You'd think that after what happened first to Hillary Clinton and then then to Kamala Harris I wouldn't be able surprised anymore by how much the average white man apparently hates women. (And I do mean average, in this case. Ugh this guy.) But it keeps landing like a blow anyway.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

A new #Torah #poem for #Vayera. #whatrabbisdo #andpoets velveteenrabbi.com/2025/11/06/v...

"It’s easier for your body clock to adjust when flying east to west through time zones which is why it is easier to adjust to the “fall back” to standard time that we just experienced." TIL!

One month after the Trump-brokered ceasefire—the path forward is still unclear. Join NJN and T'ruah for a webinar with Dr. Gershon Baskin to unpack what’s happening now and what may come next. 🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gxBv-iCiS1yGdekeihV_lA#/registration

A PRAYER FOR DEMOCRACY Blessed Holy Wholeness, The Powers That Be May be In power For now. But we are the powers that were and are and will be. Amen triganza.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-pr...

As someone who does not live in NYC, I am grateful this week for this teaching from Marcus Aurelius.

This video is giving me life. Also, reminding me of the time we went to change our Torah covers before Selichot and found an... ex-mouse ... peacefully resting on top of the mantle of one scroll.

"...Read instead 'be pure' – pure like Noah, though not (like Noah) averting our eyes from need...." A new #Torah poem at velveteenrabbi.com. Art by Steve Silbert: velveteenrabbi.com/2025/10/31/p...

my name is Oz and wen the stone is broke to bits and all alone i lie in sand it stretches bare you read my words you pls despair

This is just to say I have looked on the works that were in the desert and which you were probably thinking would still stand Forgive me they were trunkless so vast and so old

Andrea Pitzer writes, “Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away.” When I read that a few weeks ago her injunction landed with me, and made me think: how would I articulate my core values? Here’s where I landed: velveteenrabbi.com/2025/10/28/t...

Fluff under pressure, a man in a shattered house & more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

It's SO GOOD. It's so good! Y'all this book is so delightfully good. I love it so. :D And not just because I am tuckerized therein.

"...The story of Babel can be seen as an etiological myth: a teaching-story that explains why things are the way they are. It’s also a story about moral choices. (1/)

"The work doesn’t stop when we fail or when we’re disappointed. There is always a next step, always another challenge, and I know that I cannot allow myself to freeze up, rather than turning the next corner."

"Back then there were no Yankees or Red Sox. No arguments over whose pizza was better, Plush Chicago deep dish or a New York slice. We were all of one mind, and that one mind said c’mon, boys, let’s storm the gates of heaven...." A new Torah poem. velveteenrabbi.com/2025/10/22/u...

A covert translation, how to bake a foole & more with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

The first time I ever went on a Jewish retreat as an adult was summer, 2002, at the old Elat Chayyim in Accord, New York. I took a morning class on Jewish meditation — and an afternoon class on tikkun olam, the imperative to heal the world, taught by Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow...

My mom used to tell a story about how we were at the pediatric opthalmologist -- I had eye problems and needed surgeries as a kid -- and one time, when my eyes were dilated and I wasn't supposed to be able to focus, I picked up a book I'd never seen before and read it to her. Flabbergasted (1/)

"One morning when Pharaoh awoke in his bed there were frogs on his bed and frogs on his head! Frogs on his nose and frogs on his toes Frogs here! Frogs there! Frogs just jumping everywhere!"

[email protected]'s and my kid gave the closing speech at today's #NoKings rally in #NorthAdams and I may be biased but I think he rocked it. On insta here: www.instagram.com/p/DP9VrbSjY4C/

I know it's not de rigeur to show faces in protest photos, but I feel like: if as a Jewish woman and a rabbi I can't proudly identify myself as anti-fascist, something is really wrong here. (Something is. But I'm still going to stand up for being opposed to fascism.) #NoKings #NorthAdams

Yall, I looked it up. Polebridge, MT doesn’t have electricity. They use whale oil lamps. Also, It was 35 degrees there today. This is so amazing

#NoKings Miami!

🎼Oh the 18th of October was covered with signs And so was route two from north adams to boston The Berkshires seemed determined to overcome the exhaustion…

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

CATS YES, KINGS NO

Holy, and I mean this sincerely, shit. #NoKings

Protestors march through downtown Montgomery, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025 holding a banner saying "No Kings In America." The protest drew more than 600 people. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

I know it's not de rigeur to show faces in protest photos, but I feel like: if as a Jewish woman and a rabbi I can't proudly identify myself as anti-fascist, something is really wrong here. (Something is. But I'm still going to stand up for being opposed to fascism.) #NoKings #NorthAdams

No Kings New York

Boston's been showing up for No Kings for 250 years.

This is sending me. #NoKings

#NoKings #NorthAdams

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[email protected]'s and my kid gave the closing speech at today's #NoKings rally in #NorthAdams and I may be biased but I think he rocked it. On insta here: www.instagram.com/p/DP9VrbSjY4C/

This feels worth sharing again today. "...I love the dream of an America that uplifts what’s fair and right. I dream of an America that cares for the vulnerable, leaves no one homeless or hungry, and uplifts the inherent human dignity of all people...." velveteenrabbi.com/2025/07/04/t...

Not Catholic, obvs, but this is cracking me right up.

I love this interview. Read Michael Twitty's books, they are so good!

A new #Torah #poem for #Bereshit, and news about the next book I'm working on! velveteenrabbi.com/2025/10/16/k...

This is so lovely: from Lena Rivkah, on CYOA, #fairytales, #midrash, #fanfiction, and writing our own endings to our life's stories. www.growingringscoaching.com/blog/choose-...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

One of my great regrets is that when I wrote my Akedah Cycle poems, I didn't include footnotes to all of the classical midrash I was riffing off of / playing with. I don't make that mistake anymore. :)

A Columbus Day edition of the digest with @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

"...I’m tired of people using each others’ words or silences as a cudgel. Can we instead aspire to give each other grace?..." Thoughts on the #ceasefire, and how we relate to each other, and reaching #SheminiAtzeret again. velveteenrabbi.com/2025/10/14/c...