Shabbat shalom, a happy new year, and a peaceful weekend to all. Round challahs with rainbow sprinkles inside and gold and silver sprinkles outside.

Wishing everyone a Shabbat shalom and a happy holiday week no matter what you celebrate or not. Came out so nice i had to post it twice.

Night 8. All of the light on the winter solstice. To more light moving forward.

Night 7. More light and more oil.

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Babies are going to die. This is what Donald Trump, Russ Vought, RFK Jr., Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli have brought us. Avoidable child deaths from preventable infectious diseases. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

Chapter 5 here is about the covid amnesia project. There was a coordinated movement, led by our current medical establishment, to encourage forgetfulness. It worked.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

Sixth night and Shabbat shalom and a peaceful weekend to all.

Happy Chanukah night 5, first lighting in community and then at home.

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

Night 4!

Night 3. More light.

Night 2. More light after so much sad news this weekend.

Chag sameach, holding my girls too tightly while we light. I don’t want to live in a world where I hesitate before going to the public menorah lighting in our town (but glad we went.). Praying for peace and safety for all.

Running a little late but it’s still technically fall. Two pumpkin challahs. Wishing everyone a peaceful Shabbat and weekend, and grace for whatever you are running late on :).

Shabbat shalom and a peaceful weekend to all. More kid braided ones!

As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Shabbat shalom, a peaceful weekend, and a happy Thanksgiving. With husband’s work it was just us this weekend. But here’s a pic of yesterday’s cranberry apple loaf cake and today’s challah. (Rain check on the pumpkin challah for a week or two!)

Trump calls Governor Tim Walz “retarded.” How do MAGA parents justify the use of this word? How does Sen. Eric Schmitt, who has an autistic son, justify it?

Shabbat shalom and a peaceful weekend to all.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

There is never just one victim.

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

Shabbat shalom and a peaceful weekend to all.

It is sickening to see someone trafficking in such hate and prejudice while proudly displaying a Jewish star necklace. You must not oppress the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Just the most basic of Hebrew school lessons was too hard for her apparently.

i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

And yet The NY Times falsely perverted and perseverated on HER emails. The rot is deep.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

Shabbat shalom and a peaceful weekend to all.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Good morning. Every reporter should be asking Kathy Hochul if she’s asked for Jay Jacobs resignation yet. He didn’t support the Dem nominee for mayor, he didn’t invest in Long Island, and because of that we were a lone red wave in an otherwise blue sea. We need change now. He has to go before 2026.

Brilliant night for Democrats across the board (NJ, VA, NYC, PA, GA, CA), but complete failure on Long Island*. NYs and national Dems have put up with the incompetence of Jay Jacobs for decades. Kathy Hochul must ask for his resignation.

Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not

Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.

If NYC can publish 60% of the vote by 9:40, surely Nassau county can publish a single damn number? The incompetence and lack of transparency folks.

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

@ballotready.org you never updated your website to have our new Nassau County (New York) legislative maps after we had to redistrict. Folks are getting the wrong info when they go to your website. May be too late for today, but can you please update?

Good morning and happy election day! As we face a federal government led by a wannabe dictator that is increasingly lawless and authoritarian, we must use state and local elections to protect our country. Get out and vote for the Democratic ticket, yes on prop 50 in CA, and retain the judges in PA.

People sometimes are surprised that we take our kids canvassing with us during GOTV. This is why. They may not understand every issue, but they understand that we all need to help make this country better for our neighbors and our future. (Also, they really like ringing doorbells.)

Early voted for Democrats today and then knocked another 68 doors with the family. Local elections matter. If you have one this Tuesday, vote!!

“Can I picture this person comfortably campaigning with overnight shift workers, senior center residents, and club goers at 3am?” is tbh actually a pretty good way to measure whether a candidate has what it takes to go everywhere effectively.

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Shabbat shalom, a peaceful weekend, and a very happy challahween! One regular challah, one candy stuffed challah.