Abby Stein - 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤂𐤉𐤋 𐤇𐤅𐤄 𐤔𐤈𐤉𐤉𐤍 @AbbyChavaStein Twitter profile

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2 years

If it hurts, we scream!!! Full video of remarks at #JewishRallyForRepro . It was an honor to join @NCJW , @AbortionStories along with 150+ co-sponsoring organizations and thousands of people, to support the rights of millions to choose✊ Part I: #AbortionJustice #JewsForRepro 1/5

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

One important message my maternal grandparents, both holocaust survivors as teenagers, taught me: The worst Nazis (and collaborators) were the "nice ones." Without fail. That's my morning take, and I am honestly shocked this has to be shared.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 month

I went to Columbia, and was active daily in Jewish life on campus. This gives me so much joy and pride ❤️🦁 Via @TheIndypendent : "Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment."

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

Reminder: Non-Jews telling Jews they aren't the "right kind of Jews" or are "doing Judaism wrong" is still one of the basic forms of antisemitism. As we say in Yiddish: I'm not talking to anyone specifically. If you think I'm talking to you, you are exactly who I'm talking to.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Never going to forget this: When I was doing my post-Rabbinical ordination in a Hasidic school, there was a woman who was told SHE IS REQUIRED by Jewish law to have a 3rd trimester abortion/induce labor (with almost no chance of fetus survival). Many states now outlaw it. 1/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

To understand the power of this: The Israeli government recently announced - that the police have been given the okay to shoot at protesters blocking intersections 👀

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@OrenZiv_

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Israeli left wing activists blocking a road near the ministry of defense in Tel Aviv during an anti war demo

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

> Hasidic leaders said it's a Mitzvah, a good deed, to have a 3rd trimester abortion. We don't need religious, or any, justification for a pregnant person to have control over their bodies. It's just good to remember that for some, acceas to #Abortion is religious freedom. 4/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 month

You have really lost it - when the director of Columbia Hillel is pushing back against your anti-Palestinian hate mongering 🤦🏽‍♀️

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@brcohen

1 month

@shaidavidai The Kraft Center closed Saturday at our scheduled time. We will open today on schedule. And tomorrow. And the day after that…..

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 month

Joined Columbia/Barnard #JewsForCeasefire for Havdalah last night. This hits home the absurdity of current discourse. Some of the suspended Jewish students had to join us through the fence, they aren't allowed in. Are these Jewish students safe yet @Columbia ? >>> @JVPColumbia

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

If you plan on using us, using our Jewish community, to justify Islamophobic and racists rants over the next few hours and days: DO not. Just don't. You are not helping us. You are not fighting antisemitism. We get through this together. Not by dividing us.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

"Jews are the most accepting group toward trans people." Love my Jewish community, love my trans and queer community, love our intersections 🏳️‍⚧️🔯 #ShabbatShalom and happy Pride!

Survey: Jews are the most accepting group toward trans people

Jews are the group most accepting of gender fluidity and trans people in the United States, according to a new poll.

forward.com

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@AbbyChavaStein

6 months

Hey you all, can't believe I have to say this, but alas, here we are: There is no humane way to take civilians hostage, no humane way to treat them other than release. Doesn't matter how righteous your cause is or isn't. Don't downplay the brutality of taking innocent hostages.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

> there is even a chance of danger to the mom, "it's a Mitzvah (good deed) to do it." The husband tried to say that there is also a chance they will both survive. The Rebbe just repeated himself. It's a Mitzvah. Yup, that's right. One of the most radical, strict > 3/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Obvious point: If you openly hate 91% of Jews, regardless of how much you say you like the other 9% --- You are 100% antisemitic.

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

There is never any justification for the murder of civilians, for the slaughter of entire families, for the kidnapping of children and old people. Ever. Also, keeping millions of people under brutal occupation, with no end in sight - results in unjustifiable acts.

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

Something interesting(?) seems to be a trend: So many Palestinian friends, every Palestinian I know that I am speaking with, are checking in. Asking how my family/myself is. Condemning Hamas' atrocities. The only ones "defending" it seem to be "friends" in Western countries 👀

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Hey Christians --- Without going into debates, one thing is definite: Judaism doesn't even fit the same definition of "religion" as Christianity. Stop trying to fit it, and us, into your box of understanding religion. Just stop telling Jews, or anyone, what Judaism is.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

It's not just about gay marriage and LGBTQ people, remember that

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@KosherSoul

1 year

Just remember....

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Basic "duh" reminder: #NeverAgain doesn't mean "don't say it till it's just as bad" or "unless 6 million are murdered with chemical weapons we can't compare it." Never Again means stopping it at the first signs. Never Again is when a tyrant declares he wants to end a people.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

75 years of my - Holocaust surviving - family living in a country without Nazi flags in government buildings: Now over.

Rebecca Pierce

@aptly_engineerd

3 years

Just saw a Nazi flag being waved by fascists overtaking the US Capitol building on TV. This is surreal.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

Tonight, #Shavuot begins. Next week, #PrideMonth begins. So, we are hosting #Pride #Shavous tomorrow night. So, here is the 🏳️‍🌈 Challah, oven ready. Celebrating the holiday that marks wheat harvest + becoming a people - with bread that celebrates us, #Queer Jews 🏳️‍🌈

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 months

Every #CeasefireNow post seems to get an automatic version of "but the hostages" response from some. Let's repeat: The best thing for the hostages is an immediate ceasefire, and if you actually care about their lives - besides as a talking point - support a ceasefire now. 1/5

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

A week ago, 4 people I knew were missing after terror attacks. By Wednesday, their bodies have been identified: murdered by Hamas. I cried, screamed, and still can't find solace. Yet, watching more violence, in their name, isn't making me feel better. It just feels even worse.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

With over 2,000 years if experience, we know that when people say "Judaism has gotta go" - they mean genocide. When the same people say "Transgender'IsM" (not a thing) gotta go, we know that means genocide. Once again, antisemitism and transphobia show up going together.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

The husband got really upset, and didn't wanna go through with it (sadly, he had that control), till we asked the Rebbe (my former community's Supreme Leader). He and the Rabbi (I was shadowing at the time) went to ask the Rebbe. The Rebbe's response: if the doctors say > 2/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

I am speechless (an understatement)! This (likely) is the Shofar my great-grandfather smuggled into, and blew in Auschwitz!!!! I grew up with this story. He writes about it, but we THOUGHT THE SHOFAR IS LOST. The @MJHnews has had it for a while, NOT KNOWING WHO IT BELONGED TO.

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

How it started: How it's going:

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

A favorite Hasidic teachings: Noah* utterly failed. He failed his mission, and life. He was supposed to argue with the Divine, and to do more to save the people of his generation. Creating your own surviving arc is failure 🤦‍♀️ * of Biblical Arc fame - this week's Torah portion

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 month

Wasn't expecting myself to share this. However, given the fear mongering message from the Orthodox (Yavneh) Rabbi that's circulating, I wanna share this from @cbhillel - the larger Jewish group on campus - recommending Jewish students do NOT need to leave Columbia's campus: 1/2

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Teen you // Adult you

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@FelstoneSky

3 years

No ONE does the "teen you V adult you" comparison pictures better than the trans community, change my mind

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

Mind-boggling how, to some, calling for "STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE" is turned into a controversial statement. It doesn't mean support Hamas. It doesn't mean abandon hostages, quite the opposite. It doesn't mean killing 1,400 Israelis was justifiable. It means stop killing.

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

A member of the Hasidic community that was attacked over Hanukkah, and who helped stop the attacker, refuses a $20,000 award. Because --- In his words: "it came from Zionist groups!" Will just leave it here:

Hasidic

@hasidic_1

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יוסף גליק נישט געוואלט נעמען 20 טויזנט דולר פין די איזרעלי גרופעס, אפאר נדיבים געגעבן אנשטאט.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

No words. At Reform Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX - a gunman holding the rabbi and community hostage during #Shabbat services. This is at least the 3rd time in so many years a #Synagogue has been attacked on Shabbos. Our hearts 💔

Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; hostage-taker dead

FBI crisis negotiators communicated for several hours with a man who was holding four hostages and released one before a Hostage Rescue Team breached the synagogue.

www.star-telegram.com

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

This is - once again - hitting close. Another synagogue attack. This time in Rockland County. The synagogue is part of a small community on Forshay Rd. in Monsey. I WORKED THERE AS A TALMUD TUTOR IN 2011. This needs to end. Now. Month ago. Years ago. Policing wouldn't stop this.

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4 years

Scenes from the stabbing that just took place in the synagogue in Forshay Rockland County #Antisemitism

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

From within the Hasidic community in Orange County, NY. The caption (from this account run by a Hasidic person) reads: "Support for the protesters." Thanks @mollycrabapple for sharing.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Gotta love our synagogue, where the B Mitzvah kid just started his Dvar Torah (sermon) along the lines of: "The Torah (Bible) is outdated, and not everything in it is morally right." Now he is beautifully talking about how we need to reinterpret it, and how that is sacred 💕

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Trans people: stop hurting us. Trans women: we just wanna live, with human rights. Black trans women: STOP KILLING US, literally. (And celebrate our lives). #JKRowling YMS*: here is a book that's gonna fan the flames of hate against society's most vulnerable. This WILL KILL.

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

Tell me you have never been at an egalitarian/Reform/Reconstructionist/Renewal - or basically any non-Orthodox synagogue 🤦‍♀️ As in, I am used to Orthodox people thinking that their version, practiced by 10% of US Jews, is the only valid one. But the arrogance is telling.

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@FrumTikTok

7 months

What in tarnation? 😳 An abbreviated blended English/Hebrew prayer at #Rabbis4Ceasefire ’s public morning service outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. today. **Kol Isha**

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

No one is reviving Yiddish. You can't revive a language with 1/2 million speakers, and naturally growing. I love the interest in Yiddish, I do. But please stop talking about it like it's a dead language. Just 5% of speakers it used to have? Sure. Dead? Not by a long shot.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

One of these places has a long recorded history of child abuse, child marriage, and all kinds of rape - and trying to hide it under the rug, and keeps supporting perpetrators. The other is a drag bar.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Call her out, but call her "her." It's simple, it's easy. Caitlin Jenner is disconnected from day to day people, and from the struggle of our transgender community (just listen to @JennyBoylan on I Am Cait). Yet, none of that remotely excuses misgendering or dead-naming her 🏳️‍⚧️

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

I was one of 275 former Yeshiva students interviewed for this project, for the @nytimes (by @elizashapiro ). Thank you to all who have similarly been deprived a basic education - who spoke up. Thank you Eliza and @brianmrosenthal for this important piece. @yaffedorg @nmoster

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@elizashapiro

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NEW: An NYT investigation has found that scores of Hasidic Jewish schools in New York are purposely denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education – and have received $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the last 4 years. w/ @brianmrosenthal

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Why not? Let's hop on. How it started: How it's going:

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Every single antisemitic assault is unjustifiable. Period. Whether it's in Times Square, streets of Montreal or London, or anywhere else. It's that simple. Also, calling out antisemitism where and when we see it, isn't taking away from fighting for Palestinian rights. Duh.

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 years

איך וועל זיי איבערלעבן!🕯️ #WeWillOutliveThem A saying in my mother tongue (Yiddish), from after the Holocaust. I will never forget my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor (who lost his mother + 7 siblings), finishing stories with that saying. Today, I feel it. I know it. #poway

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

As a rabbi, as a speaker at Jewish communities: Hundreds of times I have stood at a the Bima (podium) in synagogues on #Shabbat morning. Leading services, sharing teachings and readings. As have thousands of my rabbinical colleagues every week. #Colleyville is ALL OF US.

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 years

75 years ago, in "civilized" Europe, people got prosecuted for offering humanitarian help to my family, to my people, to Jews and other "legally" prosecuted groups during the Holocaust. Helping them was AGAINST THE LAW. Maybe some mightn't like the analogy, but to me its clear.

No More Deaths | No Más Muertes

@NoMoreDeaths

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The government has failed in its attempt to apply federal charges to acts of common compassion. In Scott’s own words, “Today it remains as necessary as ever for local residents and humanitarian aid volunteers to stand in solidarity with migrants and refugees.”

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@AbbyChavaStein

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Um, the very anti-Zionist community I was raised in is also the one who made a huge deal of Chanukah - way before many other Jewish communities, and before Zionism even existed. As well as ever since. Maybe I will go into more soon, but for now: this take is pure BS.

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Anti-Zionist Jews, you guys have to give up Hanukkah. I’m sorry there’s just no way to logically square that.

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@AbbyChavaStein

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Just said no to a (well paid) Pride Shabbat scholar-in-residence event in Florida. For the first time in 8 years of open and proud trans advocacy, I had to say no to visiting a place, simply because it's not safe. It's a privilege that I don't live there and can choose > 1/3

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@AbbyChavaStein

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Today, along with 10 other @rodfeishalom : #Rabbis4Ceasefire and many more local activists, we attempted to deliver aid directly to Gaza. We were stopped 1 km from the Erez crossing, along with a truck filled with > Caption reads: "A protester outside the Erez crossing." 1/

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 years

Marching with hundreds of Jews, in front of thousands of people, today @womensmarch . This is how we raised awareness for antisemitism and transphobia, and spread our message to millions across the country! #WomensWave #WomensMarch2019 #JewishWomen #JWOCmarching #WomensMarch

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

8 years since coming out. It was one of the most beautiful, powerful, and awesome moments of my life. Also, one of the most painful, heartbreaking, lost filled moments of my life. On this day in 2015, I spent 2 hours pouring my heart out to my dad, in private. Got him > 1/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

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Probably my last post, as I move into Pesach prep: This is at the encampment. This is what the organizers want and encourage. Yes, there are people (mostly outside, some next to, the encampment) harassing and making hateful statements. The people organizing actively oppose it.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

There is no justification to attack worshippers at #AlAqsaMosque . There is no justification to send rockets on civilians. There is no justification to evict people from their homes in #SheikhJarrah . End the occupation now. These are all accurate at once.

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

MASS INDISCRIMINATORY BOMBING ISN'T GOING TO BRING MY FRIENDS BACK. What's being done to Gaza, to 1 million kids, to so many innocent people, is NOT the answer. Revenge isn't the answer. More killing isn't the answer, ever. Screaming 😱

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

Ended up going to my sister's Chuppah - the ceremony part of the wedding held outdoors - last night, standing on the street overlooking the courtyard it was in. So, this is me watching my sister's wedding 😥 (Wearing a mask to be less recognizable) More photos and videos >>>

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@AbbyChavaStein

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My youngest (8th) sister is getting married today. I love her - and somehow, love my family. I am not welcome at the wedding, but no one can keep my mind from being there. Today is gonna be hard. That's all.

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Finally, they are getting it. Like i mean really, they thought this is negative? This is the bare minimum we need to start moving towards justice.

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

My Dad - a Hasidic Rabbi - has a trans daughter. My grandfather has a few LGBTQ grandkids. They are both homophobic and transphobic AF. Having family in a marginalized group doesn't make you less bigoted just because of it. 45 paddles antisemitism, that's reality.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

This was truly a beautiful, and spontaneous moment. No one told us to song along with the violinist, it wasn't planned. It just happened. It was a pure and powerful moment. Shabbat Shalom!

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@RepSteveIsrael

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An amazing moment: a Jewish prayer sung in the White House in the New Year. If only my grandparents, refugees from Russian anti-Semitism, would have known…

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

"25% of the Jews surveyed believed Israel was an apartheid state..." This isn't fringe. For context, 25% is 2.5× larger than ALL Orthodox Jews in the US combined, and larger than all Conservative Jews. Saying "fringe Jews" doesn't make it so.

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@AbbyChavaStein

9 months

Today, I am celebrating 8 years. 8 years since I made the most impactful and empowering decision of my life: Started physical transition. 8 years since beginning physical transition - but 32 years (minus 26 days) since being born trans 😉 #TransIsBeautiful 1/4

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Being trans isn't a barrier for me (or anyone else). Transphobia is the barrier.

Kate Kelly

@Kate_Kelly_Esq

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Being female is not a barrier for me. Patriarchy is the barrier.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Is it truly #PrideShabbat if we don't make a #Rainbow Challah? More coming soon!!! PS: Yes, #pride is whenever, wherever, we are, #OutAndProud . The Challah is just delicious 🏳️‍🌈

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

My little sister is getting married tomorrow. I am not invited - because I dare to live openly as the girl, trans at that, I proudly am. It hurts. Still happy with my life, and choices. And grateful I came out, and for the work I do. That's all. Now let me hurt in peace.

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 years

"Know that you're not alone." Full video (minus the pre recorded part) if today on @TODAYshow , with @alroker , @SheinelleJones , and @craigmelvin ! Thanks to @3rdHourTODAY for having me, and to the @SealPress / @HachetteUS for making this happen!

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

I will also add: The fact that the @nytimes invested in having the piece translated in a perfect Hasidic Yiddish shows is heartwarming, among other things. It shows that the goal of this piece isn't to disparage or be "against" the community. >

חסידישע מוסדות געבן נישט קיין עדיוקעשאן, אבער באקומען א שפע פון רעגירונגס געלטער (Published 2022)

די חסידישע מוסדות אין ניו יארק האבן גענאסן פון 1 ביליאן דאלאר אין רעגירונגס געלטער דורכאויס די לעצטע פיר יאר אבער מוזן קיינעם נישט אפגעבן קיין דין וחשבון וואס מען לערנט ביי זיי

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

Boggles the mind that people think we can bomb our way to peace. Hypothetically, we manage to "kill" Hamas. Generations of Palestinians are experiencing this dead and destruction around them. They aren't gonna grow up and give up. They will grow up and fight harder. 1/3

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

I fully agree that we should not throw around Holocaust comparisons. But, if you can't see how the Hebrew "מוות לערבים" (Dead to Arabs) chanted in 2021 Jerusalem, is eerily similar to the German "Juden Raus" of 1930s Nazi Germany - Then your #NeverAgain is devoid of meaning.

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@AbbyChavaStein

1 year

I had no idea gay people existed* until I was 18; I had a "boyfriend" at a "boys only" school. The vast majority of my community, and myself, had no idea trans people existed till I was 20; at which point I sneaked onto the internet to Google "boy turn into girl." I'm Queer AF.

PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

@prideukorg

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@AbbyChavaStein

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@Davidlederer6 @Columbia This OUTSIDE campus, done by non-students who aren't let in. And yes, this is horrible.

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

Never gonna apologize for this opinion: Killing of civilians is never okay. Killing more civilians in retaliation isn't the answer. More killing is never the solution. Call me naive, I am fine with that. I am just not fine with killing, no matter the reason, even if "valid."

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@AbbyChavaStein

10 months

I have said numerous times in public, to thousands of people, and will scream it again: Orthodoxy isn't any more authentic than other, AKA the vast majority, of Jewish movements. Orthodoxy is NOT the arbitrator on what it is to be Jewish and how to practice in any way.

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@mstreiffer

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Reform Judaism isn't just being non-observant. It is thoughtful, tradition-grounded Judaism in which individuals are empowered to build their Jewish practice based on study & on how the traditions & rituals bring them meaning. It is different than, but not less than, Orthodoxy.

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@TheIndypendent

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Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, student protesters chant “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop! We will not rest!” and students pass out copies of The Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec .

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BC/CU Jewish Voice for Peace

@JVPColumbia

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Shabbat Shalom from JVP Columbia and the rest of the Liberated Zone!

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

Note to people interacting with Orthodox (more so Haradi/Ultra-Orthodox) Jews, outside of Israel: Many observant Jews are offline till TOMORROW EVENING (Sunday evening). Be kind. Many are from, and/or have family there - and will be mostly unaware of what's happening, > 1/3

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@AbbyChavaStein

7 months

Whether in Makhachkala, Russia, on Cornell University's student boards, or on the streets of US cities: Antisemitism is unacceptable and unjustifiable. Targeting Jews for the actions of a government is dangerous and deadly hate, and can never be excused.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

The Holocaust didn't start with dead camps, concentration camps, Kristallnacht, or even the Nuremberg Laws. It started with the rise of nationalism as a response to national struggles. Specifically - It started with white nationalism. #NeverAgain = to nationalism. #YomHaShoah

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

This is the last thing my father told me, the last time he agreed to speak to me, 4.5 years ago. Happy #FathersDay to all with fellow homophobic and transphobic dads. Do something special for yourself today, because you deserve it. Yes, you are better than him ❤

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Friday, and especially the number 13, are actually very positive in Judaism - as a day and as a number. 13 is celebration. 13 are the virtues of mercy. The list goes on. Sorry to break all the #FridayThe13th doom and gloom. It surely isn't so in our tradition 🤷‍♀️

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@AbbyChavaStein

6 months

I have often disagreed with Rep. Nadler (who was my Rep for about a decade), but this is directly to the point 💯 Makes me wonder how those who wrote a sweeping statement "anti-Zionism = antisemitism" plan to distinguish Hasidic anti-Zionism, progressive Jewish anti-Zionism, >

Prem Thakker

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Rep. Nadler: "The resolution states that all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That's intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong…The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was + is expressly not antisemitic."

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

I love and support my transgender and non-binary siblings running for office on all levels of government. We need more representation, we need more TGNB people, especially Trans POC, for real progressive change. Caitlin Jenner's candidacy isn't gonna help us. It might harm us.

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 months

The only thing that has saved hostages so far has been a negotiated ceasefire and exchange. As so many Israeli families and former hostages scream: כולם תמורת כולם - Everyone for everyone. The war has literally killed more hostages than it saved, directly and indirectly. 2/5

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@AbbyChavaStein

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We are angry. We are broken. The saddest of all, we aren't shocked. Waking up on #TransDayOfRemembrance to this horrible news: 23 people shot, 5 killed, at a #queer club in #ColoradoSprings . #ClubQ , described the shooting as a "hate attack."

Colorado LGBTQ club shooting: Suspect used legally purchased assault-style rifle

A suspect is in custody after five people were killed and 17 were injured in a shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, officials said.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Religious freedom does NOT include your right to impose your religion on others. Or to even push your beliefs to/on unwilling listeners. Religious freedom does include our right to be free of your religion. Simple, I know.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Once again if it wasn't clear: Homophobia and transphobia aren't "opinions," they aren't 2 sided debates. It's bigotry that leads to murder. Spreading #QueerPhobia in any way --- Literally kills people. That includes politicians. It includes a whole political party.

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

Shanah Tovah from the @WhiteHouse ❤

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

@truthandfiction Gotta love me some 18th century Hasidic texts disagreeing with you, at its core 🤷‍♀️

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Happy "Don't Get Fired for Being You" Day 🎉

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

Also: Stop conflating "Orthodox" or "Conservative" customs and laws, with "Jewish law/customs." Having a funeral at a day that's convenient, even a week later, is common in non Orthodox Jewish communities. I have even been to an open casket funeral at a temple.

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@AbbyChavaStein

8 months

Please: If you rightfully condemned the killing of innocent civilians over the past few days, don't stop condemning the killing of innocent people going forward, based on where on the map they happen. Let's talk about horrible policy decisions being made. Let's not justify dead.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

Anti-Zionism (which I was raised with in the Hasidic community), does not = antisemitism. But writing a letter to the Jewish community, thinking ALL we care about is Israel, is very much antisemitic. It buys into age old stereotypes of us caring more about foreign countries. 1/

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@AbbyChavaStein

4 years

In tears 😥 From the #JerseyCityShooting . That young child that is seen running towards the store, and then escaping last minute, with guns facing him? That's my first cousin's child. His grandma and my mom are identical twins. Beyond siblings, this is as close as it gets.

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

One of the supposed "concerns" my dad expressed after I came out as a proud #TransWoman , was that "I would never be able to get a good job." I proved him wrong. and Dr. #RachelLevine proved today to so many of us that you can get whatever job you want 🏳️‍⚧️ Representation matters!

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 months

TL;DR: the shofar used by my great-grandfather, IN AUSCHWITZ, on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) 1944, with the help of my great-uncle 🕯 Reposting from 2020 in memory of great-uncle, who passed away yesterday. Added more photos to the original 4 (see below). > 1/7

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@AbbyChavaStein

11 months

Yup, time to #Gay the Pray Away 🌈 When I was a child, I tried to "pray the gay away." Okay, more like, tried to pray the trans/queer away. When I was 9, I literally wrote a prayer that is sad every night, that basically was "I wanna wake up as a (cis) girl!" 1/2

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@AbbyChavaStein

2 years

בְּרוּכָה מַתִּירָה אֲסוּרִים! Grateful to hear that Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and the other hostages are free. Now hoping for healing, unity, and an end to antisemitism. Signing off for the night. Stay safe, stay proud.

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@AbbyChavaStein

5 months

All the war does is kill more people every day. Thousands of innocent Palestinians, 1000s of innocent children. If you're not capable of humanity for every person, at least stop with the "but hostages" reaction to every person fighting to end this unjustifiable violence. > 3/5

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@AbbyChavaStein

3 years

The cover of the Hebrew @Haaretz newspaper today (the oldest print Israeli newspaper): "67 Children Were Killed in Gaza. This Is the Price of the War" With pictures. Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewish communities across the globe. It's about time.

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