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A Zionist Jewish mother on joy, politics, and trying not losing it during carpool.
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I Gave an Inch. You Took a Fucking Mile. (opens the original)
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There are people I owe apologies to before Yom Kippur. There are relationships I need to examine some need to outright end. Things I said too sharply. Things I should have said sooner. Times I was wrong. Times I was right but cruel about it. Times my ego mattered more to me than repairing something. That is what teshuvah requires of me.But this year I realized there is somebody else I owe an apology to: me.I owe myself an apology for every fucking inch I gave to people who proceeded to take a mi
The Invisible Jew (opens the original)
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There is a difference between an individual Jew making a decision for their own safety and a Jewish community slowly accepting the premise that the safest Jew is the Jew nobody can identify. That premise has a history, and I refuse to accept it as our future.I started thinking about this after seeing a post from another Jew about receiving mail from JNF. The envelope was unmistakably Jewish, and their reaction was essentially: I would rather my mail carrier not know from my mail that Jews live h
2,447 Days (opens the original)
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2,447 DaysThat is how long it has been since KJ and her boys, William David and Nelson Sidney, were murdered.Six years, eight months, and twelve days.And now, Kristen and Evie.2,447 days separate these moments in my life, and somehow I am standing in this place again.I have now known two women who touched my life who were murdered by their partners.I hate that I can write that sentence.Two women. Two completely different chapters of my life. Nearly seven years apart. Both taken from this world i
America at 250: Hope, Memory, and Responsibility (opens the original)
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As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, I know many people will spend this Fourth of July focusing on the failures of this country. Those failures are real. They have shaped my family, my communities, and my understanding of what it means to be both Black and Jewish in America.But I have always found myself returning to the words of James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her.”That is what I find
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