"Yes, there’s a time, a place and a medical diagnosis for “healthy” #Hanukkah dishes. And we #recipes for #bakedlatkes and a stunning, pillowy pull-apart #sufganiyot #cake, if that’s your thing. But, the best part of Hanukkah is #friedfood, and we #Jews do it so well! So I’ve rounded up 31 fried #Jewish recipes to celebrate the festive season.

It’s not all #latkes and sufganiyot (though there are plenty on this list), but lesser-known fried Jewish delicacies like #Iraqi #zalabia (a delicate #funnelcake) and #Moroccan #sfenj (easy #donuts finished with #honey and/or #powderedsugar). Beyond Hanukkah-specific recipes are #fried indulgences you may try to avoid the rest of the year, like #schnitzel (plus a bonus potato chip-coated version!) and #kichels.

So grab your frying pan, fill it with oil and celebrate the real miracle of Hanukkah: The #food."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/31-fried-jewish-recipes-to-make-for-hanukkah/

And people say horseshoe theory isn't legit 😆

"#ElonMusk is facing renewed criticism after posting on #X that “#Jews are White, if not peak White,” a comment that quickly drew millions of views and reignited concerns about his handling of #antisemitic content on the platform.

#Musk’s remark came Tuesday in response to a user claiming that #whitepeople — representing roughly 8% of the global population — are “on the verge of extinction.”

https://vinnews.com/2025/12/03/elon-musk-sparks-backlash-after-saying-jews-are-white-if-not-peak-white-on-x/

"A crowd of more than 150 #Jewish and allied #artists, #writers, #musicians, #producers and #arts professional met in #London on Sunday for UNCANCELLED – #Jews in the Arts, a #conference tackling the escalating #antisemitism facing #creatives across the #UK.

The high-energy, solutions-driven, half-day conference hosted by Friends In the Arts (#FIA), showcased a growing coalition of organisations – including Freedom in the Arts (#FITA) and partners – working together to provide new tools, data and clarity for those encountering discrimination, exclusion or cancellations in the UK arts scene."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/huge-turnout-at-conference-on-antisemitism-in-the-arts/

As the #bloodlibel developed and metastasized from one country to another, #gentiles also began to repeat that #Jewish communities the world over were bound by a nefarious, mystical chain of communication, and that each year one Jewish community was selected to be responsible for the #ritualslaughter of innocent #Christian #children on behalf of the whole. According to this mutation of the myth, #Jews were linked in a global #cabal (the word “cabal” is itself etymologically related to “cabala”, the Jewish mystical sect) which was bound to harm gentiles and, among other things, drink their blood."

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religion/judaism/antisemitism/71724/the-blood-dripping-jew-as-metaphor

Grok Says It Would Kill All Jews to Save Elon Musk's Brain

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/elon-musks-grok-says-it-would-kill-every-jewish-person-on-the-planet-to-save-him/

#Musk #AI #antisemitism #Grok #Jews #press

"It’s no longer unusual to meet #synagogue-goers who #meditate regularly. Some do it in a specifically #Jewish way, while others use #Buddhist #meditation practices to complement their Jewish #spiritual lives.

Few institutions have played a greater role in spreading meditation among mainstream #Jews in #America than #MakorOr, the #meditationcenter housed within Congregation #BethSholom in #SanFrancisco. This month, the #Conservativesynagogue in the #RichmondDistrict is marking a milestone: 25 years of Jews sitting together in silence. (Though I’m a member of Beth Sholom, I’m a total newbie to the world of Makor Or.)

Makor Or was co-founded by #poet and #Zen priest #NormanFischer and the late Beth Sholom #Rabbi #AlanLew, who wrote books like “One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi” and the High Holidays classic “This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared.”

https://jweekly.com/2025/12/02/whats-the-sound-of-jews-sitting-in-silence-25-years-of-meditation-at-makor-or-in-s-f/

Золота колекція книг про євреїв

Золота колекція книг з історії, культурології, антропології та релігієзнавства про євреїв. Комплексна юдаїка.

https://spadok.org.ua/biblioteka/zolota-kolektsiya-knyg-pro-yevreyiv

#jews #judaica #juden #євреї #культура #culture #culturology #books #ethnology #етнологія

Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin by Ronen Steinke, 2021

The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story.

#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#Arabs
#Jews
#Germany
#WWII

2/2🧵: full interview available here👇. Where we learn amongst other things that the Board of Deputies of #British #Jews (the #UK's largest communal #Jewish organisation, mostly made of synagogues) seem to have the #farright on speed dial when it comes to intimidating #antizionist Jews.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LcnSoBh44

#FreePalestine #Palestine #zionism

"Many #Americans know of #JosefStalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for #politicalcrimes, and over 680,000 #executed.

Fewer know about the repressions that began after #WorldWarII and ended with #Stalin’s death in 1953. Much like the repressions of the 1930s, they involved fabricated #plots, #arrests, coerced #confessions and #purges. Unlike the Terror of the 1930s, they were accompanied by a wave of #statesponsored #antisemitism – including the purge of #Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities.

The abolition of the #Jewish #AntiFascist Committee on Nov. 20, 1948, and the arrest and execution of its members was central to this postwar #assault."

https://theconversation.com/stalins-postwar-terror-targeted-soviet-jews-in-the-name-of-anti-cosmopolitanism-265562

#Jews aren't being massacred for being Jews
Jews aren't being raped for being Jews
Jews aren't being starved for being Jews

Jews ARE massacring #Palestinians for not being Jews
Jews ARE raping Palestinians for not being Jews
Jews ARE starving Palestinians for not being Jews

#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #Palestinian #Israeli #Politics #Gaza #Egypt #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Iran #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Yemen #USA #Zionism #BDS #Ceasefire #ArmsEmbargo #Netanyahu #FreeGaza #FreePalestine

"The only known #photographs of the #deportation of the #Jewish population in the #German city of #Hamburg have been discovered in a German #police officer’s secret #photo album.

Until now, no visual record of the #deportations from Hamburg was known to exist. But researchers have now identified three photographs taken in October #1941.

For 84 years, these #images remained hidden in the private album of a German #policeman who served in #Unit101 of the #Ordnungspolizei, or “green police,” a unit involved in #deporting and #murdering tens of thousands of #Jews during the #Holocaust."

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/30/only-known-photos-of-hamburgs-jewish-deportation-discovered-in-secret-album/

“‘I am personally proud of the ruins in #Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the #Jews did,"
Said May Golan, Israeli Minister of Social Equality, highlighting the deep-rooted extremism in #Israel’s political leadership and the normalisation of violence against #Palestinians.

https://t.me/QudsNen/198910

"In his "book A 3,000-Year #History of #Jews and the #Pig, author Jordan D. Rosenblum shares more than two decades’ worth of #research. He explains that at the beginning of the #SecondTemple period, in the #Persianera of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, #pigs did not have a unique status; other non-#kosher items were viewed as non-kosher as the pig. But by the time of the destruction of the #Temple by the #Romans in 70 CE, the pig was king of #nonkosher and had taken on its role as uber non-kosher.

Rosenblum points out that great attention is given to pigs in martyrdom stories and forced ingestions. He suggests that the role the pig plays in the Second Temple martyrdom narrative is what led to its out-sized #historical influence and to its becoming a metonym for non-kosher food, both within the #Jewish narrative and the non-Jewish view."

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-876415

"#AntiSemitism does not fall within the category of ideas protected by the right of free opinion… It is something quite other than an idea. It is first of all a passion”, wrote the French philosopher #JeanPaulSartre in his 1946 book Reflections on the #Jewish Question.

#Jews who have been dealing with antisemitism over the last two years can sense what #Sartre meant: the hatred towards us is beyond logic; it is reflexive. When the teenage daughter of a friend of mine was slapped on the London Tube by a man just because he saw her #StarofDavid peeking out from her jumper, it was an act of reflexive hate. But it wasn’t only antisemitism – it carried another thin layer of #gender-based hatred.

In his book, Sartre also uniquely sensed this #gendered and# sexualised #hate towards Jewish #women."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/from-nova-to-the-streets-of-france-jewish-womens-bodies-turned-into-a-battlefield/

The #jews are murdering again

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkxsohh4bLvSzYSE1af7IchiMCIJ72nfNSa?si=PsTidQXyXARR0FY8

"The victims, aged 13 and 14, were wearing the uniform of the #Uruguayan #Hebrew Comprehensive #School when two men—described as “in their twenties”—recognized them as #Jews and began to harass them, the report said.

“You are Jews, we know what you did,” the aggressors told the boys, according to Jaime Apoj, secretary of Legal Affairs for the Central Israelite Committee of Uruguay (#CCIU). The men pushed them and added: “Get lost or we'll get you.”

As the teenagers tried to flee, the attackers grabbed loose tiles from a nearby construction site and chased them for a block, threatening to use the fragments as weapons.

The pursuit continued to the home of one of the boys, where his mother—who was standing outside—was also targeted.
“Jewish woman, call whoever you want, now we know where you live,” the attackers shouted, before retreating, El Observador reported." 👀

https://vinnews.com/2025/11/27/report-two-jewish-teens-chased-and-threatened-with-tiles-in-antisemitic-attack-in-montevideo/

"At this year’s #Jewish Federations of #NorthAmerica General Assembly, I expected to hear about policy, philanthropy, and the challenges facing our community. What I didn’t expect was to witness a quiet #spiritual revolution — one that has already pulled nearly 30,000 #Jews into a renewed relationship with #Torah.

That revolution has a name:
The #SimchatTorahChallenge.

And it has a driving force:
Tanya Singer.

When I sat down with her, I thought I knew the story — another Jewish initiative responding to the pain and fallout of #October7. But what she told me reframed everything.

“We didn’t need another anti-#antisemitism project.”

Tanya’s opening sentence stunned me."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-movement-reclaiming-jewish-joy/

"The autumn of #1938 was a grim time for the #Jews. The #Nazis’ #Kristallnacht #pogrom had devastated #German #Jewry. The #Evianconference, which was supposed to find havens for #Jewish #refugees, had proven to be a farce. And #Britain was preparing to shut the doors of #Palestine.

But on #Thanksgiving Day, one courageous #US government official proposed a bold rescue plan, offering the Jewish people a glimmer of hope and reason to give thanks.

The plan’s target: #Alaska."

https://boulderjewishnews.org/2025/a-thanksgiving-plan-to-save-europes-jews-in-1938/

'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: #Israel will always be at war
In a speech filled with #slamophobic vitriol, the British commentator has ripped away the last fig leaf concealing #Zionism's true purpose

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/melanie-phillips-home-truths-convey-one-message-israel-will-always-be-war

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
David Hearst
25 Nov 2025 19:56 GMT

Very much in the mode of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phillips declared that there was no such thing as #Palestine or #Palestinians. In fact, the only indigenous people around were the #Jews, who were the only people with any historic, legal or moral entitlement to this land.

To say this while activists in Britain are being arrested for shouting “from the river to the sea” as an allegedly pro-#Hamas chant, hands their defence lawyers a get-out-of-jail card.

Because what Phillips is claiming is that all the land from the river to the sea is #Jewish. And as she knows...“from the river to the sea” has been Likud policy since 1977.

#news #politics #UKpolitics #UK