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Rabbi Dara Lithwick

@daralithwick.bsky.social
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Rabbi, parent of snazzy ones, legal counsel, love swimming, snowboarding, skiing, camp, baking (challah + more), #TikkunOlam @RJCC, #LGBTQ2+, #olamchesedyibaneh

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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yes, this- by the amazing Rabbi Grushcow in Montreal: www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
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Pour une Fierté inclusive | Le point de vue d’une rabbine gaie
Exclure les juifs du défilé de la Fierté n’avancerait en rien la cause palestinienne, écrit la rabbine Lisa J. Grushcow. Au contraire, ce serait renier les idéaux qui sont la raison d’être de cette ma...
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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
So, I have googled and it turns out that each of the sprouts if rooted and planted will turn into an onion bulb. You have to separate the layers. I did that and discovered three distinct sprouts. One was already rooting inside the onion.
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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I feel like this onion really wants to live. Should I plant it somewhere? I don't know anything about planting onions!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/06/2025
“The logic of revolution often traps revolutionaries: They start out thinking that the task will be swift and easy," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. But "at each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier."
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This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great (and important) read from @theatlantic 's Timothy Ryback
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Don't be grateful two hostages' bodies were recovered. Be furious forward.com/opinion/7258...
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Don't be grateful two hostages' bodies were recovered. Be furious
Judi Weinstein Haggai and her husband, Gadi Haggai, were killed on Oct. 7. Their bodies were just recovered from Gaza. But that's not closure.
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Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Jewish museum event and the rally in Boulder *were* more political events than Jewish ones, but if you consider either of them compelling targets for political violence it seems like a very short jump to going after synagogues that fly Israeli flags, or Jewish day schools that celebrate Israel.
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Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I wrote about how equating Zionists with Nazis, and then classifying anyone with some degree of attachment to Israel as a "Zionist," places the vast majority of American Jews in your crosshairs. forward.com/forward-news...
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What happens when you dehumanize 'Zionists'
If all Zionists are Nazis, as some activists claim, then there’s little to distinguish an elderly Holocaust survivor rallying for Israeli hostages from an IDF soldier in Gaza.
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
So there's no antisemitism problem...as long as Jews don't work for communal organizations, express concern for the fate of other Jews, go to Jewish places, or wear any visible signs of being Jewish. Got it.
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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It's weird to have to say this, but antisemitism is always and exclusively the fault of antisemites. It's not a reasonable but misguided or disproportionate response to something else.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/06/2025
European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936
two people carrying signs

HELP ME 
KEEP MY HUSBAND HERE
 HE IS A REFUGEE FACING DEATH IN
GERMANY 
 HE'S TOO YOUNG TO
DIE
 I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE A WIDOW please SIGN PETITIONS



SHOOT ME 
I AM A REFUGEE I DONT WANT TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH BY HITLER I'LL BE DEPORTED to GERMANY! UNLESS YOU STOP IT NOW 
please SIGN PETITIONS
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The only path forward is one that rejects the false binaries of the conflict and of our security — instead recognizing that Israeli & Palestinian dignity & freedom are intertwined, as is the safety of Jews and each and every other community.
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Meanwhile, the impacts here at home are also ongoing, including last week’s horrific and deadly antisemitic shooting in DC. Antisemitism, anti-Arab hate, and Islamophobia have all increased significantly over the past 600 days.
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
600 days ago today marked the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The pain and trauma of that day have not subsided: hostages remain, the war is still ongoing, and innocent lives continue to be taken.
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Meaningful interview today on CBC News Network's @aartip.bsky.social with Rabbi Rick Jacobs @rabbirickjacobs.bsky.social , head of the Union for Reform Judaism @reformjudaism.bsky.social . May Sarah and Yaron's memories forever be for a blessing. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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CBC's Aarti Pole speaks to Rabbi Rick Jacobs on Jewish community impact after Washington shooting
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This, as clearly stated by @theradr.bsky.social ... BDH... zichronam livracha (may their memories be for a blessing)...
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
You can love Israel and still demand better from its leaders. You can be a Zionist and still criticize the government. In fact, the most Zionist thing you can do is use your voice to fight for peace, moral leadership, and a better future. These values are the very basis of Israel’s foundation.
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
yes, 100%, this...
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We are horrified, angry, and heartbroken over the murders of two Israeli Embassy staff members in DC last night. Antisemitic hate inevitably leads to antisemitic violence and everyone has an obligation to speak out.
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Make no mistake: antisemitic hate inevitably leads to antisemitic violence. Anyone who claims to believe in the dignity & rights of all people has an obligation to name this shooting for what it is — vile & violent antisemitic terror — and to speak out against this increasingly-normalized bigotry.
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JCPA Statement on Shooting of Israeli Embassy Aides in Washington - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A great expose on journalist @barakravid.bsky.social one of the hardest working journalists in DC. “People who have a pulse are not objective,” he argues. “Journalists don’t need to be objective; they need to be fair and they need to be accurate. That’s it.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...
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The Israeli Reporter Getting the Scoop on Trump’s High-Stakes Diplomacy
Axios journalist Barak Ravid has been breaking news on negotiations with everyone from Hamas to Iran to Ukraine—just ask Zelenskyy—while making his presence felt in Washington. He talks with VF about ...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I like living in a country with the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 06/05/2025
This is so subtle.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
And a small part of me worries that saying "Canadians are divided!" — at least unless it's justified — will actually promote unnecessary division.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I understand the appeal and potential relevance of claims that Canadians are deeply divided after this election, but I'd like to see evidence that goes deeper than the fact that different people — and different groups of people — voted for different parties.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lettuce speculate as to why this happened
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 01/05/2025
#NEW: Canadian Tire bidding on Hudsons Bay assets, sources say
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Canadian Tire bidding on Hudson’s Bay assets, sources say
Asked whether the company is making a bid, Canadian Tire did not provide a comment.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/05/2025
“Does the president understand economics?” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social asks Kirsten Hillman, an economist and Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. “I think the president has a very specific vision of what he’s trying to do in America,” she says. Watch the full conversation: bit.ly/4lQn3LX
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.
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The Forward @forward.com · 30/04/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s health secretary, sparked alarm by proposing an autism registry — a move Terrence Petty, a historian of Nazi Germany and father of a son on the autism spectrum, warns echoes the regime’s collection of medical data on the disabled.
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RFK Jr. and Trump are talking about an 'autism registry.' This sounds disturbingly familiar.
The Third Reich collected medical data about the disabled, including those who would be on the autism spectrum.
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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Gorgeous morning #poem “Essence” by Kai Coggin “If only we tasted our own essence from birth…” thinning seeds… 🌱
Kai Coggin
ESSENCE
I thinned the seeds already sprouting in the bamboo garden
the radish beet carrot and bean
pulled each birth out of the earth
and laid it on my tongue crushed it with my teeth
and did you know these tiny sprouts these little leaves and baby greens
already hold the heavy flavors of their final selves?
if only we tasted our own essence from birth knew the transformations to come were all part of the becoming—
that we had the imprint all along.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/ 80 years ago yesterday, US forces liberated #Dachau concentration camp. My maternal grandfather #DavidMaxEichhorn, a Jewish Chaplain, was there. I will spend next week documenting from contemporaneous reports what he saw & did. #NeverForget #NeverAgain www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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U.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp | April 29, 1945 | HISTORY
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day...
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
33/...that he would fight with them to the death against the other SS if they attempted to massacre the Jews before they retreated. Fortunately, the other SS left so fast that there was no attempt at massacre."
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
32/...Three days before the American liberators arrived, he hid two machine guns and bandoleers of ammunition in his straw-wagon, brought them into the camp and buried them in the Jewish section. He informed his Jewish brethren (and, God bless him, I write that word deliberately)
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
31/...which was a one-way ticket to the gas chamber, he would smuggle the sick person out of the camp in one of the camp's straw wagons, take him to his home in Dachau where the patient would be nursed back to health by Schmidt's wife and then be smuggled back into the camp....
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
30/...and kept the hopes of the Allach Jews buoyed up by informing them of the progress of the Allied advance. When he learned that certain Jews were destined for extermination, he hid them until the danger had passed. When a Jewish inmate would contract typhus, ...
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
29/"In the spring of 1944, he was sent to the Jewish section of Allach [note: Dachau sub-camp] as 'block fuehrer,' section leader. He protected his Jewish flock in every way within his power. Every evening he listed in secret to the broadcasts of the BBC ...
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
28/Schmidt was described as perfect Nazi. Tall, blond & handsome. Luftwaffe pilot. Shot down, wounded & forced into SS. A patriotic German who loved his country but hated #Hitler, #Nazis & everything they stood for. In my grandfather's words:
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
27/...I think of many Germans whom I knew who had saved Jewish lives at the risk of their own." He then tells incredible story of SS Mann Gerhardt Schmidt. I have tried for years, to no avail, to verify this account. No one at @HolocaustMuseum, @yadvashem or #Dachau knows info.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
26/...the concentration camps, priests and ministers, lawyers and doctors, Socialists and pacifists, workers and farmers, living skeletons with eyes that burned with an imperishable prophetic fire and a boundless love for their fellow-men....
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
22/On personal level, my grandfather's text - a man of God - emotionally stuns me. No different any time I read it. Deep sigh is necessary. The human race in the form of Nazis & their collaborators sunk to depths that prevented any religious feeling. Only human hate is left. Sigh
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
17/Let me tell you in his own words what he saw upon his arrival: "We saw the 39 boxcars loaded with Jewish dead in the Dachau railway yard, 39 carloads of little, shriveled mummies that had literally been starved to death; ...
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
16/As those who have studied the Holocaust know, what our forces came upon was unexpected. Few knew how horrific these camps were. There is nothing within my grandfather's letters or military reports that gave any indication of what he expected to see upon entering #Dachau.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
15/Today, 80 years ago, American troops entered #Dachau's main camp. A Jewish Army Chaplain was among them. My grandfather entered Dachau to take over as the Jewish Chaplain at the camp. He stayed abt a week ministering to the living & dying.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
13/My grandfather Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Nuremberg, Germany, Apr 22, 1945, #NeverForget #Holocaust #Rabbi
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.
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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The people who shouted we were snowflakes for asking for pronouns are bragging about kidnapping human beings because their fragile ears couldn't handle hearing another language spoken in a cab.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Election day in a country that has had a fair and free vote for generations. Where all the opposition parties are free to take power. Where virtually everyone will accept the election result. After my last year, it’s a history and a privilege I’m more grateful for than ever. Let’s get at it.
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Rabbi Dara Lithwick @daralithwick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Today is Election Day here in Canada. Voting is a beautiful expression and exercise of democracy. Let's do this! Woot! 🇨🇦🗳️❤️#Vote #ElectionDay #CanadaElections2025 #Canada #democracy
Picture of a yellow Elections Canada sign that says "Vote" and has an arrow pointing towards where to go. Background is green grass, an old church building, and blue sky.
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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker invokes his own Jewish background in responding to Trump: "Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about anti-semitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the very foundation of Judaism."
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