Moonlight Letters

From this week’s Torah portion Sh'mot — Exodus chapter 1, verses 6-12: 6וַיָּ֤מָת יוֹסֵף֙ וְכָל־אֶחָ֔יו וְכֹ֖ל הַדּ֥וֹר הַהֽוּא׃ Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל פָּר֧וּ וַֽיִּשְׁרְצ֛וּ וַיִּרְבּ֥וּ וַיַּֽעַצְמ֖וּ בִּ...

I originally wrote this on Nov 11, 2016, 3 days after the election. If you or your family does not feel safe, how can I help? If members of your community are afraid, how can I help? If bad things are happening here in our local area, how can I help? If you are attacked ...

[photo] The funny thing is, the way I'm thinking right now, there aren't enough white men and women in this photo. Especially in a rally promoting "Our Diversity is Our Strength -- Stand United with Muslims & Immigrants." (Saturday, Dec 3, 2016, 2pm. Meet at Townsen...

If you’re not familiar with “Dykes to Watch Out For," which Alison Bechdel published for 25 years until 2008, you are in for a treat. Alison writes, Since I stopped drawing Dykes to Watch Out For at the tail end of the Bush administration, people have asked me many t...

[Photo] How do I react to this one?? Love it because of its truth or cry because it's true? No, not because it's true, but because it's so active. Thank you Nikki Alcala Reilly for posting this on Facebook; and to whoever took the photo and posted it to the web orig...

I'm in Netanya, Israel. On the 5th floor of a hotel across the street from the ocean. With a balcony. I love balconies. [photo] The ocean is always west. (Significant to those of us who, growing up in Chicago, guided ourselves by the lake, always east.). But this balc...