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Bossy Love Accomplished So Much in 2025!
Bossy Love Accomplished So Much in 2025!

With our Go Fund Me: Love is Boss Let’s Help in Honduras, our community has shared $18,109 through Miguel to support medical care, nutritional needs, housing support, birthdays, and other essential needs. In addition, there were separate/private contributions totaling just over $14,000. That brings the collective total to about $32,109, or an average of ~$2,675 each month. Amazingly and wonderfully, this meets - and even slightly exceeds - our goal of $2,500 per month.

Dollars matter. What matters more is what they made possible.

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Jewish ValuesAmy ArielLove is Boss, TzedakahComment
Guidance for Jewish Grown-Ups: Helping Schools and Organizations Respond to Antisemitism and This Moment
Guidance for Jewish Grown-Ups: Helping Schools and Organizations Respond to Antisemitism and This Moment

Antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. I am 49. I reflected this morning that when I was in 7th and 8th grade my peers in a small town in Missouri said things to me like, “You would fit so well in an oven.” Antisemitism affects us, but it is not about us. It feels hard right now because it is hard right now. It’s real.
I’m here to help however I can. 

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Jewish Values, Jewish EducationAmy ArielAntisemitism, guidance for antisemitismComment
Days of Comfort
Days of Comfort

These seven weeks of 49 days are a time of consolation.
They are a time to ask ourselves and to ask each other questions so specific we can answer them in this particular moment. Where am I right now? How am I right now? What do I need right now? What good can I bring into the world right now? What is one thing I can do to comfort someone right now? What comfort do I need right now?
These are the right now weeks.
They are tender.
I’ve included a link to my Sounds of Comfort playlist with this post.

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Jewish ValuesAmy ArielDays of Consolation, Sounds of Comfort, Mourning, Tisha B'Av, Jewish MourningComment
Hakol Yiyeh Beseder
Hakol Yiyeh Beseder

It’s the 6th anniversary of my decision to wear a kippah all the time, and reflecting on that today has gotten me thinking. Tonight, the night after yesterday's election, feels really different for me than it once might have because November 9, 2016 has become my baseline.

Tonight, I feel pretty grounded and okay enough.
Better than I anticipated I might.

You?

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TORAH, Jewish ValuesAmy ArielElection, 2016, November, Vote, Kippah, Hakol Yiyeh BesederComment