Rabbi Sandra
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Rabbi & Executive Director for @ncjews4justice.bsky.social ✊🏽 Musician & Songwriter | Activist |Speaker. ✡️🏳️🌈🌱 👇🏾 Read the newsletter: RabbiSandra.substack.com
Life with Susan and she wonders why I don’t want a snake in the house
Coffee first. Cantaloupe from our garden. Torah later. Justice all day and everyday.
Rabbi Sandra@rabbisandra.org · 7h agoGood morning. May today bring you something worth smiling about.
Good morning. May today bring you something worth smiling about.
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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The White House used to project history. Now it's starting to look like someone searched "luxury" on Temu and clicked "buy all
Chicago and I have a complicated relationship. 😂 Last time I got stranded at O'Hare overnight. This trip, I waited an hour for Lyft because it took three drivers to find my hotel. I made it to my gate just as my boarding group was boarding. Adventure!
It’s Sunday, and a new week begins. The opening word of this week’s Torah portion, Re’eh: “See.” Before we rush into the week, may we slow down long enough to notice the people around us, and the opportunities to make someone’s life a little better. May this be a week of seeing clearly.
“Believe in Yourself” has been one of my favorite songs since I was a kid. While I was in rabbinical school it became the song that got me through the program. And more than that it has gotten me through a lot of challenges, more that I can even remember open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
Eikev: Believe In Yourself
Believe in Yourself
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I grew up during the AIDS crisis. I remember. I remember the fear, the grief, and the people we lost. Dr. Fauci worked hard to save lives. Congress should investigate COVID. Ask the hard questions. Learn from the mistakes.
Eikev teaches that lasting change comes from steady commitment, not dramatic moments. The choices we make every day matter. May we continue choosing justice, compassion, and courage, one step at a time.
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The GOP should take the energy they are giving to Fauci and give it to the president.
The music industry loves itself some racial segmentation, I swear.
Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category: “I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”
Now listen... this song ain't about who's gay and who ain't. It's about folks who make a career out of telling everybody else how to live. That's what gives me... the Closet Blues.
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
I spoke at a vigil outside the NC Legislative Building calling for an end to the expansion of ICE detention in North Carolina and affirming that every person’s dignity is inherent. abc11.com/post/protest...
Protesters at legislature call to keep ICE out of NC
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the North Carolina Legislative Building to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices.
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It’s the Shabbat of Comfort and the Shema is in this weeks Torah portion youtube.com/shorts/cXrqG...
It’s the Shabbat of Comfort and the Shema is in this weeks Torah portion
YouTube video by Rabbi Sandra: Torah, Tunes & Tangents
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I was at a songwriting retreat with the wonderful Sue Horowitz. One prompt led me to write a blues song about the destruction of the Second Temple. The more I sat with it, the more I realized the song was really asking a bigger question. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
The Day Judaism Almost Ended
A note before we begin
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Your daily reminder: Racism makes no sense. It’s built on myths, sustained by fear, and justified by lies.
Exclusive: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
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I did Torah study this morning and it was so much fun. I focused on three questions from Devarim: youtu.be/E1GUyoamhYs?...
Torah study for Devarim
YouTube video by Rabbi Sandra: Torah, Tunes & Tangents
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