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Rachel Goldfarb
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This @bradlander.bsky.social quote gave me some real “oh fuck thats it” feelings. Of course it’s about our collective wounds and traumas, we’re Jews. Thanks for articulating the thing, Brad!

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A screenshot of the linked story from The Guardian with the following quote highlighted: "He's become a vehicle for our tensions and conflicts," said Lander. "It's fair to ask him, as the person is going to be our mayor, to reflect that he's going to represent everyone, even people who he strongly disagrees with, on some important issues. It's not fair to ask him to heal our collective wounds and traumas."
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I made strawberry rhubarb pie for Shabbat dinner dessert and eating the last slice for breakfast is one of the greatest things about making pie.
A homemade pie cooling on a rack. The top crust is a lattice and the strawberries and rhubarb are peaking out between the strips of crust. Pinky-red juices have pooled on the edge inside the crimped border. It is, I have to brag, pretty fucking gorgeous. A slice of the pie in the previous photo in a blue ceramic bowl with a blob of plain Greek yogurt on top. Again: pretty fucking gorgeous.
May 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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UNSPAM, the nerdy email conference I’m attending, has a fireside chat to open day two. The fire is a YouTube video on loop. I am with my people.
A hotel ballroom in Baltimore. Three people are sitting on stools a stage in front chatting, and a big screen to the right of the stage has a flickering fireplace video. Aka: a fireside chat.
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The great joy of my Thursday: learning the name of the balloon store two blocks from my office, which I have walked past three days a week for months.
Scaffolding in front of a shop that is filled with balloons. On the scaffolding, a sign reads BALLOON SALOON.
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Everything is terrifying and difficult right now but at least I continue to make pretty and tasty food for myself.
A blue bowl on a glass table, filled with soba noodles, green beans, and crispy tofu breaded with cornstarch and sesame seeds, with a drizzle of sauce all over. The sauce happens to Soy Vay Hoisin Garlic Teriyaki.
March 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I spent my Saturday night with Audra and she is just astonishing. I could go on forever about all the choices she made and how special this production is and I don’t even particularly LIKE this show!
The Broadway playbill for Gypsy, with a photo of most Tony award winning performer ever Audra McDonald front and center. Her costars Danny Burstein, Joy Wood, and Jordan Tyson are also pictured but let’s be real it’s all about Mama Rose.
March 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Chag sameach!
A silver menorah on a windowsill on top of a piece of foil. Nine colorful beeswax candles are burning, and a few used matches are sitting on the foil.
January 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Is this food particularly beautiful? No. Is it delicious and bringing me joy today? Yes.

The quesadilla has homemade pickled jalapeños, the refried beans were a single serving from the pot of @ranchogordo.bsky.social reboseros I made on Sunday, and this took maybe 15 min to put together tonight.
A round blue glass plate full of food. Clockwise from top, there’s a single-serve plastic container of guacamole, red salsa, a silver spoon, a pile of refried beans, and the last two wedges of a quesadilla.
November 21, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Here have a close up of the pigeon in a witch hat that is NYC’s Halloween voter sticker
A round orange and black sticker on a black lapel. It has a pigeon in a witch hat holding a pumpkin shaped bucket in its beak, with the words Halloween voter 2024 around it.
October 31, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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NYC has special HALLOWEEN VOTER STICKERS it’s so good.
Rachel, a white woman with dark hair and pink glasses, points at the orange and black sticker on her lapel. The sticker has a pigeon in a witch hat holding a pumpkin shaped bucket in its beak, with the words Halloween voter 2024 around it.
October 31, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Today was Sukkah Building Day, the Sunday between Yom Kippur and Sukkot. My shul has space to build a sukkah for the first time this year, and I celebrated the occasion by doing nearly five hours of manual labor. All of me hurts. But we have a sukkah and I contributed!
October 14, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Because I am a religiously observant Jew who is not a Zionist, and it’s important to me that I continue to spend time in spaces where we can investigate the middle ground and find shared understanding. I’m terrified of losing that entirely.
These black-or-white pressures - to remove anti-Zionists from some Jewish communities, and to remove Zionists from parts of campus life - seem likely to shrink a middle ground where people with fiercely differing beliefs can learn from one another. And that, according to some Jews caught in the middle, is a real loss. "It's harder and it takes more mental effort," said Ms. Gerger, the Columbia senior. "But there aren't deeper conversations going on."
May 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Alanis Morisette, jagged little pill (album cover)
May 21, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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My Saturday night in a nutshell: one screen for John Oliver, one for the Magic United vote count (Disneyland Characters and Parades cast members organizing with @actorsequity.bsky.social). Follow the unofficial vote count with me: bit.ly/DisneylandVote
May 19, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Happy chametz time to the east coast Jews!
A takeout container of penne a la vodka with a piece of garlic bread balanced on the side.
May 1, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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There’s a Shake Shack below Penn Station again, and I’m very okay with Shake Shack breakfast as my last chametz.
A breakfast sandwich with eggs and cheese on a roll in a paper sleeve held by a hand on the foreground. Tot-style hashbrowns and a canned latte are slightly out of focus in the background.
April 22, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Definitely - I was also trying to loosen up and it was a struggle for me. Good practice for my anxious brain though.
A watercolor painting of fruit in a bowl. The fruit isn’t quite recognizable as specific fruits, because Rachel isn’t that good at watercolor.
March 26, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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I pulled my sourdough starter out of the fridge for the first time in months this weekend and homemade bread is always so good, but homemade sourdough feels even more magical than homemade bread with commercial yeast.
A rectangular loaf of bread on a cooling rack. The top is golden brown and the sides are paler.
March 26, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Last Shabbas some friends and I came to the agree that broccoli should be roasted in almost all situations, and the exception is steamed broccoli with certain Asian-style dishes. Tonight called for steamed broccoli.
Orange-sauced triangles of tofu over rice with broccoli in a bowl
March 22, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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I spent some time with the silver polish today.
Rachel’s silver menorah is about eight inches tall. There are branch-like shapes along each side and a Jewish star decorates the top center. Two beeswax candles are in it and lit, one in the center and one on the far right.
December 7, 2023 at 11:40 PM
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Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college
A green awning reads “In a Pickle” with a banner hanging below that reads “As Seen On Phantom Gourmet’s Guaranteed Great Meals!!” over the windows of a restaurant. A neon sign in the window says BREAKFAST.
November 29, 2023 at 2:46 AM
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I took my annual pie glamour shots. Happy Thanksgiving!
Two lattice-topped apple pies on a butcher block counter top. The other two photos are the same pies from other angles.
November 23, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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The leftovers from hosting on shabbas are the best leftovers. Delicious food that lets me reflect on how nice it was to have friends in my home for a meal without our phones! This is a squash and kale lasagna.
A lasagna with layers of orange squash puree, kale, pasta, and béchamel. One serving sits on a blue plate.
November 13, 2023 at 12:53 AM
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Fuck yes funding abortions for birthdays! I’m a monthly NYAAF donor and a case manager.
November 9, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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Another Staycation Good Thing: fries and a veggie burger and frozen sangria by the beach.
The food described in the skeet, on a periwinkle picnic table. The frozen sangria, top, is in a paper cup that says Rippers. The burger, right, has a few bites out of it. The fries, left, are a ridiculously massive portion.
August 17, 2023 at 6:15 PM