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Sunday, January 04, 2026

When did I move to Russia???!!!

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When did I move to Russia???!!! The first thing I heard yesterday when I booted up the news after Shabbat was that American military forces ...
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Saturday, December 20, 2025

Oy, Chanukah

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First, my husband got sick. We were both tested for flu A, flu B, and COVID, and the tests were negative, but my husband had still gone fro...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Joey Weisenberg's Dec. 11, 2026 concert (full recording--over two hours)

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For those who were unable to attend, or who couldn't find the Zoom link, here's a link (sent to me by Hadar) to the Dec. 11, 2025 Jo...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Free livestream concert by Hadar's Joey Weisenberg tonight

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Hadar's Joey Weisenberg will be performing tonight at B'nai Jeshurun. You can get livestream tickets for free here: https://hadari...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz rounds up some friends for a sing-along. ❤

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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Parashat Vayetzei thought from Rabbi Shai Held

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"Can We Be Grateful and Disappointed at the Same Time?" Read here: https://www.hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/can-we-be-grat...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Parashat Vayetzi rerun from 2017

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Here's a rerun of my Friday, November 24, 2017 post re Vayetze: How could Jacob have mistaken Leah for Rachel? TheTorah.com does it agai...
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Rivkah: The Ambivalent Matriarch (by Rabbi Tali Adler [re Parashat Toldot])

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I was 75 years old when I read this d'var Torah for the first time, and was quite startled--it had never occurred to me that perhaps Riv...
Monday, November 17, 2025

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Deborah Sacks Mintz toSrenspdom7403muf73lh366ccm706192c030i2013594375l250u16c8lt · Sim Shalom שִׂים שָׁלוֹם // Out everywhere you find your...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Parashat Chayyei Sarah, 5786/2025 thoughts

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In this morning's Torah reading, Avraham Avinu (Abraham Our Father) sends his (unnamed) servant to find a wife for his son Yitzchak (Isa...
Friday, November 07, 2025

P.S.A.: Be careful how often you use earbuds

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Public Service Announcement: Please be careful how often you use earbuds. I went to my otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat doctor) the ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

My Prayer ואני תפלתי – Joey Weisenberg (Music Video)

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Selihot with Hadar: Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz and Ensemble, Live in Concert (better late than never)

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  Better late than never--feel free to watch this between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Barefoot and Pregnant (video)

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  Keep 'em laughin' to keep 'em from crying.  (Just click where it says "Watch on YouTube.")
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

"6-year-old NYC public school student grabbed by ICE with mother deported to Ecuador"

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Deportation hits close to home--we could walk to this kid's elementary school. 😥 See New York Daily News article by this name^. Blogger...
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How YOU Can Fight Back Against Trump

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Sunday, August 10, 2025

It ain't gonna go away :) (video)

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Bless that banjo-playing activist and her whole band! :)
Monday, August 04, 2025

Kiriyah Yefefiyah קריה יפהפיה | Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project [video]

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Back in the good old days before I become too much of a dizzy dame to get out on the dance floor safely, I used to dance to this Yemenite pi...

It was nice while it lasted

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I published my first blog post here on Monday, August 02, 2004, twenty-one years ago almost to the day. I regret to inform you that this ma...
Friday, June 13, 2025

One heck of a 48th wedding anniversary celebration

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[Note: Apparently, the only way to format a simple post these days is to use HTML, which I don't know. Excuse me, Google, but I'm ...
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Sunday, June 08, 2025

Jews, "You do not debate whether it’s “really” hate when your people are being hunted"

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[Copied from Facebook--apologies for the formatting, or the lack thereof.) I am Black. I am Jewish. I work in the field of hate crimes not o...

What to Do When ICE Confronts You

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I apologize for the formatting--I don't know what Google has done to Blogger.com, but it's impossible to copy and paste from Faceboo...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Call it what it is--genocide by non-military means

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My congressperson, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has stated that the current reconcilation bill, if passed, will not only force m...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

My blog, my rules--I'm laying down the law

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I've now been blogging here for over 20 years, so maybe I haven't mentioned this lately and it's time that I did--I pride myself...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Eat my dust. 🙂

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I've been reading a bit about microplastics migrating from our kitchen tools into our food and messing up our health, so I made a few ch...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

They're using our own money to rob us

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I was trying to be good during Pesach/Passover and not post anything political, but this is what I've been thinking for a couple of week...
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Vote in the US Election for the 39th World Zionist Congress

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You have until May 4, 2025. So go here and vote!
Friday, April 18, 2025

Debbie Freedman's Miriam's Song & Not By Might (2001)

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Eliana Light's Dayenu

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Galeet Dardashti's Persian-style Dayenu

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Moses Isn't in the Haggadah (video)

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Sefirat HaOmer (video)

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Moadim L'Simchah (1st of several Passover videos)

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Agadelkha אגדלך | Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project

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Friday, April 04, 2025

A word about the current state of the United States

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You may have noticed that I haven't been doing a lot of writing lately--I've been mostly sharing other people's posts and/or v...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

A depressing political rerun

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From a March 6, 2025 Newsweek article titled "Elon Musk Issues USPS Warning:" " DOGE head Elon Musk, during a virtual appeara...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Trump’s vendetta against the federal government: Why?

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Here’s my two-part theory regarding why Trump hates the federal government and its employees. Part one:   Money, obviously Since it’s im...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Parashat Mishpatim and the mess in America

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Parashat Mishpatim/Exodus chapter 21, verses 7-11 (copied from Sefaria): "When a parent sells a daughter as a slave, she shall not go f...

The Bibas tragedy

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From Friday's news: From The Times of Israel : "BREAKING NEWS — IDF: Remains of Kfir and Ariel Bibas identified, but third body se...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Malpractice

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Trump the Tyrant and Elon the Unelected are like a pair of totally-untrained surgeons trying to excise so-called corruption from the America...

Railroad crossing safety: lifesaving information that I've never heard of before!

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Copied from Facebook: **PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT** IF your vehicle becomes disabled or stuck on a set of railroad tracks, OR you see some...

Female Heart Attacks: Scary stuff that every person identified as female at birth should know about

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An ER nurse says this is the best description of a woman having a heart attack that she has ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and SHAR...

Snarky internet heckling (a quick resistance task)

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Copied from Facebook: This doesn't even require calling a person - just snarky internet heckling. Show g0o-gle that we're paying att...

Trump wants $500B in mineral rights to help Ukraine. Give it to him

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EVERYTHING is a business transaction to the Orange Pharaoh. I recommend that you read this Daily Kos article to the end--I think you...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Our new god-king 😡

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I have been saying for years that Trump doesn’t want to be president, he wants to be king. But he also sees himself as someone like a god--...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

My brother Steve remembers our brother Ed

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Copied from Facebook (photos there , if you have access): Ed Silberman 1953-2025 Ed and I shared a bedroom until I left for college. Our win...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Baruch Dayan Emet--my brother Ed is gone 😢

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He died on the afternoon of Thursday, January 23, 2025. I couldn't even go to his funeral on Monday--I'm stuck at home with COVID. ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

"Bad Jew" (spoken-word poem video)

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Spoken-word artist Vanessa Hidary has a few words to say about being a proud Zionist.    If you can't get the video to work, try clickin...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Yedid Nefesh י​ד​י​ד נ​פ​ש | Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project (video)

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Wonderful singing and playing by Yahala Lachmish and the entire ensemble. Check out April Centrone 's solo! Enjoy! For the benefit ...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

It's as if Yom Kippur never ended :(

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We're still singing the Unetanetokef prayer.   "Who will live and who will die . . . who by fire, who by water, who by the sword . ...
Saturday, January 04, 2025

I'm afraid of the big, bad wolf

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[Written after havdalah.] "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down," said the wolf in the old story. Wel...