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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 · 35m
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h
listen, speaking as a Jewish mother, if I could even control what my CHILDREN ate I'd already be psyched
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wowwwww
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BOSTON CAMBRIDGE SOMERVILLE MEDFORD JP ALLSTON BRIGHTON BROOKLINE ALL Y'ALL DO NOT MISS THIS @snarkbat.bsky.social
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All She Wrote Books Presents: Author Elsa Sjunneson | All She Wrote Books
Join us as we welcome author and disability activist Elsa Sjunneson to celebrate the release of her latest book, Dear Blind Lady!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CHICAGO!! @sbearbergman.bsky.social is coming to bring you “The First Jew In Canada: A Trans Tale"- In 1738, a young trans man named Jacques LaFargue left France for what’s now Quebec City— his story is interwoven with that of a trans Jewish immigrant to Canada 300 years later— Don’t miss this.
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Easyshul | Synagogue Software Management - Synagogue Eco-System
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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I went to this show at our fringe festival. 👍🏻👍🏻 Highly recommend.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CHICAGO!! @sbearbergman.bsky.social is coming to bring you “The First Jew In Canada: A Trans Tale"- In 1738, a young trans man named Jacques LaFargue left France for what’s now Quebec City— his story is interwoven with that of a trans Jewish immigrant to Canada 300 years later— Don’t miss this.
kamii.easyshul.com
Easyshul | Synagogue Software Management - Synagogue Eco-System
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
you lost me when you got to "as strangers" -- when do you think this happened (that's not initially the Babylonian Exile, which was in fact largely elites, to be sure)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BOSTON CAMBRIDGE SOMERVILLE MEDFORD JP ALLSTON BRIGHTON BROOKLINE ALL Y'ALL DO NOT MISS THIS @snarkbat.bsky.social
allshewrotebooks.com
All She Wrote Books Presents: Author Elsa Sjunneson | All She Wrote Books
Join us as we welcome author and disability activist Elsa Sjunneson to celebrate the release of her latest book, Dear Blind Lady!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BUY THIS BOOK COME TO THESE EVENTS
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why grapple with the harm you (& your ancestors) did when you can cosplay &/or project it onto others instead? Literally why we're here banning history books instead of walking into every reckoning the 1619 Project invited us towards. Literally why a genocide is being called self-defense.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Welp. (ht @mhughesrob.bsky.social)
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why everyone wants to be Irish now #fyp
TikTok video by Meditations for the anxious
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh ya there’s a ton already written on the baked in antisemitism of the TERFs and I can see *that* Venn diagram lining up neatly with Maha
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hahaha if only they saw some of the processed shit on some kosher tables (this slang is weird because goy means nonjew yet I bet the guys slinging this around aren’t implying that to be Jewish is better)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I will be seeing this film post haste: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyq6...
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CLARISSA Trailer (2026) Ayo Edebiri, Sophie Okonedo
YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They totally would. And then some sort of martial law shit here to cancel midterms or something. Reminder that when 3.5% of a nation is engaged in *sustained nonviolence campaigns* over a year or so they have a chance of real success, even regime change.
lifeisasacredtext.com
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Swords to Plowshares Act, the final undoing of Christian white nationalist theocracy. (Maybe we don’t call it that actually but come on)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🧵
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
one year visiting scholar gig in Tampa Bay, why don't they put salaries in these things, welcome to 2026, academia
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Cohn Visiting Chair in Jewish Thought, Assistant Director of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies
Job Description Summary The Cohn Visiting Chair in Jewish Thought/Assistant Director of the CCJS position brings a Jewish scholar specializing in Jewish thought to Saint Leo University’s Center for Ca...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
well, his Catholicism would be a lot more like the pope's, for one
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And a federal officer just shot someone in NYC. EARLY VOTE AND GET EVERYONE ELSE TO EARLY VOTE. The midterms are going to be a shitshow and we must flood the polls with democracy.
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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These are the grandchildren of the people who went to lynchings for entertainment.
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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know a lot of people who know Merton from "The Seven Storey Mountain" and use his early work to claim that spirituality should be a kind of withdrawal from society and its harms. So I think it's valuable to look at his other work, and see how outspoken and committed he was to working in the world
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The poet, writer and monk Thomas Merton wrote a deliciously subversive "confession of crimes against the state" in 1960-- in middle of the Cold War, as the McCarthy era was just beginning to ebb, and the Vietnam War had already been underway for five years. He knew from jingoism. This is a treat:
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Merton's Confession of Crimes Against the State
spiritual resistance looks like a lot of things
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
reporting from a blue state: the kids know JK sucks and have lots of anime to watch, why would they bother parents who are giving their kids first books to get hooked on aren't buying them for their kiddies either (and probably most parents who would give them to their kids have copies already)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
and yet right there he actually knew the definition and there was gonna be no journo in the pool willing to open up the OED to quote the correct thing in his face because invertebrate culture
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yep
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a post extolling the praises of @deafyoda.bsky.social, who has done ASL interpretation for me on three webinars now, and who is wonderful -- professional, delightful, totally appropriate rates, all that good stuff. If you're doing things on Zoom or etc., I highly recommend.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/sude...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Very brown"
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ohhh this is a clip for the SYLLABI
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From Sense & Sensibility, inviting all sorts of qs abt casting: "Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion...Marianne was still handsomer.....Her skin was very brown, but from its transparency, her complexion was uncommonly brilliant..& in her eyes, which were very dark, there was a spirit.."-
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I imagine people have looked at this more closely, I'm just spitballing here (based largely on what I've picked up on, and even a few crunchy hippie antivaxxers in my extended universe, not people whose kids have access to my kids TYVM)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I am of the OLD NATURAL WAYS OF THE LAND not like those imported, elite, harmful ideas brought in by doctors and scientists trying to impose their scary processes on me and my children!!" you know?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
vibes, no? Am I making this up? VS "I am natural and of the LAND and the VOLK and returning to the OLD WAYS" - it's not just the anti-intellectualism that makes the MAHA to MAGA pipeline so easy. There's coded white supremacy shit there in the background to start with.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
-- and this is off the top of my head, one of you might have something on this -- how much of the MAHA garbage has some coded antisemitism at the root. Obviously there's the faked autism study, but also some "we don't trust those fancy elites" "those urban doctors sure seem sneaky and suspicious" +
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not just vile experiments and Mississippi appendectomies (forced sterilization) but there's tons of data on medical racism now -- COVID, birthing care, the lingering racisms about Black folks and pain, what isn't taught in med school, etc. and yeah, white folks-- NOT the same basis. I wonder+
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
amazing
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People out here making the human rights case for democracy
Sign saying we deserve hotties in office with a pic of Sayed, Acton, Talarico and Cooke and a QR to get involved
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s time it’s time it’s time it’s time it’s time it’s time This should be the baseline
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: The feds have filed their update in one of the multiple ongoing lawsuits seeking to restrict mifepristone, this one out of Louisiana. It says the FDA plans to complete its “review” of mifepristone’s safety by December, and release a report by March. Notably—after the midterm elections.
litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: in court-ordered update on the status of a bogus FDA “review” of the abortion drug mifepristone, DOJ says data coming in December with review complete “not later than March 2027.” Footnote says they could restrict access as data comes in 👀 litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
Case 6:25-cv-01491-DCJ-DJA Document 278
Filed 10/07/26
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
LAFAYETTE DIVISION
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, et al.,
No. 6:25-cv-01491-DCJ-DJA
Federal Defendants,
and
DANCO LABORATORIES, et al.,
Intervenor Defendants.
FEDERAL DEFENDANTS' STATUS REPORT
On April 7, 2026, this Court denied Plaintiffs' motion for preliminary relief and
granted Federal Defendants' motion to stay proceedings "pending completion of [the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration's] ongoing review of the mifepristone REMS and
issuance of any resulting agency decision." ECF No. 258 at 36. The Court directed FDA to file a report within six months "providing the Court with the status of its review in
terms of process and any updated timeframe for completion of the review." Id.
Accordingly, FDA reports as follows:
FDA is conducting a study to assess the safety of mifepristone, in a
regimen with misoprostol, for the medical termination of intrauterine pregnancy6:25-cv-01491-DCJ-DJA Document 278
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REMS review. In addition, FDA has been directed to reconsider the 2023 decision
modifying the REMS in two other cases. See Purcell v. Kennedy, Civ. No. 17-00493, 2025
WL 310785 (D. Haw. Oct. 30, 2025); Whole Woman's Health Alliance v. U.S. Food and Drug
Admin., Civ. No. 3:23-00019, 2026 WL 2125567 (W.D. Va. July 23, 2026). Among other
things, those decisions require FDA to apply statutory factors in 21 U.S.C. § 355-1(a)(1)
that, based on the Agency's interpretation of the statutory requirements, it has not
previously evaluated in approving modifications to the REMS; compare mifepristone to
certain other drugs with comparable risks under 21 U.S.C. § 355-1(f) (2) (D)(i); consider
publications beyond those that FDA evaluated in reaching its 2023 decision; and consider the views of patients, providers, and pharmacists if the Agency is considering
imposing elements to assure safe use (also known as ETASU) under 21 U.S.C. § 355-
1(f)(2) as part of the Mifepristone REMS Program.
7. Following completion of its study and review, FDA will decide whether
changes to the Mifepristone REMS Program are necessary and, if applicable, initiate any
such changes in accordance with established processes. FDA anticipates that it will be
able to provide an update to its estimated date of completion as more information
becomes known, particularly in March 2027 when it expects to complete its report on
the final study results
3 In response to the Court's direction to describe "FDA's authority to issue interim orders addressing the prescribing or distribution of a drug if confronted with concerning information during its review," ECF No. 229, the government previously outlined FDA's authorities regarding approval suspension, labeling changes, and REMS
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The stories themselves will not result in systemic change. The stories may be the driver to be part of a mass mobilization of millions of people rising up also against ICE also against the desecration of voting rights also against many other harms in a sustained movement towards something big
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
more big government as in give people healthcare and childcare less big government as in have the right to murder and cage them
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what if -- check me here -- the State didn't have the right to take people's lives
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feeling some kind of way about Cornell and rape culture? About the election? About ICE? So show up and do something! BIGLY ORGANIZING TRAINING TONIGHT!! Register here 👇
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Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I would point out that there’s only one of them on that stage who helped overturn Roe v Wade, and that’s her
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish the carceral state. May Curtis Flowers' memory be for a revolution and his name and struggle never forgotten.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
by @self.agency, brilliantly structured, essential, applying what Jews ourselves defined about genocide denial to much of our community's attitudes towards Gaza these last years.
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When Jews Deny Genocide · Jewschool
“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the
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