Rabbi Megan Doherty
@rabbimegan.bsky.social
Queer feminist, Jewish text nerd, romance reader, T1D, meditator, mom, seeker of joy and justice. She/her.
Paging @theradr.bsky.social!!! This needs to be somebody’s YK mincha sermon or a bonus chapter in the next edition of your book
this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Paging @theradr.bsky.social!!! This needs to be somebody’s YK mincha sermon or a bonus chapter in the next edition of your book
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
I’ve been in transit all afternoon and was fried enough that for this last bit I somehow thought it was a good idea to get in a cab in midtown during rush hour on a weekday. Clearly, I’ve been in the Midwest for too long.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I’ve been in transit all afternoon and was fried enough that for this last bit I somehow thought it was a good idea to get in a cab in midtown during rush hour on a weekday. Clearly, I’ve been in the Midwest for too long.
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
This brings me joy
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October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This brings me joy
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
We celebrate the ceasefire and impending end to the war and call on all parties to uphold their agreements. There is a long path ahead to achieve true justice for Palestinians and Israelis, and we remain committed to seeking a just, negotiated political solution.
North American Rabbis Celebrate End of War, Warn There is Long Road Ahead | T'ruah
October 13, 2025
truah.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We celebrate the ceasefire and impending end to the war and call on all parties to uphold their agreements. There is a long path ahead to achieve true justice for Palestinians and Israelis, and we remain committed to seeking a just, negotiated political solution.
פתקא טבא!
The idea of Hoshana Rabbah as the day where we slide our last little post-its of supplication through the gates before they close feels particularly resonant this year.
The idea of Hoshana Rabbah as the day where we slide our last little post-its of supplication through the gates before they close feels particularly resonant this year.
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
פתקא טבא!
The idea of Hoshana Rabbah as the day where we slide our last little post-its of supplication through the gates before they close feels particularly resonant this year.
The idea of Hoshana Rabbah as the day where we slide our last little post-its of supplication through the gates before they close feels particularly resonant this year.
Sequim. Also Puyallup.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sequim. Also Puyallup.
I think this is exactly the thread I needed as I get ready to head out the door for Kol Nidre (especially as someone who does not fast)
With the obvious but important caveat that not everyone fasts on Yom Kippur, not everyone should fast, and that there is more to this commandment than just refraining from food and drink; I keep thinking about the value of affliction and how hard we work to make ourselves uncomfortable on this day.
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I think this is exactly the thread I needed as I get ready to head out the door for Kol Nidre (especially as someone who does not fast)
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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The Jewish calendar is full of opportunities to begin again. This Rosh Hashanah, may we find the compassion, inner strength, and hope we need to choose the path of repentance and pursue justice in 5786. Shanah tovah from all of us at T'ruah.
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Jewish calendar is full of opportunities to begin again. This Rosh Hashanah, may we find the compassion, inner strength, and hope we need to choose the path of repentance and pursue justice in 5786. Shanah tovah from all of us at T'ruah.
The arc of the covenant.
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The arc of the covenant.
There are two teenagers in in my kitchen, making Shabbat dinner and listening to their music. I am grateful to have entered this new life stage, but also would very much like to know what these musicians have against the concept of a melody
September 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
There are two teenagers in in my kitchen, making Shabbat dinner and listening to their music. I am grateful to have entered this new life stage, but also would very much like to know what these musicians have against the concept of a melody
So much fun to visit the LiST House of Study! Thanks @theradr.bsky.social for the invitation
Once a month or 2, Life is a Sacred Text House of Study folx submit Ask the Rabbi qs --anything, the wild gamut of things -- & these days a *bunch* of us answer. It's so fun.
w/@rabbibecky.bsky.social @ravmike.bsky.social @rabbimegan.bsky.social @mhughesrob.bsky.social, me + 3 more smarty pantses
w/@rabbibecky.bsky.social @ravmike.bsky.social @rabbimegan.bsky.social @mhughesrob.bsky.social, me + 3 more smarty pantses
Ask the RabbiS!
so much wisdom, soooo many opinions
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So much fun to visit the LiST House of Study! Thanks @theradr.bsky.social for the invitation
@titonka.bsky.social is, as always, so freaking smart
The oyster-shucking, baseball-playing, hands-working-with men have arrived on the 2026 political scene, and I have thoughts.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...
When "authenticity" means "dudes"
As 2026 approaches, can we political reporters please not forget every damn thing we learned just last year for the love of God
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
@titonka.bsky.social is, as always, so freaking smart
Age verification? I remember when Sleater-Kinney was just a street
Age verification? I *upgraded* to a Commodore 64.
Age verification? Saw Young MC open for the Fine Young Cannibals.
July 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Age verification? I remember when Sleater-Kinney was just a street
There is nothing quite like the feeling of having just refilled 3 months worth of insulin and diabetes tech supplies. If the zombie apocalypse came now, I’d have a cushion.
And everyone with #T1D should have access to this feeling. #insulinforall
And everyone with #T1D should have access to this feeling. #insulinforall
July 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
There is nothing quite like the feeling of having just refilled 3 months worth of insulin and diabetes tech supplies. If the zombie apocalypse came now, I’d have a cushion.
And everyone with #T1D should have access to this feeling. #insulinforall
And everyone with #T1D should have access to this feeling. #insulinforall
Fascinating theory. Great thread
I’ve got a theory as to why the online left seems increasingly into the Khazar myth, which used to be the fringiest of far-right antisemitism (at least among white people—it was also popular among NOI/BHI, but I’m not touching that one).
For reference: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_...
For reference: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_...
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Fascinating theory. Great thread
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Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,
forward.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
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One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
July 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
Reposted by Rabbi Megan Doherty
Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax:
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax:
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.