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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Scaremongering votes by demonizing is a long-standing practice. Notably, many of the transphobic talking points (bathrooms! locker rooms! harming our children!) are the same ones they used against gay, lesbian
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All theology is political. Saying that we are all interconnected is political. Saying we have an obligation to care for and enfranchise the marginalized is political. Making claims about who
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Thinking about how, in Judaism, redeeming captives is considered a "great mitzvah," something that takes precedence over even supporting the poor, and the cash bail system. 1/x thread Maimonides writes
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If you have a spiritual practice, this would be a good time to double down on it. If you don’t have a spiritual practice, this wouldn’t be the worst time
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Happy Tu BiShvat! Some wisdom on this new year of the trees from The 16th c Italian Kabbalist Menahem Azariah of Fano that might offer us all a little something
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All children should be protected from abuse. The immigrant children that KellyAnne Conway was complicit in caging—that wasn’t a dealbreaker for her, she lacked the empathetic capacity to say that
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There have always been intersex people (folks born with sex characteristics (whether external or internal anatomy, hormones, chromosome patterns) that don’t match typical binary notions of male or female bodies).
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OK lil' thread on Deuteronomy 22:5, aka "A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to
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The farcical idea of journalistic “objectivity”—rather than acknowledging that people are rooted in experiences of our society and their perspectives flow from that—serves to bolster existing power structures. Of course
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As we get ready to begin a new chapter of the US--exhausted, traumatized, grieving, and, perhaps, finally, hopeful, I want to say something: I’m really proud of us.1/x I’m proud
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It’s true that Jews were not coded as white in Europe, very much the opposite. And that our white privilege in the US is conditional. AND it’s also true that
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If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah,
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