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Jenny Rae Rappaport
@jennyrae.bsky.social
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Writer of SFF stories. Published in Nature, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. Member of Codex. Genealogist, too. All opinions are my own. She/her. www.jennyrae.com
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And continuing onwards with various Thanksgiving delights: banana custard pie with phyllo crust (made by me) and an apple pie (made by my husband).
A pie: light brown baked banana custard surrounded by crispy, golden phyllo dough on an ancient baking sheet. A lovely, brown apple pie, with a crumbly streusel topping.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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And shokupan, because it's yummy. 🙂
A bouncy, beautiful loaf of bread cooling in a gold loaf pan. It's brown and gold and nicely egg-washed.
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Sauce Ragoût, which makes the best Thanksgiving gravy ever. ❤️
A golden pot-full of simmering turkey parts, herbs, and vegetables.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I'm fruitlessly searching my old texts to figure out what brand of turkey my parents bought last year, and I have discovered this list of last-minute Thanksgiving main course ideas. I think everyone should have a ceremonial macaroni and cheese. 😂
A green text bubble that says: 1. Fresh turkey 2. One of those turkey breasts you can cook from frozen 3. Duck because I like duck and don't care that my father doesn't like it. 4. One to two plump chickens, not frozen. 5. A giant ceremonial macaroni and cheese that we can pretend is a turkey.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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When you go to a bat mitzvah at a science museum, you wear the dress with dinosaurs. ❤️
A middle-aged woman with brown curly hair, wearing a navy dress with colorful dinosaurs on it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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There are lights in the sky!!!!
The pink and feeen northern lights!
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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My apologies, the Trojan dreidel had anthropomorphized bees in it. As seen below. 🙂
A picture of a page from MEET THE LATKES, which features a wooden dreidel on wheels with bees hiding inside it. There's a cheerful latke next to it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The high school musical is Chicago this year and I'm getting text updates from my kid, who's at an informational meeting about it. This is my favorite quote from the teacher so far. 😂 (I agree!)
A text message in all caps that says "For the love of God you need to see the musical and not the movie."
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Look what I found at my local library, @mcflycahill90.bsky.social!! I checked it out to read! ❤️
A display of new library books at my library, featuring Marty Cahill's new book!
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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There was apple picking this weekend, and apple jam was made. 🙂
A small mason jar of golden-brown apple jam sitting on a green towel. There are chunks of apples barely visible in the jar.
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Charlie Puth has been doing a series of music education videos over on TikTok, and this one about how AI is terrible at creating music is awesome. Imperfect art is what makes us human. ❤️
October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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And here's Rapoport in Yiddish script and Cyrillic script. My family used all of these! None of them were the Roman alphabet. Name transliteration is fun. 🙂 10/10
Rapoport in Yiddish script. A. Rapoport in Cyrillic.
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I will add that my family all had names that used non-Roman alphabets.

This is the original spelling of Rappaport for my family in Hebrew. (Rapoport) 9/
Rapoport in Hebrew/Yiddish.
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This dedication is made of pure awesome. It’s from Jodi Taylor’s OUT OF TIME. ❤️
This story is dedicated to those who work in our fast-disappearing public libraries. All of whom are, in my experience, equal to everything and anything the world can hurl at them. Dead dogs, exploding holes, temperamental urinals, first-aid emergencies, floods, stupid facilities managers getting themselves wedged in the wheel arch of a mobile library (yes, that has happened), readers demanding the book they had last year with the red cover – it’s all in a day’s work for library staff.
October 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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OMG, yes. Except this is in Polish and 195 years old. 😅
The beginning of a prenuptial agreement in Polish from 1830, which has my relatives in it.
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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When your child gets really into their religious school homework. ❤️
A workbook page that says "Color the shin [hebrew letter]". Underneath is a shin, colored in a variety of colors and patterns. It is very colorful with purple, yellow, red, blue, and orange used on it.
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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And finally, marble cake. 🙂
A beautifully-swirled piece of marble cake, chocolate and vanilla.
September 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Brisket! (Avert your eyes, if you don't do #meat.) 🙂
A plate of thinly-sliced brisket being held in a hand.
September 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Chicken soup with matzo balls. ❤️
A bowl of golden, chicken soup with two fluffy matzo balls, a big piece of parsnip, several carrots, and a piece of celery.
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Followed by maple-roasted butternut squash. It tastes like candy. 🎃
Glistening, orange and brown pieces of butternut squash that were roasted with maple syrup.
September 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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L'shana tova from me and this thread of food that I made to feed my family. ❤️

We're starting off with a photo of apple and honey babka.
A closeup of a browned honey babka with chunky apples peeking out.
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I think they're extraordinarily well-trained. Look at them going through TSA screening in this video.
September 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I don't understand how he got the cats to do this, but I'm totally here for it. 🙂
September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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It looks like this afterwards, hanging out in my fridge in my ancient Rubbermaid container. I got two of these big containers and a slightly-smaller container out of the latest batch. Matzo balls get cooked in water, not the soup, and are added afterwards when you reheat the soup.
A big Rubbermaid full of golden chicken soup, with carrots, celery, and parsnips at the bottom.
September 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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And part two. (Both parts lightly edited because of Bluesky length restrictions.)
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM