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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social
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Rabbi/award-winning author. 🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com (Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!): New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. 💥 Collective liberation or bust. she/her

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 40m
If those who benefited from the status quo had been willing to listen instead of sabotaging the #MeToo movement, we’d be in a very different place right now. Same story w/ BLM and so much more. But it’s not too late to rise in collective solidarity now to create a more possible world for everyone.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4h
Your regular reminder that this is Eric Schmitt (from a year ago)
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A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
b4 I got to college in '93, the folks who graduated just before me did an infamous "rape wall," aka writing the names of rapists in a stall of a women's bathroom of one of the libraries. It sickens me that beyond g-docs (or maybe more anonymous tech??) there literally aren't better protections now.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming" sometimes they make wang jokes like, chill
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h
Working from a pub and there's a drop in Celtic music jam with the average age of 60 or so and it's a damn delight -- 11 people so far and more just keep showing up with instruments, getting greeted, someone scoots over, everyone keeps going
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Charlie Brown Christmas Dance
Alt: Charlie Brown Christmas Dance
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 19h
on the whole, men answered #MeToo with #NotMe even some of the men who were MeTooing up a storm, as it turned out
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19h
The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20h
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The RAGE I feel every time something horrible happens to someone(s) and then suddenly a white dude puts up a website with a newsy URL that's like "Here I'll put accountability stuff in a second, coming soon but in the meantime DONATE HERE"
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey I'm teaching on Hoshana Rabba (this Thursday evening!) in honor of Reb Arthur Waskow z'l's memory-- and it'll be on bad theology, the climate emergency, and prayers for rain. 7:30pm ET. Join us! theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
1st Annual Reb Arthur Waskow Hoshanah Rabbah Torah Soak
Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:30 PM  9:00 PM
“Soak” in Reb Arthur-inspired Torah on what would have been his 93rd birthday.

A night of celebratory remembrance and learning, with teaching headlined by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. https://theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember that repentance, atonement + attaining forgiveness are not the same thing. Focus on the first. 1) Own the harm, fully + completely 2) Begin to work to change for real, addressing root causes via therapy + education 3) AMENDS in convo w/SA experts* cot'd + *DON'T APPROACH VICTIM UNPROMPTED
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Justice for All please and thank you @ofthepeople.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your book On Repentance and Repair. I’m not Jewish but the concepts, from the Talmud? are logical, common sensical and could help so much with all the damage going on everywhere we turn.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Loretta J. Ross's Calling In & @theradr.bsky.social 's On Repentance and Repair have good guidance for people who have it in them to support a wrongdoer in making restitution. Others of us can do our part by raising the price tag for committing sexual violence sky-high
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some brilliant words from Graie Hagans on Sukkot & community organizing. "The practice of gathering under the fragile, 3-walled sukkah reminds us that true safety doesn't come from rigid, heavy structures, but from collective care, community, and standing together in moments of uncertainty." Read:
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I Am Because Everyone Is
Sukkot, Radical Hospitality and Organizing; a Guest Post by Graie Hagans
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YALL.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey I'm teaching on Hoshana Rabba (this Thursday evening!) in honor of Reb Arthur Waskow z'l's memory-- and it'll be on bad theology, the climate emergency, and prayers for rain. 7:30pm ET. Join us! theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
1st Annual Reb Arthur Waskow Hoshanah Rabbah Torah Soak
Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:30 PM  9:00 PM
“Soak” in Reb Arthur-inspired Torah on what would have been his 93rd birthday.

A night of celebratory remembrance and learning, with teaching headlined by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. https://theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some brilliant words from Graie Hagans on Sukkot & community organizing. "The practice of gathering under the fragile, 3-walled sukkah reminds us that true safety doesn't come from rigid, heavy structures, but from collective care, community, and standing together in moments of uncertainty." Read:
lifeisasacredtext.com
I Am Because Everyone Is
Sukkot, Radical Hospitality and Organizing; a Guest Post by Graie Hagans
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧠 FUCK AI 🧠 WRITE + PUBLISH FROM YOUR OWN ACTUAL BRAIN I will help you I got you: 1) Write op-eds 2) Write a book proposals 3) also there's a book proposal master doc you can get *all this is 75% off for (next skeet) House of Study folks (more next skeet) www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Pen for Power Workshops
Pen for Power is a two-part workshop series with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg designed to help you bring your ideas into the world. Whether you’re hoping to write a…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This thread by @theradr.bsky.social is more leaning on how easy it was to transition to ghost, and about that platform’s positive qualities and values than necessarily negative about substack, but might be useful to demonstrate there are genuine alternatives. bsky.app/profile/ther...
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Posts by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 27/09/2026
adjacent? via @theradr.bsky.social www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-c...
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A Jewish Case for AI work exemptions
or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RSVP to attend. This is going to be a rare opportunity to learn from both @amylittlefield.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social. And to be in community with like-minded folks.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧠 FUCK AI 🧠 WRITE + PUBLISH FROM YOUR OWN ACTUAL BRAIN I will help you I got you: 1) Write op-eds 2) Write a book proposals 3) also there's a book proposal master doc you can get *all this is 75% off for (next skeet) House of Study folks (more next skeet) www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Pen for Power Workshops
Pen for Power is a two-part workshop series with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg designed to help you bring your ideas into the world. Whether you’re hoping to write a…
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
guess god frowns upon genocide apologists
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So now we need to win the World Series so that we can close the gate to the Hellmouth back up Just in time for midterms
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Cubs clinch playoff berth with 2-1 win over Marlins
The Chicago Cubs are back in the postseason after defeating the Miami Marlins 2-1 Thursday afternoon at Wrigley Field.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. . . like we have the word chutzpah as well as an entire culture of extremely, extremely colorful and vivid curses . . . but I don't think there's an appropriately strong Yiddish word that covers this
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 24/09/2026
I am very grateful to @theradr.bsky.social for mentioning my book here!!! ❤️❤️❤️ (P.S. -- if you are interested in it, you can pre-order it at a 30% discount direct from the publisher with code BOWMAN30: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...)
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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons
In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Between Yom K + Sukkot, an infusion of some of the amazing stuff that has been brewing around that you might not know about – things to enjoy, see, attend, hear, play, read, know about, and vibe around. On Sukkot we're commanded to rejoice, and these things might help gear you up for that.
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Psychedelicatessen + More
Cool Stuff Day
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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adding that many undocumented women fear leaving their abusers because there is no safe place to go. So, abortion bans/restrictions and ICE/CPB are literally aiding in murder.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
who once what
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Murder is also the #1 cause of death of pregnant and postpartum women. Related: Denying people access to abortion care forces them to remain trapped in abusive relationships they often would otherwise leave. (among other harms)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Growing your organizing skills is EVERYTHING in this time before the election This is your chance to learn from one of the greats, the former Chief Vision Officer of @bendthearc.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/educateus/ev...

LEARN, TO DO: A TRAINING SERIES TO MEET THIS MOMENT
HOW TO GROW A MOVEMENT.
WITH GRAIE HAGANS
OCT 7, 8 ET /5 PT
Learn the core rubrics
with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
of organizing work in this accessible intro to moving from participant to leader. Learn tools and skills, dispel myths, and to leverage the power that we build together to topple the power that others use to oppress.
To see all the trainings and to register: LifeisASacred Text.com/LearnToDo
Life is a Sacred Text cosponsored by educateUS
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I swear.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges."
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This man has gotten more done in 9 months in office than most politicians achieve in their ENTIRE CAREERS all with that extreme good-muppet energy and that's why everybody else can't stand him because he gets it done, has receipts to back his words, and then just moves on to the next.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Enslavement Registers for Former British Colonies - Ancestry
Research on Ancestry, the enslavement registers for former British Colonies in the Caribbean, Central America & Indian Ocean.
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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Re-listening to "On Repentance and Repair", to remember what is important, @theradr.bsky.social
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Neighborhood grocers used to provide grocery on credit for customers they knew to be reliable but we imagined we moved past that kind of precarity after like the 60s.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
may we all be sealed for love, for showing up, for liberation, for truth + for joy. ♥️ gmar tov
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread of things to read today and tomorrow. ❤️ If you’re fasting, don’t forget to hydrate like a mofo today (and drink extra caffeine if you’re not weaned- will help) + if there’s any health reason, mental or physical, NOT to fast, you’re REQUIRED to eat. Here, on Kol Nidre + abolition:
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What one line in the Yom Kippur liturgy teaches us about transforming society
Plus: Survey results!
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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A remarkable case was Mali (2016) www.npr.org/2016/04/23/4...
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Timbuktu's 'Badass Librarians': Checking Out Books Under Al-Qaida's Nose
Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized a smuggling operation to keep centuries-old manuscripts out of the hands of al-Qaida. Joshua Hammer wrote about it in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🥹 my heart so many things destroyed in all of these wars, genocides, regimes everything saved is precious
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Syrian man uncovers library hidden behind wall for 15 years
Abu Bilal built a secret wall in his home to protect his books from Syria’s former Assad regime.
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