Not sure who you all were sitting with at Erev Rosh Hashanah prayers. I was sitting with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social 🍯 A Git Yom Tov and Git Yur indeed!

It's Rosh Hashanah, and it's so hard to feel hope for a better new year. Yet, today in shul, I was sitting and engaging with a beautiful group of people who give me hope that maybe, just maybe, 5786 will be better. Those people were @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @bradlander.bsky.social, and others!

לשנה טובה תכתבו - פון טיפען הארצען, א גוט געבענטשט זיס לעכטיג יאר! #ShanaTova - a sweet bright new year to all 🍎🍯

Of course I am antifa. In its most literal sense: anti-fascist. 3 of my great-grandparents, 13 of my great-great-grandparents, dozens of aunts and uncles, and hundreds if not thousands of cousins were killed by fascists in the Holocaust. If you aren't anti-fascist, you are evil.

Of course I am antifa. In its most literal sense: anti-fascist. 3 of my great-grandparents, 13 of my great-great-grandparents, dozens of aunts and uncles, and hundreds if not thousands of cousins were killed by fascists in the Holocaust. If you aren't anti-fascist, you are evil.

As we, our trans community, face unprecedented attacks from the federal government this week, I know and feel: together, justice will win. Because together, we will never give up. Together we will keep each other going! We are here, We are trans and queer, We aren't going anywhere 🏳️‍⚧️ 3/

A TRUMP APPOINTMENT US attorney had to resign, because he couldn't find any reason to indict one of the Führer's, I mean, President's, political enemies. Call this whatever you want, but there is a term that works well for this. It starts with an F. Fascism.

In other news: Water makes you wet, and Conservatives lie 🤷‍♀️

This is pure fascism.

On this final Shabbat of the year, I'm centering the words of this week’s Parsha (Torah portion). The shortest parsha of the year 5785, yet one packed with intense teaching. In Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30:12-14 we are told one of the most down-to-earth (pun intended) messages of the entire Torah: 1/

About Yesterday: we won't stand by as ICE abducts our neighbors. Along with 70 fellow NYers, including clergy, elected officials, and community members, I was arrested protesting ICE. We were putting our bodies on the line to protest the continued kidnapping of over 3,000 of our neighbors. 1/

Drudge this morning.

Grateful to be out, grateful to be mostly okay (sore shoulders and neck notwithstanding) - but can't forget for a second the horrible conditions so many of our immigrant neighbors are kept under.

Grateful to many who joined us today. To all the groups, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social and many more who organize us. ICE Out of NY 🗽🗽🗽

Just got home after a few hours in NYPD custody. I am mostly okay, but so many of our neighbors are terrorized by ICE, and terrified every day. More tomorrow. We will keep going!!!

Just got home after a few hours in NYPD custody. I am mostly okay, but so many of our neighbors are terrorized by ICE, and terrified every day. More tomorrow. We will keep going!!!

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

"Wir sind hier um zu sagen: „Nie wieder“ gilt für alle!" This Israelis for Peace NYC protest was also one of my first full protest speeches in German (with a heavy Yiddish accent of course...).

Fairly certain that for the first time since WWII, there are air raid sirens in Poland because of an actual attack. This is the result of trying to placate an authoritarian dictator. The US ignoring war crimes from its own allies definitely isn't helping either.

In case it isn't clear yet: Russia wants to escalate. Appeasing them in Ukraine isn't gonna stop them. It will reward them for the unjust war of occupation and mass killing they began in Ukraine, and encourage them to keep going.

I don't remember the last time I had so many different kinds of feelings about a foreign political development 🤔 Also, just for the record, I know very little about Nepali politics to have an informed opinion. Educate me if you know more!

This person literally went from cursing trans people, using several transphobic slurs against trans people, and calling for who knows what kind "of revenge." Turns out the shooter was a republican raised white cis-man? Oh, let's pray for him 🤦‍♀️

Our dearest @abbystein.bsky.social 💜

Yesterday, we stood in front of the German Consulate in NYC, joining voices with protests around the world 🌏 to say, stop the genocide, your silence and complicity. We demand harsher actions against Israel while it chooses to bring a holocaust on others! 🧵👇 @abbystein.bsky.social

Today in unexpected encounters: Listening to Palestinian MK Ayman Odeh telling a story of my (×5)great-grandfather, Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz 🤷‍♀️ All of this at a @smolemunius.bsky.social event happening @huc1875.bsky.social. Truly worlds colliding!

Today in unexpected encounters: Listening to Palestinian MK Ayman Odeh telling a story of my (×5)great-grandfather, Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz 🤷‍♀️ All of this at a @smolemunius.bsky.social event happening @huc1875.bsky.social. Truly worlds colliding!

My entire feed today feels like a real-life debate between Mishlei (Proverbs) 11:10 and 24:17 🤔 IYKYK, and if not, look it up!

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but racism, misogyny, bigotry and conspiracy theories aren’t “political” views, and radicalizing young people with it isn’t “doing politics the right way.” We should all condemn the violence, but don’t sanitize and downplay the harm.

Some "bulwark against antisemitism."

Tonight at the @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Mazals, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on the shootings today:

We have a horrible problem with gun violence in this country. It's one of our making, and one that can be easily solved with common-sense gun control like in every similar country across the globe. Just today, two children were shot at a Colorado high school, and more across the country:

In case anyone thought that 45/47 appeasing Russia's dictator would calm them down a bit, there are now Russian drones over Poland. Russia has to be stopped, because they aren't gonna stop voluntarily, or for red carpets in Alaska.

We need use every obstacle we can to stop this government. SHUT IT DOWN!!!

Nearly 70% of NYC voters — including majorities of Cuomo and Adams supporters — are in favor of Zohran's plan to freeze the rent for almost 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

Israel wants to keep Syria oppressed and prevent its reconstruction and development. The Ministry of Defense has been attacked and unable to function, Israel is arming and supporting dissident groups It’s shameful that many who opposed the Assad regime are now silent on this

This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.

Join Israelis for Peace NY as part of an international day of actions at German embassies and consulates. This coming Thursday, September 11th, at 1 PM in NYC. Schließen Sie sich Israelis für Frieden als Teil eines internationalen Aktionstages an deutschen Botschaften und Konsulaten an.

10 days ago:

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

My session will be at 12:30:

If you haven't read her book...time to change that.

Beautiful 🧵 from @abbystein.bsky.social celebrating 10 years of transition!

Join us next Sunday at CBE in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a day of trans Torah learning, community, and queer joy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Featuring among others: Joy Ladin, @thealeph.bsky.social, Yael Kanarek, and more. Register here: www.pardes.org.il/program/holy...

Join us next Sunday at CBE in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a day of trans Torah learning, community, and queer joy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Featuring among others: Joy Ladin, @thealeph.bsky.social, Yael Kanarek, and more. Register here: www.pardes.org.il/program/holy...

Hey, New York folks, as of tonight, CVS is offering appointments for COVID vaccines again! Make sure to get yours and your flu shot for this season!

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Today in the streets of our city. This is NYC: Jews, Muslims, and Christians. 3 people, of 3 different religions and 3 different ethnic backgrounds, walking together. Working together for a better city, a better state, a better country, a better world. וְכָל בְּנֵי בָשָׂר יִקְרְאוּ --- לְתַקֵּן עוֹלָם 🫂