Chodesh tov, welcome to Av in its heartbreak and heartmend. Thank you to Tammuz for your rest, abundant wedding chuppot, and a reminder of how sweet the mitzvah of challah is.

Our neighbors are being kidnapped in broad daylight. Join Jewish communities across the greater Baltimore area to join our voices in lament on Tisha b'Av, the Jewish day of mourning on August 3 at 2pm. Jewish community and our extended communities of faith and action are warmly welcome.

Seeking podcast editor for juicy Jewish projects! I have spoken with probably 5 different Jewish leaders who have unique, vital Torah that would be well listened to and necessary to have in the world. Please tag editors who might be interested!

It's that time of the year again... What do you want to give and receive sermons and teaching about during the High Holy Days? Pic of two wonderful @hinenu.bsky.social members making a tashlich last year.

There is definitely a caregiver tax that we exact upon children's meals while serving them, right? A bite of a cheese stick here, a nibble of a muffin there? I think that I finally understand ma'aser, tithing to support the priests of the temple. Except over here, it is yogurt pretzels.

“This morning, as Dr Kahn Suri faces trial after being unjustly detained, over 100 Jewish clergy from DC, Maryland, and Virginia are speaking out against attacks on democracy being done in the name of Jewish safety. Read the full letter here bit.ly/rabbisforsaf...

My beloved ADHD partner has set an alarm to tell them to go to bed at 11pm. Its Bernadette Peters singing "I got the sun in the morning." An 11 o'clock number. We do a great production at this point.

One day left to support this project! givebutter.com/o3vdKI

God Crush episode 1 is out now! @luragroen.bsky.social and I intro the show, share about ourselves, and talk about crushes. Listen here! Transcript of our episodes lives here: bit.ly/godcrushtranscripts

“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn

A delicious slapstick midrash on this week's parsha, Pekudei. www.arianakatz.com/sermons-writing/pekudei5785

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Key Bridge collapse and the deaths of Carlos Hernández, Miguel Luna, Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, Jose Mynor Lopez, Dorlian Castillo Cabrera, and Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes. We prayed this poem a year ago @hinenu.bsky.social in their honor.

Problematically redeeming the sotah ritual? A drasha from last week on femmes, pleasure, seduction, and shalom bayit (a peaceful home) feat an amazing commentary from Rashi. soundcloud.com/user-5449945...

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The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities. We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication. This is inhumane and illegal.

Honored that our book For Times Such as These was nominated in the religion category of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards!

Conference on the Jewish Left at BU this Friday! Beyond excited to know that my alma mater is hosting so many greats of our generation talking about our beloved Jewish left. It's zoomable, too. Folks going in person, stop by The Center for Gender Sexuality and Activism! 😍

Help my synagogue president is threatening me

All my messaging apps and email accounts are at inbox 0. Don't message me.

TONIGHT: Donnell Rochester was a beautiful, vibrant black gay teenager whose life was stolen by BPD officers Connor Murray and Robert Mauri on February 19 of 2022 We gather on his 3rd angelversary to uplift his name and confide fighting against our colonialist state for justice and accountability.

Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934, in Harlem, New York. In her own words, she was a "Black, Feminist, Lesbian, mother, warrior, woman, lover, poet doing my work".

Hold onto your masks, MD! Bills in the statehouse want to charge masked people with criminal intimidation. Despite sponsors' claims, a ban threatens Black, Jewish, & other marginalized people & gives police tools to profile maskers out of public life. Learn & act at linktr.ee/FightMDMaskB...

Jewish Pledge for Trans Dignity February 19th, 7 pm ET Register here: bit.ly/JPledge4Tran...

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

Audio + transcript of my d'var Torah Shabbat morning @hinenu.bsky.social on parshat Yitro: multifaith families, interfaith solidarity, and wrestling with inconsistencies in text that try to turn family into enemy.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

1000%. This is why Jewish America's most powerful institutions won't fight for American liberal democracy in its moment of peril. Because that would alienate the American authoritarians they cultivate to sustain support for authoritarianism in Israel-Palestine.

A fundraiser for the family of Sam Nordquist, may his memory be a blessing. We can at least give them some small comfort, in this terrible time. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

Someone called me a grifter because I am the co-author of a book. I promise you that a real swindler would do something more profitable than co-authoring a book about organizing. Folks barely read books about topics that are legitimately exciting to the majority of people on earth. Be serious.

Jewish people say no to ethnic cleansing. Sign on to show your support: www.saynotoethniccleansing.org #SayNoToEthnicCleansing #Gazaisnotforsale

I send out a weekly newsletter to @hinenu.bsky.social members called Menucha v'Simcha: The Rest and Joy Reader, full of links + a d'var Torah. My short reflection on overwhelm and this week's parsha, Yitro, is here: www.arianakatz.com/sermons-writ... Hamsa by the amazing @dombutler445.bsky.social

There are so many stories about egg shortages you'd think the Sages imprisoned the evil inclination for sexual transgressions.

Stunning, and full of the wisdom of so many teachers.

📣 DO YOU SUPPORT TRANS YOUTH? Join us tomorrow Thursday 2/13 at 12pm for a rally to support the first nationwide challenge to Trump’s gender affirming care executive orders. See you there and tell your friends! 💙💗🤍

If you’re on a conference call with me any time in the next four years know I will be most certainly cooking something off camera. #PanicCooking

Ghosts in house of worship--what are your experiences? How do you co-exist? Asking for a friend.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. When interacting with ICE, you have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, no matter your immigration status. ⬇️

Nurses see the strike as part of the fight for their patients, for a New Orleans that cares for everyone.

If I had to summarize my congregation in a screenshot...

I walked outside this morning and the shul president was driving down our street so we did a bit and started singing and then they pulled off and a member and community organizer drove up and we kept praying and I think this is living in community/safety feels like?!

Want to learn about the Nonbinary Hebrew Project? We are hosting a virtual workshop March 2nd at 3:30 pm - 5 pm EST. Come ask your questions! Here's a form to sign up, link to join will be on the page after you hit submit: airtable.com/app03wKe5XFY...

And your anger @arianakatz.bsky.social

In a deep dive on the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, @shaneburley.bsky.social shows how clashes between the liberal Zionist school and its heavily anti-Zionist student body encapsulate a broader fight over the Jewish future.

Today R' Jessica Rosenberg and I got to talk with Jacek Drozda of Emancypacje (Emancipation) podcast. I am deeply moved to be in conversation with a Polish radical comrade about dreams for a liberatory Jewish future, over 100 years since my family fled Poland--and the ep will be dubbed in Polish.

THATS MY SENATOR!!!!

My coworker is fundraising for her gender affirming surgery. If you are terrified about the future of trans rights in the US, take a tangible, impactful action, and donate and share. Also Meitav is such a neshomehleh and deserves all good things.

Contact CASA de Maryland with reports of encounters with 🧊

That’s where it starts, I think. That’s where the resistance really, truly has to start. Sanctuary. We need to understand sanctuary.