056 | Post-Mikvah Slumps, Lame Duck Dumps, and Pandemic Punishment: We enter the darkest months of the year
Things are beyond difficult for millions. A week from tonight, we begin to light the lights to guide us into a better chapter
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
I’m loving this piece by Rebecca Solnit at Literary Hub. Let’s look at violence and the political divide in America right now.
050 | Rewind: Pesach, Patience, and Seinfeld-Era Memories of Matzah and Maror
Passover is one of the highlights of the Jewish calendar and nearing the home stretch of my Jewish journey to conversion, I was truly looking forward to experiencing it for the first time as an adult. The banter, the torah, the weird foods—the gathering is the biggest thing American Jews do during the year. So naturally Trump ruined it by […]
049 | My Poor Jerusalem: Tisha B’av, Portland, and Grief
This week as I marked my first Tisha B’av as part of the community, booms filled the sky. Smoke filled the air in Portland and beyond, and I thought of all the atrocities that befell Israel over time and how we’re now seeing it again in America.
047 | George Soros Did Not Pay for This Post: QAnon and Deep State-Delusion are Deeply Anti-Semitic, Y’all
The far-right takeover of the mainstream GOP, a call for mass violence, and anti-semitism
