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November 29, 2024

Welcome to the jewsletter for Kislev, month of the big winter holidays! First, an apology for a mistake I made in the last newsletter: I said Tzedek Chicago...

October 25, 2024

Jewish Calendar: High Holy Days and Sukkot (after the fact) We’ve been through so many holidays lately. A collection of links from them: OpenSiddur has four...

September 27, 2024

I cannot believe we’re already at this point in the year. A fresh start’s coming soon! Jewish Calendar: High Holy Days I hope you already have plans for the...

August 30, 2024

Hello everyone! Honestly, there are so many links I could have added to the newsletter this week I just didn’t have time to review first. It’s a busy time...

Good personal news—I have a job again! Less good effect of that: I am not certain this newsletter will be quite as thorough or as well-edited as it has been,...

Hi everyone! I missed you over the past month; how’s it going? Jewish Calendar Tammuz contains one holiday: a minor fast on the 17th of Tammuz, commemorating...

Jewish Calendar Shavuot is coming up! As we count up to 49 I’m increasingly aware of how close we are to the holiday, which I suppose is the point. Also,...

Hi everyone! I am chatty in this one—hope that’s alright with you! Jewish Calendar (and…nature?) How was your passover? Mine was pretty great. I went to two...

Pesach edition 5784

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This issue is entirely passover-themed. Some parts may look familiar from last time, but most of it is new. There are so many...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This week we have some post-purim links, passover preparations, cholent, horrible behavior from Israel, a new siddur release,...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest, and also to the month of March! Jewish Calendar Purim Purim is a perfect holiday to organize a small get-together with...

February 2, 2024

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! Winter is a slog and also a race to survive. Change feels impossible yet everything moves so quickly; half the links I...

January 5, 2024

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! There is, as always, more going on in the world (and in the jewish world) than I have room in my brain and heart for, but...

December 8, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest and Happy Chanukah, however you spell it! There are so many links this week, so skim along until you find something important...

November 10, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This issue is mostly about the war in Gaza, unfortunately, as that is for good reason taking up nearly all the air in the...

October 13, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! I do talk about the war in this one, but there's plenty of other content as well. Jewish Calendar Before the next issue of...

September 8, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! We're about to be starting a new year. Do you have any intentions for how you want the new year to go? I'm hoping to include...

August 11, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! Every month there is so much amazing stuff for me to link to, and this time is no exception. Jewish Calendar Before the next...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest. I've been doing this newsletter for three years as of the end of July! I might get myself a cupcake to celebrate. This time...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! Jewish Calendar Before the next issue of Weird Jewish Digest goes out, we'll go through the following parts of the weekly...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This week we've got online study opportunities for shavuot, a trans read of Yentl, the jewish x italian handshake, and plenty...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! Rosh Chodesh Iyar is still a week away, but the shabbat announcement of it is tomorrow, which is why you're seeing this email...

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! I am having surgery the week this is going out (good surgery! it's fine! feel free to put me in your prayers for healing...

February 17, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This month we have Bayard Rustin, two megillah puns, so many events and classes, and an illustrated pet of the week! I'm...

January 20, 2023

Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest! This month we have content relating to Tu Bishvat; fan art of Spock's bar mitzvah; midcentury Reform antizionism; Algerian...

December 16, 2022

Welcome back to Weird Jewish Digest! This month we have chanukah (including the world's largest lego menorah), gorgeous old (and new) jewish books, several...

November 18, 2022

Before we begin: I rely on twitter for finding and embedding content in this newsletter, and that service is--to put it politely--undergoing some upheavals...

October 21, 2022

Hello all! Welcome to the first real monthly issue of weird jewish digest! This is all in trial mode still. Let me know what you think! Content notes...

September 30, 2022

Hello! The next Jewsletter will go out October 21st, which is the day before the shabbat mevarchim rosh chodesh cheshvan. I'm excited for the break but I'll...

September 23, 2022

Hello! Reminder, once again, that I'll be sending newsletters out weekly through the end of September (right before Shabbat Shuva) to make sure everyone's...

September 16, 2022

Hello! I'll be sending newsletters out weekly through the end of September (right before Shabbat Shuva) to make sure everyone's got the high holy days...

September 9, 2022

Hello! I missed you last week. As a reminder, I'll be sending these out weekly through the end of September (right before Shabbat Shuva) to make sure...

August 26, 2022

Hello! I'm gonna be skipping next week due to spending a few days in the woods, but I'll be back to send a Jewsletter out on September 9th. It’s gonna be a...

August 19, 2022

Hello! I really appreciate the replies from readers last week! I'll be making the switch to monthly emails some time after Yom Kippur, so your access to...

August 12, 2022

Hello! I've been thinking about changing this newsletter to be monthly rather than weekly. I imagine the events list would be less helpful but I've been...

Hello friends! Great to see you. Jewish Calendar Devarim We start the last book of the torah this week! Devarim (meaning words or things or stuff) is a much...

Hello friends! Great to see you. I missed you last week. Unfortunately we're in a bit of a heatwave where I am and it's causing my chronic illness problems...

Hello friends! This week in jewsletter we have: the 17th (or 18th) of tammuz, a jewish astrology guide, community safety training, several new events for the...

Hello friends! This week in jewsletter we have some stuff about the parsha and a very cute cat as pet of the week, with various thoughts and links in...

Hello friends! This week in jewsletter we have: tzitzit and gender; bodily autonomy and judaism; gefilte fish hot dogs; and my very own cat Jam as Jewish Pet...

Hello everyone! This week in Jewsletter we have: multiple zine-related links, pesach sheni, anti-queer anti-trans nonsense, links to book sales, and a babka...

Happy pride month, friends! I'm skipping over some of the heavy stuff this week not because there isn't relevant news, but as a burnout prevention strategy,...

Happy pride month, friends! Jewish Calendar Parshat Bamidbar This week we're starting a new book of the torah: Bamidbar/Numbers! Bamidbar means "in the...

Hello and welcome. I wish these times were less full of horrors, but here we are, doing our best to survive. I am glad you are here. CN: child sex abuse,...

Hello! Last week we had some technical difficulties, so you might not have gotten the email on time (or at all), but never fear! you can read it online....

Hello! My apologies for the delay. I clicked the send button yesterday afternoon as usual and it seems that it did not work. Let's try this again, eh? CN:...

Welcome back jewsletter friends! I missed you last week but it was also nice to have a break. This week we have: holiness (whatever that means), @swordsjew...

Pesach's ending! Mimouna?

This week in Jewsletter we have: some links about Mimouna, my take on LibsOfTiktok and the aftermath (with context links), The Temptations doing a Fiddler...

Jewish Calendar Pesach starts tonight! "What to the Black Jew is passover? It should be haven from white supremacy." full article link. Related: don't sing...

This week in jewsletter we have: historical haggadahs, a reading list of good leftist writings about antisemitism, and new events (including a lecture about...