Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Rabbi/award-winning author. 🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com (Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!): New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. 💥 Collective liberation or bust. she/her

EducateUS. Check out the whole series page here or register directly with the other events at: Collective Care Better: Disability Justice Lessons for the World We Need with Elsa Sjunneson Conflict as a Democratic Skill with Priya Parker How to Grow a Movement with Graie Hagans MARIAME KABA is an organizer, educator and librarian/archivist and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba co-leads Interrupting Criminalization, an organization she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including Project NIA, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect, Just Practice Collaborative, Survived & Punished and more. Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice & most recently Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care with Kelly Hayes, among several other books. FAQ Does this cost anything? When you register, there's a place where you can make a donation as well. Your financial contribution towards this project will enable us to pay speakers and support other backend costs. Access, as always, is a priority, and we will not turn away anyone because kicking in is a burden. What is this series' political orientation in regards to [insert specific thing here]? Learn, To Do is about specific skills and broad frameworks, with an aim of strengthening the movements fighting back against the authoritarian regime in the U.S., and its interrelated harms. Many of these learnings can be applied to other situations and contexts, but the political core over here at Life is a Sacred Text is that we strive to build a world in which every human being's rights and dignity are honored, and in which they can thrive, and we know that all of our fates are intertwin…
2024 presidential election by township in IL. Chicago area is blue. almost nothing else is, a couple of other tiny pockets.
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Holy Resistance: On her blog, “Life is a Sacred Text,” Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues that Jewish law provides legitimate grounds for workers to request religious accommodations exempting them from employer mandates to use generative AI. “For, even if people somehow manage to train AI models out of their biases (please God), it is the humanity, and the pursuit of the right and the good – and tending to the ineffable core of who we are – that is an inextricable part of the Jewish project. As we are commanded in the both literal and figurative center of the Torah: You shall be holy (Leviticus 19:2).”
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As we face down midterms (in the wake of the VRA's gutting and more) and so many of the crises swirling around us now, it's time to expand our collective arsenal with some of the most brilliant thinkers and doers out there—those who can offer us concrete skills, strategic thinking, community-building tools, and the visionary imagination we need now. This is for everyone who wants to expand their capacity to have an impact, whether you’re a movement veteran or just showing up for the first time. We all have new things to learn in order to more effectively do. That is to say: This is for you. Register. Join us. Please register for each session separately. And please spread the word. Because the world we need won't build itself. We're thrilled that this program is co-sponsored by EducateUS, which builds power on the state and local level to advance sex education across the country. 🌱 ❤️ 🌱 Share this post: Bluesky Threads Facebook Mastodon Reddit LinkedIn Email Finding your Role in the Work with Mariame Kaba July 8, 7pm ET/ 4pm PT This session with visionary, legendary organizer and activist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Till We Free Us, Let This Radicalize You (with Kelly Hayes) and other books, helps participants identify their most sustainable and effective role in social change—not based on what feels most urgent or visible, but on what actually fits their skills, capacities, relationships, and lived realities. This will involve an overview of the various roles that people play in movements; looking at the ways in which our identities, skills; capacities; and contexts shape each of our possibilities; discerning between urgency-driven action and sustainable contribution; looking at shifting roles over time so as to prevent burnout. https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/learntodo/
It's an album called Critical Thot by Sha Ray and DJ Haram
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knicks logo but it says time for a politics of solidarity
Danya Ruttenberg is top 3% of AI scrapped tokens
Learn, To Do: A training series to meet this moment. Tools and tactics for collective liberation from the grassroots on up! Online for everyone! Mariame Kaba July 8! Elsa Sjunneson August 5! Priya Parker September 2! Graie Hagans October 7! Hosted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg! To see all the trainings and to register go to LifeIsASacredText.com/LearnToDo !
Jenny Holzer is my prophet Abuse of Power comes as no surprise
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ZOOM SALONS ARE BACK-- starting this Sunday at 5 ET/2PT Come talk about Rahab,the biblical sex worker who’s ground zero for alllll the archetypes, unpack centuries of takes – allegorical, mystical and more – and see how she lingers on in our culture today. join Life is a Sacred Text’s House of Study to get in on it!!
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Pastel of the artist larry rivers in a hat and trench coat with a jude yellow star holding an ID card, ni the exact pose as the Felix Nussbaum painting.
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Editorial cartoon shows a hand labeled “U.S.” lifting a large rock to reveal a white hooded snake labeled “Local Law Enforcement’ Agents.”
Tumblr post from weasselle arguing that Community should be run like a household not a business- focusing on keeping people safe and healthy rather than turning a profit
A testimony given by Mr. Reinhold of his experience in several camps. Here he describes the small amount of daily food given in Auschwitz-Birkenau ‘Food: early ¼ coffee, midday ½ water gruel, evenings 200 grams bread with 20 grams margarine, or a slice of sausage’
Meme where guy checks out girl in red but the girl in red is an inspirational story and the guy is the us media and the indignant girlfriend is a huge systemic failure
The Wexner foundation is becoming the Shmexner Shmoundation, with another $40 million from Les Wexner to launder the name though it'll be the same exact thing basically, apparently
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social . 52m I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined. Re: The Justice Department has announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who "suffered weaponization and lawfare" as part of its settlement with President Trump in his suit against the Internal Revenue Service. President Trump has just moved to dismiss his extraordinary $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. claiming that the tax agency had improperly released some of his financial records. The move comes as the White House had floated a proposal to end the lawsuit in exchange for creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies and supporters of the president who felt they had been mistreated by the Justice Department under previous administrations. Underneath it: Aaron Rupar: JD Vance: "Fighting fraud in DC is a little bit like fishing in a barrel with a nuclear weapon. Every day my staff brings me new reports of the ways you're being defrauded. You should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters."
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Chart of US adults reporting a disability. A jagged gray line bounces around 30 million until March 2020; after, a jagged orange line climbs steeply and linearly toward 35 million.
Solidaritymaxxing it's addictive euphoric and transcendental according to those who have begun their journey towards working for all of our collective liberation and understanding how it benefits eveyrone and it's a hell of a lot more useful and less stupid than stubbornly remaining tangled up in the toxic web of patriarchy and white supremacy)
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tweet by Gracie Hoos @cottoncandaddy : [shoving glitter glue and felt pens back into my bag, visibly upset] ok look all I'm saying is maybe you guys shouldn't ahve called it a craft brewry because people are gonna get the wrong idea nad lemme tell you Karen this has been a big let down
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poll where basically dems lead overall and in most demographics but 45-64 (gen x ) there's a GOP lead of 54% to dem 36%
Sarah Mullally becomes first female Archbishop of Canterbury after 1400 years
initial findings in abuse survey: If you were abused by a faith org you had less group trust and sense of community than others.
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It’s interesting you say that, because my next question for you was going to be how you think October 7th and the war in Gaza changed the political context of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And I thought you were going to talk about Israeli public opinion, or the evolving aims of the Israeli government, but the degree to which the facts on the ground have changed on a practical level is striking. In this way, yes. But October 7th also contributed to this by raising the bar of what level of violence is considered acceptable in the West Bank. The West Bank has always been behind Gaza, but, when the Israeli government’s behavior in Gaza went as far as it did, things changed in the West Bank, too. You can see it with the forcible transfer and displacement of some thirty-two thousand Palestinian refugees in the refugee camps in the northern part of the West Bank after October 7th. You see it with the mass destruction of agricultural areas. Thousands of olive trees were uprooted last year, and the Central Command general Avi Bluth made clear that the intention was collective punishment, even though the military denies this. The Israeli government’s aim is for every Palestinian community to know that, if there is an attack by someone in their community, they’re all going to pay the price.
Such incidents are made possible because the Israel Defense Forces stand by and do nothing to crack down on the violence and protect those under attack. Among the rioters are soldiers in uniform, members of the settlements' emergency security squads, who exploit the uniforms and weapons given to them for self-defense to attack Palestinians, who only want to harvest their crops.
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Onion headline: Timothee CHalamet kicked out of oscars for bringing in outside award
Show Title: Repentance and Repair with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Tonight on The God Squad, Dillon Naber Cruz and Desimber Rose sit down with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, the acclaimed Jewish scholar and author of On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. In a time when public apologies are often little more than PR damage control, Rabbi Ruttenberg brings ancient Jewish wisdom to a modern crisis of accountability. Drawing from the teachings of the medieval philosopher Maimonides, Rabbi Ruttenberg explains what real repentance actually requires—truth-telling, repair of harm, and meaningful transformation—not just empty words. Together, Dillon and Desimber explore how these principles apply not only to personal relationships but also to public life, politics, institutions, and faith communities. If you’ve ever wondered what genuine accountability looks like in a culture that often avoids it, this conversation offers both challenge and hope. 📅 Live Tonight – 8PM EST 🎧 Available tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts The God Squad Podcast Faith. Sanity. Politics.
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