"On her Uber app, Sivan’s name is Alexandra. Noa tells people her name is Nina. Michal goes by Micky in car services and when ordering coffee.

These days, some #NewYorkers with #Jewish-sounding names are providing fake names when they interact with strangers. They say the motivation is to feel safer around town, given the spike in #antisemitism in #NewYorkCity and elsewhere after #Oct7. Most wish they didn’t have to hide an important part of themselves, but they do so to protect themselves physically and emotionally." 🤬

https://www.jta.org/2025/12/25/ny/i-was-scared-to-be-jewish-some-nyc-teens-mask-their-names-amid-rising-antisemitism

"The only known #Jewish #museum in the #Arab world is tucked away in a residential neighborhood of the #Moroccan economic metropolis of #Casablanca, guarded by a lone soldier.

Among other items, the museum contains black-and-white photos of Jewish life in #Morocco from the 1920s and 1930s. The pictures show craftsmen at work, celebrations and family life. Display cases contain #Torah scrolls and clothing, a few old #manuscripts ― all relics from a time when Morocco still had a large Jewish community.

Around 300,000 #Jews lived in the Arab country, which had a population of 7 million at the time, when the state of #Israel was founded in 1948. After that, most emigrated, motivated in part by anti-Jewish #pogroms in the cities of #Oujda and #Jerada in the same year, in which more than 40 Jews died. About 1 million #Israelis with Moroccan roots live in the Jewish state today. Around 3,000 to 5,000 Jews remained in Morocco, most of them living in Casablanca."

https://www.dw.com/en/jews-in-morocco-a-small-community-often-overlooked/a-75115308

"On her Uber app, Sivan’s name is Alexandra. Noa tells people her name is Nina. Michal goes by Micky in car services and when ordering coffee.

These days, some #NewYorkers with #Jewish-sounding names are providing fake names when they interact with strangers. They say the motivation is to feel safer around town, given the spike in #antisemitism in #NewYorkCity and elsewhere after #Oct7. Most wish they didn’t have to hide an important part of themselves, but they do so to protect themselves physically and emotionally." 🤬

https://www.jta.org/2025/12/25/ny/i-was-scared-to-be-jewish-some-nyc-teens-mask-their-names-amid-rising-antisemitism

"The only known #Jewish #museum in the #Arab world is tucked away in a residential neighborhood of the #Moroccan economic metropolis of #Casablanca, guarded by a lone soldier.

Among other items, the museum contains black-and-white photos of Jewish life in #Morocco from the 1920s and 1930s. The pictures show craftsmen at work, celebrations and family life. Display cases contain #Torah scrolls and clothing, a few old #manuscripts ― all relics from a time when Morocco still had a large Jewish community.

Around 300,000 #Jews lived in the Arab country, which had a population of 7 million at the time, when the state of #Israel was founded in 1948. After that, most emigrated, motivated in part by anti-Jewish #pogroms in the cities of #Oujda and #Jerada in the same year, in which more than 40 Jews died. About 1 million #Israelis with Moroccan roots live in the Jewish state today. Around 3,000 to 5,000 Jews remained in Morocco, most of them living in Casablanca."

https://www.dw.com/en/jews-in-morocco-a-small-community-often-overlooked/a-75115308

Hi! I'm not #NewHere to #Mastodon - but I am in the process of migrating to a new server, so an #introduction is in order!

I post about a mish-mash of topics including (in no order): #writing , #StarTrek , #SciFi , silly interactions with my partner/friends/family, #astronomy , #GreekMythology , #Celtics , #memes , #reading , #books , being #jewish , #feminism (NO TERFS), #podcasting , #grogu, and various #baking adventures!

Looking forward to making #bookstodon my new #mastodon home

a #Jewish #Christmas #songbook

- The Christmas Song
- White Christmas
- Silver Bells
- Santa Baby
- Let it Snow
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (which in the documentary they see as an allegory of Jews living in a world ran by christians)
- Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
- Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
- A Holly, Jolly Christmas
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Do you hear what i hear?
- I’ll be Home for Christmas
- Santa is coming to town

a #Jewish #Christmas #songbook

- The Christmas Song
- White Christmas
- Silver Bells
- Santa Baby
- Let it Snow
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (which in the documentary they see as an allegory of Jews living in a world ran by christians)
- Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
- Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
- A Holly, Jolly Christmas
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Do you hear what i hear?
- I’ll be Home for Christmas
- Santa is coming to town

Hi! I'm not #NewHere to #Mastodon - but I am in the process of migrating to a new server, so an #introduction is in order!

I post about a mish-mash of topics including (in no order): #writing , #StarTrek , #SciFi , silly interactions with my partner/friends/family, #astronomy , #GreekMythology , #Celtics , #memes , #reading , #books , being #jewish , #feminism (NO TERFS), #podcasting , #grogu, and various #baking adventures!

Looking forward to making #bookstodon my new #mastodon home