I always thought this was just obvious, but have learned that it is actually my most Jewish POV.

Everyone is talking about how it’s been 32 years since the Blue Jays won on the World Series. As someone who was at the final game in ‘93, it’s like everyone’s telling me I’m old.

Reminds me of how Friday night dinners at my house and Sat. lunches at our neighbour work. Weekly rituals create space for us to be together with time pressure, standard easy yet yummy dishes reduce the effort.

FINALLY - although I won’t feel relieved until Sunday. It’s been far too long.

I’ve learned not to get my hopes up in the past 2 years, but maybeeee Qatar supporting the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza will do the trick?Yes, horrible people making agreements, but if it stops the war and allows rebuilding….. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

There certainly was discrimination against Mizrahim and the experience of living in tents in giant transit camps. As a talking point though ignores actual Mizrahi Jews today, who slightly outnumber Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and who are far less likely to have diaspora citizenship.

This article feels so heartfelt and necessary today. Her talk of shame and blame, of ascribing powers to less and Mozart, echoes what I have experienced with my pregnancy loss. Also thinking about how we treat moms of kids with autism. blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...

1. It would be bad if I were killed 2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad 3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else

I read The Blessings of a Skinned Knee when my kids were young, and boy do I think its lessons are even more relevant today. Feel like I’m surrounded by parents in full anxiety meltdowns, micromanaging their kids and unable to cope with their child having any moment of discomfort. 1/

Racism comes most strongly not from those who know they are great, but from those terrified of being treated as though they are not.

When I saw some of the bile spewed at Canadian Jews in The Maple, I worried that it was going to get someone killed. This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.

Ditto for voice memos, which I will never listen to.

Just found out this happened to a friend’s sister in Ottawa. Earlier today, my mom’s friend mentioned attacks on Jews in Montreal. Hard to convey just how angry the community is about all the hate. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Essential listening on the reasons to fight against “fetal protection” laws. youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...

I was considering starting a Substack but folks keep saying it supports Nazis. What is a good platform to allow me to post articles and put links to them here, that won’t cost me anything? My idea is that some things are better as articles than multi-part threads. I don’t have a newsletter.

Anyone interested in the late Toronto left-wing artist Bill Stapleton? He and my grandfather served together in WWII and became lifelong friends, and my dad was just clearing out a storage locker and gave me a bunch of paintings, sketches and correspondence by him. Not sure what to do with it.

Started listening to Season 2 of The Retrievals podcast from Serial, and it is reminding me of how my last c-section traumatized me enough to say no more babies. The spinal anesthesia paralyzed my diaphragm so I was gasping for breath. The nurse checking my incision screamed I was still bleeding.

Slightly diminish a band: Duran

Ventriloquism Fallacy: Saying “on behalf of group A, you should/shouldn’t do X” when you aren’t part of group A, and most of group A actually supports the opposite and would tell you to STFU.

The 82-year-old Jewish woman was peacefully marching in Colorado for Run For Their Lives, which was formed in collaboration with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum; which has been advocating a deal to end the conflict and bring everyone home and challenging Netanyahu’s plans to escalate.

Just got an email saying “nobody ignores me….for long”. Would have reported it as a threat but it was just Duolingo. Hey, I know I should be practicing my Italian, but maybe don’t be creepy about it?

There's really isn't a way to think that the plaintiff isn't engaging in coercive control here. He claims that his partner was "happy" to be pregnant-so happy that she already aborted 2 "happy" pregnancies and he's afraid she'll abort this "happy" one. Maybe she wasn't so happy? 1/

It occurs to me that this could describe my mother. Who didn’t really have a God belief, but co-founded a synagogue, told my nanny where the local churches were, told the school to recognize Ramadan and Eid, etc.

Hello, I’m a lawyer in a film. I will spend most of my time in dramatic scenes in court, raising my voice and gesturing dramatically, and present surprise evidence to witnesses since apparently disclosure isn’t a thing. Emails, prep time, drafting, and pre-trial conferences don’t exist.

What may have begun inadvertently now continues with full awareness. Palestinians face starvation or possibly being shot down for no intelligible reason. For that there is no excuse—and quite possibly criminal culpability. My latest for ⁦‪The Atlantic‬⁩, www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Another annoying trend I noticed with the MENA Jews discussion: non-Jews being incapable of realizing that things could be better or worse depending on time and place and other influences. Just like Europe or the U.S. hasn’t always been only one way toward Jews.

So much ignorance, bigotry and performative BS to unpack here. A thread. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

Some indications that Lasker is lying about growing up Jewish (he didn’t and just had one Jewish great-grandfather IIRC) and may not have actually converted either. I’ve never known a convert to fake their backstory or praise Hitler. @pymundgenealogy.com

Can we not use words like “over-represented” to describe the presence of certain “model minorities” in certain fields, when they never had any systemic advantage over the majority and simply don’t face overt discrimination anymore? 1/

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

Comment to me from someone upon hearing that my husband comes from an Iraqi Jewish family: Read my comment again. And then learn something: mondoweiss.net/2023/07/zion...

Trump has cut off trade talks with Canada. On a related note, I’m currently in the Niagara area a few minutes from the bridge to the USA, and will not be crossing it this long weekend. Happy Canada Day.

I’m watching a YouTube video on Italian Canadians and how the community is different from Italian Americans, and I had a lightbulb moment that it’s the same for the Jewish community.

As a former lifeguard, can confirm that drowning is SILENT, so you can’t expect to “keep an ear out” and supervise from the side while on the phone.

Canada’s biggest Jewish community happens to live beside its biggest Iranian community. We’ve been reaching out to our Iranian friends and colleagues, and it’s been amazing to see that everyone is supportive of each other, worried about loved ones but hoping for better times.

An absolute must-read by our friend @bulldogshadow.bsky.social:

To the young progressive people, many who I marched with to fight gun violence and to fight hate in all of its forms, and who are now cheering the gun violence murder of two Jewish people in DC last night, I detest you. If you are part of the Democratic party, we don't need you.

My easy version of Iraqi t’bit: 2 Tbsp oil on bottom of slow cooker, 1 cup diced onions, 1 cup dry brown basmati rice, Six chicken thighs with garam masala, curry powder, touch of cinnamon and garlic powder, a few cardamom seeds, topped with a 19 Oz can of diced tomatoes. Cook on low for 14 hours.

This discussion devolved into personal attacks, but the reality is that Canadian assistance to Americans is going to be a political issue. It might be graciously offered if surplus is available, but cannot be assumed. 1/

I've been sitting here in full Barristers' Robes for over 7 hours now, and damn, this is not a comfortable outfit when you are menopausal. Here, barristers need to wear a wing collar shirt, black waistcoat, black robe, and legal tabs attached to the collar. It's HOT.

Went to see Come From Away with the family yesterday, and both my husband and I got weepy. Aside from the obvious 9/11 aspect, it was the vision of tolerance and being open to others, and my cousin was one of the real-life Plane People. Then the cast came out with Canadian flags for the final bow.

Also grateful to be Canadian, since I managed to use 120 eggs in the past week. Luckily Costco was charging $8.99 for a pack of 30.

Post-Pesach food round-up: insanely easy barely-a-recipe cooking for the win. It was a tie between frozen gefilte fish logs baked in tomato sauce (that’s the entire recipe) and meatballs with ginger ale and ketchup sauce (again, that’s the entire sauce recipe).

@j-mike.bsky.social Spinning this off because I didn’t want it in the mega-thread. Can I ask about this comment: bsky.app/profile/j-mi... I understand activism for a cause you support, but not the “MORE incumbent…for Diaspora Jews as well” part. 1/

How is 2025 going so far? Me:

Another woman, this time in Georgia, has been arrested after having a miscarriage for daring to dispose of the fetus. No compassion, just an urge to blame for something when she did nothing wrong. www.jezebel.com/georgia-poli...

Yet another great example of Ventriloquism Fallacy! Vance decides to advocate stuff by declaring it's for Canada - without speaking to Canadians, most of whom would tell him to leave both Canada and Greenland alone.

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