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Post by gazelle18 on Nov 10, 2024 21:59:14 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by gazelle18 on Nov 10, 2024 22:49:11 GMT -5
The past week has certainly been a downer, as far as the news is concerned. I did read one article that contained some happy news.
Although the presidential election was (for us) a depressing event, there was some good election news. In North Carolina , although Trump carried the state, there was the statewide election of a democratic governor (Jewish!), and several other officers, like AG. The legislature is now majority Democrats. In Arizona, in the senate race, a moderate Dem beat an election denying Trump sycophant. In seven out of the ten races having to do with reproductive rights, the pro-choice side won. Although a pro-choice initiative failed in Florida, it almost won. (The law called for 60 percent to vote the measure in, and it got 57 percent.) Elissa Slotkin beat her opponent for Senate in Michigan.
None of this comes close to blotting out the bad news, but there was at least some sliver of good news.
Were you able to salvage any hope, sunniness, or good feeling this past week? If so, what did you come up with?
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Post by peachymom1 on Nov 11, 2024 0:31:14 GMT -5
DH and I keep telling each other that we have been through hard times before and survived. As long as we have each other, we can face things together. If we have to suffer, we will suffer together, and when we triumph, we will celebrate together.
We had a similar conversation with our bffs at the Shabbat table too. So much of what we're facing is out of our hands. So we have to reach out our hands to each other and help each other stand strong.
Maybe it's lame, but that's as far as I've gotten so far.
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Post by hollygail on Nov 11, 2024 7:24:07 GMT -5
DS has been here since the afternoon last Wednesday. I hugged him like crazy when he first arrived. He's been doing lots of things around the house that either I didn't want to do or didn't realize needed to be done. He is such a gift!
I want to address something Louise said yesterday about for those of us not looking at democracy as an experiment. There is a synagogue in NYC (Jeshurun) that had scheduled a get together for either Tuesday or Wednesday evening last week, and it turned into a shiva group. That's pretty much how I felt/feel. I said "the State of the United States" for the mi sh'beirach (the prayer for healing said near the end of morning services) either Wednesday or Thursday of last week. I truly believe this is the beginning of the end of democracy in the US.
Each rabbi I experienced last week (two: at the local Conservative shul and at my own Reconstructionist one Friday evening and Saturday morning) talked about (1) how we all need to stick together, regardless of which side we voted for, and (2) ways to move forward together. One was more inspiring than the other. The first was more circumspect than the second about his/her personal political views, but both overcame his/her personal views to be an upstanding leader. Both were incredibly supportive.
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Post by lee058 on Nov 11, 2024 9:14:28 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel and the USA.
This Veterans Day, please take some time to think about our veterans. I'll be thinking and talking to DS about my dad (WW2 vet).
Re today's topic: Maybe democracy is an experiment, but I refuse to believe that it is doomed. I have hope for things getting better. We can stick together and do what we can to repair this country and world, and hasn't it always been that way?
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by brgmsn on Nov 11, 2024 9:45:27 GMT -5
Sorry, but I am never,and may never be able to, reach out to others who did not vote as I did. They voted for hate and evil. They voted for their personal gain (which unless they are multimillionaires, they'll be very surprised). They voted for Christianity taught in schools. They voted for misogyny, sexism, racism, and antisemitism.
Sorry, no more reaching across the aisle for me. No more "when they go low we go high". I refuse to watch the "news" or listen to him or see his face. I refuse to acknowlege him as pesident. Luckily I live in a very blue state that has protections for us set up. I feel very blessed in that respect. I worry about my granddaughters and what they will face.I will not let him live in my head for 4 more years. I will also NOT march in January as that just feeds his ego.
Just my thoughts.
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Post by peachymom1 on Nov 11, 2024 12:55:41 GMT -5
Thank you, all of you, for your posts today. They make me feel better and less alone. I'm not feeling particularly forgiving of the people who have put us in this position, and I'm not sure when/if I will be. But it really helps to have all of you. Thank you!
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Post by louise on Nov 11, 2024 13:05:51 GMT -5
My rabbi pointed out something that in a backhanded way I found hopeful. I was saying (we had a post election lunch and learn on shabbat) that Elon Musk (who I find reprehensible - makes me crazy that he is SO-O rich) will have so much power. All the government jobs and all the things he will be in in charge of having donated over a hundred million (8 zeroes?) dollars to Trump's campaign. My rabbi pointed out that Trump has no loyalty and could toss Musk aside in a nano second if he doesn't need him any more!
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