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🔯 Jewish Author. 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי. Kiddush Book Club author Q&As. Featured in ARTIFACTS OF ORTHODOX CHILDHOODS 2022. Rep: Linda Epstein, @EmeraldCityLit
Nov 14, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Meanwhile everything is totally normal over on tiktok on a video my sister posted of my kid putting on tefillin.

Totally normal.
#jewish #jwitter #frumtwitter Image He's 14. He has tiktok. And he doomscrolled through 2000 antisemitic comments before I even knew it was happening. We sat together and looked again so he could learn not to internalize it. Even laugh at it and mock antisemites. But it's too late. He's 14 and now he knows.
Aug 25, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Beanie as Monica is so good. You can really get how vulnerable she was. I was a teenager at the time and the way they presented her as the criminal, this young Jewish woman who looked like my cousin, really affected my own self-perception and behavior.

This looks good. When I say she looked like my cousin, I mean she truly looked like a few of my actual first cousins. I judged her in comparison to them. They were pure and she was a sl*t. That was what I took in.

I was one of many vulnerable teenage girls who internalized this message.
Aug 22, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Yeshiva bochur gets a care package from his parents and as he opens it, all the guys gather round to see what they can scavenge. He pulls out a hard salami, the good kind from Romanian, and grabs for a knife...

#frumtwitter #jewish Slices it as thin as possible so he can share with everyone. Hands out slices to bochur after bochur until everyone has, and they're all savoring it. It's delicious, such a treat, to have some Romanian on a weeknight. One bochur realizes...