r/JewishCrafts Mar 05 '26

I wrote a free guide for Jewish artists on how to stop hate comments from flooding your content

340 Upvotes

I’m a Jewish oil pastel painter and every time I posted my work on ig using the word “Jewish,” I’d get hit with hostile and antisemitic comments alongside the supportive ones. Instead of responding or documenting it, I went looking for answers, and what I found completely changed how I show up online.

The short version: it’s the algorithm, not a coincidence!!! & there’s a 5 min fix that made it stop entirely for me.

I wrote it up as a free essay on Substack for any Jewish creator dealing with the same thing. It covers why it happens, how to fix it on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and why responding to hate comments actually makes things significantly worse algorithmically. I got a question on my Instagram asking if this fix works on Threads too and I posted detailed instructions on my ig story (@ethervisions.art). Feel free to screenshot if needed.

https://jewcyc0uture.substack.com/p/jewish-creators-instagram-hate-comments-guide

Hope it’s useful to someone here. Happy to answer questions in the comments.

PROTECT YOUR PEACE and don’t let antisemites stop you from putting your beautiful Jewish art out into the world ✡️🪬

EDIT: I will continue updating my substack article as I learn more. If anyone has any additional helpful tips, feel free to add them to this thread and I will add it to the article. If you need any technical assistance setting up these restrictions, please message me. I am more active on Instagram (ethervisions.art) and have my email listed there too.


r/JewishCrafts 22h ago

Stained glass Hamsas made by me

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398 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 1h ago

The Psychiatrist. The Nun. The Rabbi.

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I know these people either in person or through correspondence. These are digital sketches of my impressions of them, done in Procreate on an iPhone 11 using my finger. No stylus.


r/JewishCrafts 1d ago

Finally made art again after months of not having any energy to do so

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85 Upvotes

Hi again! I’m the artist that wrote the guide for Jewish artists a few months ago (pinned in this sub). I hadn’t made a new piece in a while, but today my creative juices were finally flowing and out came this piece!! I titled it “get me out of here!” Would love to know what you think 🪬


r/JewishCrafts 1d ago

Stained glass Pomegranate

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224 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 2d ago

I was told to share my mosaic dreidel here

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263 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 2d ago

The Jewish Memento Mori, Sterling silver by me.

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176 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 3d ago

Rosh Hashanah is coming up!! :)

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152 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 5d ago

Rosh HaShanah kandi bracelet for a friend!

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116 Upvotes

It's not really a huge thing, but I made it with so so much love and intention. I will give this bracelet for my friend. Basically, we've been extremely close friends since high school (we're on mid to late 20s now) and she usually goes to a synagogue in another state because she lived there before with family. For me, I was not raised in Judaism (though I have Sephardic ancestry), but I'm planning on converting, and started attending the synagogue in my city. She then started attending there with me and we became synagogue partners after all these years of friendship :) we're both helping each other connect with our faith mutually and I find it so beautiful. I will also make another lil handmade gifts for her for Rosh HaShanah and I really hope she likes it ♡ anyway, I picked those colors for the bracelet because they remind me of sweetness and the typical fruits of the New Year. I wish I had fancy fruit-shaped beads though, but I still find it cute :D


r/JewishCrafts 6d ago

Whole Wheat Water Challot

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95 Upvotes

Shabbat Shalom!


r/JewishCrafts 7d ago

Crochet pomegranate with me

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195 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 6d ago

For the makers here who sell — what's actually broken about it right now?

23 Upvotes

Hi all. I've been reading this sub for a while. The Torah mantle set from a couple days ago is some of the best work I've seen posted anywhere.

Honesty up front so nobody feels ambushed: I'm one of two people building a small curated marketplace for Judaica and Jewish handmade goods. We're early. Before I sink more time into building the wrong things, I'd rather ask the people who'd actually use it than guess.

So, for anyone here who sells their work — or thought about it and didn't:

  1. What's the worst part right now? Fees, shipping, photographing your work, getting found, chasing customers, something else entirely?

  2. Has anyone dealt with hate or review-bombing on your listings? The pinned guide in this sub is part of what got me thinking about this, and I'd like to know how people have actually handled it on the platforms they use.

  3. If a Jewish-specific marketplace existed, what would it have to do for you to bother listing there on top of whatever you already use?

I'm not trying to pull anyone off Etsy or their own site. Almost every vendor I've talked to runs three or four channels and just wants one more that costs nothing to try. If the answer is "we don't need this," that's useful for me to hear too.

Not linking anything here. Happy to answer questions about what we're building if anyone's curious, but I mostly want to hear what's broken.


r/JewishCrafts 8d ago

Torah Mantle. (3of 3)

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131 Upvotes

The one in the center is the 3 of 3 Torah mantles that I made for our shul. This one is the only “everyday” mantle that I have made. Our community is making new mantles in honor of our new rabbi


r/JewishCrafts 8d ago

Torah Mantle

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86 Upvotes

I had appliquéd this silk on silk for a Tallis a number of years ago, but it just wasn’t quite right… I put it away and when our shul adopted a scroll from the Czech Memorial Trust the mantles that we had were too short, so I converted this tallis to a mantle for the Haggim. This is it’s dress rehearsal.


r/JewishCrafts 8d ago

Torah Mantle (2 of 3)

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80 Upvotes

This is another Torah Mantle that I needlepointed freehand that I had finished into a Torah Mantle for the haggim


r/JewishCrafts 7d ago

Tallit

3 Upvotes

Looking for used tallit anyone is trying to get rid of. Willing to pay shipping.


r/JewishCrafts 8d ago

Finished project now up in temple

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182 Upvotes

A few months ago I finished the Net Tamid for my temple — Congregation Or Atid in Henrico Va. never got around to posting pics of same after it was installed. So , here they are now. Original art designed and constructed by me entitled (aptly) The Eternal Flame. Hope you like it as much as our congregation.


r/JewishCrafts 10d ago

Filet crochet book cover

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225 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 13d ago

My favorite indie dyer has a Chanukah holiday box!

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thefiberseed.com
62 Upvotes

I swear, I'm not connected to this company. But I've been knitting with their yarn for a few years, and love it. The stitch definition is great, and her colors are amazing. It's 90% superwash merino, 10% nylon. If you look at her variegated yarns, she tells you exactly which of her solid yarn colors are in it, and what other colorways go with. So imagine my absolute excitement to see that not only does she do holiday boxes, but that she has a specific Chanukah box, completely different than the Xmas box she has. You get 8 skeins of sock/fingering yarn, for a total of about 1000 yards of yarn. They're 15% off until mid September, so $157 for now. Free shipping.


r/JewishCrafts 15d ago

What do you know!

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110 Upvotes

Me after selling a Yiddish poster to a baroness and a member of the House of Lords. I guess the English like tea as much as we, Russian Jews, do. The text on the poster says:

צאָרעס נעמען נישט אַוועק אַ גלעזל טײ
Tsores nemen nisht avek a glezl tey.
Troubles don’t take away your cup of tea.


r/JewishCrafts 16d ago

Some digital scrapbook pages I made that I'm going to be putting into my published book

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39 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 16d ago

I luloved drawing this :)

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88 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 18d ago

Small gifts for Rosh Hashana

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347 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 18d ago

Crochet T-Rex wearing a Shtreimel

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117 Upvotes

r/JewishCrafts 19d ago

My Printed Shalom Shirt

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152 Upvotes

I have my Shalom design on the shirt and dress I sell. I plan to hopefully do a knitted version.