‘Jew-splaining’ to the Jews’
I have spoken of the various African American communities and individuals who claim that they are the real Israelites — and no, it’s not just Ye — apparently, if you follow the Santos story — it simply continues a continuing congressional virus as well . . . AOC apparently has a Jew-ish complex as well.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration: At Hanukkah event with @Ocasio2018 shares that her family was Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico. “So many of our destinies are tied beyond our understanding”
this is nothing new; ^ ‘Jewsplaining’ traditionally has come from many claiming to be Jews . . .
Here in regard to Jew-ish, please file the ‘Santos story’ under the heading of yet another fake Jew in Congress — or perhaps under the heading of: “Oy Vey”
https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1608150502381965318
from Twitter: “This is wild. Santos is still claiming “my heritage is Jewish,” even though extensive reporting from, @J_Insider, @nytimes @jdforward @CNN @thedailybeast
and others have confirmed he has no Jewish ancestry.”
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Whoopi Goldberg . . . a Black Jewsplainer
‘Jew-splaining’ and racial terminology’
— apparently, Diaspora and Black-Racial issues continue their ‘impolite’ ugliness — please file this one under racial ugliness perhaps even under: “who’s “got a say?”
from the pages of the New York Post . . .
Whoopi Goldberg repeats Holocaust slur while promoting new film ‘Till’
Whoopi Goldberg apparently hasn’t learned her lesson, repeating her past controversial views on the Holocaust in which she claimed the genocide was not “racial” but rather a form of “white-on-white” crime.
“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg told the Sunday Times of London in an interview promoting her new movie “Till.”
“It wasn’t originally” about race, Goldberg insisted, noting the Nazis also killed people they believed to be “mentally defective.”
When interviewer Janice Turner pushed back with a familiar refrain — saying the Nazis considered Jews a race — Goldberg said it was wrong to use their definition.
“The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?” she insisted. “It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” Goldberg continued.
Goldberg, a co-host of The View, was briefly suspended from the show in February after first airing her opinions on the subject. She nevertheless doubled down during an interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert, before later apologizing. https://nypost.com/2022/12/24/whoopi-goldberg-repeats-holocaust-slur-while-promoting-till/
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From this week’s Torah — who speaks for the Jews — nagging question: are Jews outside of the land and those inside the land equal in speaking about Jewish affairs?
who has “a say?” —
Should a community or even an individual living comfortably outside the land of Israel have “a say’ in Israel — and by the way — what here (below) is ‘Israel’?
Genesis 47:29
וַיִּקְרְב֣וּ יְמֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ לָמוּת֒ וַיִּקְרָ֣א ׀ לִבְנ֣וֹ לְיוֹסֵ֗ף וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ אִם־נָ֨א מָצָ֤אתִי חֵן֙ בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ שִֽׂים־נָ֥א יָדְךָ֖ תַּ֣חַת יְרֵכִ֑י וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ עִמָּדִי֙ חֶ֣סֶד וֶאֱמֶ֔ת אַל־נָ֥א תִקְבְּרֵ֖נִי בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃ And when the time approached for Israel to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “Do me this favor, place your hand under my thigh as a pledge of your steadfast loyalty: please do not bury me in Egypt.
וְשָֽׁכַבְתִּי֙ עִם־אֲבֹתַ֔י וּנְשָׂאתַ֙נִי֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם וּקְבַרְתַּ֖נִי בִּקְבֻרָתָ֑ם וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אָנֹכִ֖י אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃ When I lie down with my ancestors,*ancestors Heb. ’avoth; trad. “fathers.” “take me up from Egypt and bury me in their burial-place.” He replied, “I will do as you have spoken.”
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִשָּֽׁבְעָה֙ לִ֔י וַיִּשָּׁבַ֖ע ל֑וֹ וַיִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ הַמִּטָּֽה׃ {פ}
And he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed at the head of the bed.48
וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְיוֹסֵ֔ף הִנֵּ֥ה אָבִ֖יךָ חֹלֶ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶת־שְׁנֵ֤י בָנָיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ Some time afterward, Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה בִּנְךָ֥ יוֹסֵ֖ף בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיִּתְחַזֵּק֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הַמִּטָּֽה׃ When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to see you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף אֵ֥ל שַׁדַּ֛י נִרְאָֽה־אֵלַ֥י בְּל֖וּז בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וַיְבָ֖רֶךְ אֹתִֽי׃ And Jacob said to Joseph, “El Shaddai, who appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, blessed me—
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י הִנְנִ֤י מַפְרְךָ֙ וְהִרְבִּיתִ֔ךָ וּנְתַתִּ֖יךָ לִקְהַ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְנָ֨תַתִּ֜י אֶת־הָאָ֧רֶץ הַזֹּ֛את לְזַרְעֲךָ֥ אַחֲרֶ֖יךָ אֲחֻזַּ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃ and said to me, ‘I will make you fertile and numerous, making of you a community of peoples; and I will assign this land to your offspring to come for an everlasting possession.’
וְעַתָּ֡ה שְׁנֵֽי־בָנֶ֩יךָ֩ הַנּוֹלָדִ֨ים לְךָ֜ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם עַד־בֹּאִ֥י אֵלֶ֛יךָ מִצְרַ֖יְמָה לִי־הֵ֑ם אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ וּמְנַשֶּׁ֔ה כִּרְאוּבֵ֥ן וְשִׁמְע֖וֹן יִֽהְיוּ־לִֽי׃ Now, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine no less than Reuben and Simeon.
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Here the continuation deserves a Rosh Hashanah comment or two . . .
וּמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֛ אֲשֶׁר־הוֹלַ֥דְתָּ אַחֲרֵיהֶ֖ם לְךָ֣ יִהְי֑וּ עַ֣ל שֵׁ֧ם אֲחֵיהֶ֛ם יִקָּרְא֖וּ בְּנַחֲלָתָֽם׃ But progeny born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be recorded instead* of their brothers in their inheritance.
וַאֲנִ֣י ׀ בְּבֹאִ֣י מִפַּדָּ֗ן מֵ֩תָה֩ עָלַ֨י רָחֵ֜ל בְּאֶ֤רֶץ כְּנַ֙עַן֙ בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ בְּע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־אֶ֖רֶץ לָבֹ֣א אֶפְרָ֑תָה וָאֶקְבְּרֶ֤הָ שָּׁם֙ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ אֶפְרָ֔ת הִ֖וא בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃ I [do this because], when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, while I was journeying in the land of Canaan, when still some distance short of Ephrath; and I buried her there on the road to Ephrath”—now Bethlehem.
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Here’s a place where “a say” all converge with calendar/religion/race/ethnos/history/identity . . .
A “religion take”
Yesterday: Asara B’Tevet 2023 /עֲשָׂרָה בְּטֵבֵת 5783 a ‘religion-day’ commemorating the siege of Jerusalem
(Asara B’Tevet for Hebrew Year 5783 which occurred on Tuesday, 3 January 2023)
The Tenth of Tevet (Hebrew: “עשרה בטבת” / “Asarah BeTevet”), the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, is a minor fast day in Judaism. The fast commemorates the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia. Like other minor fasts, Asara B’Tevet began at dawn (first light) and ended at nightfall (full dark) last night.
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A history take:
Historical background which led to a religion background – This ^ particular day recalls the destruction of Jerusalem and marks much of what we know to be the beginning of the Babylonian Exile (or of significant portions) of the Judean Jewish Community to Bavel (Babylonia)
After Pharaoh Necho II’s death in 595 BC, Egyptian intervention in affairs in the Levant increased once again under his successors, Pasamtik II (r. 595–589 BC) and Apries (r. 589–570 BC), who both worked to encourage anti-Babylonian rebellions. It is possible that the Babylonian failure to invade Egypt in 601 BC helped inspire revolts against the Babylonian Empire. The outcome of these efforts was Zedekiah’s open revolt against Nebuchadnezzar’s authority. Unfortunately, no cuneiform sources are preserved from this time and the only known account of the fall of Judah is the biblical account.
In 589 BC, Zedekiah refused to pay tribute to Nebuchadnezzar, and he was closely followed in this by Ithobaal III the king of Tyre. In response to Zedekiah’s uprising, Nebuchadnezzar conquered and destroyed the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BC, one of the great achievements of his reign. The campaign, which probably ended in the summer of 586 BC, resulted in the plunder and destruction of the city of Jerusalem, a permanent end to Judah, and it led to the Bavli destruction –> as the Jews were captured and deported to Babylonia. Archaeological excavations confirm that Jerusalem and the surrounding area was destroyed and depopulated. It is possible that the intensity of the destruction carried out by Nebuchadnezzar at Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Levant was due to the implementation of something akin to a scorched earth policy, aimed at stopping Egypt from gaining a foothold there.
Important historical note: Some Jewish administration was allowed — or better, ‘appointed’ — to remain in the region under the governorship of Gedaliah, governing from Mizpah (a strategic high point within the Jerusalem region) under close Babylonian military operation and monitoring. According to the Bible, and the 1st-century AD Jewish historian Josephus, — Zedekiah attempted to flee after resisting the Babylonians, but was captured at Jericho and suffered a terrible fate. According to the narrative, Nebuchadnezzar wanted to make an example out of him given that Zedekiah was not an ordinary vassal, but a vassal directly appointed by Nebuchadnezzar.
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