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This Incredible Jewish Astronaut Was Part of the First All-Female Spacewalk – Kveller

Two astronauts made history today when they participated in the first-ever all-female spacewalk. That’s pretty spectacular in its own right, but it gets even better: one of them is Jewish! On Friday morning, Jessica Meir, 42, a Jewish Swedish-Israeli American, accompanied Christina Koch on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. It was Koch’s fourth …

[jewish-education]

In Search of a Toddler-Friendly Mitzvah – Kveller

How many of the 613 mitzvot can a toddler do? We have a PJ Library CD in the car my daughter likes listen to on repeat (please send us a new one soon, Mr. Grinspoon). One song called “Did a Mitzvah” to the tune of “Found a Peanut” includes such mitzvot as “hugged a sad …

[jewishmuseummd]

Video: What Would Real Inclusion of People With Disabilities Look Like?

Advocating for people with special needs and disabilities always seems like a good thing, right? Well, many people say this, but they don’t actually want to make adjustments when they feel it…

The video focuses on the fact that people with disabilities are often excluded from communities under the guise that they should be part of their own communities. The reasons offered are numerous–and all veiled in euphemisms about how it’s “better” for people with special needs to live “elsewhere.”

[progressivejudaism]

Pink Is Passing On Her Jewish Identity to Her Kids in this Powerful Way – Kveller

Superstar and super-mom Pink (real name: Alecia Beth Moore) doesn’t leave her kids at home when she tours. Her children with husband Carey Hart — Jameson, 18 months, and Willow, 7 — have accompanied her on “Beautiful Trauma” tour since it kicked off last summer. As the singer told Reese Witherspoon on her new talk show, Shine With …

[progressivejudaism]

I Made My Wedding Dress Into a Tallis – Kveller

I had tallis envy. Seriously. “How come,” muttered my feminist self, “I can’t swash around the synagogue wearing one of those?” “What,” scoffed my skeptical self, “Do the guys get from wearing one?” So I asked the rabbi of my very inclusive, egalitarian Conservative synagogue. She said the act of wrapping the tallis, or prayer shawl, around you …

[sweetlyresonating]

Naomi said being Jewish is very important to her. Why? “Hitler made me a Jew,” Naomi explained.

https://www.kveller.com/jewish-couple-naomi-replansky-101-and-eva-kollisch-95-share-their-inspiring-stories-of-resilience/

This is how I feel about the rise in anti-Semitism in the US.

THIS is what made me a Jew. THIS. People who hate Jews made me into a Jew.

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When Coronavirus Comes to My New York Jewish Community – Kveller

Six months ago, after giving birth to a beautiful son (our third!) we gave up on the delusion of being a cool urban family and we moved from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to New Rochelle, in New York’s Westchester County. We joined a local shul, Young Israel of New Rochelle, and we have …

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Mah Jongg: 100 Years of Jewish American Sisterhood – Kveller

It’s Monday morning, my favorite time of my favorite day of the week. (Really!) My morning ritual begins after my son leaves for school and my husband leaves for work. No, I’m not referring to vacuuming, or food shopping, or rushing off to yoga or an office. Instead, I begin preparing for my weekly …