Anyone else in the middle of DS9??!? #StarTrek

Teaching my gentile husband that the frustration that comes from trying to light a full menorah with fragile generic candles is all part of the Jewish Experience. "This is worse than building Ikea furniture." Happy eighth night and Happy Winter Solstice.

Gender affirming care bans are against my religion 🏳️‍⚧️🤬👊 #ReligiousLibertyIsntJustForBigots #ProtectTransKids

Does @dahlialithwick.bsky.social know someone who could help?

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Our country could use more fighters for the American dream, for what is good, right, and just in this world, like @avindman.bsky.social & Rabbi @ravbogard.bsky.social. What an honor spending the evening with them & friends from across the District. #Missouri #MO02

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I'm still looking for (the right) lawyer to help me challenge gender affirming care bans in court under religious liberty claims. Is that you, or do you know the right person? DMs are open #ProtectTransKids

@theradr.bsky.social I was going to send out the EOY appeal for scholarship funding for Camp Indigo Point today but I’m caught up trying to line up care for my daughter before the rules go into effect. Can you spare another shout out? 💕 form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/ashrei-...

CAMP FOR QUEER AND TRANS KIDS you know exactly how and why this is important now

I built a thing! #nerdyjews #torahstudy torahheatmap.org

Welcome to the Ferengi Alliance of America #hu-man

Everywhere I go I'm seeing people who look like slightly modified versions of folks I know. I'm thinking the computers running our simulation need a RAM upgrade 🤷

A simple proposal: every email should cost $1 to send, paid to the recipient.

The reality of antisemitic zionists and anti-zionist non-antisemites has totally broken the Jewish community's ability to tackle the metastasizing of antisemitism in American society.

I think the comedian David Cross hit the nail on the head when he said years ago “And I'm not comparing Trump voters to Nazis. Okay? No, I'm not. I'm comparing Trump voters to the German people who voted for the Nazi Party.”

We must protect each other to survive

When I say that I've learned a lot about the Holocaust by living as the parent of a trans kid in the 2020s, I don't mean that I think Republicans are Nazis. No. What I've learned is that Nazis were just the Republicans of their era, and of their system. #ProtectTransKids

>>Bogard emphasized that the “Jews for a Shared Future” letter is not an endorsement of any candidate. “This is not a Mamdani endorsement letter,” he said. “Anyone trying to make it that is reading it wrong.”<<

Over 1300!!! (Once I go update the website🙃)

If you're Jewish, particularly a New York Jew, and this letter moves you, I invite you to sign. Clergy from anywhere are especially welcome. jewsforasharedfuture.org

Glad to see my rabbi signed onto the OTHER letter, the one defending Mamdani and insisting that "In a climate of rising division, we must stay focused on what truly keeps us safe: working across differences to protect the rights and improve the lives of EVERYONE." jewsforasharedfuture.org

My friend, and someone who has stepped up in amazing ways to create safer communities across faiths, and especially for trans kids: “Jewish safety cannot be built on Muslim vulnerability.” Amen.

And our letter wasn't organized by a shady right-wing org gaslighting org that needs to call itself "The Jewish Majority" 👀

I keep thinking about how this is the only social media that I'm posting this article on 🤷😎🙃

Sooo.... I'm the digital organizer for jewsforasharedfuture.org , and I present you with a running list of the best troll submissions. Coming in strong: 1) Cantor Likma Enus 2) Rabbi Ben Dover 1/x

“Ultimately," said Rabbi Bogard, "we have to make a choice. Our Jewish institutions have to commit to being a tent that’s big enough to include the widest spectrum of Jewish voices and small enough to keep out the bullies.”

Proud to be one of the organizers of this effort. Jews (particularly professional ones), go and sign! Jewsforasharedfuture.org

And Jewish institutions are hardly democratic. They’re all corporations, run by boards of people, and their first directive is amassing wealth. For-profit companies call it “value”, nonprofits call it “endowment”. But the purpose is the same. Control.

Insightful thread.

this thread - and if you know my situation...

This thread is, unfortunately, spot on. And is why my career has been quite a struggle the last 10 years.

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I'm Jewish and didn't understand the reason for this before, but seeing it laid-out seems obviously correct to me.

good thread. this is part of why I'm on the Board of my local, tiny synagogue

I not only joined a temple but agreed to chair the Praline Matzo Committee for the annual food festival for basically this reason

This is something I’ve been wondering about and I appreciate the thread!!

Important thread explained the gap between Jewish "voices" and American Jews. It's probably a self-fulfilling death spiral. Alas. If only I had Bezos money without Bezos amorality

if you're a left-wing uber-wealthy jew seeing this (lol) check out www.jewishliberation.fund

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Not the communities I am currently in, but I have seen this dynamic.

This is an insightful explanation, and I probably applies to a lot of non-Jewish institutions, too.

If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/

Four local rabbis worked with a shady DC right-wing org to write a call out op-ed about me because I refuse to parot a party line. The irony is that poll after poll shows that they, not me, represent an increasingly fringy position with an American Jewish opinion.

Has there ever been this large of a gap between what American Jews actually believe, and what our institutional leaders are pushing in our name?

Right wing antisemites (who literally run every branch of our government) have convinced American Jewish legacy leadership to be scared of left wing anti-zionists who exist on the fringes of power. Nationalism sure is a hell of a drug.

CRC St. Louis is closed due to the #stlwx power outage and area damage but you can join @ravbogard.bsky.social et al for Shabbat services via livestream. Happening now

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