Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
@veredmara.bsky.social
Cantor, baker, knitter, hiker, spouse, parent. Speaking & writing on here in my own personal capacity. Bring on your Torah, your Tolkien, your spacious skies.
This fourth of July, let's bloody well remember who we are, or who we tried to be, and try again.
Thanks to Abigail Bengson for creating the song and Aly Halpert for teaching it to me.
Thanks to Abigail Bengson for creating the song and Aly Halpert for teaching it to me.
July 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This fourth of July, let's bloody well remember who we are, or who we tried to be, and try again.
Thanks to Abigail Bengson for creating the song and Aly Halpert for teaching it to me.
Thanks to Abigail Bengson for creating the song and Aly Halpert for teaching it to me.
The White House X account added SHALOM MAHMOUD to its repost of 45's boast about unlawfully detaining a green card holder. Trumpeting it from the rafters: this administration is attempting to USE Jews' fears of antisemitism as cover for indefensible (regardless of content) attacks on free speech.
March 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The White House X account added SHALOM MAHMOUD to its repost of 45's boast about unlawfully detaining a green card holder. Trumpeting it from the rafters: this administration is attempting to USE Jews' fears of antisemitism as cover for indefensible (regardless of content) attacks on free speech.
The wish and desire of my heart is that every single person sitting in the presence of this wave of verbal diarrhea would get up and exit the room. Quietly, serenely. Just that would pull the clothes off of this emperor.
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The wish and desire of my heart is that every single person sitting in the presence of this wave of verbal diarrhea would get up and exit the room. Quietly, serenely. Just that would pull the clothes off of this emperor.
When you call people "illegal aliens," your kids listen.
When you say "Deport them all!" your kids listen.
When you talk as if people who cross a border, left their right to be treated as humans on the other side, your kids listen.
Jocelynn's blood cries to us from the ground. Will you listen?
When you say "Deport them all!" your kids listen.
When you talk as if people who cross a border, left their right to be treated as humans on the other side, your kids listen.
Jocelynn's blood cries to us from the ground. Will you listen?
February 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you call people "illegal aliens," your kids listen.
When you say "Deport them all!" your kids listen.
When you talk as if people who cross a border, left their right to be treated as humans on the other side, your kids listen.
Jocelynn's blood cries to us from the ground. Will you listen?
When you say "Deport them all!" your kids listen.
When you talk as if people who cross a border, left their right to be treated as humans on the other side, your kids listen.
Jocelynn's blood cries to us from the ground. Will you listen?
I am proud & grateful to join 350 Jewish clergy colleagues & creative folks signing onto today's New York Times ad. The ad reads: "Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!"
#SayNoToEthnicCleansing
#SayNoToEthnicCleansing
February 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I am proud & grateful to join 350 Jewish clergy colleagues & creative folks signing onto today's New York Times ad. The ad reads: "Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!"
#SayNoToEthnicCleansing
#SayNoToEthnicCleansing
So's we're clear: forcible relocation of a population out of their home territory is ethnic cleansing. Which the US already has, to our eternal shame, as part of our history, and in which we should not again engage.
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
So's we're clear: forcible relocation of a population out of their home territory is ethnic cleansing. Which the US already has, to our eternal shame, as part of our history, and in which we should not again engage.
Doing it right. MA, your turn. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/n...
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article)
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Doing it right. MA, your turn. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/n...
An administration with the gall to put out "Project Esther" with the claim of combating antisemitism, shouldn't be harboring and empowering Haman.
February 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
An administration with the gall to put out "Project Esther" with the claim of combating antisemitism, shouldn't be harboring and empowering Haman.
For anyone who needs to hear this today:
Becoming your full and authentic self by transitioning genders AFFIRMS your commitment to "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle," in both your professional and personal capacities.
I cannot overstate the danger and dismay of this moment.
Becoming your full and authentic self by transitioning genders AFFIRMS your commitment to "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle," in both your professional and personal capacities.
I cannot overstate the danger and dismay of this moment.
January 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For anyone who needs to hear this today:
Becoming your full and authentic self by transitioning genders AFFIRMS your commitment to "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle," in both your professional and personal capacities.
I cannot overstate the danger and dismay of this moment.
Becoming your full and authentic self by transitioning genders AFFIRMS your commitment to "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle," in both your professional and personal capacities.
I cannot overstate the danger and dismay of this moment.
If it quacks like a duck and Sieg Heils like a duck, it's an mf'ing Nazi.
January 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If it quacks like a duck and Sieg Heils like a duck, it's an mf'ing Nazi.