Micromanagement is often framed as a leadership style—anxiety-driven, controlling. But when disproportionately directed at Black people, it's about power. Racism shows up as excessive oversight, constant correction, and the assumption that Black professionals need more supervision.

Repeatedly elevating the same center-right, middle-aged voices as arbiters of ‘what Jews need’ risks missing the very people who are the Jewish future. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

“The last 50 years haven’t weakened us. They’ve made us more representative. More capable of holding the complexity of real human lives.” open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Federal agents are executing American citizens in the streets. This is state terror. The federal government wants you to not believe your own eyes. No community in America should have to deal with this.

Fighting for justice is Jewish tradition. MAGA counts on violence to make us afraid. To turn us against our neighbors. To distract from their failures to address affordability, healthcare, and other crises. We refuse to look away or be divided. We reject ICE. Art by @jasonadamk.bsky.social

Thank you for illustrating the point. Saying 'Israel is fueling antisemitism' still places responsibility for bigotry on its targets rather than on those who choose hate. Antisemites are responsible for antisemitism. Criticize Israel all you want - antisemitism is still just hate

Blaming Jews for antisemitism is victim-blaming. We are each responsible for our own bias and hate.

Sharing open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

We honor King with a holiday. He asked us for courage. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Martin Luther King Jr. Would Be Getting Arrested at ICE Facilities

Kotzer ruach is what happens when trauma settles into the body. It’s the tightness in the chest when we learn a synagogue has been destroyed by fire. It’s the shallow breathing that comes with shock, grief, fear, and anger compressed together. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Waking up to devastating news: Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi - the city’s only synagogue - was attacked by an arsonist and suffered heavy fire damage. Sending love to the congregation and community. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

When power refuses to know: Shemot and State Violence youtu.be/uakw474ZIVs?...

Big tent Judaism was always aspirational and we were moving in that direction but is this era now over or is it something worth fighting for?

Shemot as Liberation Theology open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

“Clarity builds community faster than caution ever will.” open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/antisemi...

Remember when Trump said he knew nothing about Project 2025? Now he’s bombing countries to enact it. This operation is the direct implementation of what Project 2025 explicitly called “re-hemisphering” - capturing Latin American supply chains and resources as a requirement of US economic security.

Are we really doing this again? Another Republican president launching an illegal war of choice?

I thought Trump was trying to get rid of all the immigrants and foreigners, so why is he bringing one in?

It’s almost midnight, and I’ve spent all day trying to write an end-of-year reflection, only to remember I’m an internal processor. So this is it: Happy New Year, my friends. I love you. Thank you for all the support in 2025.

"Every time we've thrown a group under the bus to appeal to some imagined 'middle,' movements have gotten weaker, not stronger." open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Habari Gani? Kwanzaa invites us to honor community, shared responsibility, and hope. May these days strengthen our bonds, renew our purpose, and remind us that liberation is something we build together. Joyous Kwanzaa. Harambee.

For Asheville folks join @peterbeinart.bsky.social @ncjews4justice.bsky.social and me for a thoughtful conversation. The event is free and open to the public. www.worthamarts.org/events/belon...

When Vance says white people don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, he knows no one has ever had to do that. What white people have been asked to do is apologize for being racist. And now Vance is telling them they don’t have to apologize for that either. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Conversations around Israel and Gaza inflame long-simmering tensions in the Jewish American community. Yet we know that open, inclusive dialogue is essential. Join CJJ in creating a welcoming space to explore what it means to be Jewish in America today. www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/community_an...

Hanukkah begins tonight as we remember the world needs more light. In Sydney, families gathered on a beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least twelve are dead, twenty-nine wounded—terror aimed at joy itself.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we act as though other communities have abandoned us, we retreat from relationship and coalition-building. Then, when we need support, we find ourselves isolated because relationships require ongoing commitment.

“We stood up for the LGBTQ community, for the African American community, for immigrants, and it was a real core part of our mission. And we would often do it in coalition with other civil rights groups, and that’s all gone. That respect that we had is just completely gone” shorturl.at/BkQXS

I have a new YouTube channel just for music youtube.com/shorts/pcxWb...

Is this nightmare finally coming to an end. What do you think?

We are the people who wrestle open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

To be Am Yisrael means to be a people who wrestle. We wrestle with fear, with injustice, with the world as it is and the world as it should be. We wrestle not because the struggle is easy — but because our tradition refuses to let us walk away from each other.

Today is #GivingTuesday — and in this moment, #NorthCarolina needs a strong Jewish voice for justice. If CJJ has inspired you, challenged you, or grounded you, consider supporting our work today. www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/donate

We’re doing the work in impossible conditions—scrambling with too few resources, pivoting constantly, exhausted. And we wonder: does this even count? Can anything meaningful be built on such unstable ground? But Vayetze tells us: the sacred work happens exactly where you are. shorturl.at/7mYZj

Jacob’s Ladder is Our Theory of Change. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

The prophetic tradition I come from has always insisted that the measure of a nation is how it treats the vulnerable, not how fiercely its people defend its borders.

“If you’ve always had power, equity feels like a threat. Change feels threatening, not because anything is being “taken,” but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance.” open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

“when more people gain access to what was always reserved for a few, it registers as loss rather than correction. But that discomfort is not harm. That tension is not persecution. That feeling is what happens when the world stops centering you open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Join us on Nov 17 3pm EST. This will be fun rabbisandra.substack.com

Join us today at Noon EST www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/november_kib...

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.

Unemployment.

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.