Community Planner, AICP. Shammes for the @opensiddur Project. Concerned w/ shared systems/spaces/structures for recreation/re-creation and kind practices that encourage the maturation of emotional intelligence through curiosity, compassion, and creativity
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3,300kilometers home.The story of an 18-yr-old who escaped the Russian army to return to Ukraine
Artem spent most of his life in Crimea under Russian occupation.After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion,he came to a final realization:there is no truth in the Russian system -no future either
Artem spent most of his life in Crimea under Russian occupation.After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion,he came to a final realization:there is no truth in the Russian system -no future either
December 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
3,300kilometers home.The story of an 18-yr-old who escaped the Russian army to return to Ukraine
Artem spent most of his life in Crimea under Russian occupation.After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion,he came to a final realization:there is no truth in the Russian system -no future either
Artem spent most of his life in Crimea under Russian occupation.After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion,he came to a final realization:there is no truth in the Russian system -no future either
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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not a moment’s peace
Video shows disturbing antisemitic attack on NYC subways: ‘F–k the Jews’
Viral video shows a group of young Jewish men being attacked and threatened while riding the subway in Brooklyn on Monday night — and police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
nypost.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
not a moment’s peace
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The person who helped locate the Brown shooter is an immigrant. The person in Sydney who tackled one of the shooters is Muslim. Sometimes the people who are most willing to help others are from communities that know first-hand how much hatred threatens the values we need to live together.
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The person who helped locate the Brown shooter is an immigrant. The person in Sydney who tackled one of the shooters is Muslim. Sometimes the people who are most willing to help others are from communities that know first-hand how much hatred threatens the values we need to live together.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I'll be heading to the annual AJS Conference in Washington DC this year. Looking forward to making in-person connections with contributors, volunteers, and others interested the work of the Open Siddur Project (@opensiddur.bsky.social). Let me know if I'll see you there!
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I'll be heading to the annual AJS Conference in Washington DC this year. Looking forward to making in-person connections with contributors, volunteers, and others interested the work of the Open Siddur Project (@opensiddur.bsky.social). Let me know if I'll see you there!
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"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgment for Cincinnati, Ohio, by Aharon Varady (Havayah community, 2021) opensiddur.org?p=37439
הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgment for Cincinnati, Ohio, by Aharon Varady (Havayah community, 2021) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
An indigenous land acknowledgement for Jewish communities located in the historic lands of the Shawnee and Miami people. . . .
opensiddur.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgment for Cincinnati, Ohio, by Aharon Varady (Havayah community, 2021) opensiddur.org?p=37439
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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A powerful call to confront settler violence by @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social of @truahrabbis.bsky.social
religionnews.com/2025/11/12/m...
religionnews.com/2025/11/12/m...
My group of rabbis was helping Palestinian farmers. Israelis pointed guns at us.
(RNS) — If our group had not consisted of American and Israeli rabbis and activists, it is likely that day could have ended with serious injuries or fatalities.
religionnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A powerful call to confront settler violence by @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social of @truahrabbis.bsky.social
religionnews.com/2025/11/12/m...
religionnews.com/2025/11/12/m...
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Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines.
"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."
The movie takes place in 2027.
"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."
The movie takes place in 2027.
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines.
"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."
The movie takes place in 2027.
"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."
The movie takes place in 2027.
The task I set before myself, now complete, was to transcribe all the piyyutim known to have been translated by Elsie Schryver (née Davis, 1876-1933). This is part of a larger project illuminating the work of pioneering Jewish women translators and prayer authors opensiddur.org/profile/elsi...
Elsie Davis (translation) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
Prayers and other works by Elsie Davis (translation) shared through the Open Siddur Project.
opensiddur.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The task I set before myself, now complete, was to transcribe all the piyyutim known to have been translated by Elsie Schryver (née Davis, 1876-1933). This is part of a larger project illuminating the work of pioneering Jewish women translators and prayer authors opensiddur.org/profile/elsi...
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Yooooooo.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yooooooo.
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“Israel’s right-wing defenders are flailing…long accustomed to looking only left for the next threat, their necks have painfully swiveled…With their dreams increasingly discredited, we must work to awaken from the nightmare they have helped create.” thehill.com/opinion/whit...
Antisemitism exposed in the ranks of the right — the GOP-Israeli honeymoon is over
For decades, the Israeli, American Jewish and Christian Right forged what seemed like an ironclad alliance. If conservatives truly wanted to fight this battle, they would turn first to their own ca…
thehill.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Israel’s right-wing defenders are flailing…long accustomed to looking only left for the next threat, their necks have painfully swiveled…With their dreams increasingly discredited, we must work to awaken from the nightmare they have helped create.” thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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As folks keep pointing out, Musk has likely never read/understood SciFi or fantasy, and continues to show his 'knowledge' of them at lolzy levels.
So the only thing you need to know is the closest thing Musk is to SciFi is he is reality's version of the character: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
So the only thing you need to know is the closest thing Musk is to SciFi is he is reality's version of the character: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
October 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
As folks keep pointing out, Musk has likely never read/understood SciFi or fantasy, and continues to show his 'knowledge' of them at lolzy levels.
So the only thing you need to know is the closest thing Musk is to SciFi is he is reality's version of the character: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
So the only thing you need to know is the closest thing Musk is to SciFi is he is reality's version of the character: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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pretty sure this is the original quote
The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
pretty sure this is the original quote
The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
On the need to digitize rare manuscripts whether they are privately held or in a museum of library collection seforimchatter.substack.com/p/should-tha... — an essay by Michelle Margolis (mmargolis.bsky.social)
Should That Be In A Museum? On Access and Private Collectors of Judaica.
The Nuremberg Mahzor: History, Codicology, Liturgy and Art, edited by Elisabeth Hollender, Magnes Press, 2025
seforimchatter.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On the need to digitize rare manuscripts whether they are privately held or in a museum of library collection seforimchatter.substack.com/p/should-tha... — an essay by Michelle Margolis (mmargolis.bsky.social)
If Severance is the retelling of the myth of Orpheus that I think it may be, then I can't help but wonder what the Furies might do to Mark S. in season three
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
If Severance is the retelling of the myth of Orpheus that I think it may be, then I can't help but wonder what the Furies might do to Mark S. in season three
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Pledges of Allegiance to the Earth (1965-1994): opensiddur.org/index.php?ta...
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Pledges of Allegiance to the Earth (1965-1994): opensiddur.org/index.php?ta...
וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ | V’haya Im Shamo’a (And If You Listen): a prayer in a time of planetary danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow opensiddur.org?p=5424
וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ | V'haya Im Shamo'a (And If You Listen): a prayer in a time of planetary danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .
opensiddur.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ | V’haya Im Shamo’a (And If You Listen): a prayer in a time of planetary danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow opensiddur.org?p=5424
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Earth Pledge by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart in conclusion to his personal affirmation of awareness (11 May 1972) opensiddur.org?p=64075
Earth Pledge by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart in conclusion to his personal affirmation of awareness (11 May 1972) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This earth pledge can be found in the Church of All Worlds's newsletter, Green Egg, vol. 5, issue 47 (11 May 1972), p. 28. The quote, appearing after a line break of asterisks, appears to conclude an ...
opensiddur.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Earth Pledge by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart in conclusion to his personal affirmation of awareness (11 May 1972) opensiddur.org?p=64075