My older one started at UCLA in 2023 and needless to say her freshman year was rough and she ultimately left. My younger one is at U Oregon. His first year was fine but this year is off to a rocky start for Jews on campus.

So basically:
>>palestine protesters pay to go see a Jerry Seinfeld show just to yell at him
>>Jerry mocks the people disturbing his show and yelling at him by saying “I’m racist and support genocide” sarcastically
>>people on the internet think he’s being serious?

I hate this shit. It’s just so performative.

If you dislike Seinfeld, why are you paying probably over $150 dollars to go see him?

Also if they care about Palestine or Palestinians, why are they so obsessed with people who are utterly detached from the conflict? Seinfeld’s content isn’t political. He’s an open Zionist but he’s not a leading voice in the conflict. He’s just a guy who back in the 90s was in a very famous TV show.

It just seems like people are appropriating the conflict for their own stupid games and agendas.

The disagreement centres on a passage describing October 7 in which Hadid and Matari argue that the attacks were legitimate as people under "colonial domination" have a "right to resist." Random House asked them to incorporate arguments that the attacks violated international law. Hadid and Matari refused and therefore withdrew their book.

The section on October 7 argued that international law authorized Palestinian resistance “by any means necessary”, saying the attacks came after “decades of ignored suffering and repression”.

When the authors received the revised version prior to publication, they noticed that Random House had added to the section: "These actions were a violation of international law."

The authors objected to a number of other changes including the removal of 'Jewish' as a descriptor in several places, as well as the removal of the term "Jewish gangs" for pre-state Zionist militias.

The authors became increasingly frustrated with Random House's proposals, at one point likening October 7 to a slave uprising. They then accused Random House of being too favourable to Jews over Palestinians.

On their opening day, this is the decor they chose to put up for Halloween… I don’t even know what to say at this point. Part of me wants to believe it’s innocent but I know it’s not.

At least two dozen current Jewish members of the Canadian Armed Forces and veterans have been told that they are ineligible for compensation under a landmark class-action settlement at the Federal Court involving the Department of National Defence addressing 40 years of racial discrimination and harassment.

The Federal Court-ordered settlement provides eligible claimants with a $5,000 common-experience payment, plus up to $30,000 more depending on the severity of the discrimination. Other measures include restorative engagement and a personal apology from the Chief of the Defence Staff.

Since the portal opened on Oct. 15, 2025, Deloitte LLP, which administers the fund, has denied dozens of claims from Jewish applicants, The CJN has learned. The application deadline is Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.

Many of the Jewish members who were rejected subsequently appealed, but were rejected a second time.

“Whoever’s assessing these things has decided to exclude all Jews and so it’s another case of Jews being excluded from Canada once again,” said one Jewish military member, whose identity The CJN agreed to keep anonymous to avoid career repercussions.

Rejections spanned different ranks, service levels and gender, The CJN was told by people familiar with the claims process.

“If my case was denied, but other Jewish cases were accepted, fine,” said another rejected Canadian Armed Forces Jewish member, who also asked that their name be withheld. “The fact that as a group we are being denied is outrageous and that needs to be addressed at the highest level.”

The CJN reviewed at least three identical rejection letters, the applications that preceded them and viewed subsequent requests for reconsideration, with identical negative replies.

“The narrow application, in and of itself, is discriminatory. It’s just a very narrow application of ‘What does race mean?’ It’s wrong. And if I don’t stand up, it’s not just other Jewish people, it’s other people hurt,” a Jewish rejected member told The CJN. “The Canadian Forces can do better than this.”

The Jewish rejected claimants are considering taking legal action this week with the Federal Court to intervene in the class action case, sources told The CJN.

I found this interesting so I thought I'd share.

For historical context, this was just 15 years after the Vatican was forced to stop locking the Jews of Rome into a ghetto, which had been the practice for over 300 years.

11 Years after this article, they would begin demolishing the ghetto.

47 years after it, Mussolini took power.

This a bit of a heavy topic, I am not sure if I should do Ancestry and identity tag or the religion one. I feel like I am struggling with my jewish identity.

I was born into a reform ashkenazi jewish family, I celebrated Hanukkah mostly. Vaguely Purim and Passover. Never really rosh hashana. I wasn't really taught the stories aside from those 3 holidays. We also didn't eat any ashkenazi dishes or do anything from our culture. Everytime I try to join my jewish peers in anything, I feel years upon years behind. I was never taught the things that come naturally to them, I can't sing the blessings, I speak very broken hebrew, and I barely understand the holidays. I feel their looks when I ask about something. I feel like I'm treated as a vistor or a guest in my own culture. I've tried joining a Hebrew School but it's too expensive, I don't have any money to give. I don't feel jewish at all next to my jewish peers.

When I try to join my non jewish peers, I am too jewish to fit in. I do not celebrate Christmas at all and I have no emotional attatchment to it. I celebrate Hanukkah, I want to play driedel. They always look at me with this sad look in their eyes when I say I dont celebrate christmas. It's deeply uncomfortable.

My mother didn't let me do a bar mitzvah because she didn't really believe in me being celebrated by anyone. As an adult, I understand it happens automatically but I would've liked to have the ceremony and been celebrated. To feel welcomed in the community as a full jewish person.

I try and cope by celebrating Purim and Hanukkah with my cat. We make hamen's hats together and I give her presents on Hanukkah. Lately I've been feeling too depressed to even do that anymore. I just don't want to make hamen's hat even though its my favorite tradition. I live too far from a synagogue or chabad to take part in anything. It's over 2 hours away by bus. Ive tried explaining it to them, but they say I can join the online stream. It feels so lonely to see everyone together, it feels like I am watching everyone have fun and I am not permitted to join in. It feels as though I am being left behind and not wanted.

I really want community. When I was a kid and my mother was explaining what it meant to be jewish, my mother always would tell me that "Jews need community. Its a big part of being jewish". But I was never allowed to be apart of it. I never got to attend a synagogue. Each year gets more and more lonely. I keep trying and telling myself that this rosh hashana, this purim, this hannukah, this passover, that it will be the last one I spend alone with my cat. It never is the last one.

I do not know how to navigate being jewish like this. I don't feel that I belong. This feeling keeps worsening even with therapy.

Hi everyone!

So I figured this would be the best place to come to to ask this question because I have... no one else to ask!

My best friend is Jewish by birth/religion and is inviting me to celebrate Hanukkah with her and her husband! I'm extremely excited to do so but I sort of... have no clue what I'm going into. I was born and raised Roman Catholic and I've been learning things has she has taught me but I would really like to... do it right? I guess?

I'm just not sure if I should be cooking something like Latkes? Should I bring gifts? Are there things I should not do?

She would never judge me as I'm learning but I'd like to have some knowledge from people who know better then me!

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