Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon הרבה מעיין

my wife is so Ashkenazi that she was worried my matzo ball soup would be too spicy when she saw me adding black pepper. BLACK. PEPPER

Things that aren't antisemitic but feel antisemitic:
* my neighbors baking bread during pesach
* recipes for sourdough showing up on my feed during pesach
* other people eating chametz pizza during pesach

A cat with wide eyes with text superimposed. The text reads “damn it’s Purim already?” “What’s next? Pesach? Fuck everything”

waiting to see who of my Israeli acquaintances are going to pull up to the Purim party in super problematic costumes 🫣

new work strategy: cancel zoom pro so that meetings CANNOT last longer than 40 minutes

רומי בידי אמה.
אמילי בשטח ישראל.
דורון חזרה הביתה.
זה לא הניצחון המוחלט
אבל זה הדבר הכי קרוב לשמחה שהרגשתי בשנה האחרונה

כיסא צהוב ריק לפני תחילת מעגל שירה ותפילה בכיכר החטופים

ביום ראשון הובלתי מעגל שירה ותפילה בכיכר החטופים. לא בפעם הראשונה. הלוואי בפעם האחרונה.
"כל רגע שמאחר לפדות השבויים היכא דאפשר להקדים, הוי כאילו שופך דמים." (שולחן ערוך יו"ד רנ"ב)
כל יום שהחטופים עוברים שם--מסכן את חייהם.
ברור שיש מחיר לעסקה. אבל אנחנו כבר 466 ימים משלמים את המחיר של היעדר עסקה.
די.

יער מלא רקפות

הרקפות פורחות.
יש לנו ארץ כל כך יפה. הלוואי שנוכל לחלוק אותה בכבוד ובשלום.

why do people over the age of 40 get so much anxiety when there isn't yet a Zoom link to a meeting that's happening DAYS from now

every year I promise myself I will purchase a good processor before attempting to make latkes again. and I never, ever do.

רבה מדליקה נרות חנוכה בכיכר החטופים

עסקה עכשיו.
את כולם, עכשיו.
שהנרות שלנו יאירו את דרכם הביתה.

Hanukkiah pic

annual reminder that having family that does celebrate Christmas and being with them today doesn't make you any less Jewish.
Happy Hanukkah!

The story of Joseph teaches us that any hate--even a "benign" hate like sibling rivalry--when left to fester, can lead to horrifying violence and cruelty.

May this Shabbat soften our hearts and strengthen our resolve to bring all of our sisters and brothers out of bondage to freedom.

Starting in 2025 I will be charging a flat fee of $50 for every time I have to explain what a Google Doc is to someone

GTFO: Get The Frying Oil

GTFO: Get The Frying Oil

I'm trying to get into sandwiches, but my ADHD brain thinks they are boring and refuses to cooperate. What are some ways you make sandwiches interesting?

Confused about all the landbirds in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?

I should send an apology to all of my former therapists... it turns out that going on walks actually is good for my mental health and they weren't just gaslighting me

wife to me after I got bad fertility news: I am holding space for your sadness

me: good, because all of the space I am holding is being taken up by the lyrics of Defying Gravity

not me trying to explain why I'm wearing headphones and sobbing in line for the pharmacy this morning (she played long live/new years day/the manuscript on the piano)!

me, walking out of Wicked on Broadway in 2011: NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ELPHABA LIKE ME 😭
me, walking out of the Wicked movie in 2024: NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ELPHABA LIKE ME 😭

making fun of someone's grammar when they are making an effort to speak to you in your native language is a dick move

While I am not particularly optimistic about the jihadist rebels offering stability for the people of Syria and the region.... It's hard not to feel some hope with the Syrian people at the overthrow of a brutal dictator. Whatever comes next for Syria, Assad the butcher will not be missed.

My standard lecture on antisemitism includes a section on philosemites whose "love" for Jews, if you can call it that, extends about as far as it takes for them to use us for their own purposes, then either forcibly convert or murder us.

Sounds about par for the course with the Heritage Foundation.

Wife just woke me up for a trivial reason (something was waking a weird noise) by saying loudly "there's a problem."

Now she's sound asleep while my anxiety from being awoken like that will keep me up all night.

why are so many men obsessed with saying they can't tell the difference between AI-generated content and human content... we get it, you have bad taste, you don't have to keep announcing the L to the world

Update: she still wants to leave but is more depressed, A+ wife-ing by me 🫠

Trying to talk my wife out of wanting to leave Israel by giving examples of how fascism is rising all over the world, here at least we have a support system and healthcare

BLESS AND PROTECT EVERY ONE!! 🏳️‍⚧️💃🏻💃🏻🏳️‍⚧️