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Let’s talk about sex, baby

Posted on March 14, 2019

Let’s talk about sex, baby

Such Nonsense Do you remember when you learnt about sex? I … Continue reading “Let’s talk about sex, baby”

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Posted on March 14, 2019

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Because when it’s about Jewish women the same ru

Because when it’s about Jewish women the same rules don’t apply?
When did r4pe become a tactic to fight oppression? Hey #metoo @metoomvmt your silence is deafening.

#metoounlessyoureajew

Sign the petition https://www.metoo-unlessurajew.com

This is the most intense knitting project I’ve e

This is the most intense knitting project I’ve ever done. It is @westknits #geogradientmkal2023
To all those of you who are not knitters let me tell you about it. The amazing designer tells you in September what kind of yarn you need for the mystery shawl and then he releases a clue to knit every week of October.
You knit alongside thousands of people all over the world, showing off their colors, sharing their own adjustments and creativity.
I’d never done anything like this before and my hunt for the right colors took me to all local yarn stores until I got what I wanted at @theknittingloft

Two days after this #mkal began (mystery knit a-long), the most atrocious and barbaric thing happened to my people.
I had planned to post and share the process of this shawl but instead I’ve been posting about hate, about 240 people who were brutally taken from their families as hostages, I’ve been posting about history and reality, because although all other minorities put the work to learning on the other, we, as Jews, don’t deserve that privilege from the world (yes, I’m being sarcastic). We have to yell in order to be heard, we have to cry in order to be seen as humans. Let alone a minority. .02% of the world.
And yet the recipients of so much hate.

Every stitch of this shawl reminds me of those who’ve stood by our side and those who’ve justified r4pe because “context”.
Every stitch reminds me of all those who reached out and keep doing it, using their voice, surprised at the blindness of the progressive allies we’ve stood by and who have now thrown us to the trash. Because Jews, you know? Favorite scapegoat of the world. Not minority enough for all you social warriors.
Don’t worry? Our #intergenerationaltrauma is alive and well and you keep not learning.
Don’t worry, the Jewish people around the world are feeling our connection to each other is stronger than ever before.

Don’t worry, we’ve survived persecution, murder, pogroms and hate for thousands of years. We’ll survive this too. And we’ll remember.
And we’ll keep on knitting beautiful things.

#neveragainisnow #neveragain #jewishknitter #jewishknittersofinstagram #westknitsmkal2023 #hamasisisis

On October 7, 2023, the world changed when Hamas a

On October 7, 2023, the world changed when Hamas attacked innocent civillians in Israel by beheading and burning babies, raping women, killing young concert goers, and butchering entire families. As a result, 1400 Israelis were murdered, and 240 men, women and children were kidnapped and are currently being held hostage in Gaza.

Since this happened, a lot of people turned their backs on the Jewish Community. People are parading in the streets spreading antisemetic hate through the world, even here in Ontario, Canada. Today, antisemitism is up 500%. Hateful people have been ripping down signs of the Israeli hostages, posting swastikas, referencing Hitler, mocking the babies murdered, boycotting Jewish businesses, and some are even denying the atrocities of October 7th. Innocent Jewish people have been violently attacked and even stabbed for no reason other then being born Jewish.

We are hurt when we hear that innocent life has been lost in a war, whether Israeli or Palestinians - but this war isn’t between Israel and Palestinians. It’s about Israel vs. Terrorism. Israel vs. Hamas. Humanity vs. Evil. We do NOT support Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization.
There are only 16 million Jewish people (0.2% of the world’s population). With such a small percentage, a bunch of us influencers wanted to show our support toward Israel and to condem Hamas.

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By @livingjewishly
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Wish this was required reading for all humanity ri

Wish this was required reading for all humanity right now

#humankind #rutgerbregman @rutger_bregman

Because the only thing keeping me calm and sane at

Because the only thing keeping me calm and sane at the moment is knitting.
Here’s my clue 2 of the beautiful creation by @westknits
I’ve never done an #mkal before and I’m loving it, I love the creativity and the adaptations and the fact that the knitting community all around the world is knitting, each stitch a piece of ourselves.
I adapted the new clue 1 according to @pinkqueenyarns

#geogradientmkal2023 #mkal2023 #mkal2023westknits

Do you text your parent’s not to go to temple to

Do you text your parent’s not to go to temple tomorrow because there are threats?
We do.
Do you get texts from friends telling you to be careful tomorrow?
We do.
Do you question going to a gathering of the members of your tribe because it could be dangerous?
We do.
Do you question going to your temple of choice because it may be attacked?
We do.
Are you scared to wear emblems of your faith in public?
We are.
Do you get threats because you talk or post about a massacre that happened to your people?
We do.
Is the mourning you feel by the horrors that have befallen your people tainted because so many around you try to justify it?
Ours is.
Are you scared that tomorrow will bring more knowledge of friends and family being slaughtered?
We do.

We are Jewish. We are terrified.
Don’t stay silent.
The world stayed silent not so long ago.
Will you do that too?

I don't speak about my origins on social media. I

I don't speak about my origins on social media. I don't talk about my religion. It is personal, it is my journey.
It is the first time I have ever posted such political things on my IG feed. Because silence is very loud.
Did you hear? Silence is loud.
And right now it is so present. So encompassing.
I won't talk about the complex history of Israel. I won't write (much) of how I stay quiet in conversations with the rest of my family because the right is not the way. Because I do believe Palestinians have a right, many rights. And they have suffered enough.
But this is not about that. This is about horror. This is about how if this kind of horror: massive rape, murder, butchery, kidnapping, had happened in any other nation, in any other place, everyone would be outraged. But that isn't happening. I hear and read justification. There is none. There can't be.
I see silence. Such a loud silence my heart is clenched in hurt and devastation.
We have a right to defend ourselves. Because if we don't we are butchered.
I have conflicting emotions around Israel, especially its government. I also know, in the depths of my soul and body, that Israel is essential for my existence, as well as the existence of my children. I know this as all the intergenerational trauma has been emerging in the past few days. As the escaping the war as a refugee, as most of my family, on both sides, was butchered and massacred because they were Jewish. That is in me.
I have been wondering, again, if I should carry my passport with me, because you never know when you have to flee.

I am scared of the silence because it means that all those people around me are ok with this happening to Jews. I am Jewish.
Is it ok if this had happened to me?
if Israel doesn't exist we have the Holocaust. We have pogroms. That is a reality.
We are jewish and we are terrified, of what happened over the weekend, of the war that is happening, and of the repercussions. Because whenever Israel is in the headlines there will be more acts of antisemitism around us. Always.
Have you discussed antisemitism with your children?
It is time for empathy and learning. Not for judging and justification.

Don't stay silent.

A new year. A new beginning. The water was a place

A new year. A new beginning. The water was a place of solace and a place to drop all the feelings that were too heavy to carry.
Now it’s a place to let it all go and be tender and light.

If you know me #inreallife you’ll know I’m a k

If you know me #inreallife you’ll know I’m a knitter.
I’ve been knitting since I was a kid. Then I forgot how to knit and learnt how to crochet, the most complex and tiniest of projects: skullcaps. I crocheted for many years until I lost the fear of two needles.
If you were in university with me you saw me knitting, if we’ve had coffee, I probably brought my project with me.
#knitting has been incredibly soothing for me.
It has also been a comfort to delve into the world of the concrete and the physical when so much that I’ve always done has been in the ether, such as writing and radio, even coaching and teaching and speaking engagements. They’re all ephemeral. They’re only present for a moment and disappear.
But knitting, a piece of work you’ve made, that stays. That’s concrete. That exists.
It is also a beautiful representation of manny moments. Seconds intertwined in your yarn, thoughts and places that are part of the fabric, because traveling with a project means it imbeds itself with whatever it is you’re living and doing.
Ah, the joy of knitting.
The joy of wearing something you made, or gifting it knowing that that loved one is not only wearing hours of work, but each stitch has a thread of pondering.

This piece holds stitches of my life.

And bravery, knitting is always, always daring to try new things, new color schemes, new patterns, not being Adrain’s of making a mistake and having to undo hours of work. It’s vulnerability with creativity.

And it’s friendship. Because if it weren’t for friends who are as obsessive as me like @kiwicanuck42 I wouldn’t have knit my first shawl with over a kilometer of yarn.
There’s nothing for blue times like sending each other links to yarns and projects. Forever, thank you.

Have I convinced you yet to pick up a hook or a pair of needles?

(The yarn is by @thebluebrickish , design by @vectorknits )
#knitting #knittersgonnaknit #knitttingthenightaway #knittingproject #thoughtsonknitting #heartstrings #knitandpurl #shawlknitting #heartstringsshawl

It’s been almost a week since I’ve been in my

It’s been almost a week since I’ve been in my un home. The place I left 12 years ago, the country and city that saw me grow, study, become.
I have returned since many times, each one a bit changed. Each one further away from the place of origin. When the tenth year happened I felt the most distant, foreign to my place of birth.

This is the first time I’ve returned without family with me or family welcoming me (they’re away). I have the space to be in this place that didn’t recognize me any longer.
Or so I thought.
Places I walk through without conversation or distraction are filled with memories of moments, lives lived.
The people I have seen, filling my days with conversations have been a reminder that I am loved here too. We see each other in the mirror of our gazes and we see our growth, our changes, our pains. We are no longer twenty.
And yet here we are. Caring. Loving. Listening to our journeys.

It has been a wonderful return to home the un home. To recognize myself differently in this context which was once the only one I had.
The mirror of our memories. The mirror of our friendships. They all turn their gaze and gift me a different perspective of who I am. And who I’ve become.

#reflections #unhome #home #cominghome #oldfriends #friendshiplong #lifelonglearning #lifejourney

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