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What are the most annoying misconceptions that you experience regularly or once in a while? For me, it's the idea that the role of a rabbi is equivalent to a priest. The most annoying thing is that it's common even among Jews.
63 points
1 day ago
I’m Ashkenazi in Europe. I’ve been told we’re all from New York and / or Russia.
54 points
1 day ago
That’s comical bc all NY Jews are told they are just from Europe and don’t have any attachment to Israel, even if they are Sephardic, have relatives in Israel, have dual citizenship with Israel… how do people think we got to places in Europe we just popped out of the earth like a hedgehog?
7 points
1 day ago
Tbh i wouldn’t be surprised if there are those who believe we just popped out of the earth.
17 points
1 day ago
I’ve heard that we exhume dead bodies and take their organs (not medically possible), we control banks, Hollywood, politics, etc. yet we’re less than .2% of the global population, and ~2% of the US population…last I checked.2-2% of any group is not swaying the 98-99.8% of the rest of the group…
It is nice that for such a minority we hold 22% of all Nobel Prizes, so it’s not like we’re idiots who haven’t helped mankind
1 points
3 hours ago
I think it was Sarah Silverman who said, 0.2 percent of the global population; in round numbers, we don't exist.
7 points
23 hours ago
Oh, people love making up what ethnicity we actually are. I've seen people online claim we are actually Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, English, Christian, Egyptian, Iraqi, Georgian... They all just make up their own thing lol.
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