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Hello friends! The parsha this week is Tzav. Still on the learning about sacrifices train. The content isn’t the most interesting to me, but the cultural...

A quick note to start off: I'm shifting the newsletter from Substack to Buttondown, so it may look a little different this week and going forwards. In the...

Vayakhel-Pekudei

This week's parsha is Vayakhel-Pekudei and we are chugging along between purim and passover! The soundtrack to this time is this remix of Flory Jagoda's...

Good afternoon! This week we are reading Ki Tisa, and it is shabbat Parah as well--a combination that happened on my bat mitzvah (mumble) years ago! Golden...

February 26, 2021

Hello all! Today is PURIM! PURIM ALEGRE! This week we read Parshat Tetzaveh. Kosher Queers @kosherqueershappy Purim! please avoid transphobia/transmisogyny...

February 19, 2021

Hello everyone! This week's torah reading is about the building of the tabernacle, which some people find boring but I always love because I am a...

February 12, 2021

Hello! there is something different this week--I received a lovely offer to sponsor an issue of this newsletter! This week's newsletter is sponsored by A...

February 5, 2021

For some reason over 100 people are signed up to read this! I am so thrilled, and a little nervous about doing it right, now that I actually have an...

January 29, 2021

This week we read parshat Beshalach! It’s got the splitting of the sea in it, which is gorgeously calligraphed in torah scrolls around the world and part of...

January 22, 2021

Today is the 9th of Shevat and we read Parshat Bo this week. BL_HebrewMSS @BL_HebrewMSSIn the portion "Bo" (Exodus 10:1-13:16) God sends plagues of locusts...

January 15, 2021

Hello new friends! This newsletter was mentioned in the Trans Hallel zoom and on a queer jewish zoom events Facebook page, and now there are more people...

January 8, 2021

before we start: fair warning, this newsletter does discuss this week’s US political events. This week’s parsha is Shemot. We’re starting the book of Exodus,...

January 1, 2021

Today is the 17th of Tevet and this week’s portion is Vayechi. It is also January 1st 2021! Happy (secular) new year! I gotta say when I was davening this...

December 25, 2020

Today is the 10th of Tevet, a minor fast (sun-up to sundown), as well as being some goyishe holiday. This week’s parsha is vayigash and the hell year is...

December 18, 2020

Chanukah’s over but it is shabbat! Shabbat shalom! I meant to send this earlier while it was still chanukah but then the sun set really early, as it is...

December 11, 2020

This week’s parsha is vayeshev: the part of the story where Joseph gets sold to Egypt and ends up in jail after the Potiphar’s wife issue. Also, januca...

December 4, 2020

Hello! I am once again exhausted. But I did find many links already yesterday and today, and chanukah is coming (light the first candle on the 10th!). First,...

November 27, 2020

This week’s torah portion has jacob’s ladder in it! if you fall asleep in the wilderness with a stone for a pillow maybe you will also have wild-ass dreams...

November 20, 2020

Hello friends! Today is the 4th of Kislev, and the parsha of the week is Toldot. veronica mars but jewish @tashakaminskywho is the best patriarch/matriarch...

November 13, 2020

This week’s parsha is Chayei Sarah. The newsletter is happening later than usual since I had to work today, so all my creative energy during the daytime went...

November 6, 2020

Hello! Today is the 19th of marcheshvan, also known as cheshvan. The parsha of the week is Vayera. The Torah’s still hanging out with Abraham, we have the...

October 30, 2020

This week’s parsha is lech lecha. My brain is still on some shit due to world events and job-related stress, so it’s once again mostly a disorganized...

October 23, 2020

Hello! Out here in Seattle, the temperature dropped, my bones ache, and I’m going to a zoom bar mitzvah tomorrow. This week’s parsha is Noach. I wrote an...

October 16, 2020

Bereshit: IT BEGINS (again). No, not the Israeli space robot that spilled a bunch of tardigrades on the moon last year, the parsha it is named after. We all...

October 9, 2020

In the continuing “all the shabbats have holidays on them” news, tomorrow is Shemini Atzeret in addition to being the shabbat where we read Vezot Habracha,...

October 2, 2020

All the holidays are on shabbat this year, it feels like. And there’s crossover with another notable calendar time in the US: daylight savings, which I...

September 25, 2020

Hello! It is 8 Tishrei 5781, and this week’s parsha is ha’azinu (aka: listen up y’all). Moses gets pretty longwinded and it’s written in two columns. We are...

29th of Elul, 5780

September 18, 2020

Normally these are titled with the parsha of the week but this time i went with Rosh Hashana, since it’s on shabbat and that means it’s its own special torah...

Nitzavim-Vayeilech

September 11, 2020

It is the 22nd of Elul and the parsha of the week is Nitzavim-Vayeilech. Since the number of weeks per jewish year varies and this is a shorter one, we’ve...

September 4, 2020

Today is the 15th of Elul and approximately full moon time. This week’s parsha, Ki Tavo, means “when you enter”. There’s some agricultural festival stuff,...

August 28, 2020

It is Friday, the 8th of Elul, 5780. I’ve been listening to near-daily (I’ve slacked off a few times) shofar blasts through zoom. I also davened shacharit...

August 21, 2020

It is the 1st of Elul, 5780. Chodesh tov! I’m not going to be doing a traditional Elul introspection review, because it interacts poorly with my depression....

August 14, 2020

It is the 24th of Av 5780, and this week we have Parshat Re’eh. I have SO MANY LINKS this week. I davened twice this week using the Siddur Masorti, an...

Today is the 17th of Av, and this week’s parsha is Eikev. Moses talks a lot. I’ll be honest, I love torah but am super bored by this part of Devarim so no...

Today’s the 10th of Av, 5780, or July 31 2020, and I am starting a weekly newsletter. This week’s parsha is vaetchanan, meaning “and I pleaded”. It contains...

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Welcome to Weird Jewish Digest by me, Meli. I'm Jewish, genderqueer (they/them), chronically ill, and live on the internet. This newsletter will feature...