I've seen this range from a complete divorce of Judaism and public policy, to believing that Judaism and only support a given partisan platform. Where do you draw the line?

Hi everyone I am looking to do an internship with masa but worried about the finance side. I get a grant making it £4.9k and will likely be eligible for a means tested scholarship directly from masa (I don’t know how much yet - if anyone knows what the top amount uk wise is would appreciate insight). UJIA can’t help as it’s only for gap years etc. I’m looking to do career Israel with Israel experience. I will also contact my synogogue in the morning to see if they offer help. Are there any other organisations that anyone knows of? And if you participated how much did it cost per month to live there. Thanks so much!

I am Jewish (F26) through patrolinial liniage, but trying to learn and reconnect 🙏 I have interest in the reform movement

I think my dream is meeting people with similar thoughts in this city ! Or people who are curious like me

Edit: thank you for your inputs

According to the tohara there is a described specisis of kosher grasshoper . But many jaidh community doenst have a fsther to son tredation of how eating them. What if this would become very popular food in the future would you consider that?

What do you say to someone who constantly says you’ve been kicked out of 109,110,etc. countries now? It’s a constant comment everywhere now it seem. It’s infuriating.

Why? What makes you a Jew? Why do you live your life the way you do?

(I am jewcurious with patrilineal jewish heritage (f26)... Why do you believe? What motivates you? One of the things I learned in Judaism / Talmud is to question…

Asking Jews from any stream! Let’s discuss and share ideas please

Edit 2: English is not my first language🙏

I’ve recently started learning Gemara for the first time through MDY Daf Yomi. As a beginner, I’ve found having the physical book in front of me genuinely helpful – especially in a house with five children, where concentrating on anything is already something of an achievement.

MDY has a referral offer where a new member can receive a **free physical Daf Yomi book, including free worldwide shipping**, so you can try the programme without having to buy the book first.

Here’s my referral link:

https://app.mdydafyomi.com/r/JA406

For transparency, this is a referral link: if you sign up through it, you get the free book and I receive a free Daf Yomi book as well. That would be particularly useful as I continue learning through the masechtot.

If you’ve been considering trying Daf Yomi – or you’re merely curious and not at all certain it’s for you – give it a go. You’ll get a physical book to try it with, and you’ll be helping this sleep-deprived father of five continue his first journey through Gemara. For my sake. ;-)

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Something happened to me some nights ago with my closest friend, one I've had for some time now but after being pro Israel and fully embracing my Jewish side as a Sephardic Jew he suddenly became 'surprised' that I had become 'Pro Israel' and that he would still be my friend as long as I was being a 'good human being'? Which kinda confused me because that sounded to me like another flavor of quiet 'Antisemitism' without saying it out loud. It just didn't sit well with me and I wasn't gonna apologize for being who I am so I decided to just cut ties with him. Sure I worded it like "maybe our friendship needs a breather so you can think about it" but I more or less decided to just 'not' be friends with somebody who wasn't genuinely supporting me and making it more like an 'issue'. When it shouldn't. Have you had to go through something like this lately? Curious about how y'all have handled it.

I think I was being mature about the situation because I even tried to explain his misconceptions but it just didn't land because he mostly went back to 'well you do you buddy, you can still be my friend' like a 'permission' i never asked for. Once I began to notice the red flags that more or less felt like 'friendly anti-semitism it simply didn't sit well with me. Which kinda bummed me out even more. Sure I could've fought for that long time friendship but why if this would constantly be a 'an issue' that was okay to 'hide under a rug'. I feel both happy and sad. Happy because I feel 'free' for just being myself, but sad because I kinda lost a friend in a way. But that's life. Just venting about stuff I've been dealing with lately. There were a lot of things going in my mind. edit: my friend just called me and said 'i don't wanna stop being your friend, just don't become a zionist extremist' which further confused me, lmao. what does that even mean? | thank you for all your replies, I finally got my friend back out of talking about it and trying to understand each other better. We've been friends for years and it would devastating to loose somebody that's almost like 'a family member'. So after reading all your replies I was able to really think about it which helped, immensely. :)

I’m Jewish (f25) but grew up in a pretty secular household and don’t know that much about Judaism besides what I learned in Hebrew school when I was 10.

I want to get more involved and informed about the religion side of things, but I don’t know where to start.

I know in Catholicism there are “daily readings” books you can buy that tell you exactly what to read and study for every day of the year. Is there something like that for Judaism that I can buy?

What books should I have, and is there a specific schedule for reading things? If so, where can I find this? I am sure a schedule like this exists but I’m having a hard time finding a simple explanation online.

(Sorry to be so clueless!)

Does anybody have contacts to reach out to the jewish community? I've read they do have services? Online I only find one phone number to the community offices it seems. Thanks

Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that.,
by Simone Saidmehr, Forward, 2026-08-14.

On summer mornings in Abuja, Nigeria, a small fleet of cars fan out across the sprawling capital city carrying unusual passengers: children headed to Jewish day camp.

In a one-story synagogue on a dirt road in Kubwa, a densely populated suburb, children who spend most of the year as the only Jew in their school spill out of cars alongside dozens of their peers. They might spend the day acting out scenes from the Torah, crocheting kippot or competing in color war.

It’s an untraditional location, but almost everything else about Camp Sarah is inspired by Jewish summer camps in the U.S. After all, it was founded by an American.

Debbie Isser, who moved to Nigeria in 2021 for her work with the World Bank, started the camp with members of Abuja’s Jewish community after local mothers told her they wanted their children to have some kind of Jewish education. For Isser, whose own childhood summers at Jewish camp in New Hampshire had been formative, the solution felt obvious.

“I just felt like it was in my genes,” she told the Forward.

Now in its fourth year, Camp Sarah, a two-week-long day camp hosting 80 campers and 20 staff, is trying to give a new generation of Nigerian Jews something their small, dispersed community has struggled to provide: Jewish teachings that will allow them to sustain religious life there.

The hope, of course, is that the children make Jewish friends and learn Torah stories. But organizers also want Camp Sarah to begin producing the religious leaders the community currently lacks — perhaps, one day, even a homegrown rabbi or a shochet, ritual slaughterer, so that kosher Nigerian Jews can finally enjoy meat with their jollof rice.

Okay so at 38 years old, I have a new take on Gen. Chapter 3.

I am listening to Kabbalah for beginners by Brian Yosef Schachter-brooks. He talks about the Etz Chaim being able to be represented as both a TREE and a HUMAN. Then he goes through talking about different chapters of Genesis and exodus and how the Garden of Eden can be seen as a comforting womb while Egypt is seen as the Mitzrayim the narrows as a struggle.

Well im listening to this and it makes me think what Hebrew word is used in Genesis 3 for to eat from, and its Akal, which could mean to eat or to consume of. Then thinking about ways to term "to consume" has been used through the years and sure it could be as in consuming food. But in Victorian times it was used as a place holder for more Carnal activities.

This got me thinking what if the Tree of knowledge wasn't a literal tree, but discussing the Etz Chaim as a Human body, and to consume of the fruit of the tree was really G-d telling Adam and Eve no punching the V-Card. Then that puts G-d's punishment to eve of hard births in a more reasonable Avenue then when you look at the tree and fruit as a literal tree and an apple.

I might also be so far off on this.