אני קושית יפה/I’m a Cute Black Girl Pg 92
Never have I ever felt as uncomfortable, in shul, as I did last Friday… and you would think that being a black woman and having grown up around Jews and Whites and having gone to an Orthodox Shul a million times, throughout my life, that a Progressive Shul would be the last place I would ever feel uncomfortable.
The Shabbat Service at shul on Friday night started off really well. It was a full shul. It was a wonderful feeling being surrounded with so many other people who had braved the cold and wet weather and chose to spend some time with Hashem.
Throughout the service I was smiling and feeling the warmth of the full shul. But when we stood up for the Amidah; that feeling suddenly went away, and instead was replaced with discomfort and just pure ugliness.
I never went to a Jewish School…well besides kindergarten, and so, I have always been surrounded with a multitude of different religions, races, sexes, identities, cultures… There were many weekends that I used to spend in a Muslim Neighborhood with Muslim School Friends and their family…there were weekends that I used to spend with my Biological Family in the townships…there were Easter Holidays that I spend with my Chrisitan friend and her family… there were many Shabbats and Chaggim that all those friends would spend with me and my Jewish Family… Basically I have always lived life being a Human before my Religion/Sex/Culture etc. I have never judged someone because of what religion or race they were but instead because of who they are as a person, what they do and say, and I guess because of what they fundamentally believe.
With my first introduction to Judaism having been amongst the Sephardic and the Orthodox there are certain rituals and regulations that I grew up with, that are no longer followed in the Progressive Stream, but I still cling to them.
I will always wear a dress/skirt when going into any space where The Hekhal is. Of course, there may be times when I will be in the shul wearing pants, so I am sure there will be times when I will have to make an exception. Whenever saying the Shema I will stand up and cover my eyes. In the Progressive Shul women are free to wear pants…or pretty much whatever they wish to wear to shul. the congregation generally remains seated for the Shema although they will cover their eyes.
So, I have listed many reasons why I should already feel uncomfortable at shul…
I am Black…but in the Progressive Movement and in the new age there are many non-whites in Synagogues.
I wear a Skirt/Dress…
I am often standing on my own for the Shema…
But none of the above are the reasons to why I felt uncomfortable when I stood up for the Amidah on Friday Night.
Standing together was a group of people wearing t-shirts stating that they were part of the South African Jews for a Free Palestine.
What the IDF is doing right now is so much more than just ending something that Hamas started on the 7th of October 2023. Hamas are still holding, innocent Israelis/Jews/Dual Citizens lives, hostage. Should the IDF put down their guns and raise up their arms and surrender we all know that Hamas will not shake hands and make peace. Hamas and every other Terrorist Organization will attack harder and eventually wipeout all Jews in Israel and eventually across the world.
And what all these people now crying to Free Palestine etc don’t realize that when they are done with Israel and the Jews who do you think they will come after next??
These Terrorist Groups are against everything that the world stands for now…
They are against…
and so much more…
I am so sick of watching videos of people protesting against Israel and being so blinded by the evil that is Hamas, and when you ask them if they would still feel the same if their loved one was being held hostage; suddenly they stutter and hold back before further going on about a free Palestine and how Israel is creating a genocide…do they even know what a genocide is? Because that is what Hamas wants!
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“a campaign of genocide”Similar:racial killingmassacrewholesale slaughtermass slaughterwholesale killingindiscriminate killingmass murdermass homicidemass destructionannihilationexterminationeliminationliquidationeradicationBasically, what the Holocaust was…what the 7th of October 2023 was.
I respect everyone even when you don’t share the same opinions and views that I do, but how can anyone go into Hashem’s house and wear t shirts like that?
And what exactly does a ‘Free Palestine’ mean to them? Does that mean they are Free of Hamas? Free of Jews? Free of what exactly? Just another question is where all these people are when terrorists are killing their own people in their own countries just because they are not the same religion, different gender, born a girl and not a boy, stand up against the law, watch tv, have a social media account, like the same sex, are against the regime…