r/JewsOfConscience • u/Here-Together • 23d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only Losing & Finding Jewish Ritual: What Zionism Takes and Diasporism Offers

HI JOC community! I'm chiming in again with a story I wrote about my loss and recovery of Jewish ritual practice. My story of alienation from Jewish ritual spans generations, beginning with my ancestors' violent displacement from Eastern Europe, and ending when my rabbi interrupted my b'mitzvah parashah to share a spiel espousing Zionism.

But this is not the end of the story. Over the past year, I learned about radical diasporism and have made strides to reconnect with the ritual practices of my ancestors.

Read here

As we in this community all know, Jewishness contains multitudes; a range of of histories, rituals, religious beliefs and ancestral connections. Jewish ritual in concert with strategic organizing can be a force for solidarity rather than colonization.

I hope this story offers clarity on how the pervasiveness of Zionism in Jewish institutions threatens to diminish a tradition with a breadth of meaning and interpretation, into a singular, deceitful narrative.

Anti-Zionist organizing and radical diasporism have offered me a home in Jewish community I did not think possible. I thank you all deeply for this gift!

If you'd like to keep up with my anti-Zionist Jewish writing (among other subjects), you can Subscribe to my substack here.(it's free!)

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u/bassman81 Jewish Anti-Zionist 23d ago

i read the title of your post and immediately thought "Doikayt"
it didn't take long to find your substack post about that idea

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u/Here-Together 23d ago

Hahahha yep we are on the same wavelength :)

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u/SirPansalot Non-Jewish Ally 23d ago

Great work. Subscribed to your blog

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u/Here-Together 23d ago

Thank you very much! Appreciate the kind words

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