Rabbi Emily Cohen
@thatrabbicohen.bsky.social
Happy Brooklynite. Lefty in all the ways. Rabbi of West End Synagogue but views here are only my own (She/Her/Hers) www.rabbiemilycohen.com
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Rabbi Emily Cohen
www.rabbiemilycohen.com
And for those who don't know me and ended up following by...chance? Algorithm? Recommendation? Idk how this works exactly... a tiny intro to me:
-rabbi
-brooklynite
-writer
-musician
-queer
-progressive
-(married) cat lady
website is www.rabbiemilycohen.com
my shul is West End Synagogue!
-rabbi
-brooklynite
-writer
-musician
-queer
-progressive
-(married) cat lady
website is www.rabbiemilycohen.com
my shul is West End Synagogue!
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
• The claim "aliens have not taken over the White House" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that aliens have taken over the White House
Because apparently the way we do science now is by saying something is probably true unless definitively disproven
Because apparently the way we do science now is by saying something is probably true unless definitively disproven
Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
• The claim "aliens have not taken over the White House" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that aliens have taken over the White House
Because apparently the way we do science now is by saying something is probably true unless definitively disproven
Because apparently the way we do science now is by saying something is probably true unless definitively disproven
Mazal tov to the newest Jew!! Lemme tell yall we are so lucky to have her 😍
(And on a personal note, it was so meaningful to serve on the beit din of someone I go back 20+ years with, at the shul that raised me in Richmond. My @catherinesjwall how we’ve both grown!)
(And on a personal note, it was so meaningful to serve on the beit din of someone I go back 20+ years with, at the shul that raised me in Richmond. My @catherinesjwall how we’ve both grown!)
Today is my 40th birthday.
It is also my first day of being officially Jewish. I had an amazing Beit Din, including Rabbi Ahuva Zaches, Rabbi Ariel Tovlev, and @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social. It is so cool to have had numerous queer Rabbis, and a trans Rabbi, on my Beit Din.
It is also my first day of being officially Jewish. I had an amazing Beit Din, including Rabbi Ahuva Zaches, Rabbi Ariel Tovlev, and @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social. It is so cool to have had numerous queer Rabbis, and a trans Rabbi, on my Beit Din.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Mazal tov to the newest Jew!! Lemme tell yall we are so lucky to have her 😍
(And on a personal note, it was so meaningful to serve on the beit din of someone I go back 20+ years with, at the shul that raised me in Richmond. My @catherinesjwall how we’ve both grown!)
(And on a personal note, it was so meaningful to serve on the beit din of someone I go back 20+ years with, at the shul that raised me in Richmond. My @catherinesjwall how we’ve both grown!)
Hey travel bluesky— if you had 3 days in Athens with an almost 1-year-old what would you do? (Baby’s 1st international flight coming up. Oh dear oh dear)
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hey travel bluesky— if you had 3 days in Athens with an almost 1-year-old what would you do? (Baby’s 1st international flight coming up. Oh dear oh dear)
The thing is, I don't really care about the Epstein Files. I'm pretty certain they are damning. I'm also pretty certain that the people who would care that they are damning are the people who already think Trump has no business being president. So I'd rather focus on disrupting his agenda.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The thing is, I don't really care about the Epstein Files. I'm pretty certain they are damning. I'm also pretty certain that the people who would care that they are damning are the people who already think Trump has no business being president. So I'd rather focus on disrupting his agenda.
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Tomorrow, November 12 at 6:30 pm at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, I'll be hosting a conversation with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, the Palestinian and Jewish co-directors of Standing Together.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tomorrow, November 12 at 6:30 pm at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, I'll be hosting a conversation with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, the Palestinian and Jewish co-directors of Standing Together.
RSVP at the link and join us: share.hsforms.com/1iUYqnT5lTwm...
RSVP at the link and join us: share.hsforms.com/1iUYqnT5lTwm...
So my baby flailed at my computer when I was trying to wrangle baby and cat at the same time and I have no idea what happened but now my work email is blocked on chrome and I don't know how to unblock it. Help??? Is there #techsupportsky?
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So my baby flailed at my computer when I was trying to wrangle baby and cat at the same time and I have no idea what happened but now my work email is blocked on chrome and I don't know how to unblock it. Help??? Is there #techsupportsky?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
Today began with a baby much more interested in my necklace than nursing, continued with a funeral for a beloved 93 year old congregant and an uber home with a driver telling me all about his career with Mr. Softee, and will end with Intergenerational Shabbat and I hope sleep. Shabbat Shalom y'all
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today began with a baby much more interested in my necklace than nursing, continued with a funeral for a beloved 93 year old congregant and an uber home with a driver telling me all about his career with Mr. Softee, and will end with Intergenerational Shabbat and I hope sleep. Shabbat Shalom y'all
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Quite a headline.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Quite a headline.
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Did Donald Trump raid the 6 billion dollar contingency fund for SNAP? Because suing for the right to starve people is beyond the pale
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Did Donald Trump raid the 6 billion dollar contingency fund for SNAP? Because suing for the right to starve people is beyond the pale
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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This is awful
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A319
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreievxyvqikl7wmrg5jkqhsrta5l5xfq272x7caunvxka7vtuzp7hoa@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is awful
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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My big advice for how to survive right now is to watch/read/listen to what makes you laugh
You have to give yourself a chance to laugh
You have to give yourself a chance to laugh
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My big advice for how to survive right now is to watch/read/listen to what makes you laugh
You have to give yourself a chance to laugh
You have to give yourself a chance to laugh
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To be clear, it is genuinely bad, at a time when neo-Nazism is making a comeback in American political discourse, that we do not have a watchdog organization on antisemitism that can be taken seriously. But the ADL has not behaved in a way over the past year that is worthy of that role.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To be clear, it is genuinely bad, at a time when neo-Nazism is making a comeback in American political discourse, that we do not have a watchdog organization on antisemitism that can be taken seriously. But the ADL has not behaved in a way over the past year that is worthy of that role.
Just had this realization that for the first time I'm actually, like, excited(?!) to be invited to receptions at Gracie Mansion and to the annual Mayor's Interfaith Breakfast because I don't feel like they'll be pandering and as an NYC rabbi that is a delightful development!
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just had this realization that for the first time I'm actually, like, excited(?!) to be invited to receptions at Gracie Mansion and to the annual Mayor's Interfaith Breakfast because I don't feel like they'll be pandering and as an NYC rabbi that is a delightful development!
I know that a lot of New Yorkers are scared and disappointed. I understand.
And I’m crying with joy as I nurse my baby born a month after Trump’s election. I’m so grateful that he’s going to spend his early years in a city with a mayor who genuinely cares about the people he serves
And I’m crying with joy as I nurse my baby born a month after Trump’s election. I’m so grateful that he’s going to spend his early years in a city with a mayor who genuinely cares about the people he serves
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I know that a lot of New Yorkers are scared and disappointed. I understand.
And I’m crying with joy as I nurse my baby born a month after Trump’s election. I’m so grateful that he’s going to spend his early years in a city with a mayor who genuinely cares about the people he serves
And I’m crying with joy as I nurse my baby born a month after Trump’s election. I’m so grateful that he’s going to spend his early years in a city with a mayor who genuinely cares about the people he serves
This morning I voted for a city where I hope to be able to afford to raise my child, where I pray my child will be safe, and where politicians are for and of the people— not above the people.
I voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I hope you will too
I voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I hope you will too
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This morning I voted for a city where I hope to be able to afford to raise my child, where I pray my child will be safe, and where politicians are for and of the people— not above the people.
I voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I hope you will too
I voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I hope you will too
Hey so like when Trump, Miller and Musk are all saying they support the same candidate for NYC mayor— and not the one representing their party— maybe I…don’t wanna vote for him? Maybe?
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Hey so like when Trump, Miller and Musk are all saying they support the same candidate for NYC mayor— and not the one representing their party— maybe I…don’t wanna vote for him? Maybe?
While this is not a thing I would buy I will say that I did accidentally put pumpkin spice in my baby’s scrambled egg this morning when I meant to add cumin and he was DELIGHTED.
(I guess that’s just French toast hold the toast?)
(I guess that’s just French toast hold the toast?)
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
While this is not a thing I would buy I will say that I did accidentally put pumpkin spice in my baby’s scrambled egg this morning when I meant to add cumin and he was DELIGHTED.
(I guess that’s just French toast hold the toast?)
(I guess that’s just French toast hold the toast?)