Endless Money for Bombs, Nothing for Care Today I offered some words at Moral Monday outside Senator Thom Tillis’s office.

It should be the hardest decision a President makes to send people to war.
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Good morning folks how are we doing today? Sending some joy and love your way this morning.

The president does not know what a corner store is. Out of Touch

Someone should tell the Secretary that this is Ezekiel 25:17
"I will wreak frightful vengeance upon them by furious punishment; and when I inflict My vengeance upon them, they shall know that I am GOD."

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Good.
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On a call with Jewish leaders in St Louis on Advancing Racial Equity in Jewish Life as offering practical tools for St. Louis institutions

And she is also MAGA. It’s seems she drained her savings on medical bills www.instagram.com/p/DXGVyUilUM...

This woman is delivering for DoorDash to support her husband’s cancer treatments. And he gives her a $100 tip. This stunt of his is backfiring. She should be able to be with her husband and support him without having to earn extra money from DoorDash

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Can someone tell me, what are the main differences between Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT? Am I missing a big player in the AI field?

NC is not a red state or a blue state. It is a contested state full of people who want clean water, fair elections, and neighbors who are not afraid of a knock at the door. That is worth fighting for.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I’m looking for more music to listen to on my trips and workouts. What new artist have you discovered? Or what are you listening to these days?

Heading to CBST in NYC for Rabbi in Residence if you are there come and say hi

Why can’t some christians just be happy with their own holidays and leave Jewish holidays alone. Jesus did not have a Passover seder as we understand it today. The seder is a modern invention.

Three Said No In every generation, Pharaoh finds new language for the same refusal

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to declare the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.
123 countries said yes.
52 abstained.
Three voted no: the United States, Israel, and Argentina
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Israel just passed a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis. The same law explicitly exempts Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians.
One land. Two legal systems. One people who can be hanged. The other, exempt.

My office today in N. Little Rock. My favorite coffee shop when I visit - Darkside Coffee

That’s part of what makes the question interesting to me. If God isn’t a person in any literal sense, what does it mean that the tradition keeps describing God in such human terms, regret, prayer, even grief? What work is that language doing?

Does God Do Teshuva? Someone asked me a question this week and I’ve been marinating on it.

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Vayikra. The book nobody wants to read. Full of blood and ritual and rules about offerings. Also the most honest book in Torah about what it actually costs to be in relationship — with God, with each other, with the stranger.

Why I Said No to a Conversation About Israel — and Yes to a Different One A reflection on Vayakhel–Pekudei and what it means to build together

Last summer, a donor asked if I’d be interested in a public conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social about Israel, Gaza, and Palestine.
I said no.
Read what I said yes to.
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Torah: Fracture and Covenant A recording from Rabbi Sandra Lawson's live video

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What the Bathroom Blessing Taught Me About Community. Below is a section of a speech I’ve been writing, and I thought I would share it with you.

When I began rabbinical school, that first year, I fell in love with an unlikely blessing. Asher Yatzar.
Yes, I fell in love with the bathroom blessing. The blessing we say, thanking God for allowing us to relieve ourselves in the morning.
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Purim teaches us that joy can be defiant, courage can be collective, and survival is only the beginning. We gather, we give, we protect one another — and we refuse to disappear. Chag Purim Sameach.

a woman is wearing a red dress and earrings and making a tired face . ALT: a woman is wearing a red dress and earrings and making a tired face .

President of peace? My tuckas.

You don’t rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War unless your focus is war. Words signal priorities.

They Kept Walking There are weeks when history feels distant.

They Kept Walking

There is a particular grief in losing elders.
In Jewish tradition, when we lose someone, we say zikhronam livracha — may their memory be a blessing. But memory cannot be passive. It asks something of us.
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