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Feminist rabbi. I like democracy and inclusive education. #ParshaChat
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submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

trump’s regime draws a lot of public authority from the american flag. but it’s our flag, not theirs, and it’s time for us to reclaim it

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

This is such a good book! (Even if, like me, you’re only sort of vaguely familiar with Wicked.)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m alarmed by “protest safety” memes that give people no useful safety advice but instead make them terrified to do low-risk things.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Apparently someone threw a brick through the window of the kosher grocery store here last night.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

i feel like the people who think the massive protests aren't "real dissent" are missing a point-- the audience who really needs to see the massive numbers in the streets to me isn't so much Trump and his minions, but the members of congress who have to start campaigning in earnest in a few months

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Been dreading an incoming conference because there will likely be antisemitism, but I think I’m done hiding.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 1 day ago • 591 comments

We’ve reached the end of the scheduled #ParshaChat, but please feel free to continue the conversation.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A2: It seems to me that there might be an element of safety here, too. It's safer to presume that there may be a reason to offer a sin offering than to require the Levites to disclose the need for one. It makes me wonder if they had a collective confession the way we do on Yom Kippur #ParshaChat

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Q2: What’s going on here? Why would the Levites offer a collective sin offering? Do you see any modern, historical, or literary parallels? #ParshaChat

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A1: Some of this has parallels with modern cleansing in the sense of hygiene and structured procedures for washing before and after certain kinds of tasks. I think there's a lot of ambiguity in the Torah about when ritual purity involves literal cleanliness and when it doesn't. #ParshaChat

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