"The #Jewish population is now nonexistent, but for thousands of years the #Jews of #Libya lived under the rule of the #Greeks, #Romans, #OttomanEmpire, #Italian, #British and #Arabs. In 1911, they made up roughly 4% of the #Libyan population. In 1938, “race protection laws” banned Jews from sending their children to school, working in skilled professions or intermarrying. Later the community was divided and sent to concentration camps across #Europe and #NorthAfrica.

In the years following World War II, the remaining Libyan Jews were forced to emigrate, leaving just 100 in 1969 and none at all by 2004. Many went to #Israel and many to #Rome, adding to the spread and diversity of Libyan and North African Jewish #cooking. Today we enjoy such dishes as #mafrum (stuffed #potatoes), #couscous and #chraime (a spicy #fish #stew). Learning about these #foods helps us to understand our people."

https://jweekly.com/2025/11/10/this-libyan-jewish-chershi-squash-dip-is-spicy-tangy-garlicky-and-sweet/

"The #Jewish population is now nonexistent, but for thousands of years the #Jews of #Libya lived under the rule of the #Greeks, #Romans, #OttomanEmpire, #Italian, #British and #Arabs. In 1911, they made up roughly 4% of the #Libyan population. In 1938, “race protection laws” banned Jews from sending their children to school, working in skilled professions or intermarrying. Later the community was divided and sent to concentration camps across #Europe and #NorthAfrica.

In the years following World War II, the remaining Libyan Jews were forced to emigrate, leaving just 100 in 1969 and none at all by 2004. Many went to #Israel and many to #Rome, adding to the spread and diversity of Libyan and North African Jewish #cooking. Today we enjoy such dishes as #mafrum (stuffed #potatoes), #couscous and #chraime (a spicy #fish #stew). Learning about these #foods helps us to understand our people."

https://jweekly.com/2025/11/10/this-libyan-jewish-chershi-squash-dip-is-spicy-tangy-garlicky-and-sweet/

If you are researching the #shoah / #holocaust (historically or genealogically), I have completely revised & updated the #ManyRoads Free-self help.

#History #News #Education #Genealogy #Jews #LGBTQ #eirenicon #Fascism

https://treemagic.org/Genealogy/?page=Holocaust-Shoah%2Findex.md

If you are researching the #shoah / #holocaust (historically or genealogically), I have completely revised & updated the #ManyRoads Free-self help.

#History #News #Education #Genealogy #Jews #LGBTQ #eirenicon #Fascism

https://treemagic.org/Genealogy/?page=Holocaust-Shoah%2Findex.md

"When discussing #Lithuanian emigration today, Norway or the United Kingdom often come to mind. But 150 years ago, #Lithuanians – and particularly Lithuanian #Jews – were looking much farther afield, to #America, #Palestine and even #SouthAfrica.

#Historians say the great migration of the #19thcentury was driven not only by economic need and political pressure but also by the promise of a more liberal life and the growing influence of global transportation networks."

This was a big chunk of my family. Got here in the 1890s.

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2710065/railroads-steamers-and-jewish-migration-from-lithuania

"When discussing #Lithuanian emigration today, Norway or the United Kingdom often come to mind. But 150 years ago, #Lithuanians – and particularly Lithuanian #Jews – were looking much farther afield, to #America, #Palestine and even #SouthAfrica.

#Historians say the great migration of the #19thcentury was driven not only by economic need and political pressure but also by the promise of a more liberal life and the growing influence of global transportation networks."

This was a big chunk of my family. Got here in the 1890s.

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2710065/railroads-steamers-and-jewish-migration-from-lithuania

@sheislaurence This bears repeating, it's so ridiculous:

" #antisemitism [is] used to label #Jews who demonstrate against #genocide"

Never in a million years would I have imagined that it would be a #Labour government that would turn the #UK into a full-on 1984 state where the #righttoprotest would be stripped and #Newspeak would be so out of hand in the oligarchist and state #media that #antisemitism would be used to label #Jews who demonstrate against #genocide.

That being said, I'd known that #KeirStarmer was a danger from his #Corbyn backstabbing days and I refused to vote his party in.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-10-04/hundreds-arrested-at-london-pro-palestine-protest-amid-condemnation

Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.

"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."

https://firstthings.com/no-chosen-no-almost-chosen/

Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.

"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."

https://firstthings.com/no-chosen-no-almost-chosen/

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”

In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/

#culture #religion #border #immigration#HumanRights

Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”

In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/

#culture #religion #border #immigration#HumanRights

The progressive activist lefty #synagogue in #Victoria#BC#Canada defaced with this:

“#Jews are evil! Because #genocide is evil! Stop genocide stop the Jews! Jews are murdering thousands of gentile children In the future #Palestinians will get their revenge against you child-killing #Jew-monsters!”

I've heard that little #antifascist joke about how many #nazis do you have at dinner for decades, and I don't want to hear it anymore.

https://www.vicnews.com/local-news/police-investigating-antisemetic-vandalism-on-victoria-synagogue-8174642

The progressive activist lefty #synagogue in #Victoria#BC#Canada defaced with this:

“#Jews are evil! Because #genocide is evil! Stop genocide stop the Jews! Jews are murdering thousands of gentile children In the future #Palestinians will get their revenge against you child-killing #Jew-monsters!”

I've heard that little #antifascist joke about how many #nazis do you have at dinner for decades, and I don't want to hear it anymore.

https://www.vicnews.com/local-news/police-investigating-antisemetic-vandalism-on-victoria-synagogue-8174642

"In her childhood, my mother was starved by a dark regime. When the #Nazi army occupied Poland and #Jews were pushed into ghettos, they were forced to make do with less and less #food... My mother was 7 years old when the Lvov ghetto closed in on her. Fortunately, both her parents were alive and did everything to ensure her survival.... my mother was lucky. Other children wasted away and died."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims

#Gaza#Palestine#Israel#Genocide#WarCrimes #News#Press#WorldNews

However, at this time this principle is tearing my soul to pieces!!! Because the Torah tells me that no matter my personal views and feelings, and no matter the sacrifices I personally made to not be part of the genocide machine, and no matter the things I've done to fight it, my faith tells me that I am personally responsible for the unspeakable crimes that my kinfolk are committing in #Gaza (and the West Bank). I know that it is not really how you're supposed to think in an individualist society, and frankly I'll fight any goy who holds diaspora Jews responsible for Israeli crimes or scapegoats Jews or Israelis.

But before Hashem my soul is responsible for those crimes because all Israel are responsible for one another, and there's nothing that I can do as an individual that can change that. It's too late. All I can do is keep bashing myself against the wall of stone hearts, do anything I can to stop the madness that has consumed my people, the idolatrous worship of state and land and violence that demands endless sacrifice of blood.

And in the meantime we are pushing Hashem farther and farther away with this endless idolatry in Jewish clothing, this incomprehensible horror of death and fire and pain that we have opened up to pour out our own anguish into, this Chilul Hashem of atrocities committed in His name, this anger and hate with which we are starving those babies in Gaza, which is our anger and hate at Him for having let us suffer; and our thirst for power and mastery, which is our rebellion against Him and rejection of the faith in His protection.

We have to stop, but I don't know what to do. My heart and my strength are broken.

"Unidentified vandals defaced two #Jewish sites in #Dolka, #Poland, over the weekend, spray-painting anti-#Israel slurs and #Nazi #swastikas on the remains of a local #synagogue and a memorial at the Jewish cemetery.

The synagogue, located in southeast Poland, was destroyed by the #Nazis during the #Holocaust, while the cemetery’s memorial, built in recent years by townspeople, symbolizes pre-Holocaust coexistence between Poles and #Jews."

1. I cringe a bit sharing Ynet, but I dont see this anywhere else yet. Important to be aware that it's a right-wing rag if you dont follow Jewish media outlets.
2. This story is why you see some Israel-critical Jews squint at gentile anti-Israel rhetoric and hesitate to take it at face value. Particularly when its presented alongside clearly fucked up stuff.

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1ebjdbile#google_vignette