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Melissa

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Writer. VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaCamacho she/her

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · Mar 19

I wrote about John Garfield for Hey Alma so that the youths could learn about him: www.heyalma.com/john-garfiel...

John Garfield Is the Hottest Old Hollywood Jewish Star You’ve Never Heard Of - Hey Alma

Last summer, my grandmother and I watched “The Breaking Point,” a 1950 Hemingway adaptation about a desperate fishing boat captain whose efforts to provide for his family by getting involved with smug...

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I've been saying for MONTHS!

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 6h

This is true. And I'm joining others here to say the court is indeed illegitimate.
We have crossed that threshold in Trump v. United States.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 8h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Tyrone @thetyrone.bsky.social · 16h

This is one of the rare times in Illinois politics when you could call for the governor to be jailed and be incorrect.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 6h

last week at Park Avenue Synagogue, Rabbi Cosgrove had a girl put on Sandy Koufax's rookie jersey to make a point about Jewish identity www.instagram.com/reel/DPW2q7H...

Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 6h

last week at Yom Kippur services, Rabbi Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue had a girl wear Sandy Koufax's rookie uniform to make a point about Jewish identity www.instagram.com/reel/DPW2q7H...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 6h

another was Millie from Freaks & Geeks! And Miranda from Lizzie McGuire

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

It’s difficult to explain to non-Jews the extent to which Jewish children are raised to believe that the single greatest athlete in American history is Sandy Koufax

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Call me Trick-or-Tracy. 👻🎃 @peakingsassy.bsky.social · 7h

The girlfriend of TWO of the founders of antifa!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 9h

"This is a story of a period between two World Wars—an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat."

Next week marks 85 years since THE GREAT DICTATOR opened in New York City.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 YES ON PROP 50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 9h

Kof.

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The Antisemitic History of Vampires - Hey Alma

A chill can be felt in the air, the leaves are changing color, and Home Depots the country over are newly stocked with gargantuan skeletons. Halloween is around the corner, and in deference to spooky ...

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Stav Zeitouni @stzeitouni.bsky.social · 9h

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

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Chag Sukkot Sameach!

Charlie says, "I know! I'll go home and make one with my own hands!" Levi says, "I dunno, Charlie Baron. I don't think that's what Libby had in mind." "It'll be great!" he says. He gathers scraps of wood, branches, and fabric. then calls out, "Hey everybody! Come see the sukkah I built!" But the sukkah is a very sad, ramshackle structure, with barely enough walls and boxes and duct tape holding it up. A crowd of kids - and his dog - gather. "What kinda sukkah is that?" "It looks like leftover junk!" "Can't you tell the difference between a Kosher Sukkah and a BAD Sukkah?" "There's no WAY that counts!" Charlie says, "Oy." Levi comes over, sucking his thumb. Charlie says, dejectedly, "You were right, Levi. I guess I couldn't make a good sukkah. Isn't there anyone who can tell me what makes a good sukkah?!" Levi then puts his seccurity-blanket-tallis around his shoulders and says, "Sure, Charlie Baron, I can tell you what makes a good Sukkah."

Levi stands in front of the sukkah and says, "And Mosheh Rabbeinu spoke unto the people of Israel - 'After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine vat, you shall hold the feast of sukkot for seven days.' What is this 'ingathering?' The sages tell us it is not the pick of our harvest, but what is left over. This is the essence of the sukkah: It is the place where the presence of the Holy One dwells; not because it is made from our finest material, but because we take what is cast aside and say, 'This is also of value. This, too, is Holy.'" Levi then walks over to Charlie. "That's what makes a good sukkah, Charlie Baron." Charlie smiles. He then tries to hang a gourd on his sukkah, but the pole falls down instead. Depressed, he walks away with his head held low. "Everything I touch gets ruined!"

The other kids gather around and say, "You know, it's not such a bad little sukkah... maybe it just needs a little love." They then work to fix it up in the next panel, and in the panel after, it miraculously looks like a classic sukkah with lattice walls and a roof of leafy branches. Fruits hang on the walls and construction paper chains are on the ceiling. Charlie Baron walks back in frame. "Chag Sameach, Charlie Baron!" they all say. The final panel shows them in the sukkah saying the Shehechiyanu blessing, written in Hebrew. With Gratitude to: Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, Josh Rosenberg, and Yosef Goldman.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

A Charlie Baron Sukkot

This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.

A Charlie Baron Sukkot by Emily K.

A very simple entry to a sukkah is shown - two sticks on either side, and branches make a flat roof at the top. Fruits hang off of it. A lulav and etrog are below.

The whole comic is done in the style of Schulz/Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Kids are playing in the fallen leaves. Two little boys, one with reddish hair and kippah, and another with a shock of blond hair, sit at a brick wall. The redhead holds a tallis as a security blanket as he sucks his thumb.

"Yom Kippur is over now, and Sukkot is arriving. I should feel happy, but I feel run-down. I know I should be celebrating, but I just don't feel excited."

The redheaded boy replies, "Only you could take a wonderful thing like sukkot and turn it into a problem. Maybe Libby's right. Of all the Charlie Baron's in the world, you're the Charlie Baron-est." He walks away. Charlie walks towards a red make-shift booth that says "Therapeutic Help 25 cents, The therapist is Very In." A girl with curly black hair sits at it. Charlie says, "My trouble is Sukkot. Instead of feeling happy, I feel anxious. What if I mess something up? What if, in feeling anxious, I don't fulfill the mitzvah of celebrating?" She responds, "How 'bout getting a sukkah kit for us to build? That would be a mitzvah." "Me? Are you sure?" "Sure, Charlie Baron. We need a Sukkah. You need a Mitzvah." He then walks away, but sees something that stuns him.

Charlie walks towards his dog's doghouse, and sees his dog decorating a very lush sukkah against it. The dog is a tri-colored beagle with brown fur, white paws, a white snout and belly, and black spots. "Good Grief." Then a friend shouts. "Over here, Charlie Baron!" It's Libby. She says, "I think we should have a Sukkahspiel tomorrow night." Charlie is taken aback. "A 'Sukkahspeil?!'" "Yes, a glamorous play in our glamorous sukkah!" "But that's for Purim!" Libby says, "and I can play the Shabbat Queen." Charlie: "It won't even be Shabbat." "Charlie Baron, you just need to get in a festive mood. Why don't you go get our sukkah?" He walks with the redheaded kid in the kippah, who says "Let's try over there." They find themselves in a big lot with allsorts of fancy lushly decorated sukkahs. "I dunno, Levi. None of these Sukkahs feel right."

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 15h

Judy Blume agreed that I was her “Twitter friend”

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 18h

While everything that falls under his purview is necessarily also Trump's fault, the direct impact from the destruction of USAid makes Elon Musk one of the worst mass murderers of the post-WWII worldstate and that is not a thing I will ever let go of no matter how hard captured media tries to do so.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

i just think if you fire a jewish employee on yom kippur you deserve some sort of hex

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

No one understand better than American Jews why immigration is everything.

Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at a CUNY training for Immigration Court observers; about 15 out of 28 participants are Jewish. Don't underestimate us.

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 1d

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Sukkot is such a special holiday to me; I think we don’t appreciate how many Jewish practices are low-key ancient religious syncretism and that, in holding them and protecting them, we are in fact preserving the last threads of folk religions that no longer exist and haven’t for millennia

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta inspect a weird lemon real hard and then shake it at God

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 1d

I walked into Central Park immediately saw a rat. It’s too late. It’s rat o’clock.

Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that book was super cute!

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

It’s outrageous that it’s come to this

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

Painter and television host Bob Ross' original work will be auctioned off to help support public television stations after funding was cut by the Trump administration.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to raise money for public television stations after funding cuts

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art than by supporting public television’s mission to educate and inspire," said the president of Bob Ross Inc.

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