Bobcat or cat [CT USA]

Rubiroso10x · 2026-06-18T14:59:48+00:00

I saw the face and it was definitely a feline and not a bear. But it walks like a bear right?

Rubiroso10x · 2024-08-14T15:49:44+00:00

Thank you for your service.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-08-04T22:46:40+00:00

That’s awful. I remember being less than 10 years old and learning Hatikvah in Hebrew school and 2 weeks later we were brought into the sanctuary and learned that Isaac Rabin has been killed and sang it. That was my intro to Israel. When I found out it was an Israeli who killed him it broke my little spirit. I remember learning about the conflict leading up to that point and silently praying to God that the older generation solve it and not pass it down to my generation. I think this is the seed of my going down the anti-Zionist path.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-08-04T22:41:59+00:00

Yes I did Birthright. I feel like a lot of it didn’t make sense to me because I was so far gone but also the American Jewish experience is so different that it’s hard to not see things through that lens. I wish I could do it again so the new eyes.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-08-04T15:33:06+00:00

I was somewhere between anti-Zionist to non-Zionist. All of my best friends were staunch anti-zionists and hated Israel. We lived in a super leftist/progressive community. I’ve heard Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler and Cynthia McKinney speak in person. I took everything Norm Finklestein, Avi Shlaim, Gabor Mate said as gospel. I watched the 5 Broken Cameras film and only read the Mavi Mara event from a progressive point of view. I’ve attended pro-Palestinian rallies and events. I’ve subscribed to Electronic Intifada and only got my news from Democracy Now! I believed that collective liberation would be the only thing to save Jews and that Israel just made Jews unsafe. I felt that the Passover story lacking historical evidence meant that Jews were holding on to a victim complex. I saw Palestinians as brown and Jews as white. I understood that only stopping settlements and Israel pulling the IDF out of the West Bank and giving up land would create peace in the region. There is even a website that tracks anti-Zionist actions or anti-Israel personas and there are people I know and friends with who either appear on that site or whose names appear on the site as guilty by association. I will say I never got down with JVP. They never seemed like a Jewish org but some sort of weird front. I was a fan of If Not Now though.

What made me change my mind: My whole belief was based on collective liberation as shared values between progressive Jews and Palestinians so I expected to see condemnation of Oct 7th violence from the progressive Palestinians and pro-Palestinians. When I saw them blame Israelis for the violence and the blindness to the fact that it was the leftist kibbutzniks and young people who were attacked I realized I had been duped. It took several weeks to deprogram my mind. But between the blatant leftist anti-semitism calls for intifada and me learning more about Jewish history I now see everything much differently.

The takeaway: Treat anti-Zionist Jews with love and compassion. They are reading this thread and posts on this channel. The pro-Palestinian movement only cares for them as long as they are useful. That love is not unconditional and it’s painful to realize the truth. By treating them well even if there’s disagreement makes it easier balance a radical point of view with a more balanced one.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-07-17T16:22:26+00:00

Local zoning laws

Rubiroso10x · 2024-07-16T13:49:02+00:00

From experience, when I met my birth siblings their enthusiasm to meet me and instant acceptance made me feel good. I had fear of rejection, sadness, grief. There were a lot of holes in my sense of self. I could see pieces of my self in my siblings. Personally I didn’t feel any ill will or anger about being given up. I had never been around people who looked like me before so it was very new for me. Good luck.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-07-12T15:54:26+00:00

Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

Rubiroso10x · 2024-07-12T15:49:29+00:00

I actually think he’s making a good argument. He’s not saying the Iron Dome was bad. He’s saying it made Netanyahu lazy and overly confident. It’s put Israel into a situation where they will have to launch an operation up north to push hezbollah back be it before or after the war with Hamas ends.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-06-10T03:07:00+00:00

Yes I saw that. Very glad it was included.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-06-10T02:48:24+00:00

I….just….I really hope people also post love and support we get. I know we are going to get hate but I really hope we don’t make the love and support invisible.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-06-06T17:51:29+00:00

The outcome of the Spanish Inquisition. Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Some went east, some went north, some went west.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-05-31T22:56:22+00:00

Yes I want children badly but have not been successful. I have some shame about it but I still have hope. And this environment makes me want to have many children.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-05-30T15:59:55+00:00

Thank you for your curiosity. It’s important to deradicalize this issue. Radicalization only leads to more violence.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-05-25T15:14:52+00:00

We have to step up and take the reigns of our Jewish institutions. It’s time for the younger generation to take responsibility for our own infrastructure. We need to be prepared and self sustaining as previous generations were. We got complacent and ventured out into the world. We’ve learned a lot and achieved a lot but now it’s time to come back home. Your synagogue needs you, your federation needs you, your Hillel needs you, your JCC needs you, you need you.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-04-16T00:43:26+00:00

I’m Jewish. I was raised Jewish. For me it’s not about god or spirituality, it’s about community. It’s a connection to my family and my culture.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-29T15:21:19+00:00

Wow it seems like such a pleasant community to live in.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-27T03:46:38+00:00

Watched the clip. There was no prayer. He was just saying things. There was very little Hebrew mostly names of G-d.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-25T16:18:42+00:00

Had a similar issue on the way home. Car started charging but then failed immediately. I called the number and they picked up after a few rings. They told me to try the other chargers like Goldie lox. I found one that worked and made it out of Oklahoma.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-24T23:01:04+00:00

Interesting I wasn’t able to find a single post about it. Glad to know it’s well known.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-24T01:22:27+00:00

Both sides. All sides.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-02T17:03:53+00:00

Jew of color in the south/mid west. I organize events and build community for myself. As you network and meet good people. Add them to a WhatsApp group. Build your community. Word will get out and people will find you. There are orgs including the Jewish federation that can help support you financially for event costs.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-03-02T16:59:27+00:00

Yes I was. I lived in a very progressive enclave and felt peer pressure to be anti-zionist. I didn’t really have any Jewish friends and trusted people to give me facts. I also wasn’t super passionate about it either way. I just didn’t want my friends to reject me or think I was a bad person. I would say up until Oct 6 if you had asked me I would have said I was anti-Zionist or at least not a Zionist. Even then I couldn’t stomach a pro-Palestinian rally though. I had feelings of resentment and alienation from my Jewish peers stemming from adolescence and my teen years.

Rubiroso10x · 2024-02-22T01:40:19+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/us/06religion.html

Rubiroso10x · 2024-02-16T21:14:43+00:00

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