Abby Chava Stein

The smell that notifies my mind, body, and spirit: Shabbos is here!
Time to rest, time to rejuvenate, time to enjoy time with friends, loves ones, and community 💞

א גוט שבת - שבת שלום!
Ah Git Shabbos - Shabbat Shalom!

What are you doing tomorrow? Want to win a Queens where working families can thrive? Join our Canvassing Launch!

Come talk to your neighbors, get trained on how to protect immigrants from ICE, and hear from our special guests: @sengonzalezny.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social @abbystein.bsky.social!

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth). Hegseth quotes a post by Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet). Kolvet's post reads: "Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean." Hegseth's response reads: "Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat." The timestamp indicates the post was made on December 4, 2025, at 8:44 PM.

Pete Hegseth is a sadistic serial killer.

Amazing Chanukah gift ideas, and I am not just saying this because I love @jfrejnyc.bsky.social and Sara 🕎

Congratulations Abby Stein ❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

A small part of the left has become so used to organizing moral victories with material losses that it has become their identity. One that’s unable to operate within victories, so they intentionally/unintentionally try to rip wins apart to recreate a terrain they feel powerful in.

Tell Ms. Rachel: We've Got Your Back! Right now, we are watching an alarming increase in attacks on educators, artists, and activists from the federal government. As Jews, we must speak out against this effort, especially when it is being...

So much love and admiration for our dear @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social - and you all can now join @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social, and thousands of other Jews in showing her our love and support!

jfrej.org/msrachel

But attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?

You’re not making anyone safer.

Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social.
So much love to you @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social 💞🫂

Attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?

You’re not making anyone safer.🧵

Also:
In the most populous country in the race, Davidson (which includes Nashville), Behn (the Democrat) is now leading with 84% - over 14,000 votes, with only 49% counted.

If that leads holds, Behn might just win.

If #TN07 is ANY indication, the Republicans might as well just give up on 2026 now.

For context:
45/47 won the district by 22%. A "red district" on steroids if there is one.
A Democrat is now within 1% of the Republican, with 55% of votes counted!!!

For context, I am upstate now. This was my view this morning:

I don't* make the rules, but snow outside means I gotta make (weekday) bread - first time this year 🤷‍♀️

*okay well, I did make this rule 🍞

There is some new people joining the comms teams, so it might take a sec, but ping me again if it doesn't change!

Today is World AIDS Day, even in the US, even if the federal government has decided (for the first time in almost 4 decades) not to mark it.

And in NYC, we have a Mayor-Elect that will fight to mark it, remember those lost, and keep fighting for the living!

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.

My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Can confirm it has been passed on!

The message has been passed on. Will see if it's implemented!

Zohran Mamdani taps trans rabbi for mayoral transition team - www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/zohr...

Opinion | In Today's Israel, the Jewish Man Who Killed Yitzhak Rabin Would Win an Election Against an Arab Jewish nationalism in Israel has reached apocalyptic proportions. If, for instance, prime minister killer Yigal Amir were to run for office against some Arab figure – say, for the job of director general of the Culture Ministry – he would almost certainly win. Why? Because he's Jewish. In trying times, you don't let a Jew to lose to a gentile.

Not Opinion. Israeli government's currently co-led by Kahanists who openly celebrate their assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister.

In NYC, Kahanists like Dov Hikind are still quoted by local press and collab with many NYC elected Democrats @council.nyc.gov @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social

For some reason (😉) Becoming Eve is now #2 in Women & Judaism - 6 years after publication 🤷‍♀️

But also, don't buy on this site. Check out @bookshop.org and support your local indie bookstores:
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ICE Out of New York 🗽

We will always stand up for our neighbors in NYC!!!

First: Freeze ICE. Then: melt ICE.

* The Haftorah is the weekly portion from the Books of the Prophets, traditionally read after the weekly Torah portion on Shabbos morning.

The verses above are from the Book of Hosea, 13:10-11.

Screenshot from a tweet by Laura Loomer, that reads: "@lauraLommer That's it. I want a King." Sent at 6:25 PM, on 11/26/25

Today's Haftorah* really felt like a timely rebuke to this:
”אֱהִי מַלְכְּךָ, אֵפוֹא וְיוֹשִׁיעֲךָ.
אֲשֶׁר אָמַרְתָּ: תְּנָה־לִּי מֶלֶךְ.
אֶתֶּן־לְךָ מֶלֶךְ בְּאַפִּי, וְאֶקַּח בְּעֶבְרָתִי׃
- הושע י"ג, י-י"א

Where now is your king? Let him save you!
From whom you demanded: “Give me a king”?
I give you kings in My ire, And take them away in My wrath.”

So that companies have a steady stream of income from replacement parts, etc. Similar to why phone are designed to become 💩 after a few years.

Meet Abby Stein, the Trans Rabbi Shaping NYC's Future As Part Of Zohran Mamdani's Transition Committee | EDGE United States New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed over 400 people to his transition committees, including Abby Stein, a transgender rabbi and activist who has become a lightning rod for right-win...

Shabbat Shalom - I love queer media 🤷‍♀️

Via @EdgeMediaNet:
www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/160731/

Mamdani appoints trans woman to transition team and right-wingers are predictably outraged
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/28/zohran-mamdani-abby-stein-trans/?utm_content=1764360022&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

Shabbos: the weekly shortstop, to rest, reflect, and rejoice - whether at home, or anywhere else 💞

גוט שבת - שבת שלום!
Git Shabbos - Shabbat Shalom!