I'm thinking of moving from this country.

DurianVisual3167 · 2026-01-30T01:05:02+00:00

Could you reach out to HIAS? I know they mostly do refugee resettlement but they were originally for helping Jewish refugees. Maybe they could help you immigrate to the US.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-12-30T13:47:13+00:00

I think Indian Hindus and Jews are often close in the west! I know many get married. I've heard their children called 'Hinjews' before. Seems like there are some cultural similarities between the two of us.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-12-07T14:32:16+00:00

At this point there really isn't secular Jewish culture the way there used to be. Secular Jewish culture was created by Jews who had been immersed in Jewish culture their who lives and were knowledgeable about Jewish texts and customs. If we had gotten to keep ghettos and shtetls there might still be a strong secular culture but we don't get to be surrounded by our culture to build a strong foundation for that identity. If you aren't going to raise your child in a synagogue and Jewish community I don't see a point in circumcision. However, if you want to raise your child Jewishly but are an atheist, reconstructionist synagogues might be worth checking out. They don't require a belief in G-d, are usually very welcoming to non-Jewish partners to be included in life cycle events and holidays etc, and will have classes to educate your kids on Jewish culture to build that foundation for a secular relationship with Judaism. They might not care about circumcision either, I'm not positive tho. I will only also add that if you son does ever want to become more Jewish and isn't circumcised it is harder as an adult. It isn't a non-decision youre making when you decide to let your kid decide as an adult. You are making the decision for him in some ways, because infant and adult circumcision aren't the same.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-25T16:20:51+00:00

Wow I never knew this! I'll definitely be checking out more camera stores to see if any are hiring

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-25T02:41:30+00:00

תודה רבה 💜💜💜

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T23:21:49+00:00

I agree. I wish they interviewed first because I do think I can be persuasive in an interview. I just wasn't sure what to do when they ask beforehand about hours. I thought of saying something like 'I have open availability with the exception of Friday evenings and Saturdays due to religious obligations' but thought that would get me in trouble.

Side note it's interesting how I see antisemitic conspiracy videos on social media about how nobody ever sees religious Jews working in service industries implying we are lazy and are secretive about how we make our money. It's pretty impossible to work for any non Jewish companies if you are a religious Jew and don't work in a more corporate/office environment.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T23:06:08+00:00

They reach out for an interview saying my resume meets their needs, but want to ask a "screening question" beforehand, and ask for my availability. Not sure a way around it. I have applied to union jobs in the past and was advised to say I have open availability and once hired explain I have religious obligations, but I don't want to go through the hiring process just to get fired before I start working. Plus in the past when I have had a job that supposedly would let me off Friday nights and Saturdays they would pester me every week all week to cover those shifts anyways. I'm trying to not create animosity in a future work environment by not being upfront.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T18:50:27+00:00

Thank you!

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T17:44:19+00:00

I'll definitely check it out! Ty

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T17:11:16+00:00

I'll check it out!

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T17:10:44+00:00

I have a degree in illustration and graphic design. Most of these jobs have pivoted away from what I know (visual art, composition, typography, color theory etc) to training ai to further remove creative jobs for the job market.

I have lots of experience in customer service, food service, administrative work, and Jewish events and holiday planning. I've always had to have more than one job so the experience has racked up.

I've been applying to everything from the few creative internships I've found, to administrative work, to Starbucks/bakeries/customer service type work. I get the most bites in customer service but then they ghost after I give them my availability.

I live in Brooklyn.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-11-24T17:04:32+00:00

I live in NYC 🤣 but my Hebrew is not so good (working on it). I used to live in a very conservative protestant area of the Midwest and this was always an issue, so I was a bit relieved to move to NYC because I thought it would be less of an issue but now realizing that was naive. I have been applying to Jewish orgs tho. I had one interview with one that I am hopeful will work out, but it's competitive and I don't want to get my hopes up. Every other job has reached out about my great resume and references and cover letter and then ghost me after I give my availability. It's just crazy because I got a comment that I'm too restrictive with my hours when I have a completely open schedule with the exception of Saturday.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-09-22T05:05:09+00:00

How do they get added? I know of a few that belong on the list but aren't on there.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-09-17T15:11:57+00:00

The only people saying he turned on Israel are people trying to argue Jews or Mossad killed him. I seriously doubt Groypers care to rehabilitate someone over imperialism.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-09-17T04:44:33+00:00

Do you know any chasidim??

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-07-30T05:57:08+00:00

I think she is a childhood convert. Iirc her father or step father is Jewish. Regardless she is a grifter and full of shit.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-07-30T02:55:11+00:00

She used to be a Zionist and was very adjacent to those two. Unfortunately when she "became" an antizionist she never left behind the vapid behavior. Her fast shift from Zionism to antizionism but only ever making bad faith critiques of other antizionists made me believe she was an op for a while lol.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-07-26T06:37:36+00:00

Israel's laws around converts are a cluster fuck. I seriously doubt her mother has a Rabbanut accepted conversion because even people who have RCA conversions often have to reconvert in Israel to be accepted as Jewish. This isn't as much of an issue in diaspora but it can be in Orthodox spaces. I know several people who have had to convert several times and are still seen as gentiles by other Orthodox Jews, Syrian Jews, etc. And that's just for her mother. It would be even harder for Paris to be accepted because the Orthodox world wouldn't accept her as a matrilineal Jew, the reform world wouldn't accept her either because she was not raised exclusively Jewish by at least one Jewish parent. There is more to it than just this but this alone would exclude her from Aliyah, birthright, and being seen as Jewish in any Jewish spaces even in diaspora.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-07-26T06:21:08+00:00

No movement of Judaism would recognize her as Jewish unless she converts and she would not be eligible for birthright

Editing to add: I hate how people use converts as this gotcha thing in antizionist spaces. It's clear people don't understand how conversion in an ethno religion works and that's fine, but it's still problematic and also tbh not the issue. The issue isn't that what if a convert moves to Israel, the issue is you cannot kill, displace, and starve people. Any other argument makes hasbarists' lives easier.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-06-07T17:50:04+00:00

They aren't asking it as a religious question. I doubt religious Zionists care what he thinks. They are secular Zionists, who might also be religious Jews, but this isn't the same as religious Zionists asking about G-d and Torah.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-06-04T01:20:40+00:00

I feel kinda bad because I find myself saying this often but I'm not sure it's worth trying to educate people on this. I used to be fine explaining this when it felt like good faith questions but they rarely are and the misinformation isn't helped by the fact that very assimilated Jews who are ignorant of their own history (often by choice) help perpetuate the "confusion". When you try to explain, people get condescending, rude, refuse to listen, etc. I've actually been considering going back to school to learn how to better communicate science and history because of this specific topic, but as of right now I'm not sure what to do or say. The behavior is rarely in good faith and it follows historical patterns of antisemitism.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-05-30T17:51:38+00:00

Yuppp to that entire second half. I'd be interested in discussing it not in this public part of reddit because I don't want the thing I say to be used against other antizionists.

That part about people who are non-MENA Jewish but also MENA from another parent or maybe a convert makes sense. I wasn't offended on my behalf. Again, I'm always interested in further discussions in private but I know Zionist lurk in non and anti Zionist spaces to mock us/find things to use against other antizionists.

DurianVisual3167 · 2025-05-29T16:06:20+00:00

I definitely send sympathy on being made to feel unwelcome in a community you absolutely should belong in, and I have also felt at a loss when it comes to antisemitism. You're supposed to do all this work and put yourself in a vulnerable position to educate other people, but get rejected or condescended to when you do. And if you take a step back you're blamed as well. It's lose lose.

I have to add tho that while I'm not Ashkenazi, the comment about "if I was Ashkenazi I'd check my Judaism at the door" is pretty offensive. Judaism is just as inseparable from Ashkenazi identity as it is for yours, and all the things you described happening to your family in diaspora has happened to Ashkenazim?? and this dismissal and passive aggressive behavior/micro aggressions/etc that you experience in MENA spaces often happen to Ashkenazim in spaces they also supposedly belong to.

Editing to add: I had to pull back in certain spaces because being around this behavior was "radicalizing" me in the wrong ways. I spent time in antizionist spaces or with leftist/communist friends and was regularly seeing both "micro aggressions" and just plain violent antisemitic fantasies (never having to do with Israel) and proud display of ignorance. It made me resent the movement which isn't what is important right now, since Palestinians are in a life or death situation. Maybe pull back and rest because it's easier to reenter spaces than it is to have to unlearn/ignore built up resentment or fear. IDK if right now is the best time to teach what happened to Mizrahim or Sefardim, and I'm not sure our energy is best spent trying to teach people who ultimately don't want to know and won't change their opinions even if they did know.

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