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For the gazillionth time: any argument consisting of “the other side isn’t real” has zero chance of resulting in peace and only exists justify bad treatment and fuel extremist positions.
Yes, this applies to everyone.
Yes, this applies to everyone.
I always thought this was just obvious, but have learned that it is actually my most Jewish POV.
Agreed, I can’t see into anyone’s heart but I can see their actions and that’s how I judge them.
October 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I always thought this was just obvious, but have learned that it is actually my most Jewish POV.
Everyone is talking about how it’s been 32 years since the Blue Jays won on the World Series. As someone who was at the final game in ‘93, it’s like everyone’s telling me I’m old.
October 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Everyone is talking about how it’s been 32 years since the Blue Jays won on the World Series. As someone who was at the final game in ‘93, it’s like everyone’s telling me I’m old.
Reminds me of how Friday night dinners at my house and Sat. lunches at our neighbour work. Weekly rituals create space for us to be together with time pressure, standard easy yet yummy dishes reduce the effort.
Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread. n.pr/4ohCwFc
How chef Samin Nosrat keeps up a casual weekly dinner with friends
Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reminds me of how Friday night dinners at my house and Sat. lunches at our neighbour work. Weekly rituals create space for us to be together with time pressure, standard easy yet yummy dishes reduce the effort.
FINALLY - although I won’t feel relieved until Sunday. It’s been far too long.
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
FINALLY - although I won’t feel relieved until Sunday. It’s been far too long.
I’ve learned not to get my hopes up in the past 2 years, but maybeeee Qatar supporting the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza will do the trick?Yes, horrible people making agreements, but if it stops the war and allows rebuilding…..
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Qatari PM hopes ‘momentum’ now to end Israel’s Gaza war; Hamas deliberates
‘The main focus is how to protect the people in Gaza,’ stressed the Qatari PM in an interview with Al Jazeera.
www.aljazeera.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’ve learned not to get my hopes up in the past 2 years, but maybeeee Qatar supporting the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza will do the trick?Yes, horrible people making agreements, but if it stops the war and allows rebuilding…..
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
There certainly was discrimination against Mizrahim and the experience of living in tents in giant transit camps. As a talking point though ignores actual Mizrahi Jews today, who slightly outnumber Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and who are far less likely to have diaspora citizenship.
It is true that for most of Jewish history, Jewish peoplehood was not taken to imply a Jewish majoritarian nation-state in Palestine. The connection between peoplehood and statehood is worth interrogating. And there is plenty to say about the relationship of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in early Zionism.
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There certainly was discrimination against Mizrahim and the experience of living in tents in giant transit camps. As a talking point though ignores actual Mizrahi Jews today, who slightly outnumber Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and who are far less likely to have diaspora citizenship.
This article feels so heartfelt and necessary today. Her talk of shame and blame, of ascribing powers to less and Mozart, echoes what I have experienced with my pregnancy loss. Also thinking about how we treat moms of kids with autism.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
The Blogs: Spoiler: It isn’t Tylenol and we did nothing wrong
Is your neurotypical child hitting all of the milestones? Here's what I need from you. (And no, it is emphatically not pity.)
blogs.timesofisrael.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This article feels so heartfelt and necessary today. Her talk of shame and blame, of ascribing powers to less and Mozart, echoes what I have experienced with my pregnancy loss. Also thinking about how we treat moms of kids with autism.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
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1. It would be bad if I were killed
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
1. It would be bad if I were killed
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
I read The Blessings of a Skinned Knee when my kids were young, and boy do I think its lessons are even more relevant today. Feel like I’m surrounded by parents in full anxiety meltdowns, micromanaging their kids and unable to cope with their child having any moment of discomfort. 1/
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I read The Blessings of a Skinned Knee when my kids were young, and boy do I think its lessons are even more relevant today. Feel like I’m surrounded by parents in full anxiety meltdowns, micromanaging their kids and unable to cope with their child having any moment of discomfort. 1/
Racism comes most strongly not from those who know they are great, but from those terrified of being treated as though they are not.
The difficulty of arguing with white nationalists about the facts of history is that the "white pride" project is rooted in deep personal insecurities, and fake history is the baby blanket that sooths them. It props up egos and gives them a sense of worth. They have trouble regulating without it.
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Racism comes most strongly not from those who know they are great, but from those terrified of being treated as though they are not.
When I saw some of the bile spewed at Canadian Jews in The Maple, I worried that it was going to get someone killed.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
September 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
When I saw some of the bile spewed at Canadian Jews in The Maple, I worried that it was going to get someone killed.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
Ditto for voice memos, which I will never listen to.
I -hate- having to sit through a video for something I could just read. Ugh. There are tik-tokers out there whose whole thing is just reading articles into a camera, and it makes me sad. How pathetic that is. EVERYONE needs to read more!
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ditto for voice memos, which I will never listen to.
Just found out this happened to a friend’s sister in Ottawa. Earlier today, my mom’s friend mentioned attacks on Jews in Montreal. Hard to convey just how angry the community is about all the hate. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Police charge 71-year-old man in hate-motivated stabbing of Jewish woman in Ottawa
Victim was treated in hospital and later released after being attacked at a grocery store that has been a target of protests
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Just found out this happened to a friend’s sister in Ottawa. Earlier today, my mom’s friend mentioned attacks on Jews in Montreal. Hard to convey just how angry the community is about all the hate. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Essential listening on the reasons to fight against “fetal protection” laws.
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
Punished For Their Pregnancies | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
YouTube video by Slate
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Essential listening on the reasons to fight against “fetal protection” laws.
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
I was considering starting a Substack but folks keep saying it supports Nazis. What is a good platform to allow me to post articles and put links to them here, that won’t cost me anything? My idea is that some things are better as articles than multi-part threads. I don’t have a newsletter.
August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was considering starting a Substack but folks keep saying it supports Nazis. What is a good platform to allow me to post articles and put links to them here, that won’t cost me anything? My idea is that some things are better as articles than multi-part threads. I don’t have a newsletter.
Anyone interested in the late Toronto left-wing artist Bill Stapleton? He and my grandfather served together in WWII and became lifelong friends, and my dad was just clearing out a storage locker and gave me a bunch of paintings, sketches and correspondence by him. Not sure what to do with it.
August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Anyone interested in the late Toronto left-wing artist Bill Stapleton? He and my grandfather served together in WWII and became lifelong friends, and my dad was just clearing out a storage locker and gave me a bunch of paintings, sketches and correspondence by him. Not sure what to do with it.
Started listening to Season 2 of The Retrievals podcast from Serial, and it is reminding me of how my last c-section traumatized me enough to say no more babies. The spinal anesthesia paralyzed my diaphragm so I was gasping for breath. The nurse checking my incision screamed I was still bleeding.
August 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Started listening to Season 2 of The Retrievals podcast from Serial, and it is reminding me of how my last c-section traumatized me enough to say no more babies. The spinal anesthesia paralyzed my diaphragm so I was gasping for breath. The nurse checking my incision screamed I was still bleeding.
Slightly diminish a band: Duran
Slightly diminish a band: They're Probably Not Giants
Slightly diminish a band: Die Müde Hosen
August 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Duran
Ventriloquism Fallacy: Saying “on behalf of group A, you should/shouldn’t do X” when you aren’t part of group A, and most of group A actually supports the opposite and would tell you to STFU.
August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ventriloquism Fallacy: Saying “on behalf of group A, you should/shouldn’t do X” when you aren’t part of group A, and most of group A actually supports the opposite and would tell you to STFU.
The 82-year-old Jewish woman was peacefully marching in Colorado for Run For Their Lives, which was formed in collaboration with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum; which has been advocating a deal to end the conflict and bring everyone home and challenging Netanyahu’s plans to escalate.
The Jew who was killed in CO, what were they doing at the time again? Oh, right. They were marching for the Zionist group Run For Their Lives through the streets waving the apartheid flag.
I would also note that this group of apartheid supporters is known for harassing people as they march.
I would also note that this group of apartheid supporters is known for harassing people as they march.
August 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The 82-year-old Jewish woman was peacefully marching in Colorado for Run For Their Lives, which was formed in collaboration with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum; which has been advocating a deal to end the conflict and bring everyone home and challenging Netanyahu’s plans to escalate.
Just got an email saying “nobody ignores me….for long”. Would have reported it as a threat but it was just Duolingo. Hey, I know I should be practicing my Italian, but maybe don’t be creepy about it?
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Just got an email saying “nobody ignores me….for long”. Would have reported it as a threat but it was just Duolingo. Hey, I know I should be practicing my Italian, but maybe don’t be creepy about it?
There's really isn't a way to think that the plaintiff isn't engaging in coercive control here. He claims that his partner was "happy" to be pregnant-so happy that she already aborted 2 "happy" pregnancies and he's afraid she'll abort this "happy" one. Maybe she wasn't so happy? 1/
It’s a wrongful death claim because the aggrieved boyfriend alleges his girlfriend already had two abortions with pills since they got together, with pills sent to the woman’s estranged husband.
A lot going on here. I break it down for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
www.jezebel.com/texas-man-su...
A lot going on here. I break it down for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
www.jezebel.com/texas-man-su...
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
There's really isn't a way to think that the plaintiff isn't engaging in coercive control here. He claims that his partner was "happy" to be pregnant-so happy that she already aborted 2 "happy" pregnancies and he's afraid she'll abort this "happy" one. Maybe she wasn't so happy? 1/
It occurs to me that this could describe my mother. Who didn’t really have a God belief, but co-founded a synagogue, told my nanny where the local churches were, told the school to recognize Ramadan and Eid, etc.
my perspective on the roy cooper prayer thing as an atheist who was raised atheist is that as a faith community (lmao) we have the exact same problem with adult converts as the catholics do
begging converts to irreligiosity to please be normal
begging converts to irreligiosity to please be normal
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It occurs to me that this could describe my mother. Who didn’t really have a God belief, but co-founded a synagogue, told my nanny where the local churches were, told the school to recognize Ramadan and Eid, etc.
Hello, I’m a lawyer in a film. I will spend most of my time in dramatic scenes in court, raising my voice and gesturing dramatically, and present surprise evidence to witnesses since apparently disclosure isn’t a thing. Emails, prep time, drafting, and pre-trial conferences don’t exist.
Hello, I am a therapist in a film. I speak in incomprehensible psychobabble that I never explain and think the explanation for everything is weird sex stuff, secretly hating your parents, or both. The moment you say something revealing and important, I will blankly mutter that your time is up.
Hello, I am a federal government bureaucrat in a film. I stick to the letter of the rules, even when it makes no sense. Mostly because I hate the public.
July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hello, I’m a lawyer in a film. I will spend most of my time in dramatic scenes in court, raising my voice and gesturing dramatically, and present surprise evidence to witnesses since apparently disclosure isn’t a thing. Emails, prep time, drafting, and pre-trial conferences don’t exist.
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What may have begun inadvertently now continues with full awareness. Palestinians face starvation or possibly being shot down for no intelligible reason. For that there is no excuse—and quite possibly criminal culpability.
My latest for The Atlantic,
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
My latest for The Atlantic,
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Food Aid in Gaza Has Become a Horror
In the scramble for sustenance, Palestinians are gunned down for no reason, with no excuse.
www.theatlantic.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What may have begun inadvertently now continues with full awareness. Palestinians face starvation or possibly being shot down for no intelligible reason. For that there is no excuse—and quite possibly criminal culpability.
My latest for The Atlantic,
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
My latest for The Atlantic,
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...