r/JewsOfConscience • u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist • Aug 26 '24

Humor The power of a Jewish grandmother

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Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

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u/PatrickMaloney1 Jewish Aug 26 '24

My bubbies are kinda the source of this in my family unfortunately

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Aug 26 '24

Oh god

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u/PunkAssBitch2000 LGBTQ Jew Aug 26 '24

My family: hoards food in freezers for literally over a decade making me suspicious of any home cooked meal they attempt to serve me

But also, my grandma always has safe foods at her house.

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u/Pragmatic_Seraphim Aug 26 '24

Solidarity there!!

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Aug 26 '24

You also got ARFID?

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u/Pragmatic_Seraphim Aug 26 '24

If there's two things I can't stomach it's genocide and more than one texture haha

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Aug 26 '24

Fair

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u/MaintenanceLazy Atheist raised Jewish Aug 26 '24

My grandma always has my safe snacks

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Aug 26 '24

oooh, what are your favorite safe snacks?

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u/MaintenanceLazy Atheist raised Jewish Aug 26 '24

Baked lays chips, pretzels, saltines, Oreos

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Aug 26 '24

nice, I wish snacks where my safe food, most of mine are like 1-2 hour meals with a ton of work involved

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u/Allan0-0 Jewish Communist Aug 26 '24

mine always makes me a little bit of corn couscous with butter, cuts me some fruits and makes me a fresh coffee when I can't eat well cuz of my food restrictions from autism

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u/WeddingPretend9431 Aug 26 '24

Now I know who made corn couscous, are you by chance Moroccan jew?

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u/Allan0-0 Jewish Communist Aug 26 '24

it's a typical food from the northeastern part of Brazil, grandma is from there (I'm far from morrocan, I'm as ashkenazi as one can be lol)

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u/griffin-meister secular german-american jew, center-left Aug 26 '24

Profile says they’re Brazilian, lots of Sephardim/Arabs in Brazil.

(Eu tenho Duolingo para Português :D)

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u/Allan0-0 Jewish Communist Aug 26 '24

nice to see people learning portuguese. I'm not sepharadi, it's just that Brazilian food in general has some influence from northern africa and the middle east (look up acarajé, it's basically a falafel made by the black community since slavery)

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u/griffin-meister secular german-american jew, center-left Sep 15 '24

Interesting, I never knew that. Obrigado!

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u/griffin-meister secular german-american jew, center-left Aug 26 '24

I have this interesting thing where I’m chronically underweight (15 y/o, ~120 lbs at 5’10, BMI <18 last I checked) when the rest of my family is at a healthy weight or slightly over. Both my grandmas are dead but my mom is continuing the legacy. I hear “you’re too tall and skinny, you need to fatten up” on a weekly basis.