, share ideas, and celebrate identity — without hesitation or fear.

Over recent months, I’ve seen how difficult it can be for young #Jews to navigate public spaces. Antisemitism has risen, and for many, just being openly Jewish has become complicated."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/why-we-launched-the-jewish-liverpool-supporters-club-and-why-it-matters/

"In the past few years, we have seen the return of the so-called #Jewish question, or “#JQ,” on some parts of the dissident Right, as high-profile #influencers promote the idea that #Jews are to blame for a wide array of problems in #America, from #foreignpolicy failures and #financialcrises to woke capture and #culturaldecay. #HillsdaleCollege #professor #DavidAzerrad recently published an essay in #Compactmagazine diagnosing the causes and potential effects of this trend. In this episode of #Rufo&Lomez, #Azerrad helps us explore the return of the “JQ,” why it has gained traction with young men, and what it could mean for the future of America."

Note on the politics of this content: this is the American rightwing critiquing the American right's antisemitism.

https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-the-jewish-question-the-final

Does the #Belgian #Monarchy turn a blind eye to #crime?
“If the world agrees there should be no statue honoring #Hitler for the #murder of six million #Jews, why should there be a statue for a king responsible for the deaths of ten million #Africans?”
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-royal-family-of-belgium-do-they.html

I have never accidently liked a Free America from the Jews post but I'm sure it was totally a mistake in this case. :fozzie:

"Popular #children’s #YouTube star #MsRachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso) is facing intense backlash after admitting she “liked” a comment on her #Instagram page that explicitly called for #America to be “free from the #Jews.”

The controversy began after #Accurso posted a graphic to her Instagram stories listing “Free #Palestine, Free #Sudan, Free #Congo, Free #Iran.” Beneath the post, a user commented, “Free America from the Jews.”

#Screenshots circulated rapidly online showing that the comment had been liked by the account @ msrachel."

https://belaaz.com/news/antisemitic-youtuber-ms-rachel-claims-she-accidentally-liked-comment-calling-to-free-america-from-jews

Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html

"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

#Nazi propaganda about Jewish responsibility for #USSR (#JudeoBolshevism) has clear antecedents in #Conservative figures like #WinstonChurchill, who asserted #ThisDayInHistory in 1920 that #Jews made up a majority of #Bolshevik leadership and are the only people prospering there.

"According to the #survey, about half of #Ireland’s adult population does not know that six million #Jews were murdered in the #Holocaust. Among respondents aged 18–29, more than a quarter believed fewer than two million Jews were killed. Nearly half of respondents in that age group said they had encountered Holocaust denial or distortion on #socialmedia.

The survey also found that 12% of all respondents said they had never heard of the Holocaust or were unsure whether they had heard of it. Among young adults, that figure rose to 15%."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hyqrtgcrbx

#HybridEvent | Edith Pick, PhD, "Mothers and Nation: Maternal Politics in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora" | Jan. 26, 2026 07:00 PM | Registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/2iCIWnwkSOmLgT2AXBJQfA#/registration

#women #gender #nationalism #diapora #israel #jews

“When we saw the #Australian young #Jews together with us through the #livestream, mourning yet still celebrating their #Jewishness, it reminded me that we have to keep adding goodness to the world,” he said.

In his opening address, #Rabbi #MendyKotlarsky, chairman of #CYPInternational at #Chabad World Headquarters, pointed out that “each one of you is a light and a leader. I’m inspired by your unwavering commitment to stand proudly wherever you are, and uplift and include those around you.”

He announced the establishment of 10 new CYP lounges worldwide in response to the #Bondi tragedy."

https://www.jns.org/wire/in-response-to-bondi-10-new-centers-announced-at-chabad-young-jewish-professionals-summit/

This is pretty high up on the list of dumbest shit ever.

"The #US is considering offering #asylum to #Britain’s #Jews amid rising #antisemitism in the #UK, #RobertGarson, #DonaldTrump’s personal lawyer, told The Telegraph on Sunday.

#Garson - who was born in #Manchester - told the paper that he had been in talks with the #StateDepartment about providing #sanctuary for Jews fleeing antisemitism, given "the UK is no longer a safe place for Jews."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-883817

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

"#BethIsrael was where my parents were married. It was where my sister and I both became #BatMitzvahs, where we formed our #Jewish identity through #religiousschool and participation in our small but mighty youth group. It was where my husband and I married.

Last Saturday, Beth Israel Congregation was set on fire by someone who hates #Jews simply for being Jews. Seeing the charred images of the library is painful. I have vivid memories of being in that library playing hide-and-seek, participating in classes and youth group meetings, getting ready for my wedding and signing my #ketubah in that room.

If I close my eyes, I can see the ark where the #Torahs—now reduced to ash—once sat."

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/01/16/growing-up-jewish-in-mississippi/

Who says the performing arts are dead? :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"It had all the trappings of a conventional #Christmaspageant: the three wise men, #Christmas carols, and children dressed as angels.

But there was a twist: This pageant, performed on Sunday in #NewJersey, also included a #Hasidic #Jewish #caricature, carrying a sack of coins and dancing with the devil.

Earlocks swaying, the character called #Moshko entered the room to the tune of “#HavaNagila,” offered a greeting in mock #Yiddish, and announced that he was selling liquor, in a brazen effort to distract the #Christians from reverence about the birth of #Jesus.

The pageant that took place at #StMary Protectress #Ukrainian Orthodox #Church in #Clifton, New Jersey, is known as a #vertep — a form of theater prominent in Slavic Christmas celebrations. Caricatures of Jewish figures that promote stereotypes about #Jews and greed are a longstanding and frequent feature."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-caricature-in-ukrainian-christmas-tradition-appears-at-nj-church-drawing-criticism/

"In the 19th century, nearly 18,000 #Jews lived here. It was a thriving community; #religious, industrious, and culturally confident. The #Soviet era, however, took a heavy toll. #Rabbis were exiled to #Siberia, #synagogues were closed, and religious life was pushed underground. Yet unlike many #Jewish communities across the #SovietUnion, the Jews of the #Caucasus managed to preserve their identity. #Shabbat was kept quietly, #Judaism lived on discreetly."

https://www.jpost.com/travel/article-883652

Quote of the day, 18 January: Père Jacques de Jésus

Mr. Zamansky, who was a prisoner with Père Jacques at the Royallieu camp, gave the following account of the moment when Père Jacques knew that he was leaving in one of the convoys heading east:

“We saw them off. Père Jacques was among them, his face imbued with the same peace we knew him for, but he was serious in his look and his walk. Surrendering oneself to God can only be done without any ulterior motive, and above all, without any hope of choice. And I think that’s what Père Jacques was saying the last minute I saw him: ‘Fiat voluntas tua.’ ”

In an interview given at the Carmelite convent in Avon, Mr. Michel de Bouard recounts how he was with Père Jacques in the quarantine block at the Mauthausen camp, when he told Père Jacques that he’d made a vow if he got out of that hellhole alive. Père Jacques thought about it for a moment, then said:

“No, you mustn’t tempt God; he’s the one who decides. Say ‘Fiat voluntas tua’ [Thy will be done (cf. Mt 26:42)].”

Fr. Didier-Marie Golay, ocd

Lent 2024 Carmelite Online Retreat, Week 5

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus—Discalced Carmelite priest and headmaster of the Carmelite boys school in Avon, France—endeavored to live the truth of his message, living a life of silence, obedience, and charity.

During the Nazi occupation of France, he enrolled three Jewish boys under false names and employed a fourth boy as a worker at the school and monastery of the friars. With the aid of a local villager, he was able to shelter the father of one of the students. Furthermore, he hired a noted Jewish botanist as a faculty member at the boarding school.

On 15 January 1944 between 10:00 and 10:30 in the morning, the German officers came for Père Jacques and the three students he had been sheltering at the boarding school; in a separate Gestapo raid in Fontainebleau, the botanist, his mother, and his sister were arrested at their home.

Although Père Jacques was sent to different concentration camps, the students, their botany teacher, and his family were incarcerated in the Melun detention center in Paris on 15 January. On 18 January they were transferred to the Drancy transit camp in the northeastern suburb of Paris.

On 3 February 1944 the students, their teacher, and his family were deported to Auschwitz in a transport of roughly 1200 persons. Upon their arrival in Auschwitz on 6 February, 985 persons were sent directly to the gas chambers. The Carmelite students from Avon, their botany teacher, his mother, and his sister all perished that day.

Only the fourth boy survived because he was working in the monastery on 15 January when the Gestapo arrived.

Prayer for the Beatification of Père Jacques de Jésus

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Père Jacques and some of the boys he cared for through the years. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (by permission).

#Jews #obedience #PèreJacquesDeJésus #ServantOfGod #willOfGod

"...the #deli as we know it was born.

One #diaspora that took this concept and ran with it was #European #Jews, especially in #NewYorkCity. Today, the #NewYork-style #Jewish deli –- with its signatures of #pastrami, #cornedbeef, #latkes, #matzoballs, #chickensoup, and all the tasty, nourishing rest –- is a staple of comfort #food in this country, enjoyed by folks from all backgrounds everywhere. Let's dig into some of the finest Jewish #delis nationwide."
https://www.thetakeout.com/2071053/best-jewish-delis-united-states/

"#ElonMusk has been criticised after he again endorsed #Whitenationalist sentiments on #socialmedia, including from a social media account which has previously endorsed the expulsion of #Jews from Western countries.

The boss of companies including #X (formerly known as #Twitter), #Tesla and #SpaceX shared a tweet last week from a user called “Hugh Anthony” which read: “#Remigration is a moderate position. Demographic replacement is an extremist position”. Elon #Musk’s comment alongside was “100%”.

Can this guy just fall in a giant sinkhole already ffs.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/elon-musk-condemned-after-sharing-white-nationalist-tweets-again/

I'm not sure why I'm surprised to find out Zurich didn't already have an eruv. 🤔

"A symbolic network of lines now connects several neighbourhoods, in particular #Wiedikon, #Enge and #Wollishofen in #Zurich. This is a so-called #Eruv, a closed public zone. In Zurich, it covers around 14 square kilometres.

In this designated area in the city of Zurich, relaxed rules now apply for #Jews during the day of rest, the #Sabbath."

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/sabbath-zone-in-zurich-cancels-various-day-of-rest-rules-for-jews/90786562?utm_source=multiple&utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o

"Why do we feel we have to separate our identity as #Jews from every other identity we take on? What is holding you back from incorporating your #Jewishness into your professional life, your parenting, your personal relationships?

In a world where the line between #antisemitism and #antizionism is blurring, to put it mildly, what is the point of trying to hide your #Jewish identity? Those who would burn our #synagogues to the ground do not see a distinction. In fact, they take the opposite position: that you are a #Jew, and nothing else. I’m reluctant to quote #AlbertEinstein, given how often he gets credit for things he didn’t say. Being one of the most prominent Jews that’s ever walked the earth will do that to you. But he hit the nail on the head long before #LordJonathanSacks said something similar: “It is not the Jew who is ashamed of his #Judaism who is respected, but the Jew who is proud of it.”

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/386390/put-your-jewish-identity-where-it-belongs/

"Under the National Conservative banner, the right was swerving from classical liberalism to #nationalism, away from the most American of American ideas: that the United States is held together by a creed rather than a bloodline. Hazony’s movement didn’t merely sneer at “ #wokeness ”; it sneered at the pluralist project, articulated movingly by George Washington himself, that enabled #Jews to flourish in the U.S. in the first place."

#WhiteNationalism #antisemitism

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/jewish-maga-intellectuals-responsibility/685601/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvSWVT0sqiHOqCpFja5sOxdw