I don’t *automatically* assume that a culture that had a pork heavy cuisine is antisemitic *unless* it is in Europe

My problem with Italian is there are too many meats that have names that are similar to non-meats

ME, FEMINISTLY: Ah, yes, none of them are the richest women

Good news I went to Dirt Candy again

SAY THE LINE BART!

They should give out “I heard the shofar” stickers that you can wear like an “I Voted” sticker

There are a lot of reasons why I go to Rosh Hashanah services on both days but a major one is definitely so I can tell the Chabad boys I already heard the shofar that day and not be lying about it

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

So there's a woman who I follow on Instagram because we were on a panel together a decade ago and today I saw a post celebrating her 4th wedding anniversary so I scrolled through the slideshow because why not. Anyway. Literally *nothing* could have prepared me for the fact that she's married to...

My shul has an annual ritual of doing tashlich in Prospect Park, which I like to follow with my own annual ritual of getting lost in Prospect Park trying to walk home

Hello, how are you, my brothers? I send you greetings from Gaza, from the Mawasi camp. My friends, the conditions here are unbearable. Please share and donate if you can. I am not well. I feel suffocated. I do not know why. bit.ly/help-mohamed

Hey it’s my friend @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social!

I agree that it's a fucked up position but I really don't think it's simply a reaction to violence. That plays a part, but Israeli public opinion is mostly a reaction to and acceptance of narratives crafted by politicians - which is exactly what Ganz, a politician, is doing here.

There’s a diaspora tradition of adding an extra day to holidays to hedge and make sure you’re doing them at the right time — hence 8 day Passover in the diaspora while in Israel it’s just 7 days — but interestingly 2 day Rosh Hashanah is not one of them.

Kicking off the new year by saying fuck it to 90+% humidity and running two miles

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Benny Gantz in NYT Opinion laying out the rationale behind the widespread Israeli objection to recognizing Palestinian statehood (which is basically “statehood should be a reward for good behavior”). Not sure how to get Israelis to understand that statehood is a fundamental right. 🎁🔗

Sorry to share this on Rosh Hashanah but it’s kind of a bummer that Joe Rogan can’t champion free speech without getting wildly antisemitic! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

we need to raise billions of dollars so we can build a fake nyc and truman show eric adams

Jokes aside, if you do enjoy fly-looking Jews, do check out the Bukharans - an impossibly old diaspora.

People have asked if this is like white people wearing kente cloth but now that I know that it's a specifically Bukharian garment I'd say it's like white people wearing kente cloth at an event for Egyptians because "hey, it's African right?"

One of the weird things about having been raised in a lefty Jewish environment by parents who generally share my politics is that I don't have this experience of having lefty politics as being a source of a traumatic experience of rejection, which is apparently unusual for leftists

Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.

BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Technically I’m a New Year’s baby* * was born on the Fast of Gedaliah

My niece and nephew were asking why the Bluey movie isn’t going to be out until next year and I just realized I should have told them it’s so the artists have time to draw pictures that are big enough for the movie screen

WAIT WAIT WAIT New York City is The Big APPLE Israel is described as a land flowing with milk and HONEY Jews eat APPLES dipped in HONEY at Rosh Hashanah The largest populations of Jews in the world are in NYC and Israel IT ALL MAKES SENSE

I don't buy this whole "every atheist needs to go through an asshole phase" because that was not my trajectory

So Athletic, the non-alcoholic beer company, sometimes makes (sadly, online only) sours, and my friend got me some and omg, it's very good, which is good for me as a person who loves sour beers and does not want to get drunk much anymore

I started reading this book because it was on a list as a funny sci-fi romance and I was all, sure, and then I started reading it and the prose kinda had a YA feel so let me tell you it was *shocking* to stumble on to a multi page graphic sex scene about 1/3 of the way in.

Amazingly it’s still Eminem

I take the High Holidays very seriously and really try to reflect on the ways I want to make amends with folks while I’m going through them, but a couple of years ago I started to realize that I didn’t have beef with anyone and started to focus on repairing my relationship with myself.

This is why no one likes Atheists

Good job everyone

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

I love this and also it is so funny to hear this beautifully inflected ימים נוראים mixed in with the American pronunciation Rushashana (which, to be clear, is how many Jews say it!)

Once again I am dreaming of a Jewish American Heritage parade in NYC, I wish we could bring together our city's diverse population of Jews for a celebration of the communities we have built *here*

Pretty sure she rejected it in favor of "an eye for two eyes, maybe even more than two"

It's punching down when you make a joke about the most powerful person in the country

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

Back in 2007 I went to this podcast conference PodCamp because I was dating what was then known as a "video podcaster" or "vlogger" and later became known as a "YouTuber" and 18 years later it is weird to come full circle and have people who share videos of themselves talking be called podcasters

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

This Thursday at St Marks Church- what will a warming world mean for garment workers? This is an impressive panel that will have some real answers.

Does Gen Z even know the Fatboy Slim is fucking and fucking and fucking in heaven

For most of my party yesterday my cat was either hiding or stalking the premises trying to encourage people to leave, but for a brief moment — and possibly because I'd given her catnip — she decided she was in love with my friend's cardigan.

The thing about coming of age in the 1990s was that it was a backlash to the 1980s fetishization of the 1950s that involved a lot of rudeness as a way of surfacing the fucked up shit that lay below the facade of politeness in white America and while I think there were a lot of issues with that time

Tylenol is more likely to kill you than give your fetus autism which is a bummer because dying is bad and autism is good

Tylenol does not cause autism, but also realize that the anxiety and fear about autism is fundamentally a type of ableism. It's okay for people to be autistic!