Cantor Vera Broekhuysen

The Sho'ah is one reason and this is another: we all need countries to agree to, and abide by, rules for how they respect sovereignty and interact with each other. Stupefied, and terrified. We can't go back.

This fourth of July, let's bloody well remember who we are, or who we tried to be, and try again.

Thanks to Abigail Bengson for creating the song and Aly Halpert for teaching it to me.

Blaming unconstitutional violence on Jewish fears makes all of us, and Jews in particular, less safe. Feels like being setup for the oldest antisemitic canard in the book: "The Jews made us do it."

The White House X account added SHALOM MAHMOUD to its repost of 45's boast about unlawfully detaining a green card holder. Trumpeting it from the rafters: this administration is attempting to USE Jews' fears of antisemitism as cover for indefensible (regardless of content) attacks on free speech.

Rinse, lather, repeat at every press briefing. Let him see backs walking away from him.

The wish and desire of my heart is that every single person sitting in the presence of this wave of verbal diarrhea would get up and exit the room. Quietly, serenely. Just that would pull the clothes off of this emperor.

Family blames bullying over immigration status for 11-year-old's death by suicide “I want justice for my child. I want this not to go unhandled. If there are more students out there going through it as well," said Marbella Carranza.

www.wfaa.com/article/news...

When you call people "illegal aliens," your kids listen.

When you say "Deport them all!" your kids listen.

When you talk as if people who cross a border, left their right to be treated as humans on the other side, your kids listen.

Jocelynn's blood cries to us from the ground. Will you listen?

I am proud & grateful to join 350 Jewish clergy colleagues & creative folks signing onto today's New York Times ad. The ad reads: "Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!"
#SayNoToEthnicCleansing

So's we're clear: forcible relocation of a population out of their home territory is ethnic cleansing. Which the US already has, to our eternal shame, as part of our history, and in which we should not again engage.

See also www.starwars.com/video/so-thi...

N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article) A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...

Doing it right. MA, your turn. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/n...

An administration with the gall to put out "Project Esther" with the claim of combating antisemitism, shouldn't be harboring and empowering Haman.

The language in that executive order translates as "it is a LIE to say that you are a transman or a transwoman or nonbinary."

Denying that an identity group exists is a textbook tool in oppression (c.f. Burma). Recognizing an identity obliges the government to take responsibility for its actions towards members of that identity group.

Protest the shit out of this Godforsaken attempt to speak transness out of existence.

For anyone who needs to hear this today:
Becoming your full and authentic self by transitioning genders AFFIRMS your commitment to "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle," in both your professional and personal capacities.

I cannot overstate the danger and dismay of this moment.

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum!

If it quacks like a duck and Sieg Heils like a duck, it's an mf'ing Nazi.