People love to cosplay w/others' ritual stuff b/c it's easier than the hard, humbling work of actual solidarity, which involves learning how to shut up & stop imposing your worldview all over everything & putting yourself on the line once in a while to make things better for others. Way less fun.
The fact that she recommends a specific company makes me wonder if this is sponcon for myzuzah-dot-org (or if she has a stake in it) — one of the few ways to make this worse
I wonder if they've tried...I don't know ... Supporting Jewish Rights instead of buying an item and saying "I've helped somebody." Consumerism has a lot to answer for imo making people think this performative behaviour does anything to help anyone.
Thank you for commenting on this.
What a bunch of offensive self-serving nonsense. This woman is not a Jewish ally, in any way/shape/form.
Good grief at Heaton. I bet she’s been to a few “Christian Seders” in her lifetime.
I think that the other piece of it might be that people are not willing to do the work in their own traditions, and so flit in and out of other traditions, hoping to find an easy way to the divine. think that touching the divine is always work, and that novelty is sometimes mistaken for numinous.
The more I hear about this, the more irritated I get. There’s so many more things that would help us like, I dunno, ASKING US what we want.
When I lived on the Lower East Side of NYC in the 90s virtually every door in the building had a mezuzah and they'd been there for probably 150 years. Mine had one. I knew what it was despite not being Jewish because my parents closest friends were.
This thing feels like it goes all the way to mockery. "Myzuzah, yourzuzah"? The mezuzah is put up with blessings, the klaf is a religious document, you're pledging to keep a Jewish home. It is a meaningful ritual, not a cheap souvenir.
Oh ffs, I just noticed who actually posted this. Can the mom from The Middle please just stop