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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 44m

Great piece about Malala Yousafzai.
This is a long read, but an interview that is clearly based on a ongoing conversation and full of details that echo the biggest issues in our news, ... But it's also about a young woman.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...

www.theguardian.com

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 2d

This morning there is Hope.

Hope is a tattered scrap of clothing, memory of the smile of a loved one, an acceptance that things have been lost but to keep moving.

It's not Peace yet.
But ... Maybe...

Bring them home
End the genocide
Stop the settlers
Build a Peace that can last.

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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 4d

Sukkot begins tonight 🌿✨ A festival of harvest and memory, marking the Israelites’ desert wanderings and the season’s abundance.

📷 The Benguiat family, late nineteenth century Smyrna (now Izmir), Ottoman Empire, late 19th century. The Jewish Museum.

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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 6d

Every Shabbat and Jewish festival, we pray for a just and equal world without oppression or suffering. Our Jewish communal grief should not mean a choice between supporting us *or* Palestinians because we should not be conflated with the actions of a nation state.

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 6d

But it's also disturbing how much more afraid people are...

Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 6d

"Significant proportions of young British Jews are struggling with their relationship with Israel and Zionism, or indeed feeling wholly alienated by them, in the midst of the current harsh and unforgiving war.” (p.21)

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 6d

New @jprdata.bsky.social study:
1 in 4 British Jews aged 20-29 now identify as anti-Zionist, 1 in 5 as non-Zionist.
Half say Israel’s actions clash w/ their Jewish values.
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
#jewsky

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

The breadth of Jewish disapproval of Netanyahu is significantly under-reported in UK media. Views are never monolithic but the median British Jew feels an attachment to Israel and feels Netanyahu has been a disaster for Israel (Institute for Jewish Policy Research)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/what...

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 6d

Just in case it wasn't clear that ethno-nationalisism isn't a synonym for racism, and how twisted the thinking is of the Israeli government, they've welcomed a man who hates Muslims more than he hates Jews, so that makes him heroic.
Sickened.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Israel accused of ‘sowing division’ in UK with Tommy Robinson invite

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi criticised the ‘deeply dangerous behaviour’ by Israel

www.independent.co.uk

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 7d

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 6d

'For me, religion is an attitude to reality’ @michaellomotey.bsky.social speaks with calm strength: Black, Ghanaian, British, Jewish. Hope lives in how he builds a steady centre at home, even when the sukkah walls shake in the wind.
Links in bio #jewsky
youtube.com/shorts/VIiFP...

S2 E8 Clip 1 FINAL Attitude to Reality

YouTube video by WhoJew ThinkYouAre

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 7d

It's been bleak.
TBH, harder than I expected though I knew it was likely.
Thanks for asking.
Seeking hope in the darkness.
Hope not Hate

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 7d

#ShabbatShalom

A hope for peace and rest every week - and this one more than most.

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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 8d

After a painful week for British Jews, it feels hard to share new work.
But as #Shabbat approaches so soon after the tears of Yom Kippor, @michaellomotey.bsky.social reminds us:
‘Shabbat is ... the greatest environmental move you could do.’
youtube.com/shorts/msU_I...

Links in Bio
#jewsky

S2 E8 Clip 2 Shabbat as an environmental move

“Shabbat is not just tradition — it’s rest, wellbeing, and the greatest environmental move you could make. Michael Lomotey shares how weekly ritual grounds his Jewish life. Watch the full…

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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 8d

Seeing as just under 6% of respondents to the 2021 census said they were Muslim, while 0.4% were Jewish, this tells me that while hate crimes against Muslims are still more common, you are more likely to have a hate crime committed against you if you are Jewish

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

See link for the original post on the Guardian's live feed

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 8d

No, but we are asked to answer questions that are unreasonable and unasked for.

You are right to distrust Netanyahu and the voices of most of the Jewish community organisations - but, there is a complex and nuanced set of truths to the fears expressed.

TBH - it's exhausting and depressing

Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 8d

My heart breaking for all those caught up in the attack in Manchester.

Horrific anytime, but on Yom Kippor it feels even harder - as everyone in the community (religious or not) is reflecting on how to be more open hearted and better in the new year. All this while fasting.

#HopenotHate

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 9d

Also

For the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by running to

do evil,

And for the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by tale-

bearing;

For the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by a vain oath,

And for the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by causeless

hatred;

For the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by a breach of

trust,

And for the sin wherein we have sinned before thee by terror of the heart.

And for all these, O God of forgiveness, forgive us,

pardon us, grant us atonement

Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 9d

Hope all those in the Netanyahu government are atoning, hard!
But, actually... It's for all leaders in the region to reflect on

Text from the Kol Nidre service
EVENING SERVICE

We have trespassed, we have dealt treacherously, we have robbed, we have spoken slander, we have acted perversely and we have wrought wickedness, we have acted presumptu-ously, we have done violence, we have framed lies, we have counselled evil, we have spoken falsely, we have scoffed, we have revolted, we have provoked, we have rebelled, we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, we have oppressed, we have been stiff-necked, we have acted wickedly, we have corrupted, we have committed abomination, we have gone astray, we have led others astray.

We have turned away from thy commandments, and thy judgments that are good, and it hath not profited us. But thou art righteous in all that hath come upon us; for thou hast acted truthfully, but as for us, we have done wickedly

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 9d

Wishing well over the fast to all observing as Kol Nidre approaches.

a greeting card with a torah scroll and the words may you be inscribed and sealed for a wonderful year ahead

Alt: a greeting card with a torah scroll and the words may you be inscribed and sealed for a wonderful year ahead

media.tenor.com

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 13d

A man lost in time
Near KaDeWe
Just walking the dead.

Where are we now?

#ifyouknowyouknow

Bald man look up from street at building sign Ka De We

Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 14d

Great story, an important moment given their demographics, and more proof that Dolly Parton is genuinely one of the greatest people the USA has ever created.

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Theo Kuechel @theokl.bsky.social · 14d

Wonderful to see these country music heroes reject Trump's culture wars.

“Country music just slammed the brakes on the Super Bowl — Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, George Strait, Vince Gill, and Reba McEntire didn’t just REJECTED TO PERFORM THIS YEAR'S SUPPER BOWL, they expose...

When the National Football League (NFL) announced its lineup for the Super Bowl halftime show this year, fans expected the usual spectacle—pyrotechnics,

ha.colofandom.com

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 14d

Aaw. Thank you

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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 14d

Had to get the train
From Postsdamer Platz
You never knew that
That I could do that
Just walking the dead
...

Where are we now, where are we now?
The moment you know, you know, you know
#bowieforever

Man in tan long coat stands in front of metro sign for Postsdamer Platz