Jewish curious ….

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

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Anonymous wrote:Jews for Jesus

Just …. no

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

It is also not true in Judaism that any old way of doing things is fine if it makes you feel good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Jewish thought is a loaded concept. The Torah indicates patrilineal descent, rather than matrilineal. Ethiopian Jews practice patrilineal, Indian Jews, Karite, etc., until crack-down by ultra-orthodox authorities in state of Israel. Modern orthodox or non-haredi orthodoxy traditionally practiced giyur katan very liberally until be threatened with loss of credentials by Israeli rabbinate. The reality is that many Jews worldwide are living fully Jewish lives in Israel and globally without converting. Conversion in the Torah and even in the Talmud was not difficult. With the haredization of Judaism post-Shoah, this had lead to a lot of prejudice, abuse/exploitation of converts/conversion process, which itself is a perversion of “Jewish thought” and practice. Conversion only matters for purposes of marriage and burial with certain streams of Judaism. If you don’t care, the vast majority of Jews don’t care. Are there sincere believers and/or bigots like PP who cast aspersions on your Judaism? Sure, but you don’t need their good opinion to be a good Jew. Moreover, you are free to cast aspersions on their Judaism and Jewish practice.

Indian Jews became a problem for Israel. There simply is a very large number of them, and as such Israel doesn't want to recognize them because they could qualify for the right of return as immigrants

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

It is also not true in Judaism that any old way of doing things is fine if it makes you feel good.

I’m speaking about the notion that I am Jewish due to having a Jewish father and going through my Bat Mitzvah. How is that some radical notion?

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

It is also not true in Judaism that any old way of doing things is fine if it makes you feel good.

I’m speaking about the notion that I am Jewish due to having a Jewish father and going through my Bat Mitzvah. How is that some radical notion?

Halacha has different criteria and traditional communities need to be able to apply their internal definitions for who is a member. I don't want to bar you from any Jewish community and hope that future generations in your family can fully return, but you should know that you are part of a community that declared Jewish law doesn't matter when it doesn’t make us feel good. In order for future generations to make this return, someone down the line will need a Jewish mother or a halachic conversion.

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

It is also not true in Judaism that any old way of doing things is fine if it makes you feel good.

I’m speaking about the notion that I am Jewish due to having a Jewish father and going through my Bat Mitzvah. How is that some radical notion?

Don’t bother arguing with the bigot. She comes on every Jewish post to tell people that don’t adhere to her idea of Judaism that they are not Jewish. Fortunately she is in the minority and many groups of Jewish people are welcoming .

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't actually about hearing what you want to hear and affirming whatever makes you feel good, though. There are plenty of Jewish people who do believe this kind of thing, but these are ideas that don't come from Jewish thought and in many cases run really contrary to it.

Nobody made you the end authority on Jewish thought, you hateful poster.

It is not hateful to push back against "anything goes" and "you do you". These ideas are actually anti Jewish.

You know what else is anti-Jewish? The notion that there is only one way of doing things. That is almost never true in Judaism.

It is also not true in Judaism that any old way of doing things is fine if it makes you feel good.

I’m speaking about the notion that I am Jewish due to having a Jewish father and going through my Bat Mitzvah. How is that some radical notion?

Halacha has different criteria and traditional communities need to be able to apply their internal definitions for who is a member. I don't want to bar you from any Jewish community and hope that future generations in your family can fully return, but you should know that you are part of a community that declared Jewish law doesn't matter when it doesn’t make us feel good. In order for future generations to make this return, someone down the line will need a Jewish mother or a halachic conversion.

I’m going to trust my Conservative Rabbi on this matter and not you.

[Anonymous]

I too am curious. Have been reading about the tikkun olam concept and like it.