057 | What Christmas Means to Me, A New Jew After Conversion
My First Christmas as a Jew was in lockdown in the pandemic epicenter: Loving Christmas doesn’t just go away when you convert
040: Freedom in the time of Shavuot
Listening to people steeped in privilege complain of their oppression and compare it to slavery is particularly hard if you’re a person of color. It’s difficult to process, too, as a queer person, or a Jewish or Muslim person. Freedom ends when you harm others. “Freedom” means something radically different to groups accustomed to dominating and oppressing others. via GIPHY […]
026: Oi to the World: First Hanukkah, Awkward Family Christmas, and I *Heart* Maccabees
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So they say, and it was a Jew who wrote that
019: Bat Mitzvah, Ikarious, and the Trees of Life and Wisdom
I visited a new synagogue: Ikar, the mid-city progressive-yet-conservative-denomination that I’ve heard a lot about
