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Rabbi Sandra

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Rabbi • Exececutive Director @ncjews4justice.bsky.social aka Carolina Jews for Justice | Activist • Writer • Musician • Speaker ✍🏾 RabbiSandra.substack.com https://linktr.ee/rabbisandra

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · Jun 18

Long thread please read:

Many of you have asked me to leave Substack. I understand why. I really do. There are valid concerns with the platform, and I take them seriously. At the same time, Substack is currently the best option for me.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h

Nobody ever wants to talk about or admit this but it happened.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 3h

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 3h

What will you tell your children, your grandchildren?https://open.substack.com/pub/rabbisandra/p/part-1-when-your-children-ask-what?r=1vh8dw&utm_medium=ios

Part 1: When Your Children Ask What You Did

This is Part 1 of a two-part series.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 10h

We are living in a time when the powerful seek to control truth, when cruelty is dressed up as policy, and when compassion is dismissed as weakness. But neither Judaism nor the Black experience has ever depended on comfort for survival.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 3d

Shavua tov! Good morning! Happy Sunday. How’s everybody doing today?

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not an accident or coincidence that the POTUS is deploying southern troops to northern cities, this is strategy. Does he want to redo the civil war?

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 8d

Join us today at 12 EST www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/virtual_sukk...

Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 8d

Because hope is a form of faith. Because every generation must build its sukkah again — and promise: we will not abandon one another when the winds rise.

Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 8d

The Torah commands: “You shall rejoice in your festival with your children, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow.” Even in uncertainty, we make room for joy, for community, for courage because joy is an act of resistance.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 8d

Under the Canopy of a Shaken World.
This Sukkot, the world feels fragile. Hope feels harder to hold. But Sukkot has always been a festival of fragility. We sit in open huts, under a sky we cannot control, to remember: our security has never come from walls, but from one another.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 8d

IKYDK: Christian nationalism is the uniquely American form of fascism.
Where European fascism wrapped itself in the flag and the myth of racial purity, American fascism wraps itself in the cross and the myth of a Christian nation.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 9d

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ICE tracking apps removed by Apple after Trump pressure

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 9d

Justice is how we show up — with courage, compassion, and faith — even when the world feels broken.
We can’t pray for peace and ignore injustice.
Sometimes the holiest thing we can do is refuse to look away.

Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 10d

I never thought active resistance would mean rolling up my sleeve for a COVID shot and a flu vaccine.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 11d

The pattern is the same: racism dressed up as fiscal concern.
This has never been about healthcare.
It’s about who they think deserves humanity.
It was racism then, and it’s racism today.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 11d

Funny how—
Yesterday, the outrage was that Black people were “abusing the system” and getting free care.
Today, it’s that undocumented immigrants might get care at all.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 11d

Check this out www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/sacred_resis...

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 15d

How many times can we pray for peace
while the world trembles with violence?

Still, we lift our voices—
again and again—
because silence is surrender,
and prayer keeps hope alive.

May peace come.
May it come soon.
May it come for all.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 17d

That’s funny and sad

Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 17d

Antifa ≠ organization.
It’s a decentralized movement opposing fascism.

The “organization” myth is politics—a way to turn dissent into a boogeyman and militarize the response.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 17d

I believe the current indiscriminate wave of immigration crackdowns is about the fear that by 2045, white people will no longer be the majority in America.
That fear is being weaponized, turned into policies.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 19d

"We are witnessing a deliberate attempt to return us to that primordial chaos, with religious extremism as the weapon to unmake the democratic order that protects us all." rabbisandra.substack.com/p/the-shofar...

The Shofar’s Call: Why 5786 Demands Sacred Resistance

My Musings is a reader-supported publication.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20d

Jimmy Kimmel thanked his audience for sticking with him on Wednesday, giving a shout-out to viewers whose affiliates were still refusing to air his show, as well as friends who “are never watching the show at any other time.”

Kimmel Says There’s Plenty of Room in the ‘Bad Ratings’ Club

The late night host pointed to President Trump’s approval level after he said on social media to “let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings.”

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 23d

5785 was… well, interesting.

As we step into 5786, may we bring with us the wisdom of the past year and the resilience to shape a sweeter, more just world.

Shanah Tovah u’Metukah — wishing you a year of renewal, courage, and blessing.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 23d

Outrage in America isn’t calibrated to the severity of violence—it’s calibrated to the identity of the victims open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

The Permission Structure of Grief

My Musings is a reader-supported publication.

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