How Israel Reshaped Jewish Culture | Big Jewish Ideas | Unpacked
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- Many Americans define their Judaism culturally rather than religiously. But with Israeli-Jewish influences becoming increasingly prominent, is there still a role for American-Jewish cultural life in the future. Or, to put it another way, will the falafel win over the bagel in the Jewish cultural stakes? We’re getting to the heart of exactly what Jewish culture means and how the American and Israeli versions have developed in parallel to each other.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 What is "Jewish culture" (as opposed to "Jewish tradition)?
01:07 Jewish culture in American television
03:00 How does American Jews define their Jewishness?
03:23 Jewish culture in Israel as a national identity
04:09 The "New Jew" and the return to a Hebrew culture, Berdichevsky
04:55 The cultural impact of kibbutzim
05:13 Cultural influence from Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews
05:25 Jewish cultural influence in Israeli pop culture
05:35 Jewish culture in Israeli television
06:10 American-Jewish culture and Israeli culture in parallel
07:04 Outro
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One very important thing Israel brought about was the revival of Hebrew. Resurrecting an ancient language which Jews have deep cultural and religious ties to was a triumph not just for Jews but for every disenfranchised or colonized people who lost their language. It means that reviving a language is possible.
D
Walla sababia safia....
True 👋👍
Very true. As a Ugandan-South African Israel inspires me a lot
I am an American. I’m gay, a white guy, and an Episcopalian. I have always felt such a connection to Judaism, and to Jews. I also love languages. I love Québéc French, Gaelic, Hebrew, and some far-out languages like Navajo, Sangheili and Klingon. The Hebrew language is so beautiful. I am so thankful that it was resurrected, because I have felt such sorrow with people who are disenfranchised or oppressed. I didn’t feel like it was sufficient for me to merely oppose anti-semitism. I have always Jews, Judaism, and Israel because I have been so inspired by the courage and kindness that I have experienced with my Jewish friends and loved ones. I am passionate about learning Hebrew the Israeli way. So for anyone within the reach of this message who is a Jew, or an Israeli, or a person who shares my love of diversity, I hope you know that someone in America loves you.
While this is not the same thing of course - as a Chinese person who also have witnessed all different kinds of “Chineseness” in different diasporas around the world. This video is sooo interesting to me.
Glad you enjoyed! Maybe we can collab sometime in the future :)
@@UNPACKED oh yes, we will!! 😃
ART: An interesting bond has formed in the USA between Jews and Chinese. It started because Chinese Restraunts were the only ones open on Christmas.And the food was similer. Once they got to know each other, they realized that they had a lot in common, culteraly.
I found this video extremely fascinating, being an Israeli with friends that made Aliya from Ameica. I think that many of the manners of the American Jewish stereotypical behaviour (at least in the way they're portrayed), are actually an Ashkenazi thing, given the fact that most American Jews are of an Ashkenazi origin. In israel all these stereotypes are considered as 'Polish', and what's called a 'Jewish mother' in America is called in Israel a 'Polish mother'.
Because israel is all Jews they call the Jews from Poland polish. In America, the Ashkenazi Jews are like one thing, so an Ashkenazi from Poland won’t be associated as a pole in America but a Jew, as there are actual polish people and not that much diversity of Jews
I live in Denmark, and most jews here are "cultural jews" as well - but I would say they have stronger ties to Israel and israeli culture than american jews have
מאנין
Intriating
Very much so
Why , Do U Think. That is.
Im just cirious. ?!
Ow , Patrick.
Q. Doring ww2 , NOT one Jew was ' 'Touched" !!!!?!!!!
American Jews are American. Simple as that.
I can relate. But I'm a marrano from Puerto Rico that "converted" to Judaism. All that was passed to me was that at age 13 grandparents tell their grandchildren that we're Jews and that we came from Spain but before Spain we originated in Jerusalem and other minor traditions that were clues that we were part of the Jewish diaspora. And as a teenager I learned about Israel, I learned that the Hebrew language was revived after more than a thousand years of not being used and about Operation Solomon (a secret operation that brought back Jews from Ethiopia) and Operation Entebbe (where Jews were saved by Israel after a plane being kidnapped to Uganda) and that Jews from Yemen were fundamental in reviving the language, and that secular and atheist Jews founded the fist Kibbutz and that Holocaust survivors gave their lives defending Israel and I can't help but being so proud and connected to Israel and to all the non Jews that protected us and defended us from Albania to the USA to India.
@@simonbennatan8257 Our survival is a miracle.
Probably the biggest misconception that Americans have about Israel is that Israelis and American Jews are identical. Obviously a culture is going to develop differently where it’s a majority from where it’s a small minority.
The biggest misconception is how American Jews always believed they are the real representative of the Jewish culture. Well. Surprise surprise. You’re wrong.
I remember going to this restaurant in Tel Aviv that markets itself as an "American diner". It serves pastrami and bagels, like one would associate with American Jewish culture. But in Israel, sabich and falafel sandwiches are more popular. (And Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab falafels and hummus are not identical either. Israelis incorporate the contributions of other Jewish communities like the Yemeni zhug and the Baghdadi amba.)
Israel strengthened my Jewish identity so much that I claimed citizenship and moved here.
Good!
On expense of treating non-jews as sub humans?
Who did you evict out of their home?
No clown Palestine dont exist
Israel yes
It's pretty cool to be part of the only people that had successfully revived their lost ancestral language.
That was excellent. As an Israeli American I can see how accurate this is.
Yup. The Great Divide is not just the Atlantic...Only 3 Mitzvot are total immersement Sukkot, The Mikvah and Aliyah. Aliyah "Alma mater" 2007.
@Libre Palestina Anti-Semites everywhere. Jews can't talk about being Jews without having haters come and spread hate. It's just part of being Jewish.
כן Totoly
i really wish india also does with hindu culture
@Libre Palestina Free Palestine....from Hamas & Abbas!
Interesting - I’m Israeli, raised in Canada. I don’t understand or identify with North American Jewish culture- Israeli culture, I get. It’s an interesting place to be....
Nice.The fact that 90% of jews in the US are Ashkenazi coming in one major immigration wave makes the american jewish identity very defined while the Israeli Jewish population is extremely heterogenous and I think this is the fundumental difference.
ככה זה גם באנגליה.
נשבע כשהייתי בטיול בלונדון התארחתי בקהילה היהודית והם הניחו בנונשלנט שאני מדבר יידיש. WTF?
הסברתי להם שאני מזרחי (למרות שאני לא נראה) והם לא נראה לי הבינו מה זה חחחח
I'm an average history buff; found this channel by accident three days ago, and I'm burning through it like mad. Prior to that, I did knew a thing or two about Israel, Judaism and Jews, but while watching the vids, I had discovered how many things I don't know yet. Surely, this channel will help a great deal. Please, keep them coming!
Another aspect of being an Israeli Jew that was not mentioned in the video is the centrality of the army service in Israel to "Israelism". When two Israelis meet, the first question they ask is "Where did you serve" and that immediately reveals a lot of mutual information and creates a bond . Also, the IDF is a major cultural melting pot where Israelis from all walks of life interact on (almost) equal footing, in addition to the common purpose and experiences. In Israel being Jewish is almost a synonymous with "brother in arms".
As a 25-year-old Israeli, this is misleading in my opinion. asking "where did you serve" becoming rarer and the answer has no effect, even if the one didn't serve. This bond would only occur if the two people served in the same unit
Or in my situation I didn't serve, *conversation ends*. But it's not like I didn't want to serve the army rejected me (Israeli who lived in USA for 10 years).
true!
Except for the Ultra-Orthodox, who continue to weasel their way out of serving because they need to "study".
You'll stop hearing this question around the age 25+.
Im learning bout Judaism and Jewish people and this channel has helped me a lot. Toda Raba!!! Keep going.
at last, i found another Malaysian that have same interest with me ! I enjoyed watching this channel. So informative and educative !
I ask the unseen lord to help those who was forced to get out from their land to make his justice the ones who are beloved by the lord is those who make his rules not those who kill innocent people
@@mE-nv5vl good for you
@@mE-nv5vl The day I will understand people like you, this is the day I will acquire that I have no need to continue living
Just came back from a month long trip to Israel. Completely immersed myself in Israeli culture and fell in love with it. Israeli music, art, movies, tv shows, literature, food... the culture there is so rich and unique, it was just beautiful to discover. Can't wait to go back!!!
I personally feel that American -Jewish culture is over-the- top , and in-your-face , it builds false stereotypes in the minds of non-Jews to the point that when I identify myself to a stranger as a Jew ( or even an Israeli Jew ) , they seem confused , because I do not conform with the model that they have come to accept via the T.V or movies ( and that's without all the physical vulgarities being injected into the conversation ).
As an oleh , I regard myself as one that lives with 2 cultures , the culture of the land of my birth , and the cynical element ( towards the world ) that I have absorbed whilst living in Israel , added to that , as an Ashkenazi Jew , some find it perplexing that my in-laws are Sephardic .
@BidenCheatedAndBrokeHisAnkle 123 a few ( U.S) elections ago , there was a poll done in Israel amongst ( some ) ex-pat Americans/olim on voting preferences if there was any change between their (U.S ) political party of choice when they lived in the U.S , and now they lived in Israel .The majority of those who HAD voted DNC in the past ( in the U.S ) ,had changed their allegiance to the RNC
Jewish culture in America is very Ashkenazi influenced
As it was explained to me by a Jew. After the second world war, Israel got the fighters, the US got the runners. That's the cultural difference I've noticed.
Best discription of the complexity of Israel and Judaism i have seen by non Israeli.
Speaking as an Israeli, its also confusing for me sometimes .
There is a saying that 2 Jews equal 3 opinions ( its sounds better in Hebrew) but that is an indication of how complicated the Jewish world.
Thank you
תודה לך!
And the fact that most Palestinians have more lineage to Israel than the European Jew. You are a selfish nation!
Thank you, this video helped put a lot of things into perspective for me that were previously just things I had taken for granted, like this vague and amorphous notion of "Cultural Judaism" and how different Jews interpret it or identify with it.
Many Jewish souls are awakining in the diaspora. Let your light shine brightly to help guide the lost tribe back home!
true!
Palestinians have more lineage than most Jews.
Jason! He was my camp counselor back in the day woah! This was a great video.
It is very odd that he didn't speak about moral values. Moral values are the core of Jewish culture.
Quite a good video. In my opinion, what passes for Jewish culture in the US is a kind of an amalgamation of stereotypes. The Jewish neurotic, the self imposed guilt trip, the tipping the hat to bubbe and zayde but feeling different from them. It is Judaism in it's death throes. When one claims to be a cultural Jew, it is actually scraping the bottom of the barrel of what used to be a full container. In Israel, the "culture" is vibrant and attached to it's source. It is organic and growing. Let's not kid ourselves, the American Jewish experience is ending in 70% intermarriage. How much can you dilute the wine before it is no longer wine. Israel is the future of the Jewish people, it's culture and it's religion. American Jewry is not the rain, it is the small puddle of water that a good rain left behind. That puddle is drying up now.
congratulations, everything you said is true!
Any reliable store where I can find these vintage posters?
@Libre Palestina get a life😂
This is very well made. I strongly recommend watching rather than listening. Layers were added with the visuals.
*Israeli culture is really awesome. I wish we will have more of that instead of AMERICAN-Jewish only..*
Thank you unpacked for this video and others. Please, note people watching this video, that although many people in Israel and even the states identify with the term Mizrachi many do not. Growing up as a persian jew in Los Angeles I didn't really encounter many people using this term to self identify although there are some who do. It's not really a name that our people gave themselves. It was a label given to us by the non sephardic jews in Israel that was kind of othering that now is accepted as something to identify with an be proud of by many. I'm not mad that some people identify as Mizrachi and to me it's almost like being called middle eastern which is no big deal. I just want to point out that not everyone from MENA countries self identifies as such. Even those people whose parents didn't come from Sepharad. French Morrocan Sephardic Rabbi of the Sephardic Education Center in LA and Jerusalem Daniel Bouskila has lectured on this topic and a good summation of this point of view can be found in this video on Sephardic and Mizrachi identity that he and others were apart of. He speaks at about 12 and a half minutes in. Tamar Zaken also touches on this topic. Shalom. ua-cam.com/video/wPSi0QVtiRA/v-deo.html
In Israel, most MENA Jews identify as Mizrahim but we also differentiate between from where a person came from. So a Persian Jew can be a Mizrahi and it's not contradicting. Mizrahim, in general are not as lumped together as Ashkenazim here, and tbh, we are already mixed basically.
halfway through the video and I did not notice that there are subtitles in Hebrew..
You damn right brother I'm from israel and this is how we roll
Do you guys have any videos on (or if you don’t have can you make one lol, if you think it’s relevant) on non-Jewish people who have Jewish partners. And I don’t just means non-Jews who convert - I mean non Jews who marry/in long-term relationships with Jews who do not become Jewish at all. Thanks!
We don't at the moment, but that is a great idea!
The thing every Jew needs to understand is that we are an indigenous peoples, and Judaism is an ethno religion. There is no Judaism without the land of Israel, and Jews belong in this land not outside of it.
Amen V'Amen!
On a basic level the vast majority of American Jews are Ashkenazi which is reflected in the culture but in Israel the majority of Jews are of Middle Eastern descent and so its culture is dominant.
@wesley8173 Not really in America they are intermarrying themselves out of existance plus they hardly have any children
@wesley8173 The vast majority of American Jews are secular and have a 75% intermarriage rate, the birth rate of secular Mizrahim is 3 which is the highest in the world for nonreligous people, the orthodox Mizrahi like my brother average 8 children, even amongst secular Ashkenazi in Israel, the secular Ashkenazi culture which includes language like Yiddish and food has dissappeared.
@wesley8173 Have you been to Israel before?
@wesley8173 I would love to show you around you are welcome!
Its a great country
@wesley8173 Bevakasha! I hope that will be real soon my friend
Bad Jews - A History of American Jewish Infighting
Emily Tamkin, a Jewish writer from the UK who writes about American Jewry, has recently published a book titled Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities. The book’s publisher, Hurst, describes it as “A lively, thoughtful history of America’s Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other.”
The book caused a bit of a stir among Jewish publications. JTA, for example, wrote that Tamkin “takes a different tack, tracing the history of American Jewry through the ways Jews on one side of social upheaval seek to discredit the very Jewishness of those on the other side.” The book itself focuses on what is happening in America, since “American Jewish history,” writes Tamkin, “is full of discussions and debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, and how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish.”
When a student of mine told me about the book, he asked for my opinion on these questions, stating that they “haunt” virtually every Jewish person. He also noted that when Tamkin asked people, “What comes to mind when you hear ‘Bad Jew’?” the most common answer she got was “When I think of a ‘Bad Jew,’ I think of myself.” Since, as Tamkin writes, “The issue of what it means, or doesn’t, to be a Good Jew or a Bad Jew is particularly fraught at this moment in US history,” the student asked for my take on the topic.
So, first, we need to realize where the word Yehudi (Jewish) comes from. There is the known answer, that Yehudi comes from Yohuda (Judah), the name of the tribe that lived in the land of Israel during the Second Temple. However, there is another meaning to the word: Yehudi also comes from the word Yechudi, meaning united. This makes perfect sense if you remember that we were pronounced a nation only after we committed to love each other “as one man with one heart” at the foot of Mt. Sinai, yet, for the most part, this explanation did not receive the notoriety it deserves.
If you look at being Jewish through the spectacle of Jewish unity, as I do, then being a good Jew means first and foremost that you want to unite with all the Jews, that this is what really matters to you, your prime value. If Jewishness is about unity, then a Jew is a person who knows, feels, understands, and even spreads the idea that the most important thing is to be connected in ties of love with all the Jews, regardless of denomination, customs, political views, or any other issue that currently divides and splinters the Jewish people.
The author wrote that one of the answers she got to the question about the meaning of being a bad Jew was “someone whose conception of Judaism doesn’t have applications to the wider world.” I understand where this answer comes from. It is with good reason Jews gave the correction of the world such a pivotal place in their identity. We even gave that mission its own Hebrew term, Tikkun Olam (Hebrew for “Correction of the World”).
However, we must know what it means to correct the world, to be responsible for it, or even to care about the world. Tikkun Olam are not simply words; they imply a very specific task, and until we accomplish it, we will not be “good Jews.”
At the “inauguration” of our people, we were commanded to unite “as one man with one heart,” as RASHI interprets. Immediately after, we were declared a nation and were tasked with being “a light to the nations.”
In other words, our unity and our obligation to the world are indivisible. We cannot be a light to the nations if we are not united. At the same time, we cannot unite unless we do it in order to be a light to the nations.
When our ancestors united for the first time, under the guidance of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they were not a biologically related group. They were an eclectic crowd that was taken by the idea that all the people should unite, and we should not succumb to our ego. This is why Abraham advocated kindness and mercy, to teach people how to rise above their self-absorption and care for one another.
Abraham was a maverick, a pioneer, a trailblazer, but thanks to him, these noble ideas are now universal. As a nation that formed out of disparate tribes and clans, it was our duty to be the living proof of Abraham’s paradigm. This is why we became a nation only after we united, and not a moment prior.
Since our inception, we have known that unity is our “secret weapon.” However, we never understood why, what was the secret of the strength in our unity. The secret is not that unity itself makes us undefeatable, but that our unity dissolves the world’s hatred toward us and turns it into respect and awe. It gives the world the example of unity that it needs so that all of humanity can unite, as well.
Not only we received a message when we were at the foot of Mt. Sinai. At that moment, the nations of the world received the knowledge that we received the calling. Since then, they have been waiting for us to live up to it. This is why they support us when we are united, and scold us when we are divided.
Being a good Jew or a bad Jew, therefore, is not a judgment we pass on each other or on ourselves. It is determined by our commitment to the world, which we fulfill through our efforts to unite among ourselves and serve as an example that if we-the most divided nation, whose members often abhor one another-can unite, then the whole world can, as well.
Good overall video on the culture.
I've watched Fauda...it's soooo goood
please suggest me more series/movies which has Jewish culture.
Most of the good media isn't really translated so....Kind of hard to suggest when you don't have access to it.
Very interesting and informative. I'm a non-Jew always always seeking further information. I do have a question about the contributions of Beta Israel and Bene Israel, and what they have added to Israeli and/or Jewish culture?
Not much!!
I feel we need that connection absolutely
As an Israel when I see American Jews and diaspora Jews who are not hasidic, I am looking like this 😳 lol I mean as an Israeli who was born in Israel I feel like Judaism became Judaism and a little bit of every culture in the world, I mean like, for example as a Russian Jew/ Soviet Jew we celebrate the Soviet Christmas which is basically Christmas but without Jesus and Christian food, and it is not on 25th but at the end of the year( 31th ). Ethiopian Jews have a holiday which looks like when we got the 10 rules in Sinai , they basically take a huge stone with them and drag it up the mountain, the holiday is about cleaning ourselves out of sins, and that's why Ethiopian Jews take a stone, to make it as a symbol of our sins.
just a little fix - russioan jews do not celebrate chrismas, its called novi god - novi is new, god is year - we literally celebrate the new year..
@@mayamel1042 I know what is Novi God cause my parents are Russian , I just assumed no one would understand what Novi God is
@@mayamel1042 And as I said, it is celebrated at the end of the year which means celebrating the new coming year
An interesting episode, but I would say the title is misleading.
I have to say to the average Israeli, the American Jews feel quite foreign. The Americans who immigrate tend to be religious and they seem to gravitate toward the Haredi subculture in Israel, which tends to stand distinctly apart from the "common" secular Israeli identity and culture. The secular American kids who go on birthright trips don't usually end up immigrating.
I know some Israelis who do business in Vietnam. The two countries like each other. The Vietnamese have no idea what Seinfeld is but they do know what Israeli is.
This was excellent. Unfortunately American Jews, especially those who are liberal and secular have a very unhealthy Galut mentality. This is evidenced by a great deal of self-negation and self-hatred. One episode of most sitcoms with Jewish characters in them will confirm this. Israeli Jews have a much healthier, and natural, self-image which is underscored with self-respect. The only meaningful center of gravity of our people, especially in the years to come as American Jews fade away, will be in Israel.
excellent, congratulations for the true words
Why is there a Sephardic section in the middle of the Mizrahi, around the Sinai?
The answer, as I (an Israeli Jew) see it is a little bit complicated, and I will try to explain it.
Sefarad is The common Hebrew name for Spain, and therefore Sefaradic Jews are descendents of the Jews that were expelled from Spain in 1492, and settled mostly around the Mediterranean, but also in Western Europe and the 'new world'.
Mizrah is the Hebrew word for east, and the Mizrahi Jews are jews who came from the Middle East and North Africa (Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, Iran etc.). Many of the Mizrahi Jews are actually of Sefaradic origin, and many of them follow the Sefaradic customs and traditions, Even if the didn't come from Spain. Therefore many Jewish communities in the Islamic world are mainly Sefaradic (e.g. a key part of the Jewish communities of North Africa, Egypt, Land of Israel, Syria and Turkey).
@@omershahar8736 cool thanks man
exactly!
Very good video, however at 6:24 when you said most Israeli Jews don't know what American culture is these days. What do you mean? From what I have noticed Israelis consume and emulate many things from American culture such as movies , TV shows , music, clothing etc . Although what is true is that Israelis probably don't know much about American Jews and American Jewish culture.
We know about the stereotypes, because, as you said, we consume American media. But it's just so vastly different than our culture that it's kind of hard to relate. Bagels? Seinfield?Jewish mom? It's nice and all, but seem so foreign, not in a bad way, it's just different.
@@AsimoTan Yeah good point. It is quite foreign for Israelis, but what stands true is that Israelis don't know much about American Jews since they are never in contact with them. And American Jews know even less about Israelis lol.
@@KT-pe6zh
So this is my stereotype now:
Many of the Jews are Reform/Conservative. Secular people kind of lose their Jewish identity. Most of the Jews vote for the Democrates, however, there is a rising wave of Republican voters especially among the Orthodox community. A lot of young people are anti Israel (criticism is OK, I am highly critical of Israel myself but at least I'm aware of our history/the 2nd Intifada/other view point of the 1948 war and know that a binational state is simply impossible). Many have become so critical of Israel, erasing any Israeli narrative just because the Palestinians are the underdogs in this moment of history. I mean, I get why it happens but whenever a Jewish person says stuff like: "I am a proud anti-Zionist" I shut my ears, because anti-Zionism to us, as we Israelis interpret it, means the destruction of the country (I am against the settlements in the WB, I want the 2 state solution, I want the occupation to end, I don't mind fiscal compensation, but that basically means I'm a Zionist not an anti-Zionist). I really hate how youngsters these days only get half of the truth (umm like do people know that all of my grandparents in the 1948 war were told to their face by Palestinians that they are going to be slaughtered? Do they understand the fear that people experienced here? Do they even care about terror attacks?). So all in all, I feel like the communities have become distinct. Hanukkah seems to be like the only holiday ever mentioned in the US, while here... it's not really a prominent holiday.
I also see a lot of distinction based on skin complexion and it being applied to Jews. If they are Ashkenazi they are considered white, but if Mizrahi, they are considered "Jews of color". But like, this separation based on color sounds horrible to me, especially since we were considered "brown" by the Nazis. Now that we are the bad guys we are considered white. Just stop, it doesn't work that way.
It also just doesn't work that way here. My father, who is full Ashkenazi is really dark skinned, there are also many Mizrahim which are light skinned or even blonde. It just doesn't apply here. A Jewish Ethiopian person has more rights than an Eritrean refugee even though they look the same.
This separation based on skin color sounds more applicable in the US considering its history, but to apply it to Jews seems so wrong. Are we white? Are we brown? I honestly have no idea man. Not all the theories, even if deemed good, like CRT, are applicable everywhere or in every society.
@@AsimoTan As an American, I can confirm that you are spot on with everything you said about these stereotypes about American Jews. I am an exception ,I guess because my parents are South American and raised me to be very Zionist, despite going to a Jewish day school and living in Israel for a number of years. I will say that most American Jews are 4th or 5th generation Jews, they have a very basic level of Jewish education and most have never been to Israel. It is only logical based on the stereotypes that you displayed that they will view Israel from an American perspective.
@@KT-pe6zh
:c
It's sad to think that this is the reality. Herzl and Leibowitz were right all along tbh.
On another note, I have noticed that the best Israeli youtube channel with relatively balanced news (albeit a bit toned down in some cases) and good entertainment is blocked to outsiders. I thought about translating it.
I have to disagree with the final comment that Israelis are not as aware of US culture; I think Americans are much more US centric than European/ME counterparts who are more inclined to engage with English speaking media.
"You are part of it, but you're not" = am levadad yishkon=a nation unto yourself you will be. Commentaries abound.
the same happens with all races that have an external demographic and a homeland. you can have the people from the actual country, the ones in all other parts of the world, and the ones in a particular given country. lets say tuvalu nationals: there's tuvalu residents, people from tuvalu that live in x/y country and the ones that live in any other part or nation that's neither of those 2
I’m not Jewish and I don’t think I know anybody Jewish, but I find the culture fascinating! ✡️
I know that half of the Jewish world lives in the US, but it would be nice if not all of your diaspora references did not all come from the US. French singer Enrico Macias for instance is a strong component of French-Sephardic culture. We are also part of the same people guys.
If by people you mean religion, or people of a this religious background
@BidenCheatedAndBrokeHisAnkle 123 No, just a religion
@@banto1 Atheists can also identify as Christians, doesn't mean it makes sense
@ ethnically Jewish is a thing
Good!
Question when reading the Holy Bible and looking to learn about the children of Israel how is it over looked on Genesis chapter 10 verse three showing clear that the people who are Ashkenazi grandchildren of Japheth family of Gentiles are misrepresented as children of Shem when those are two different people period
Question plz if u know this answer due share
Either the Jew is an Israeli, Canadian, American or Australian, I don't care, he is my brother.
עם ישראל חי
Pomegranate fruit is a part of Jewish culture???
In India also we have that, I have one tree in my home.
Yes! It is part of the "7 species" endemic to the land of Israel. Wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranate, olives, and dates.
They have special meanings and also special rules surrounding them - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Species
@@UNPACKED thank you very much for your response.
My mom Mexican ancestors were Crypto Jews!
ahh, i see you're a man of culture as well
I want to watch the New Season of Lehiyot Itah
Lihyot ʔitah
whats nakba? apparently theres a second one coming soon?!
@markker2727 If you're genuinely curious, we have a whole video unpacking the Nakba and the events of 1948: ua-cam.com/video/ezAsaKzQQtE/v-deo.html
We've made dozens of videos talking about the story of Israel. I encourage you to check them out and understand more of the history, context, and realities of this conflict
@UNPACKED thank you I'll watch 😀
Hashoter hatov aka the good cop is an underated show on Netflix. They really need to translate the newer seasons into English. Way to include a clip there of the show.
exactly!
Food from paradise was given to Moses and his followers but the followers rejected what non thankful manner and who said that falafel is from your food culture Arabs whose population is significantly greater (maybe 50 times) has falafel spread over their restaurants menu’s so how do you explain this and already Jews are enclosed to each other and each of the enclosed groups has a different thoughts than others
Hi guys ,Salam alaykom ,
Inviting you too Islam, Islam is peace and security and success and happiness and containment of the soul ,plus saviour from hell,
Islam is a word of testimony ,
That their is only one God ,a super UN natural power that their nothing like wise ,a creator , sustainer ,all alware ,
Islam can help you with life matter s and entitle you a place in paradise ,
Please except that their is a God ,that exits and manages affairs , Islam was established by God ,and rehearsed to the messenger ,.
Too teach us ,
@@saadhraichie1044 lol no
I say to all Jews...Thank you with all my heart for the scriptures the world knows as the Bible.
These aren't the same Jews. You can say this to the Christians just as much
@ My thanks are directed at the children of ancient Jews...Not reprobates that would claim they were black, or brown, Japanese, or Ethiopian. Christians had little to do with the writings of the Bible...Only the translations. Most Christians do not even understand the record and choose to believe their own rhetoric. The record within the Bible is the record of the Jews. Many of the other tribes kept records as well. I hope one day to be able to read them all, though I know of only two that God has revealed at this point.
@@karlshaner2453 There are two different meanings for the word "Jews" here. Judaism the monotheistic religion started at Babylon by the exiled Judean elite. Later some of them came back or "back" to Persian Judea and spread this religion there among those who stayed there that were still pagan Canaanites. This "second" temple era saw the spread of different cults and eventually two main ones survived at the time of the destruction of the temple, one was the Pharisees and the other the early Christians. Both were equal inheritors of this same religion and only centuries later were clearly separate religions. The Pharisees became Rabbinical Judaism or what we simply call today Judaism, but Christianity is as much a inheritor of the original religion as Rabbinical Judaism is. Rabbinical Jews didn't write the original scriptures. Just as Christians didn't
@ I am not talking about religion. I am talking about the children of Judah. Christians did not write the Bible, the Prophets of God took dictation from the Lord and the Jews maintained the words very well. Neither Jews nor Christians, in general, have inherited anything. They both have rejected the truth in mass generally to this day. There are many who wish to claim Israelite heritage, most are reprobates with no understanding of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham. Many of the Jews today, because of their rejection of the Messiah are to this day living under a curse. It will be lifted one day( I pray that day is soon).
@ the original christians were Jewish.
(03:55) that's not originally a Jewish symbol.
WE ARE HUMAN AND BETTER START STANDING AS ONE BEFORE THOSE THAT SEPARATE US WIN , IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY .
amazing and so true!
grazie
Hallelujah! Thank you.
So there are only two Jewish cultures, American and Israeli. All other countries Jewish don't really exists
The idea that a group as a majority group can pick on various minority group including blaming their own minority group in another country is not unique to Jews and certainly is not advancement to be proud of or think this is some intellectual advancement. It is not. YOu see this with other groups too and it is not something to be proud of in them either.
I wish Americans start to claim being Americans only! For a foreign eye, they're not jewish Americans nor African-Americans nor Hispanic Americans!! if you’re not an immigrant and you were born and raised in America, you’re mostly more American than the apple pie, you just don't know that yet. Try to travel to your heritage culture and see how different you are and how you would be treated! As an American as a foreigner because YOU ARE. Just own it! there’s nothing wrong with the American culture! Simple, pragmatic, friendly, optimistic, locally minded, practical workaholic and entrepreneurial, individualistic, easy to impress and free.
Don´t know but would think inside the west the only really important thing is that people believe in the western values so when it comes to important political stuff we mostly share the same stuff. Inside the EU we anyway can travel, work and trade basically as free as people inside the US. There are even funny historic artifices like we got Germans whit French names because over 100 years ago they got kicked out of France and also so called Russia Germans which left Germany for Russia also far over 100 years, got persecuted by Stalin and are back today. You find even the old German house building style in south america but they where even there before ww 2.
I mean i would rather think it´s kinda nice when we don´t talk about things like massive illegal immigration to have a bit different cultural influences, European cussine is far more local but don´t know even the most classic American dish like Hamburger is named after a German city. While especially whit Jews i guess you want them to stay as they are, as a German i am pretty sure it has a heavy impact on the quality of TV and movies if you lose them.
With extremely rare exceptions, I find just about any Hollywood depiction of Jews, Judaism, Jewish history, Jewry ("Jewish culture"), Israel, and The Holocaust to be extremely uncomfortable, embarrassing, and disquieting. And it's usually done at our own self-deprecating expense. The comedic attempts are weak, lifeless, and just a hook-nosed depiction of reality. At best, these interpretations try to explain what Jews are to a world who thinks we still have horns and at worst it fulfills all preconceived anti-Semitic tropes and stereotypes of secret cabals running the world. It's usually worse when Jews try to explain our various cultures for ourselves or more usually for the mass non-Jewish world. It usually comes out as a disgusting stereotype. I find it horrible when Jews try to play Jews, but usually worse when non-Jews "Jew-wash" into what they think a Jew should look like and act. And there are countless examples I could give of both. To be quite blunt, I think many Jews find watching ourselves on television and in the movies to be about as uncomfortable as listening to our own voices on audiotape. Jews are not bagels and lox and bad jokes about how children don't call their mothers or how they "shhh" control Hollywood or speak with a Yiddish accent and/or use Yiddish slang now in the American lexicon. Jews are not peyos and shtreimels either and frum women being oppressed by domineering but ineffective weak limp-wristed studious husbands. Jews are not we relegated to shtetls from oppressive governments or ourselves to kibbutizim. Jews are not "We won in 1967, but lost in 1973." Jews are not "this way to the gas chambers." And Jews are not a reason to boycott, divest, and sanction our products. But yet we don't think twice about a Christmas film written by a Jew in Hollywood, yet we blush and feel uncomfortable when we see ourselves in celluloid and pixels.
Being Jewish means attaining the sensation of two contrasting forces in nature, the egoistic force, which is our human nature, and its opposite altruistic force, which is the force of nature itself.
The attainment of these two forces define the people who, first under Abraham, developed this sensation of reality. They became known as the people of Israel, and later, as the Jews.
At a certain point, around 2.000 years ago, we lost the sensation of the two forces and lived solely in the egoistic force. That is the meaning of being in exile.
Exile has no geographic connotations, i.e. that we left some geographic Land of Israel and now we return to it. It is rather a matter of an inner exile, that we do not host the sensation of the altruistic nature, i.e. the quality of love, bestowal and connection, between us. When we fell from this sensation, we then entered our period of exile and ceased to exist as the people of Israel.
proud to be a jew
Are you a warrior?
Most non religious Jewish that are identifying as Jewish but only as an isreali
אנחנו על המפה ויייייויי
How can a religion be culture?
Cause we’re a people,
@@Asf-bj4rw then why Jews look different of u guys are one people
Because Judaism is an ethnoreligion, something like Hinduism.
That's why there are atheist Jews - they are Jews in the cultural aspect, not in the religious aspect.
@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist so jews can be Muslim by faith then
@@shehzadchowdhury8327 no. Jews are Jews. They can be atheist or religious, Israeli or non-Israeli, white or Black, Mizrahi or Ashkenazi, but not other religions.
Long live our Supreme Leader!
as a traditional jew I disregard these facets of "jewish culture"
איזה מסובך מה זה
למה מסובך?
צודק. כל כך הרבה דוגמאות של תרבות אמריקאית ותרבות ישראלית , שהבנו שהם שתי ישויות שונות שמושפעות בכוונה או לא בכוונה אבל עד שהגעתם לפואנטה בסוף כבר התעייפנו...מה היתה הפואנטה בסוף?
הסרטון יותר מיועד לאנשים שלא מכירים בכלל מה זה תרבות ישראלית ואולי גם בקושי מחוברים לזהות יהודית אמריקאית.
לישראלים הכל ירגיש הרבה יותר מובן מאליו.
🥸 Iron sharpens Iron
Hidden Message in the
Torah /Tanak / Bible
Hidden within within the genealogy first Sons from Adam. Genesis 5 : 3-32
NAMES ---- Name
MEANINGS
Adam - Man
Seth - Appointed
Enos - Mortal
Cainan - Sarrow
Mahalaleel - Blessed GOD
Jared - Shall come Down
Enoch - Teaching
Methuselah -His Death shall
Bring
Lamech -To Make /Low
Mighity
Noah -Rest / Favor /
Fulfilled
Name Meanings written in a
Sentence 😳
Man appointed mortal Sarrow Blessed GOD shall come down
teaching His death shall bring to make low/MIGHTY , rest favor FULFILLED
My Interpretation:
Jesus given a task to preform from this earth feeling of deep distress BLESSED GOD shall come down as Jesus teaching Jew as a Rabbi His death shall bring SALVATION to make low to hang on a tree becomes MIGHTY rest/ favor/ FULFILLED HIS Purpose 🤔
Keep this in mind 🤔all 10 generations timeline took place up to chapter 5 of Genesis ,Hidden Message telling Jesus COMING 😲
Approximately 4 thousand years later be fore it HAPPENED only God
Ten Trillion people could not gotten together and had have written 1 fact and placed it in a book Foretelling of there coming Christ 4K years before it Happened
Who is He ?
Choose you this day whom you
SERVE 🤔✝️😇😇
Poll: To what degree is American culture dominated by Jews? And by Lgbt ppl? And by white ppl? Do they treat the other groups fairly? No offense to anyone just a poll. Plz be honest
I ask the unseen lord to help those who was forced to get out from their land to make his justice the ones who are beloved by the lord is those who make his rules not those who kill innocent people
make an Aliya brothers and sisters ! come back home
אם הם יבואו לפה הם יהפכו אותנו לעבדים שלהם. הם מלאים בכסף ובגלל שבעל המאה הוא בעל הדעה הם פשוט יעבידו אותנו, בעיקר את המזרחים... כי הם אשכנזים שאוהבים אשכנזים. שיישארו שם וימשיכו להתבולל, זה טוב לנו, תאמין לי.
Brother…where are the colored Jews of Israel ?
Free Palestina 💚
Israeli culture and Jewish culture are not the same my friend
אני ישראלית ווואלה זה נכון!!🇮🇱
Secular Jewish culture is not Judaism. Even for secular Jews like me, Jewish tradition- Orthodox Judaism, should be at the centre- how else would you be defined as a Jew? The whole identity was defined by rabbis...
is there arranged marriage?
מי שמישראל...
LOVE AND RESPECT FROM INDIA
Enough, some Indians love the idea of suppressing Muslims by what they see in Israel.
Hi guys ,Salam alaykom ,
Inviting you too Islam, Islam is peace and security and success and happiness and containment of the soul ,plus saviour from hell,
Islam is a word of testimony ,
That their is only one God ,a super UN natural power that their nothing like wise ,a creator , sustainer ,all alware ,
Islam can help you with life matter s and entitle you a place in paradise ,
Please except that their is a God ,that exits and manages affairs , Islam was established by God ,and rehearsed to the messenger ,.
Too teach us ,
Interesting a country based upon one certain group. Isn't that racist???
By becoming more of a fighting, brawling, military, technological powerhouse penthouse
FREE PALESTINE!!!!
I Love Some Jewish Eyes & Features, Especially Some Girls Have Gorgeous Noses & Complexion, I Am Very Familiar With The Eastern Part Of The World, Oppose British Nazism & German Nazism, I Am Looking For Jewish Wife As We Can Share The Same Ideology, Spiritually & By Features Amen.
Without the Hebrews there it's fair game , bt your time is running out
Pardon me. Did you say a "culture"? Where? Oh, if you meant in theater or studio - definitely there is culture. Although, mind that people do not live in theaters, they live in a slightly different world - the real world. So be careful with this powerful word and do not enter with it in reality. Leave it outside.🌹
Sefaradic are not Liberia jews but north african
Aa
occult democracy is jewish culture messiah is coming
5:44 only mention of palestinians
well the video is explicitly about jewish culture
@@chaimcatan5783 yeah, what I more so mean to point out is that the one mention of them is played against a clip of a bunch of scary men pulling out guns. Also, I'm no expert but I'd think the political divide over Israel's policies regarding Palestinians would be considered a major cultural change. Regardless of what side you find yourself on, it's a divide that wasn't present before the establishment of the state of Israel.
@@sam-pf5cs Never read more nonsense in my life. First of all, every 4th Israeli is an Arab, or Palestinian if you'd like. So they are not "scary man pulling guns"in Israel. When you talk about the conflict with the PA, it has absolutely no effect on the major population who doesn't take politics that strong. There is not one "major cultural change" of the "Israel's policies regarding Palestinians". 95% of Israelis rarely talk about the conflict, unless there is a terror attach that wash the news
@@dorbitan2935 I think you misunderstand me, what I mean is that considering the long and complex relationship between Palestinians/Arabs and Israelis/Jews that has changed much over time and has undoubtedly been affected by the establishment and policies of the state of Israel, I would think that that relationship would be part of this story. I also thought that the single mention of these people with whom much of Israeli/Jewish life is shared, as you point out, being juxtaposed with images of violence, portrays a certain bias (conscious or unconscious) on the creator's part. I would hope someone would not purposefully paint them with broad strokes for political reasons.
@sam just want to point out the the "bunch of scary men" in that Fauda clip are Israeli.
I'm really curious if you are atheist if you can call yourself Jewish. Judaism is a religion it was actually anti semites who 1st referred to them as an ethnic group. Before modern anti semitism seen in philosophy like nazism Jews were only seen as a religion. If a Jewish person converted they were often openly accepted into their society
Yes, you can be an atheist Jew.
That's because Judaism us a Civilization, not just a "religion".
It's beyond religion.
Its far more nuanced than that.
It's a great question and the answer from the halachic standpoint is the atheist Jew is still a Jew from the viewpoint of the Torah. That means if he takes on religion at some point and chooses Judaism he would not require the conversion process.
Mishpacha is mishpacha.
I am Dajjal The Illuminated Messiah I am Messianic Prophet Solomon I am The King Of Heaven I am Lord Of Israel I am The Darkness of Adam
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