• FatCrab@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    You’re talking about birthright trips, which are organized by Chabad, a super Zionist org but not Israel itself. They’re free 10 day trips they give to college age students. It is not some Jewish “coming of age” thing or whatever weirdness you’re, I assume unintentionally, veering into some gross territory with.

    • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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      16 hours ago

      Thank you for providing more context!

      And I mean that does kinda sound like they target young adults who are coming of age? Maybe I’m using the term wrong. Am I understanding correctly that you get old enough and the org offers to fly you to Israel to get you invested in Zionism? Does coming of age mean a different or more specific thing?

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        15 hours ago

        Sure, that makes sense, but the Jewish bar and bat mizvah ceremonies are literally cultural coming of age traditions, equivalent to a quincinera or confirmation. Thus the immediate ick reaction when you frame chabadniks doing birthright as “coming of age”.

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            15 hours ago

            You sound like an anti-semite. It would be like saying all christians have a coming of age rite where they go out and proselityze to all of the countries just because of the mormons.

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                  5 hours ago

                  I love how people who don’t know quickly contradict. They do in the South.

                  ETA: this is why people here don’t discuss their traumas. People are do quick to disbelieve and contradict.