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True for cooking/weekly meal prep too. Reality shows where there’s no plot to follow are my choice.
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
True for cooking/weekly meal prep too. Reality shows where there’s no plot to follow are my choice.
I’m in the middle of doing a whole review of this article, and it strikes me as being written from the POV of an American Jew who isn’t closely related to Holocaust survivors. Going to check if that’s the case.
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’m in the middle of doing a whole review of this article, and it strikes me as being written from the POV of an American Jew who isn’t closely related to Holocaust survivors. Going to check if that’s the case.
She’s from England, but possibly the family came from there before?
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
She’s from England, but possibly the family came from there before?
My machatenisteh is a Kamiel! I had no idea what the origin of the surname was.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My machatenisteh is a Kamiel! I had no idea what the origin of the surname was.
Great, I can practice my French and once again need to remind everyone that antisemitism is a term invented by a Jew-hating German who based a conspiracy theory on pseudo-scientific racism. We don’t have lizard DNA, but conspiracy theories saying we do are still harmful.
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Great, I can practice my French and once again need to remind everyone that antisemitism is a term invented by a Jew-hating German who based a conspiracy theory on pseudo-scientific racism. We don’t have lizard DNA, but conspiracy theories saying we do are still harmful.
YouTube is your friend. I’m not remotely handy, and it taught me how to do this and how to snake a toilet.
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
YouTube is your friend. I’m not remotely handy, and it taught me how to do this and how to snake a toilet.
If you can use words like Holocaust to describe what’s happening in Gaza and settler colonialism to describe Israel, you get to condemn these things as a white European, North American or Australian without doing anything.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you can use words like Holocaust to describe what’s happening in Gaza and settler colonialism to describe Israel, you get to condemn these things as a white European, North American or Australian without doing anything.
Please double-check is you qualify for Trillium Drug Benefit, and also talk to your doctor because they can often get your free samples or speak to a drug rep to get you access to meds you can’t afford. My husband often helps patients with this stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please double-check is you qualify for Trillium Drug Benefit, and also talk to your doctor because they can often get your free samples or speak to a drug rep to get you access to meds you can’t afford. My husband often helps patients with this stuff.
I noticed how menopause gave me spiraling obsessive anxious thoughts that magically receded once I got estrogen patche…and will pop up if I’m late replacing a patch. I also discovered that I wasn’t really lazy, I was having blood sugar crashes and a better breakfast made my brain work.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I noticed how menopause gave me spiraling obsessive anxious thoughts that magically receded once I got estrogen patche…and will pop up if I’m late replacing a patch. I also discovered that I wasn’t really lazy, I was having blood sugar crashes and a better breakfast made my brain work.
Otherwise, I think it makes sense to promote methods that are largely idiot-proof.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Otherwise, I think it makes sense to promote methods that are largely idiot-proof.
I see it as an option when nothing else is available, say if someone is both unable to tolerate hormones and latex, or if someone’s in a place where contraceptives aren’t available, AND if they are willing to do the work and accept that it isn’t foolproof.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I see it as an option when nothing else is available, say if someone is both unable to tolerate hormones and latex, or if someone’s in a place where contraceptives aren’t available, AND if they are willing to do the work and accept that it isn’t foolproof.
So what’s the alternative - dictatorship?
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
So what’s the alternative - dictatorship?
4. Maybe find some stories of Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. by somehow doing something to get around rules, and how their families have contributed since then.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
4. Maybe find some stories of Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. by somehow doing something to get around rules, and how their families have contributed since then.
3. Ways in which U.S. laws are being used to enforce a theological belief that souls are formed at conception, rather than actually protecting fetuses. Maybe mention other beliefs and approaches to show that this approach is a religiously coercive choice.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
3. Ways in which U.S. laws are being used to enforce a theological belief that souls are formed at conception, rather than actually protecting fetuses. Maybe mention other beliefs and approaches to show that this approach is a religiously coercive choice.
1. A look at how the Ellis island era, and subsequent immigration restrictions, changed America and the world. (Big topic, but might be some interesting smaller stories)
2. Impact of no SNAP or WIC benefits and looming changes to ACA subsidies on women in a post-Roe world.
2. Impact of no SNAP or WIC benefits and looming changes to ACA subsidies on women in a post-Roe world.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
1. A look at how the Ellis island era, and subsequent immigration restrictions, changed America and the world. (Big topic, but might be some interesting smaller stories)
2. Impact of no SNAP or WIC benefits and looming changes to ACA subsidies on women in a post-Roe world.
2. Impact of no SNAP or WIC benefits and looming changes to ACA subsidies on women in a post-Roe world.
I assume you saw this?
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I assume you saw this?
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The majority of US Jews have never even visited Israel. “Not in my name” might work the other way too - what would give a U.S. Jew authority to speak on behalf of Israelis?
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The majority of US Jews have never even visited Israel. “Not in my name” might work the other way too - what would give a U.S. Jew authority to speak on behalf of Israelis?
The “what’s done in our name” stuff drives me bonkers. U.S. Jews have no meaningful control over Israeli policy, except for a couple of billionaires, and IsraelI officials answer to Israelis. There’s some overlap, but we’re talking about different groups.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The “what’s done in our name” stuff drives me bonkers. U.S. Jews have no meaningful control over Israeli policy, except for a couple of billionaires, and IsraelI officials answer to Israelis. There’s some overlap, but we’re talking about different groups.
as they attended massive anti-Netanyahu rallies each week, and how many everybody was affected by Oct 7 and everything since, from trauma to survivor’s guilt to navigating relationships here to distress at times things changing here…well anyway, probably a novel’s worth of stuff to unpack.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
as they attended massive anti-Netanyahu rallies each week, and how many everybody was affected by Oct 7 and everything since, from trauma to survivor’s guilt to navigating relationships here to distress at times things changing here…well anyway, probably a novel’s worth of stuff to unpack.
and going through the refugee experience much more recently than my own family. And seeing that different parts of the family ended up in either Canada or Israel by circumstances, not choice, with most of the non-Ashkenazi family there. And visiting them in Israel weeks before Oct 7
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
and going through the refugee experience much more recently than my own family. And seeing that different parts of the family ended up in either Canada or Israel by circumstances, not choice, with most of the non-Ashkenazi family there. And visiting them in Israel weeks before Oct 7
and that the same country that saved my family by having open immigration in the 1900s slammed its doors shut and refused to save theirs. And the experience of having in-laws from Iraq and Morocco and the former Soviet Union, challenging previous ideas about what it means to be Jewish,
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
and that the same country that saved my family by having open immigration in the 1900s slammed its doors shut and refused to save theirs. And the experience of having in-laws from Iraq and Morocco and the former Soviet Union, challenging previous ideas about what it means to be Jewish,
The thinking about this….I might be serious. Maybe there’s a novel in exploring what it’s like to be a descendant of Fiddler on the Roof Jews whose grandparents grew up safe in Canada, and discover that your closest friends are children and grandchildren of survivors,
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The thinking about this….I might be serious. Maybe there’s a novel in exploring what it’s like to be a descendant of Fiddler on the Roof Jews whose grandparents grew up safe in Canada, and discover that your closest friends are children and grandchildren of survivors,
It’s certainly not moot yet. In fact, it can play a big role in deciding how determined Dems are to resist pressure.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s certainly not moot yet. In fact, it can play a big role in deciding how determined Dems are to resist pressure.
I expected bad, read it and found it was worse. I should keep a running list of troublesome tropes, questionable premises and unexamined American privilege.
OTOH, it may have just inspired me to get offline and consider writing the Great Canadian Jewish Novel.
OTOH, it may have just inspired me to get offline and consider writing the Great Canadian Jewish Novel.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I expected bad, read it and found it was worse. I should keep a running list of troublesome tropes, questionable premises and unexamined American privilege.
OTOH, it may have just inspired me to get offline and consider writing the Great Canadian Jewish Novel.
OTOH, it may have just inspired me to get offline and consider writing the Great Canadian Jewish Novel.
THIS!!!! Tokenism is bad, period. Individuals get to be individuals, regardless of what group they are from. Our backgrounds and life experiences influence our perspective, but not always in the same ways for everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
THIS!!!! Tokenism is bad, period. Individuals get to be individuals, regardless of what group they are from. Our backgrounds and life experiences influence our perspective, but not always in the same ways for everyone.