My father is on hospice. I have 2 kids under 2, so I haven’t really been wearing nice dresses lately. I’ll need a black dress soon. Anyone have recommendations? Every time I look online, I just don’t see anything.

Need Hanukkah candles? Uhhhh Need Shabbos candles? Well we sometimes have boxes of 72 or have this Yahrzeit candle.

At least I have matzah to crunch on while sipping my grape fruit juice while having to rely on Bezos…. I guess the biggest joke of it all being the store keeps their old “kosher bakery” sign up

Hey everyone.

Did like 20 seconds of Googling, and got nowhere, thought id come here.

What are your thoughts on Bob Dylan/Timothee Chalamet.

I have seen a lot of adds for that new movie, but Bob Dylans stance seems to be a Complete unknown... Didnt check out Timothee at all.

Would you go see the movie?

Why/why not?

Excited to tap into the hive mind here!

I (Jewish, F) and my husband (non-Jewish M) are planning on raising our family Jewish. He's extremely supportive, has educated himself on Israeli history and antisemitism, and is even learning Hebrew!

He grew up Catholic and his mom is still quite religious. She's very supportive of our plans and our Jewish household, just wants us to raise our kids with strong moral values and some form of religion.

Cue the challenge. My husband and I are hosting Hannukah at our home for the first time - previously we had his family come to join my family for Hannukah, but all my family will be out of town, so it's on us! We're planning on a great dinner, will get latkes and sufganiyot, the whole shebang!

Would love recommendations for adult Hannukah music playlists, ways to make the candle lighting more interactive for non-Jewish people (so they're not just watching me light candles), and generally helping them understand the meaning of the holiday beyond the superficial candles-and-gifts. (I know many folks here are in multi-heritage or mixed-religion homes, so perhaps you'll have specific ideas that you know might appeal to Christians.)

Thank you in advance!

So I (24M, Conservative) accidentally did a stereotype and am in a serious relationship with a Korean woman (24F, Non-Jewish). I know a Yid is supposed to date another Yid but we've known and liked each other for years and we're getting pretty serious so I'm thinking that's not gonna happen. I was wondering if y'all had any advice regarding how to navigate the cultural differences (specifically Korean culture itself) as well as how to keep my Jewish practice alive and thriving in such a relationship?

It feels like the Jew-hating (antisemites) mob keeps getting angrier and more violent while the silent majority is becoming more and more tired and feed up with Israel -> Jews. Now they attack anyone (Jews and non-Jews alike) who supports (or at least doesn’t condemn Israel). I have this eerie feeling that things are going to get much worse before they get better, like really much worse.

I’d say we’re in 1939 Germany now, the “final solution” hasn’t been devised but is coming and after that there’ll be a culmination of violence and death against us..

With every day that passes by the feeling that it’s going to get much much worse grows.. Only this time there’s no where to run, it’s just not a problem in Europe the hate is vibrant and alive in North America and Israel doesn’t feel safe either.

I’m exhausted and anxious and it feels like the fear is devouring me.

This is random and silly, but I have had a scene from either a series or a movie in my head for weeks and I cannot remember what it's from. It's driving me crazy. lol I have a sense from how I related to it that I was still new in my Jewish journey, so it could be on the old-ish side (as much as 25 years?) but maybe not.

The general premise I have connected to it is that it was about a Jewish family in Poland around the time of WWII. And the only specific memory is that there was an adult son who really identified as Polish and Christian, not Jewish anymore and thought that the antisemitism of it all wouldn't affect him. I can see this blonde man walking across a lovely room possibly talking to a non-Jewish romantic partner and expressing that none of the political nonsense applies to him. But I cannot figure out what it's from. My feeling is that it is somewhat of a family epic, but I'm not sure. Maybe it was just one piece of a story about WWII?

I'm pretty certain it was in English and likely American-made. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I recently started taking kosher seriously. So I kashered my kitchen and swaped all the unkosher plastic utensils.

Today I met a friend and she didnt finish her churros. So I decided to take them with me to give them to another friend I was about to see later. The problem is I didnt think about it and stuffed the churros into my lunchbox. The churros already had been cold at that moment. Is my lunchbox now unkosher?

Can anyone provide any history or background information on class conflict within the Jewish community? It's my understanding that we're supposed to be highly collaborative and helpful to one another but that doesn't always seem to be the case, and that Jews that aren't well-to-do are generally shunned by more affluent and connected Jewish communities.

Hollywood makes a ton of Christmas movies all the time, and it’s not surprising because there’s obviously a big market for them. But the story of Hanukkah should be inspirational for everyone. Why won’t anyone make a big, bold Lawrence of Arabia-level theatrical movie with big stars and eyepopping cinematography? There are enough Jews in Hollywood that some of them could easily be involved in such a big budget movie, but nobody ever suggests such a thing. They’d rather do a Christmas movie because Christmas is “fun”.

At a staff meeting recently my boss introduced herself saying that she came to America from Cambodia as a child and "survived the holocaust". I can only assume she means the Cambodian genocide, which she's probably the right age to have been a very young child during. However I find no references online to the Cambodian genocide being called a "holocaust" or anything similar. As far as I can tell it seems to be a descriptor she invented herself.

I do not plan to bring it up with her (suffering is not a contest, and I have no interest in policing the language of a refugee who survived a genocide). But I found it very jarring and strange and I'm still thinking about it weeks later. On my team we work very autonomously and I've only had a couple in-person, one-on-one interactions with her. One of the only things I know about her is that she goes around calling herself a Holocaust survivor. Guess I just needed to vent about this bizarre moment.

Can I just have a virtual hug? I think everyone is dealing with the same fucking problem of friends being completely antisemitic and thinking they are so righteous. And the other sets of friends who aren't involved thinking that it's a fight between the self righteous people. like that, we just don't see eye to eye on Israel. But that's not it. It's it. The other people are bigots and blaming me and making me accountable for things that I have no control of her and that they are not asking of anyone else. I'm just always so mad and so hurt and want to yell at everyone.

Is sushi relevant to Hanukkah?

Recent read Jabotinsky’s “Iron Wall” essay from the 1920s in which he argues that Palestinian Arabs will never accept a Jewish majority and therefore Jews must build an “iron wall” of military strength so Arabs have no choice but to accept it. I noticed however that he clearly rejects the idea of expelling Arabs to make a Jewish majority - he was no Kahanist. But I know also he was insistent that Jews possess all the land west of the Jordan, an area that both then and now had an Arab majority. What exactly was his plan? That enough Jews would immigrate to make a majority in the whole territory? By 1948 even after massive Jewish immigration due to the Holocaust Jews only became a majority in half of mandatory Palestine (hence the proposed partition).

Was there ever a time when Jabotinsky’s vision was actually realistic?

I’m guessing the decreasing likelihood that Jews can ever become a majority from the river to the sea due to natural increase and immigration alone explains the increasing popularity of Kahanism that we see in figures like Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

I recently found out during the medieval period Jews was kinda forced into banking and other jobs but why? And I wonder what other jobs they have no choice to work.

For some background, I'm partially ethically Jewish on my dad's side, but am not particularly spiritual myself.

Anyway, I have an acquaintance who I now follow on various social media platforms, and I noticed a comment they made on regarding a news article about Israel that felt off. I'm no fan of Israel's current government and some of their recent actions, so I don't inherently have an issue with people calling them out. The issue is, this acquaintance said, in their comment, "Committing a Holocaust before our eyes. I don't know if I should cry or throw up with each horrific update."

So am I overreacting by thinking this acquaintance may be antisemitic? If not, are they doing it purposely, or are they just repeating stuff they see/hear others say in their social media bubble? This acquaintance is a progressive Catholic, not a traditionalist Catholic or anything like that, but could the past antisemitism of the Catholic Church be a factor in their views here? Indeed, they have, in the past, cited their Catholic views as a reason that they want Israel to be more passive.

Hi all, I'm Delia from Romania. I saw a post directed at the Jewish Jews, and I wanted to create one for those whose families lived in Romania before WWII.

The reason behind this: I want to learn more about the life experiences of Jewish people in Romania. The Romanians themselves faced decades of communism, with a government that failed to acknowledge its role in the systematic murder of Jewish people during WWII.

What were the stories of your (great-)greatparents in my country?
Have they visited Romania, since the fall of the communism?
Are they interested in having Romanian citizenship?
What happened to the properties they owned, were they able to get them back?

I apologise in advance if my questions are too intrusive. It broke my heart to read the comments from the other post. It's surreal to see how many of you have lost a loved one and even more surreal to see the anti-semitism you all face today. I wholeheartedly support you and I am here to listen and learn, as a non-Jew. Thank you.

Historically speaking the most materially successful Jews were the German Jews while the East European Jews were more about keeping the Torah, does this divide still exist to a certain extent in the US or does it not matter at all anymore?

Is there any precedent for rabbis or anyone else of the faith to exorcise evil spirits or dybbuks?