Make me one with everything.
I’m glad you’re feeling better,
no, you didn’t miss that much.
Only next week is the deadline to register
if you want to go to the conference.
And we’re making something special
for Shabbat to show the students
we care. A chicken and rice thing
Rinat learned from her Sephardic friend
who works at the day school and those
amazing parve chocolate chip blondies.
Carly said they won’t notice.
Israel, the bombing and the elections, again! Erica said
she was struggling between a narrative of oppression and
a narrative of victimhood and there was a protest outside of the
shuk that the Yellowjackets for Israel set up outside Douglass
with signs that said, “Free Palestine” and “Zionism = Racism.”
You know, AEPi Josh?, he told one of the protestors to
come over for falafel. He has a little bit of a crush on her.
She wouldn’t come. We need more
flour and vegetable oil. Liam started a Costco list.
Oh, also pluralism as a core value and whether
it is most frum denominator or something else
and is that different from just tolerance? Like it’s rude
if you don’t say your pronouns when you meet someone.
Also Judaism’s value proposition.
Aaron said it was an aspiration to abandon idolatry and
Liam said that they shake their fist at God
when they wake up instead of modeh ani
and Melissa said tikkun olam
and to teach humanity by being other,
that we remember the stranger,
because we are always the stranger.
Tal brought bagels from the J.
I’m doing paleo but
I had an Everything
with cream cheese.
Yeah, no, totally worth it.
I think there are a few left.