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Rabbi Ruti Regan

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Feminist rabbi. I like democracy and inclusive education. #ParshaChat

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · Feb 21

My heart broke on October 7th.

On Election Night, the broken pieces of my heart froze.

And… I’m alive, and those of us who are alive have obligations.

We have to find a way forward, somehow.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 3h

So many of them are so YOUNG. I hope they’ll be ok.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 3h

Wow.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 4h

BREAKING: Israel says Hamas hands over the first seven hostages to the Red Cross, per AP

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t let it fall apart. Don’t let it fall apart.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 8h

Right? Being an antisemite involves hostility to Jews, so of *course* there’s a way in which hostility to a majority-Jewish country appeals to antisemites!

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 9h

I ate WAY too much hummus while I was a broke student in Jerusalem so now I kind of hate it TBH

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 11h

Now I want duck skewers, shawarma with those eggplants, and/or sabich.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12h

There’s also something similar about conspiracy theories that *vastly* overestimate how much power Israel has and conspiracy theories that *vastly* overestimate how much power the DNC has and elected Democrats in office have.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, there are a lot of parallels.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12h

This drives me nuts too.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 14h

Say more about what you’re looking for? Is this for a project? (It might jog my memory about other stuff I’ve read)

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

Engendering Judaism by Rachel Adler has a lot of material on Jewish liturgy from a feminist perspective.

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

Really interesting history of Holocaust memorialization in the US by Jewish communities *prior to* 1967:

We Remember with Reverence and Love by Hasia Diner.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

The My People’s Prayerbook and My People’s Haggadah series’ edited by Lawrence Hoffman are also really interesting and have academic commentary from a number of directions.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know if this counts within your definition of liturgy, but I learned a *ton* from this one:

Rabbi Michael Hilton
Bar Mitzvah, a History

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

For pityut in cultural context:

Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 15h

Inventing Jewish Ritual by Vanessa Ochs.

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Hannah Sto Helit @hannahstohelit.bsky.social · 15h

IDK if I have enough Jewish Studies followers on here but-

Interested in any books on the development of Jewish liturgy- preferably in English. Any topic from medieval piyut to the introduction of guitar into services to whatever else. Maybe books from rabbinical/cantorial school reading lists?

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 17h

I wish I knew how to heal the breech between the Israeli Jewish community and the American Jewish community, you know?

We should care about each other more than we do. In both directions.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah. It’s unlikely that he played a meaningful role in making the deal and unlikely that he even meaningfully understands what’s going on, but he sure does still know how to make it about him.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18h

I think we would have been better off in every way with a president who cares about people, cares about democracy, builds up the military and diplomatic capacity of the USA, *and* knows how to be ruthless when that’s what the moment calls for.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18h

I think that good presidents also threaten bullies and bad actors into compliance on the international stage — it’s a basic responsibility of the job.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18h

Some politicians are honorable. Let’s elect them some better colleagues.

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18h

‎אַחֵינוּ כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל
‎הַנְּתוּנִים בַּצָּרָה וּבַשִּׁבְיָה
‎עוֹמְדִים בֵּין בַּיָּם וּבֵין בַּיַּבָּשָׁה
‎הַמָּקוֹם יְרַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם
‎וְיוֹצִיאֵם מִצָּרָה לִרְוָחָה
‎וּמֵאֲפֵלָה לְאוֹרָה
‎מִשִּׁעְבּוּד לִגְאֻלָּה
‎הָשָׁתָא בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

If you work in the Office of Special Education, have been RIF'd and want to talk to a journalist about it, please hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.

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