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Made my calls. Have you made yours?

submitted 22 minutes ago • 0 comments

This is a fun quiz, but I admit to guessing on whether a Sefer Torah is larger than a Sukkah because SOMEONE didn't specify volume or surface area, fully open or closed

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Organized religion of all kinds (and I mean ALL kinds) come down to 1) begging the congregation for donations at Kol Nidrei and 2) arguing about whether or not to stand or sit during Kaddish. Priest, rabbi, cantor, gabbai, that guy who was president of the congregation 8 years ago -- you name it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Organized religion of all kinds (and I mean ALL kinds) come down to 1) newsletter nudges to sponsor a kiddush, and 2) love of study. Thief, beauty, laser-eyes, that guy we won't let in who listens from the roof -- you name it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

You knock on your neighbor's door with a batch of cookies to welcome them to the neighborhood. They ask you in for a drink and invite you to sit down. Your next move?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Been thinking about the reaction to Nancy French's "I like to talk with strangers on airplanes" skeet and do y'all have trauma or Because for goodness sake, no one's removing your earbuds, it was an anodyne skeet my normie mom might write. Some people like connecting, it doesn't make them monsters

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

I am glad I am getting severence pay and months of paid leave, for my own finances. But it is a collassal waste of money for taxpayers. And this estimate doesn't seem to include the eventual costs of the lawsuits over broken contracts, or restarting programs that are mandated by law.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

How do I know they met? Because they added me to their GROUP CHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE PEOPLE? PLEASE STOP THIS RIDE I WOULD LIKE TO GET OFF

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

You know that slightly unsettled feeling you get, which typically quickly dissipates, when people you know from different settings turn out to also know each other? Welp, two people who really bug me, for two very different reasons, who live across the country from each other, just met and I

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

submitted 7 days ago • 528 comments

I realized last year when I looked at my great-grandmother's ship manifest that she was one of 10 children. She had two brothers who came with her but it never occurred to me that there were others who stayed in Ukraine. Our family never talked about the others. And then they stopped existing.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This Yom HaShoah will be the first one without my grandmother, the last living survivor in my family in the US. She was a constant presence for me: her strength, her secrets, her confessions. Every moment of my childhood felt like it was designed as a fulfillment of the goals she lost as a girl

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Yom HaShoah starts at sunset so once again I just want to say that while Shoah was definitely a *collective* harm felt by all Jews and especially European Jews it was also a *specific* harm felt by survivors and their descendants and too many people forget the latter bit

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Pro-tip from someone who surveys Jews for a living: if you start a survey with "Hey, are you a dirty, dirty Jew?", you're not only a bigot, you're also incompetent.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all remember the letter-writing campaigns in the 1980s and '90s we participated in advocating for los desaparecidos?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

JFC

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Despite the efforts of our country's leaders to destroy institutional systems of support, we can and do strengthen communities. My nurse gave me a gift bag for each of my kids today; she said she wants them to know that folks at the clinic (specializing in a particular disability) care about them

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Literal Nazi Shit newrepublic.com/post/194245/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

What a slap in the face to every career employee who has maintained proper security protocols day in and day out, and gotten fired as thanks for their service

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A tale of a high pain tolerance: We double Tooth Fairy payments if a kiddo loses a tooth on Shabbat or a Yom Tov. At first it was a silly little reminder that we don't handle money on holidays but we understand the wait affects kids, and now it's a game: kids try to save their teeth for holidays. 1

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

To be fair, how could anyone anticipate that a man who made his living gossiping on TV's most fascist morning show would feel like one unauthorized Signal chat group wasn't enough?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments