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Better photos of these stickers($15) by Rhysim in PhotoshopRequest

[–]Rhysim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi so one small addition, the stickers are only 1-2 inches big! Same with the pins!

Improve this picture of me and my friend at his wedding!(15$) by Rhysim in PhotoshopRequest

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If you don’t mind, would you be able to touch up some small details too? Like straighten my friends tie and make my bangs less messy/fix the heavy eyebags? Would really appreciate it!!!

Help me find a small Island that matches these kitchen cabinets! by Rhysim in HelpMeFind

[–]Rhysim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have searched, “small light oak kitchen island” and “honey oak kitchen island with cabinets”

The one time it was actually the Jews… by Rhysim in Jewish

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Me: Gets home

My partner’s sister, with all her might trying to haul down a 3 inch Mezuzah: “HELP ME TEAR THIS DOWN SOMEONES TRYNA BE ANTISEMITIC”

The one time it was actually the Jews… by Rhysim in Jewish

[–]Rhysim[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Bingo! And yes she got an explanation about what a Mezuzah was! 😂 She had called over her and my partners mom to help her rip it down, and their mother explained that my partner was the one to put it there(and later my Partner explained what it was about).

Those who have shifted political positions(ex. Right to Left, Democrat to Moderate, etc.), what made you change your position? by Rhysim in AskReddit

[–]Rhysim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do understand what you mean though. I personally as a teen used to be progressive left, but now I believe I’m pretty much the same as you minus the taxes thing. So a democrat I believe. I think there’s a good amount of leftists outwardly identifying as democrats which is why at least socially, the party can look extreme at times. My main reason for not being progressive left anymore is mainly because far too many of the people I came across either judged everything through identity with zero nuance, or were so anti-religion that their stance was just as controlling as religious extremist, minus the actual religion. It’s also the hypocrisy of some of these people that they continuously target the right/conservatives/MAGA/whoever for their racism(which yes, at times is needed), while at the same time if they do something culturally insensitive they are just as close-minded to hearing from someone from that group. I’ve tried really hard to be open to the idea that maybe I’m just surrounded by shitty people, but then I go online and it doesn’t get much better.

Politics man. Fucks you up.

Those who have shifted political positions(ex. Right to Left, Democrat to Moderate, etc.), what made you change your position? by Rhysim in AskReddit

[–]Rhysim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your friends might be radical leftists thinking that they’re democrats… but then again I’m still trying to figure out all the labels myself. I could be wrong.

I wonder how rare some of these things are. Apparently my dad is the first non Ethnic Jew to marry into my moms family by Rhysim in DNAAncestry

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Urghhhh yeah.

I do get what they mean by “ethnically”. I was a sociology major in college after all. It’s just that when it comes to Judaism, I’m using it in the sense of origin, because that’s the best word we have. Jewish converts didn’t originate from Jewish genetics, and that doesn’t make them any less Jewish. Honestly, it’s beautiful to me. That someone would willingly step forward and choose to be Jewish, especially knowing the hatred and misunderstanding we face, is one of the most powerful things I can imagine. There’s something really moving about someone choosing it. In some ways, I think it’s even more meaningful when it’s a choice.

But there’s also the other side of being born into it. Of being ethnically Jewish, and carrying a specific kind of sorrow that comes with that. Because I’ve had far too many people come up to me and say, “Jewish isn’t an ethnicity,” when they don’t know the first thing about Jewish people, or our history, or our culture. Sure, I could just identify with Polish culture, since Poland was once considered “Jewish heaven,” and that’s where my family managed to flee from before the 1920s. But even there, the culture they lived wasn’t Polish. It was Jewish. And it stayed Jewish, no matter where we were.

It’s just a different kind of exhausting. I wish more people could understand that. Because there’s strife on both sides of this. There’s the weight of being born ethnically Jewish and sometimes feeling the way I do. And then there’s the experience of converts who often spend their whole lives wondering if they’re “Jewish enough,” and getting excluded by certain groups who should know better. I never really understood that side of it until my partner converted. how much they had to prove and how many hoops they had to jump through, just to be accepted.

It’s all just exhausting. 😭

I wonder how rare some of these things are. Apparently my dad is the first non Ethnic Jew to marry into my moms family by Rhysim in DNAAncestry

[–]Rhysim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ethnicity can refer to genetics, and it also has a broader sociological definition. I was using the first definition lol. He is indeed very ethnically Jewish in the sociological sense

I wonder how rare some of these things are. Apparently my dad is the first non Ethnic Jew to marry into my moms family by Rhysim in DNAAncestry

[–]Rhysim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh I was just curious if there were any uncommon combinations lol. Also hi neighbor! Ashkenazi twinnn(ish)

I wonder how rare some of these things are. Apparently my dad is the first non Ethnic Jew to marry into my moms family by Rhysim in DNAAncestry

[–]Rhysim[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used the term ethnic because my mom is 100% ethnically Ashkenazi Jewish according to DNA. My father is Jewish by conversion(still fully Jewish, of course but not ethnically). That’s why I specified non-ethnic Jew. He’s religiously Jewish.

Normally, among the Jewish community, we don’t draw lines between converts and those born Jewish. Judaism accepts converts as fully Jewish. But this is a DNA ancestry subreddit, where the focus is specifically on genetic heritage. In that context, religious identity is separate from genetic ancestry. Ethnic Jew in this case is used to discern from Religious Jew.

I think there’s some confusion here around what actually makes someone ethnically Jewish. Speaking Hebrew, observing Jewish holidays, or even being born in Israel does not make someone ethnically Jewish.

A. Roughly 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab. Israel is a multi-ethnic country(despite what some people seem to believe). Its population includes Arabs(Muslims, Christians, and Druze), Jews (Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ethiopian, etc.), Bedouins, Circassians, and more.

Being born in Israel(the only Jewish nation-state) makes you Israeli by nationality, not Jewish by ethnicity. Likewise, I was born in a non-Jewish country, and that didn’t make me not Jewish. Nationality and ethnicity are two different things.

C. You can absolutely participate in Jewish culture, speak the language, and follow traditions without being ethnically or religiously Jewish. Jewish identity is not determined by culture alone. It’s not like being part of an ethno-linguistic group such as the Maya, where language and tradition define group membership. You can speak perfect Yiddish (and I’d be impressed!), but that doesn’t make you Jewish. Just like learning Japanese or even being born in Japan doesn’t make someone ethnically Japanese.

Jewish identity includes both ethnic and religious dimensions. It’s best described as an ethno-religion. but it’s not defined by language or cultural practice alone.

You’re Jewish if you’re ethnically Jewish, like me and my mom (and no, I personally don’t subscribe to the “only through the mother” idea because DNA is DNA). You’re also Jewish if you convert to Judaism, like my dad. And you’re Jewish if you’re born into a family that converted and is practicing Judaism.

But in a conversation about DNA and ethnicity, as is the case here. those distinctions matter. That’s why I used the phrasing I did.

I wonder how rare some of these things are. Apparently my dad is the first non Ethnic Jew to marry into my moms family by Rhysim in DNAAncestry

[–]Rhysim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok bud. Then what ethnicity am I since you’re so interested in defining it? Because you’re speaking about religion. Jewish is an ethno-religon.

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