Month: June 2026

This claim is moronic. Those who say it clearly don’t know European Jews, their history, or their culture.

Hebrew calendar

The Jews who lived in Europe followed the Hebrew calendar that developed in Babylon in the 6th century BC. The months were Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar. These month names appear on tombstones, wedding records, and various community records. People who “came from Europe” would not use a Hebrew, Levantine calendar.

Yiddish – Hebrew letters

The language they spoke was written in Hebrew letters. Yiddish was an exile language with words from the various languages where Jewish people lived, but the common denominator was that they were written in Hebrew letters, the same letters Jewish people wrote in when the Second Temple was destroyed. Why would “people that came from Europe” not use Latin letters?

Names

For most of the 2,000-year exile, Jews did not carry last names at all. They went by their first name, ben meaning son of or bat meaning daughter of, and the father’s name. Only about 200-300 years ago did European governments force them to take European last names for bureaucracy and taxation purposes. The names were usually a translation of their Hebrew name, the town they were from, or their profession.

Jerusalem

A recurring motif throughout the entire exile is the yearning to return to Zion, as seen in the ending of the Passover tradition saying “Next year in Jerusalem,” breaking the glass at weddings while saying “Jerusalem, if I forget you, let my right hand forget its skill,” and in prayers about Jerusalem such as “and our eyes shall witness Your return to Zion.” Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi wrote in Spain in the early 1100s about his longing for Jerusalem.  This fact also proves that so called “antizionism” is in fact “antisemitism.”  You therefore cannot separate Zionism from Judaism.

Talit

They prayed with the same talit their ancestors prayed with in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem before the Romans destroyed it. Same scripture. Same tefillin. Same mezuzot on their doors. How could Europeans make this up?

Jewish life

They observed the same religious festivals, ate kosher food, kept Shabbat, studied the Hebrew Bible with passion and dedication, and recited the same prayers.

DNA

Research shows that Ashkenazi Jews have Levantine DNA. Look up the work of these researchers. It is absolutely fascinating: Harry Ostrer, Doron Behar, Michael Hammer, Karl Skorecki, Antonio Torroni, David Goldstein.

To single out European Jews as not Jewish, or fake, or imposters, is simply repeating old Jew-hating tropes. It is a tool to keep the thorn in the side of the Jew even today, when the Jew has a strong sovereign nation, and is no longer a humiliated second-class citizen.

We are back in our national homeland, and our identity is as strong as it has been for millennia.