Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It is disappointing to see this, yet it is maybe not a surprise from the author. Using Nazi-era racial terminology like "Mischling" to gatekeep Jewish identity and invalidate non-Orthodox Jews and Jews by choice, including their children, is abhorrent and deeply divisive. 1143
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It seems that I am not the only Black British Jewish person who has picked this issue up. 070
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It is incredibly disappointing that: - @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this - @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report *And* 2217
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord. We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us. 1/3 120
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord. We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us. 1/3 100
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 26/06/2026White working-class boys face lower grades and higher exclusions. Yet, low-income white girls are now seeing the sharpest drops in GCSE attainment. Scrapping the Equality Act won’t fix this. It risks stripping away protections, making vulnerable girls even more invisible. 🧵 1/4 155
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn | Judaism | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/... 0103
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn | Judaism | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/... 092
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 22/04/2026As a Black British Jew, I’m watching the "allyship audit" currently fracturing our communities. When solidarity is quid pro quo, we lose each other. I’ve written about why transactional allyship is a trap, and how we move from debt to common cause: medium.com/@blewisha... 🧵 1/5 13013
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 11/04/2026L'dor vador. From generation to generation. #ArtemisII #NASA #splashdown 083
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Whilst Tourette's via coprolalia and bipolar disorder can result in expressing racist language, the mechanism for Tourette's is involuntary, unintentional tics. Dr Alvin Poussaint argues extreme racist delusions can occur as a major *symptom* in psychotic disorders. 3/8 120
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This discussion about Ye, also presented by Narinder Kaur, is complex, contextual and requires care rather than comparison. It is fair to say that John Davidson and Ye are not comparable, yet the dynamics of how grace is extended to white and Black people seem different. There 1/8 130
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 31/03/2026These adverts should *not* be targeted to appear on my timeline. Yet, the X algorithm seems to disagree. 100
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate are both, not competing, symptoms of the same disease. They are both fuelled by the same fire. 1268
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 15/03/2026It is fascinating how, when lessons are not learnt, history can repeat itself. This is from The Rest Is History's episode "Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah." 040
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Claiming to help, when it is not the driver, not only costs lives. Historical records frequently show that such interventions result in complex, often detrimental, outcomes in many ways. 8/8 010
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Deuteronomy: Tzedek, tzedek tirdof or Justice, justice shall you pursue. Isaiah: Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. Leviticus: Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbour. Talmud: silence is consent 171
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"Psychodrama" is something different to it's recent use. 010
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I do not think I could love Mark Alan Ruffalo any more for how he uses his voice and privilege. 120
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 14/12/2025This evening, Chabad said, "Get up, get out and let's still have latkes with ketchup." 3133
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 19/10/2025With this context, the Telegraph's headline lends itself to being inflammatory by describing the reason for the arrest as specifically due to wearing a Star of David. The interview itself is something to reflect and respond to separately. The outcome of the review will be welcome. 070
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I do not even have challah and pickles to eat as I watch non-Jews, non-Israelis and non-Palestinians argue it out. 2110
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 03/10/2025To all journalists, please reflect on your reporting. The Chief Rabbi's title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, not the British or Britain's Chief Rabbi. 3226
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/10/2025In 2015, @keithkahnharris.bsky.social wrote this piece. Now, in 2025, as we ruminate on what happened at the Manchester synagogue, there was never a truer set of words said. 092
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It is Yom Kippur. It started as most Yom Kippur mornings with fasting, reflecting with my community and re-evaluating how I advance loving kindness. Then, the news about the Manchester synagogue attack. I feel sick, hurt, and filled with tears. Yet, I must hold onto this 1/2 1173
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 26/09/2025As someone with Windrush Generation parents and grandparents, this part of today's article on immigration would benefit from further explanation. 151
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Sometimes, you have to sit back and let the universe resolve the wrongs against you. #DianeAbbott 020
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The whistle is subtle and draws people in. 140
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 14/09/2025In 2019, as Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, @DawnButlerBrent announced that a Labour government would commission a review into the threat of far-right extremism. This foresight was not followed through by subsequent shadow or existing briefs. labourlist.org/2019/09/dawn... 010
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 11/09/2025"There’s nothing political about believing other humans are inferior to you. That’s an ethics & morals conversation." 112029
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 03/09/2025It is a: -reminder to embrace what a future society can become -statement of hope for future generations of a world where all peoples are free from any oppression -spiritual aspiration and solidarity connecting past, present & future in a collective hope for liberation and peace. 0101
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 24/08/2025In the spirit of witnessing flag-raising this weekend, this one flew with pride. 061
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL: Zohran Mamdani did not visit a single synagogue in NYC during the campaign. Meanwhile, in February 2025... 121
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 19/08/2025If we are going to speak about people using names to their advantage, all need to be considered 🤭 190
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 18/08/2025That is your personal choice. There is no need to label those of us who choose not to do the same, and have a different connection. Yes, be angry, distraught and ashamed of what others have done in our name. Yet, being ashamed of who *I* am is not an option. 1113
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 08/08/2025"Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Shabbat shalom. 033
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Now, several websites post cautions about travelling to the US. 082