Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
Rabbi/award-winning author.
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💥Collective liberation or bust.
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Life is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory.
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General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?
General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?
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Good read. My ex Christian nationalist Al Anon sponsor used to manage to hit many of these tropes in very casual ways.
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Good read. My ex Christian nationalist Al Anon sponsor used to manage to hit many of these tropes in very casual ways.
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Enjoy at your dinner today as your uncle or cousin drops those euphemisms.
I did always wonder about Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. He has a very hook-nosed appearance but his ethnic background is very upper crust.
I did always wonder about Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. He has a very hook-nosed appearance but his ethnic background is very upper crust.
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Enjoy at your dinner today as your uncle or cousin drops those euphemisms.
I did always wonder about Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. He has a very hook-nosed appearance but his ethnic background is very upper crust.
I did always wonder about Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. He has a very hook-nosed appearance but his ethnic background is very upper crust.
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Just what I needed this morning- thank you to @theradr.bsky.social
Bad Indians and Narrative Seeds
two book excerpts to transform how you encounter stories
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just what I needed this morning- thank you to @theradr.bsky.social
Today, honored to share writing from both @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social & @daanis.ca's brilliant new books
-- read as a cocktail & they'll change how you encounter every story--
& are particularly apt on the holiday built on mythmaking & narrative lies.
Learn from the best-- critical reading now:
-- read as a cocktail & they'll change how you encounter every story--
& are particularly apt on the holiday built on mythmaking & narrative lies.
Learn from the best-- critical reading now:
Bad Indians and Narrative Seeds
two book excerpts to transform how you encounter stories
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Today, honored to share writing from both @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social & @daanis.ca's brilliant new books
-- read as a cocktail & they'll change how you encounter every story--
& are particularly apt on the holiday built on mythmaking & narrative lies.
Learn from the best-- critical reading now:
-- read as a cocktail & they'll change how you encounter every story--
& are particularly apt on the holiday built on mythmaking & narrative lies.
Learn from the best-- critical reading now:
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Everyone should read this. Seriously. And it still goes on
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Everyone should read this. Seriously. And it still goes on
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I don't think people appreciate just how racist Underdog! was. Not only was one of the primary villains Simon Bar Sinister, but the hero's love interest was an albino-white femme named "Polly Purebred."
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I don't think people appreciate just how racist Underdog! was. Not only was one of the primary villains Simon Bar Sinister, but the hero's love interest was an albino-white femme named "Polly Purebred."
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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Michael W. Twitty's cookbook celebrates the South’s complicated heritage : NPR share.google/oxz299PgIBA7...
A celebration of the South's rich — and messy — heritage, delivered on a plate
In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine — and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Michael W. Twitty's cookbook celebrates the South’s complicated heritage : NPR share.google/oxz299PgIBA7...
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“Santa is secular”
Santa:
Santa:
Saint Nick was based on Nicholas, bishop of Bari, an early Christian saint who gave gifts to people in secret, usually as a way to have done a good deed. The name Santa clause is a bastardization of Sinterklaas, a Germanic form of Saint Nick. It’s very Christian.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Santa is secular”
Santa:
Santa:
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An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
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I have a copy. Its really good.
Don't ask me how my current New Thing is going but here's my most recent and you can go to lifeisasacredtext.com to get my ongoing stuff
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I have a copy. Its really good.
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There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
such important work. trigger warning for real. horrors.
Every year I share this work with my students. We read it aloud.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
such important work. trigger warning for real. horrors.
Don't ask me how my current New Thing is going but here's my most recent and you can go to lifeisasacredtext.com to get my ongoing stuff
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Don't ask me how my current New Thing is going but here's my most recent and you can go to lifeisasacredtext.com to get my ongoing stuff
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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People play that game of “what one thing would you do if you were dictator for a day” and mine is that I would create a memorial for the AIDS epidemic on the National Mall right alongside all the monuments and war memorials. Top billing.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People play that game of “what one thing would you do if you were dictator for a day” and mine is that I would create a memorial for the AIDS epidemic on the National Mall right alongside all the monuments and war memorials. Top billing.
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hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
Love Is All Around
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
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if anyone hears of any World AIDS Day gatherings happening to honor everyone we've lost and to protest Trump's decision not to observe it, please let me know
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
if anyone hears of any World AIDS Day gatherings happening to honor everyone we've lost and to protest Trump's decision not to observe it, please let me know
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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I'm proud to be marching this upcoming Black Friday alongside the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, @ctulocal1.bsky.social and dozens of other orgs and unions to unite the boycott campaigns against Amazon, AT&T and Target, and demand that big corporations pay their share of taxes.
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm proud to be marching this upcoming Black Friday alongside the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, @ctulocal1.bsky.social and dozens of other orgs and unions to unite the boycott campaigns against Amazon, AT&T and Target, and demand that big corporations pay their share of taxes.
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Yup
I've heard the Catholic Church has a nun and priest shortage. Do they have any idea how fast they'd have to be Ivy League selective for those if they accepted trans people as the gender we are? Also, every Mass would be packed with currently lapsed Catholic trans people coming back.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yup
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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always fun to look up academic writing I did 20 years ago and to see how many sexual abusers I unknowingly cited 💕
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
always fun to look up academic writing I did 20 years ago and to see how many sexual abusers I unknowingly cited 💕