My Zaidy's gravestone. Today is his first Yahrzeit, and I am flooded with memories. I am headed to lead Pesach Shacharit today - as is customary on Yahrzeit. His memory with me is surely a blessing!

Zaidy 💔 Just learned that my grandfather (Dad's father) passed away last night 😭 I was very close with him since I remember myself, and spent the majority of my holidays till age 21 with him. I was with him at the shul (synagogue) he led every single Yom Kippur age 3 to 22. 1/14

Git Yom Tov - Chag Sameach! Today as we enter Shvi'i Shel Pesach (the 7th Day of Passover) is also my Zaidy's (grandfather) first Yahrzeit. A year since he passed away. So many mixed emotions today - but focusing on what the rabbis teach: tonight* is the impossible becoming a possibility

Inventing a GF Pesach cake recipe 🤔 Eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder, ground walnuts, apples, and cinnamon 🍎🥮

Pesach cooking round 2: Second Days Brisket: Onions, garlic, spice mix, dates, pomegranate, beef broth + grape juice (instead of red cooking wine), ketchup

Seder in the Streets NYC @abbystein.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Palantir: Let Our People Go

The letter @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sent to the Rikers Island seders, wishing incarcerated congregants a beautiful Chag Pesach Sameach - Happy Passover ❤️‍🩹 I am truly so proud to have helped make this letter happen. 1/5

Truly so proud to have helped make this letter happen. @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wishing Rikers Island incarcerated congregants a beautiful Chag Pesach Sameach - Happy Passover ❤️‍🩹 Will share the full letter later! www.jta.org/2026/04/04/n...

Today feel like a great day to share this source sheet on "The Textual History of Religious Anti-Zionism." It naturally begins with Shir Ha'Shirim - The Songs of Songs - which we read today. For context: this is not a text study of my own beliefs per se. chiburim.sefaria.org.il/sheets/65336...

Git Yom Tov from Rikers Island. For the first time in a decade, I have no photos to share from my first Seder. Yet tonight was one of the most meaningful seders I have ever experienced. I volunteered to lead the women’s Seder at Rikers Island. 1/4

One of my favorite moments every year Erev Pesach: picking up the Haggadah I made! א זיסע, פרייליכע, ליסטיגע, און לעכטיגע פסח צו אלע ❤️ A sweet, happy, joyous, and bright Passover you all! חג פסח מאושר ושמח!

From yesterday: Making Falshe Fish (lit: fake fish), from turkey. What? Why? More below!

Must (homemade grape juice) the final product: Out of 30 pounds of grapes, I got out 6.5 64 oz bottles 🍷 So ready for the sugar rush tonight 🥂

Another favorite Erev Pesach (day before Passover) custom: eating hamantaschen! No, I didn't get my holidays mixed up... it's a practice that developed out of the need to finish all Purim foods before the 4th hour of the day. 1/2

"שתזכנו לתור ולחפש בנגעי בתי הנפש... That we may merit the chance to go through and search within the wounds of our spirit..." - 18th-century prayer for after Bedikas Chametz Since I was young, I’ve always loved rituals that involve candles. Tonight, we have quite an interesting one: 1/7

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Tomorrow night (and Thursday night), millions of us will sit at seder tables and tell an ancient story: the story of leaving a narrow place. Mitzrayim isn’t just Egypt. 1/6

Motto for this year Pesach:

"אֵין לָנוּ מֶלֶךְ - We have no king! Some scenes from the No Kings rally in DC this past weekend, with @freedcproject.bsky.social and @ifnotnowmovement.org DC. As we prepare for Pesach, the messages of the over ten million people who showed up across the country resonate deeply with this moment. 1/6

It’s that time of year: making homemade must (grape juice) 🍇 One of my favorite childhood memories is making must in the weeks leading up to Pesach. More on that below, first, here is 30+ pounds of grapes—mostly black, some green, and some red:

🏳️‍⚧️ Today, Rev. Elder Carmarion D. Anderson joined faith leaders Rabbi Abby Stein and Rev. Paul Raushenbush for a discussion about their experiences at the intersection of trans identity and faith, and the role faith communities can play in advancing trans rights. #TransDayOfVisibility

Alt text: a person at a #NoKings National Mall protest on the National Mall, in a yellow hat and a blue coat. On the coat's back: msgs saying "Trans Liberation Now," "Protect Trans Kids," "Our Freedoms Are Bound Together" and "Trans History is American History" (w/ a blue and pink US flag).

Today and every day, on #TransDayOfVisibility, on #NoKings Day, and always 🏳️‍⚧️ Shabbat Shalom from the National Mall ✊️

They're both entertwined & separate issues but Hitler blamed Jews for "sexual degeneracy" partially due to the groundbreaking work of Magnus Hirschfeld. Jewish men are still coded as unmanly, Jewish women as too domineering and masculine, there's always been gender in modern antisemitism

Seen today in Williamsburg: "The Met Council distribution: A Federation (@ujafedny.bsky.social project, led by real secular Zionists and Reform (Jews)." The posters call for Hasidic Jews not to take any Passover support from the Met Council. The reason? Because "they're supported by >>> 1/4

We are here, we are queer, we are not going anywhere --- And we will keep fighting for our basic human right to access Healthcare, everywhere 🏳️‍⚧️ Via @lgbtqnation.com: www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/rfk-...

“The City Council has the most direct impact on people’s lives” -Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social ). While my incredible team of volunteers spread the word about my campaign, I’m meeting with & listening to tenants at NYCHA, catching you in the streets, & spending my evenings knocking on your doors.

Comment Abby Stein, femme transgenre et ancien rabbin ultraorthodoxe, a commencé à militer avec Zohran Mamdani ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/Tu4

So proud of today, so proud of the work we did. NYC is in A New Era, and we now got a @mayor.nyc.gov's Office for LGBTQIA+ Affairs, with an amazing director!

I'm watching a @mayor.nyc.gov press conference where he starts the LGBTQIA+ office with a trans woman of color. Mamdani's back in my good graces.

Every time you conflate Jews with Israel, you affirm zionist propaganda and HELP THEIR CAUSE. Cut that shit out AND spread the word!

Our NYC LGBTQIA+ community is deserving of exactly this! A dedicated office, led by a dedicated civil rights advocate, the first trans person to lead a city office 🏳️‍⚧️ So proud of the work we did during the transition to make this happen, grateful to @mayor.nyc.gov's commitment to our community ❤️

You all, I will be back at Kolot Chayeinu this Shabbat to lead services. Come say hi if you are there ❤️ This week will have special Piyyutim (liturgical poetry) added for Shabbat Ha'Chodeah + a focus on our IRWG as part of @hias.org's Eighth Annual Refugee Shabbat.

“We do not want transgender people” www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

I have had the privilege twice to speak at/with Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, and got to work with Rabbi Jen and other clergy and staff directly. This hits close to home, is heartbreaking and disgusting. Sending so much love and support to this beautiful community. My heart is with you all 💔

Heart breaking news out of Michigan, where a truck rammed into Temple Israel, West Bloomfield - and reports of shots being fired 💔 Sending love and support to the community, clergy (including fellow @truahrabbis.bsky.social member, Rabbi Jen Lader), and all who are directly and indirectly impacted.

"אַדְּרַבָּה, תֵּן בְּלִבֵּנוּ שֶׁנִּרְאֶה כָּל אֶחָד מַעֲלַת חֲבֵרֵינוּ וְלֹא חֶסְרוֹנָם, וְשֶׁנְּדַבֵּר כָּל אֶחָד אֶת חֲבֵרו בַּדֶּרֶךְ הַיָּשָׁר וְהָרָצוּי לְפָנֶיךָ, וְאַל יַעֲלֶה שׁוּם שִׂנְאָה מֵאֶחָד עַל חֲבֵרוֹ חָלִילָה:" "On the contrary, place into our hearts appreciation for the goodness of our fellow beings. >>> 1/

On Thursday Last night I joined @errollouis.bsky.social on Inside City Hall (@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social) to talk about the alarming decision by several hospitals (starting with NYU Langone) to stop providing gender-affirming care in NYC, against city and state law. 1/6 youtu.be/Yg3ODFhhJTk?...

The US killed 175 people, most of them kids, in the opening of the war. This isn't how you "liberate" anyone, in case it wasn't clear that this war isn't about liberating Iranian in any way: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Next, @abbystein.bsky.social from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social speaks about how New Yorkers are immigrants and it’s morally bankrupt and historically inaccurate to spin it any other way. We must protect and support immigrants.

Ah Freilichen Purim from an exhausted activist who is ready for bed 🎭 In the lead-up to Purim, as I was trying to figure out a costume, I was feeling perpetually exhausted. Life and work have been nonstop. Crises after crises calling on us to rise up, to speak up, to fight for a better world. 1/3

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

To all my fellow sober Jews: We all know today can be triggering. Sending some extra love 🥰 And keep in mind: According to several medieval rabbis already - you can fulfill the tradition of "Ad d'Lo Yada" (tipsy till "you don't know") by taking a nap 😴 Stay safe, stay healthy, and rejoice!

So is this how we all start breakfast on Purim, or is it just me?! Sometimes, the simple holiday pleasures that I so deeply appreciate, enjoy, and help me get in the mood for the day 🎭🥂 Happy Purim - אַ פרייליכען ליסטיגען פורים, פורים שמח!

This is NYC: Iftar + Purim = @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social breaking the fast on hamantaschen 🎭🥰 Ah Freilichen Purim to us all!

Amidst all the noise and exhaustion (my costume tonight is literally just gonna be "exhausted trans girl..."): Making ~100 pieces of stuffed cabbage - traditionally eaten on Purim - for a big Seuda (feast) tomorrow 🎭

Thank you for being a clear conscience for us all, Rabbi! It’s rabbis like you and @theradr.bsky.social who made me fall in love with Judaism again after drifting away from my (Zionist) synagogue! Thank you both!

I will ALWAYS stand to protect Trans kids’ healthcare and our beautiful trans community as a whole. What @nyulangone @mountsinainyc are doing by stopping gender affirming care is criminal. It’s a civil rights issue. It’s an issue of life or death and their cowardice is unacceptable. ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️