normalize Jews whose Jewish identities do not demand they abandon their "assimilated" identities normalize Jews who are interfaith and fucking proud of it while also being proud of their Judaism normalize Jews whose Jewish character expresses itself in subtler ways
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not every Jew needs to spend all of their time bombastically Performing Tradition
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this has been a subtweet of some irritation
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Actually y'know what fuck it I'm gonna call this shit out directly: I am not less of a Jew for not using my Hebrew name, I do not need to "decolonize" and "de-assimilate," I am a Jew and I am an assimilated patrilineal Jew proud of his mother's heritage as well as his father's.
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Y'got a problem with that? f u c k o f f my existence is not a sign of Judaism's decline or failure, it is not a danger to the Jewish people, it does not represent us being "colonized" I am a Jew, the product of cultural exchange, and I am a STRENGTH to the Jewish people.
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I'm actually kinda mad now and it's not even that the original poster called me out or anything, it's just yet another example of some portion of Jewish Twitter transparently viewing my existence as a stain on the Jewish people for being insufficiently Defiantly Pure, idk.
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My mother's heritage does not diminish me from some hypothetical pure Jewish strain of continuity version of me. I'm fuckin' proud of it, and I'm proud of the names my parents gave me. Both of 'em.
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If using your Hebrew name makes you feel more connected to your community or your source of strength, great, more power to you, I applaud your path. But it is not mandatory for all Jews. It is *a* path, it is not *the* path?
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My existence is not a bastardization, folks. Maybe I'm oversensitive about this.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
My roommate in college has this whole thing about being tired of explaining/justifying why his legal name and his Hebrew school name were completely different names, as opposed to one being the cognate of the other
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It doesn't help that in his case both names are Bible names, so people are like "Well they COULD have made it the same name" "Yeah my parents didn't want to okay"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Ok, but that's... not quite what I'm referencing here.
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No I'm not saying it is but it's kind of related to this expectation of a kind of cultural orthodoxy
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