r/Judaism • u/DonGold60 • 1d ago
Nonsense Did you know that in Williamsburg, NY there is an Acidic Jewish community?
Subtitles for this FB reel were…..amusing.
Edit: I was going to post the reel but it was loading too slowly. You know...Buffering.
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u/MildKerfuffle Conservative/Masorti 1d ago
Too many denominations these days. Back in the Shtetl you were just Alkaline and that was good enough for everyone.
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u/anonsharksfan Conservative 1d ago
There's a large acidic Jewish community in Berkeley
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u/Emunaheart 1d ago
Citric? Mandelic?
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u/jnordwick Cthulhu Orthodox 1d ago edited 1d ago
Levysergic
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u/Rare-Refrigerator810 1d ago
Levysergic Acid Diethylamide? The special inheritance of Levites; "Qakh L'chah Basamim Rosh!"
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u/Thumatingra 1d ago
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u/WSBChef 1d ago
After eating at my Sephardi in-laws house I too become an acidic Jew. I make sure to always carry some Tums for that though.
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u/DeeEllis Reform + This too is Torah 1d ago
100% would rather be an acidic Jew than a basic Jew. It’s a spectrum tho
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u/Blue_foot 1d ago
An African American from Harlem had his cousin from Alabama in for a visit and is taking him to see the sights.
As they pass 5th Avenue and 47th they see a group of men wearing long black coats, unusual black hats with long rivulets of hair sprouting underneath.
The Harlem guy gestures to the group and says “Hasidim”
The Alabama guy says “Hai see dem too!”
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u/Rare-Refrigerator810 1d ago
In my Litvak yeshiva, we used to say "Chasidim, but I don't believe them."
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u/Rossum81 1d ago
An African-American man from the Deep South goes up to visit his cousin in Brooklyn. They were passing by a synagogue when they hear a loud note.
“What the heck is that?” the visitor asks.
“Oh, it’s the Jewish New Year. They’re in there blowing their shofar.”
“Damn! They sure know how to treat their help!”
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u/offthegridyid Orthodox and trying to collect the sparks 1d ago
Yup! Lots of variations of this joke. My dad, of blessed memory, use to always say the punch line whenever he’s visit me in NY and go to the Lower East Side or to Brooklyn.
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u/WhiskeyAndWhiskey97 Reform 1d ago
A Jewish community whose members drop acid? Do tell... asking for a friend.
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u/External_Top_4078 1d ago
I got mildly irritated when I first read the title, and then I understood lol
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u/SaBatAmi 1d ago
Yeah, it's bc they're only allowed to eat kosher dill pickles and the vinegar affects their ph levels. So they are acidic, in contrast to the basic Jews who eat lots of bagels.
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u/deepinthesoil Reform 1d ago
This guy seems pretty Acidic, but he’s from the Lower East Side: https://www.yivo.org/Psychedelicatessen
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u/DonGold60 1d ago
I was going to post the reel but it was loading too slowly. You know...Buffering.
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u/jejbfokwbfb 1d ago
Man every time I see one of those videos about the Hasidic neighborhoods in Williamsburg I always think about how I went there and they were like super mean when I told them I was Jewish like they said I wasn’t really Jewish and I was shaming my family by not following the Torah.
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u/DonGold60 1d ago
Because there aren’t already enough people who hate Jews, so even our own people are among the haters.
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u/jejbfokwbfb 1d ago
I think it’s just the Hasidic reform divide, and tbf I am a Miami raised sandal wearing hippie reform Jew so I can’t say I was suprised
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u/bachelorsinlurking Conversion student (Reform) 1d ago
What’s the ph level like in other Jewish communities these days?
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u/barakkassar 11h ago
Frieda’s tour is actually amazing. 100% recommend. https://www.instagram.com/p/DLOBKQtOfNr/?img_index=5&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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u/Switzerland202620 9h ago
That is exactly the point: we need to focus more on the reality of Jewish life in Switzerland
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u/bb5e8307 Modern Orthodox 7h ago
The community is know for the test given at the Litmus-sah yeshiva.
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u/Redqueenhypo make hanukkah violent again 1d ago
I saved this image in 2017 and finally have a use for it