American Jews should stand up against a movement that coopts a Jewish heroine to attack free speech and queer people, write a rabbi and an LGBTQ+ activist.

Read the Article: https://www.jta.org/2025/03/04/ideas/christian-conservatives-have-appropriated-queen-esther-as-a-symbol-lets-take-her-back

Perverting Queen Esther’s legacy in order to promote hatred over love and pretend to be protectors of justice is infuriating to these queer parents and insulting to all Jews.

As Purim approaches, we call upon our fellow Jews to beware of the masks, resist the lies and uphold our moral and courageous legacy of resilience and resistance. Queen Esther has been celebrated as a heroine over the ages for her defiance of tyranny, pursuit of justice and courage to speak truth to power. It is our spiritual duty and political responsibility to reclaim her.

In the true spirit of Queen Esther — it’s time to speak up.

For the past 3 years, the Jews of Ukraine have endured endless attacks. They spend cold days and long nights in bomb shelters, they face extreme financial hardship, they are separated from loved ones, and they are afraid and anxious. Thousands of people lack sufficient food, warm clothing, and medical care. Parents are forced to choose between heat for their home and medicine for their children. The Jews in Ukraine need help today, in order to survive.

Donate: https://jewishreliefnetworkofukraine-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1350571

Please make a one-time gift for emergency assistance — to provide food, medicine, heating fuel, and blankets. Your donation will mean the difference between life and death."

From JDCA:
When something horrific like this occurs, we share a sense of grief and find comfort in community, lifting our voices together. Silence isn’t an option, and there is strength in numbers. Our collective action is stronger than speaking out alone. This is why, at JDCA, we've created a community that fights for our values and stands with Israel.

At home, we are facing daily attacks on our democracy from this White House. Silence in the face of these threats is complicity, and speaking out is an act of defiance.

As The Contrarian co-founder Jen Rubin told JDCA members this week, “courage is contagious,” and we urge you all to join us in writing to your members of Congress, imploring them to assert their constitutional authority. Jen also advised us to document what’s happening each week, as we’re doing with these weekly emails.

Listserv: https://secure.everyaction.com/Tg8F-DiYa0eleBqIInsy1w2

Needed now maybe more than ever...Tikkun Olam is Hebrew and means to repair the world. It is an important Jewish concept for social justice or social action, that it is a duty for Jews to help heal the world.

#BuyIntoArt #TikkunOlam #AmYisraelChai #Jewish #JewishLifestyle #JewishGifts #Hebrew #StopAntisemitism

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From the Workers Circle, Jewish Culture for a Just World:

Sheyn and in Pain: A Yiddish Program on our Relationship to the Natural World

Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:00 PM 2:00 PM

Registration: https://www.circle.org/events/sheynandinpain

Good News - our annual fundraiser calendar is now available for ordering.

This year we went with a bloom-scrolling theme! The calendar covers all of 5785 from Oct 2024 as well as the first three months of 5786, ending with December of 2025.

All proceeds benefit the nonprofit.

Order here:
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Thank you so much for your support!

Re- #introduction :
#genderqueer dà-anam storyteller making their way in the greasy underbelly of the 'net. #filk , #scifi , , and thinking about aviation are pastimes. #activism , #GroenLinks , #ClimageChange , #TransRightsAreHumanRights , stomping #antisemitism , #TikkunOlam means *everyone*.

The slight flaw in my character is that if someone messes with my people, they get to meet Mama Bear. They may wish they hadn't. But bears also HUG.

I'm working on a project with some buddies ( @Ohbejuan @twbrandt @hypomodern) to erase $1 million of medical debt in Michigan. That burden hits Black communities especially hard here, so donating is a twofer, striking a blow both for racial and economic justice.

For a lot of us, this is a week when we *really* need to feel like we're doing something to help set the world right. This is that. #TikkunOlam

Check it out: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/campaign/eliminate-medical-debt-in-michigan/

Jennifer Lynch, the daughter of #DavidLynch wrote and directed a charmingly droll movie called "Surveillance."

It stars one of my favorite actors Bill Pullman.

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In the beginning was the BROKEN CODE... through IT all things were SHAPED; without IT nothing was SHAPED that has been made.

Me and Reform Judaism are so simpatico.

#TikkunOlam

The 72 Names of God: The Secret Power of the #Kabbalah

Way back that Pretty Hate Machine!

Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (R-Rated Video)

Before you can be Sophianically up above it,

You must be Demiurgically

DOWN

IN

IT!

#NineInchNails #PrettyHateMachine
#TrentReznor
#ModernGnosticism
#gnosis
#TikkunOlam
#apocatastasis
#PrettyGnosticMachine
#TheZappaReznorHarmonicOscillator
#TheTheaterAndItsGnosticDouble
#IJustMadeYouUpToHurtKnow Myself
#StrapOnDildos

#introduction
#genderqueer #storyteller in the greasy underbelly of the Internet and the #music biz. #filk , #scifi , , and thinking about #aviation are my pastimes. #activism , #progressive politics, work on #ClimateChange , #TransRightsAreHumanRights , stomping #antisemitism , because the world sucks but #TikkunOlam means all of us.

The slight flaw in my character is that if someone messes with my people, they get to meet Mama Bear. They may wish they hadn't. But bears also HUG.

Hey peeps, I started a mutual aid and donations spreadsheet!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o9-uE86HazaCOVvLclmyNpDa_a00qOmtKPghZNUYqlY

You can submit to the sheet via this form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-vpMR-mhKz0qOLWdpvLKvRQWg_28sCfv7c3FyfXyH92aaFg/viewform

I'll add more links tomorrow night. Boosts are appreciated!

Hashtag soup ahead:
#mutualAid #anarchism #anarchy #praxis #grassroots #donation #charity #tikkunOlam #boost #nonProfit #housing #foodBanks #food #blm #homelessness #housing #reproductiveRights #firstNations #COVID19 #support #gofundme #trans #transgender #transRights #humanRights #justice #socialJustice #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia