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Aug 3, 2022, 10:01 AM

Kashering specific types of materials

Mar 31, 2018, 2:02 AM

Passover kashering part 3…

This is just like Elul… I have all these high hopes of blogging my experiences, and then what happens? Time flies and seder’s tonight and I only really blogged two things and haven’t uploaded any of the pictures / videos I took of the process....

Mar 26, 2018, 7:43 AM

Passover kashering part 2

OK, I’m now less than a week out and feeling, uh, afflicted. Last week I was on planes four out of five days. I’m also dealing with some unusual stress following a car accident in January, as well as some minor medical concerns. Perhaps trying...

Mar 20, 2018, 12:54 AM

Passover kashering liveblog part 1

I’m blogging my passover-kashering process — for an explanation of what this is and why, click here. Part 1: Low-hanging bread (Get it, low-hanging fruit?) In past years, I’ve spent the few days before Passover scrambling like crazy — this year, I got started several...

Mar 18, 2018, 9:53 PM

Passover kashering for a Conservastructionewaldox (or whatever): Introduction

Time for my annual foray into the no-mans-land of making our home kosher for Pesach as an “observant, but not Orthodox” Jewish family. (pause to turn off running water in the bathtub that is currently submerging my glass dishes) Every year I search for a source...

Mar 5, 2018, 8:34 PM

Silence on Farrakhan — A bridge too far for the Women’s March

There is a time to engage in diplomacy and a time to interrupt spaces, I learned during my crash course in activism following the 2016 election. This lesson, though fraught in implementation, is an important one to apply to Jewish issues. I’ve been open about...

Dec 19, 2017, 7:25 PM

Nationalism’s deceptive glow

Happy last night of Hanukkah! Hope I’m not about to ruin it for you! This year I’ve been listening to “A Maccabeats Hanukkah” over and over again on all my car drives (that’s over an hour on most weekdays, if anyone’s counting). I’m not sure...

Nov 27, 2017, 12:08 AM

Cancel your NYT subscription

Y’all catch that Nazi fluff piece in the New York Times? You know, the one where they profile “neutrally” a white supremacist who calls himself a Nazi and tweets anti-Semitic tropes on a regular basis? The one that linked a site selling swastika armbands??? I personally didn’t...

Nov 8, 2017, 6:21 PM

After my last post and the subsequent AJT-featured guest column full of empty platitudes demonstrating exactly what I was talking about, my rabbi initiated a discussion group on how our community of faith can bring awareness to the all-important issue of gun violence in our country. We held...

Oct 3, 2017, 11:19 PM

Yes, now is the time to talk about gun control

You heard me – let’s talk about gun control. And let’s do it right now. I’m coming out of my hiatus from politics to address this, and don’t come at me with “politicizing a tragedy” finger-wagging–because to accord the proper respect to this tragedy’s victims,...

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About Me

Bonnie Levine is an attorney and musician, as well as a wife and mom of a two-year old son and a four-year old daughter. She writes about Jewish spirituality, parenting, and Jewish resistance to the current administration - views are her own and not those of her employer or any organization.