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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Being Jewish on main on a day when many Jews have better things to do than social media....

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rosh HaShanah is a time for renewal and hope, part of a cycle of reflection, making amends and bringing about change in our lives which begins with the preceding month of Elul and ends on Yom Kippur (except we have two more last chances because there's a deep understanding of human psychology in

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה L’shanah tovah u’metukah May there be much that is sweet and joyful in the coming year for all of us ❤️ #RoshHaShanah

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I made this account, maybe two years ago, because I wanted to connect with Jews again. And I inadvertently abandoned this account because my feed made sure I never forgot how vulnerable we are. Today I'm back scrolling Rosh HaShanah messages from strangers seeking that small bit of family and home.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 11/09/2026

Shanah Tovah!

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have a first draft of a very early scene in my novel posted somewhere I can link to. If we interact here and you'd like to read it, let me know and I'll DM you the link. 1500 words, est reading time 6 minutes.

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Hawkeye 🚫👑 💙👊🏼 @dontdeflect.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Got it in two even though I misidentified a picture (it's not deviled eggs) and was just winging it on several of the connections (these are the kinds of things they put together). Like my intuition cheated. Oh well 😂 www.britannica.com/games/loop

britannica.com

The Loop, a daily picture puzzle game | Britannica

Everything is connected: Arrange the pictures in a circle so that all links make sense. You have five tries to get it right.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A lot of people have convinced themselves that there’s this one weird trick where you replace “the Jews” with “Israel” and Protocols-level neo-Nazi rhetoric magically becomes progressive

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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Jewish News @jewishnews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In a city where organisers fear antisemitic attacks simply for hosting it, the Nova Exhibition arrives carrying a warning far beyond the events of 7 October

jewishnews.co.uk

The Nova exhibition is in London: peace begins with the courage to look

In a city where organisers fear antisemitic attacks simply for hosting it, the Nova Exhibition arrives carrying a warning far beyond the events of 7 October

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Mine isn't writer's block then. It's a symptom of fibromyalgia & ME/chronic fatigue, when my brain just refuses to cooperate with organising words. The number of ideas is usually manageable.

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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 19/05/2026

Metropolitan Police: "British Jews now appear on the hate lists of every major extremist movement: extreme right‑wing groups, Islamist terrorists, elements of the extreme left and hostile state actors. ...Jewish communities are living with the consequences of that risk daily."

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Kosherart @kosherart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m still baffled by those in the LGBTQ+ community who are pro-Hamas/Houthi/Hezbollah/IRGC. How do they ignore that those groups hate them along with Israel & Jews? Those groups want to kill anyone who isn’t a cishet Muslim. They have more in common with Christian Nationalists than we do but>

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Music has always had the ability to speak to us, and for us, in a way nothing else can. That’s why, if you want to understand the last 250 years of American life, one of the best ways to do it is to listen to the music that defined them.

rollingstone.com

Honoring the Music That Made Us

Barack Obama pays tribute to American songs and artists that have shown our country the way forward, from country to blues, Motown, jazz, and more.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

THE Perfect Pop Song - incredible voices that fit together so well set on top of a catchy groove. Even tells of a healthy supportive relationship. It's the best.

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And At the core that is what antizionists really do hate… the civil rights movement bc it gave Black and Jewish people power white Christian’s didn’t want them or marginalized people To have

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think I've done it - a complicated first chapter scene I've been trying to figure out for months now. There isn't as much menace as I wanted though. Not sure if I can edit it in. But I have something. A big step closer to feeling like I can start asking for beta readers for the opening chapters.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@nerdjoy.social I did end up using your learned incompetence idea for the third man. The scene was getting too long so it was either axe the third one altogether or do it more as a bit part. Mum using the wrong washing liquid. Again. sat nicely for that 😬😄 THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

it is not coincidental that the main excuse for antisemitism before the creation of Israel was that Jews were stateless, and the main excuse after it has been that Jews have the effrontery to want a state.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

omg wee furry overlord isn't even begging for moar sausages. he must be full up still. i was sure reminding him of such culinary marvels by giving him the last one this morning would be a problem.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

9:31 am wee dog still sound asleep. it's grey and rainy, lots of wind, out so i haven't opened the curtains yet and probably won't until he either wakes up or i decide i'm ready to face going out in it.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Wee dog interrupted his post-sausage feast food coma to beg for more food. Absolutely sound asleep. I go to the kitchen, there he is in the door, head cocked and perpetually imploring Cavalier eyes. Five minutes later, he's out cold again.

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

www.instagram.com/p/DYM6rKrkRu... 1/

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It must be true given overall polling support for rejoin that most leave constitiencies now have a rejoin majority.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Writing calm characters, not really applicable to mine. Will give it a read anyway. Face palm. Someone wrote a character study on Ratree and made it an article.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Wee dog is so fixated on MOAR sausages he's refusing to go out. He does not comprehend how many he's had, or my concern for what is will do to his bowels. He has a poor track record with human food.

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I think I am rapidly coming to the conclusion (despite many years of giving people the benefit of the doubt), that people don't actually care about Israeli policy. They don't care about settlements. It's not about human rights or the fight for equality. That's all a ruse. They just don't like Jews

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is why Jews in the UK are thinking, "should we get the fuck out of here?" It's got nothing to do with security funding, government platitudes. It's got everything to do with a culture of permissive antisemitism. Where Jews can be targeted, and these attacks then get defended, justified

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People who would not in a million years ever suggest someone speaking Arabic was grounds to attack them - who would rightly think anyone arguing that was horrifyingly racist - seem to have a blindspot when a Jewish man in a Jewish area is beaten up by a masked gang for speaking Hebrew

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

neighbour brought a big bag of warm sausages for the wee dog and this is the best thing he's ever experienced and why can't he eat ALL of them now. i have to go out for a bit and i'm worried he'll get into everything trying to find the rest.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“We know how totalitarian mindsets work … This kind of ideology always attaches itself to the sense of being on the right side of history, being on the righteous side. There’s a very strong, moralising, puritan surface on which this ideology can attach itself.”

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

daaaamn london

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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

⌨️ Omri Schwartz (@omristuff) 3/4

Text discussing how "Zio" was used as a coded slur for "Jew" by a former KKK Grand Wizard to associate Jewish people with control of media, finance, and government, making antisemitism seem socially acceptable. It further explains how similar frameworks have migrated beyond the far-right, with terms like "Zio tears" and "Anti-Zionism" being used by the left for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activism, repurposing old tropes under a new guise.

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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

⌨️ Omri Schwartz (@omristuff) 2/4

Post with text discussing the connection between anti-Zionism and antisemitism: "omristuff Someone asked and I answered so figured I would share. The claims people make that “anti-Zionist” is somehow disconnected from hatred of Jews is dishonest at best. This pejorative use of Zio / Zionism did not emerge in a vacuum. It was deliberately popularised by white supremacists as a substitute for the word “Jew,” allowing classic antisemitic conspiracy theories to be repackaged as political critique. Changing the label doesn’t change the true intent or the impact."

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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🎙️Ben Chertoff 🎥⌨️ @honestreporting.com After 1948, 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries, stripped of citizenship, property, and rights. Israel absorbed them, granted citizenship, and integrated them.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

From the number of notifications it appears some folks have been having quite a row. I'm going to have to look some time, aren't I? 🫣

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

i just described a man as "fashionably hip" in the novel and that's decades out of date 😂 what's a less ancient equivalent? character is basically a pick up artist type but probably not as cool and slick as he fancies himself.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Some of the neighbours talk to me more now but only to ask about the wee dog. Only one even pretends to care about me. Meanwhile all of my energy is going into taking care of him and the garden. Which means there is just no one taking care of me. Chronic illness sucks. Do not recommend.

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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Here’s the answer, from an excellent history by Captain Allen on X. x.com/cptallenhist...

Captain Allen ®
@CptAllenHistory
X.com
The word "Nakba" (catastrophe) wasn't invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish "ethnic cleansing."
It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster.
He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world - their leaders' arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state.
Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had "imaginary victories" and put their public
"to sleep" with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn't wipe out the Jews.
The original Nakba wasn't about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later.
It was about the Arab leaders' catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose.
They've spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt.
That's the only real "Nakba" they can't forgive.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

At a cheese truck: A small human (3?) is given a cheese toastie and promptly shoves it down the front of his shorts. Dad, deadpan, chest shaking from holding in laughter says: "Yeah, that's not sandwich storage, mate." Small Human wiggles a bit. "Yes it is!" (5)

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hadn't heard of the attack on the Jewish woman, possibly because my Bluesky bubble has deemed such things of inferior importance to pop music contests, or possibly because such incidents are so normal now as to elicit no remark

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Completed today's more on geometry (swapping two sequences of 2, etc) rather than working out the links. It's like the spatial part of my brain took over for the verbal. www.britannica.com/games/loop

britannica.com

The Loop, a daily picture puzzle game | Britannica

Everything is connected: Arrange the pictures in a circle so that all links make sense. You have five tries to get it right.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Pinched from a friend on FB and reposted here with a weary sense of foreboding...

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