Women in Kinship began to manifest for me around early-January when San Francisco passed a resolution calling for a “sustained ceasefire” in the conflict between Gaza and Israel. The City Council meeting was full of people spewing antisemitic slurs and using hateful and intimidating tactics to scare those who attended to defend Israel. When people call for a ceasefire…
Dear Mayor Breed, I am a local metal artist, and a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. I have been making Judaica, from a universal perspective— in San Francisco for over 25 years. I have always been an interfaith advocate, and I have always been a proponent of peace. I can’t think of anyone who would want to support the killing…
A Prayer: I’m calling! Call it the messiah, G-d (Shaddai), call it Aliens, call it Psilocybin, call it Ohm, call it the Sounds of the Oceans and the Seas, call it Allah, call it the Arranger of the Clouds and the Cosmos, or the Colors of the Sunrise and Sunset. Call it a good night’s Sleep. Call it the River…
Thanks to you— we’ve raised over $830 for Hand in Hand Schools in Jerusalem. We’ve now secured a challenge/matching fund up to $1,800. Your donations will be matched. Click here to learn all about the project. Here’s the link to order the mezuzah. Please share this with your friends and family!
Today is the one month anniversary (Shloshim) of the horrific attack by Hamas in Israel on the– supposedly– joyous Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The atrocities in the land that are being committed daily are nothing less than unbearable. In these terrible times, I do have something kind to share. Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem that integrates Arab…
As a progressive left-wing voter, it’s been heartbreaking to see so many liberals fall for the rhetoric of Hamas and the enemies of the Jews. Everyday here in San Francisco, I see more and more evidence of antisemitism and divisive tactics on our city streets. While I do not agree with the horrid right wing Israeli government/settlers forcibly removing innocent…
This is from the Jewish Community Relations Council: On Tuesday afternoon, the Richmond City Council is scheduled to vote on an inflammatory and biased resolution accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Gaza. You can read the full text of the proposed resolution here. We need you to tell the Richmond City Council: “Vote No on Anti-Israel Resolution R-1”…
What you choose to do right now will be up to you. I start by being unapologetically Jewish, and take that with me as I lie down and as I rise up, I speak of it on my way. If you’ve never done this, you could perhaps look at your mezuzah, kiss it, and decide if you are ready to…
This post serves as an update to my blog post from 10/08/23 : Brutal Attack in Israel: No Coverage in the SF Chronicle in which I described the shock that there was no coverage of this important situation– and my letter to the Chronicle: “I am not writing about something that appeared in your printed Sunday paper this morning. I’m…
This morning as I sat down to read The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle, I fully expected to see a news story about the surprise attack on Israel and the continuing fall-out. I was shocked to see that there was NO COVERAGE in print whatsoever. I wrote a letter to the editor about it. I publish it here, because I have…
As a Jew in America, and a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, I am angered when others define my race as white. In fact, many Jews are not white— and yet some people, especially in the US as opposed to Europe, think it’s ok to define “our race” as white because many have white skin, and therefore benefit from white…
Since the beginning of my life– long before I turned to metal art for expression, I knew that we were lucky to be alive. And, I felt tasked with carrying on Jewish traditions in the face of anti-semitism. Growing up Jewish in Los Angeles, every year at our annual Passover seder, our Holocaust Surviving grandmother and grandfather would raise a…