Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M
@blewishand.bsky.social
Black, Jewish, British, mother, friend & everything else beautiful in between. Living with an open heart.
Blewish cockney version of Hillel.
Occasional rants.
Blewish cockney version of Hillel.
Occasional rants.
From our family to yours, g’mar chatima tova. ❤️
September 20, 2026 at 9:51 PM
From our family to yours, g’mar chatima tova. ❤️
“The deed is the main thing, not the study.” The attribution of Ed Milliband's Jewishness to synagogue attendance misses how much the core of Jewish tradition is within him: spirituality is not just believed or studied; it is actively lived through physical rituals and deeds.
September 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
“The deed is the main thing, not the study.” The attribution of Ed Milliband's Jewishness to synagogue attendance misses how much the core of Jewish tradition is within him: spirituality is not just believed or studied; it is actively lived through physical rituals and deeds.
It is quite disturbing that The Economist and The Atlantic have scheduled recurring, almost daily, posts linking to negative articles about Jason Arday. It is not too much to ask to allow his family, wife, children and friends to grieve and mourn in peace.
August 21, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It is quite disturbing that The Economist and The Atlantic have scheduled recurring, almost daily, posts linking to negative articles about Jason Arday. It is not too much to ask to allow his family, wife, children and friends to grieve and mourn in peace.
The only response about Cofnas and extramural speech, that has sat well, is how would Black students feel about someone interacting with them and their education, or present in their spaces, who believed they were inferior *because* they were Black?
August 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The only response about Cofnas and extramural speech, that has sat well, is how would Black students feel about someone interacting with them and their education, or present in their spaces, who believed they were inferior *because* they were Black?
An apology is not atonement. The first is words. The latter is deeds to repair the actual harm caused.
August 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM
An apology is not atonement. The first is words. The latter is deeds to repair the actual harm caused.
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(See also: “woke”).
"DEI hire." "DEI is discrimination." "Kill DEI." "Look at the DEI training."
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
August 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
(See also: “woke”).
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"DEI hire." "DEI is discrimination." "Kill DEI." "Look at the DEI training."
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
August 16, 2026 at 2:24 PM
"DEI hire." "DEI is discrimination." "Kill DEI." "Look at the DEI training."
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
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It is disappointing to see this, yet it is maybe not a surprise from the author. Using Nazi-era racial terminology like "Mischling" to gatekeep Jewish identity and invalidate non-Orthodox Jews and Jews by choice, including their children, is abhorrent and deeply divisive.
August 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It is disappointing to see this, yet it is maybe not a surprise from the author. Using Nazi-era racial terminology like "Mischling" to gatekeep Jewish identity and invalidate non-Orthodox Jews and Jews by choice, including their children, is abhorrent and deeply divisive.
This framing is far from ok, including what counts as Jewish ideas.
These days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins, not a disciple of Jewish ideas. Our profile explores how he has embraced the anti-Israel fervour that has swept the new left
Can Zack Polanski do a Mamdani?
A life of frustrated ambitions has made the hypnotherapist-turned-tub-thumper a perfect tribune of the age
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August 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This framing is far from ok, including what counts as Jewish ideas.
It is disappointing to see this, yet it is maybe not a surprise from the author. Using Nazi-era racial terminology like "Mischling" to gatekeep Jewish identity and invalidate non-Orthodox Jews and Jews by choice, including their children, is abhorrent and deeply divisive.
August 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It is disappointing to see this, yet it is maybe not a surprise from the author. Using Nazi-era racial terminology like "Mischling" to gatekeep Jewish identity and invalidate non-Orthodox Jews and Jews by choice, including their children, is abhorrent and deeply divisive.
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
A question for every commentator on race at Cambridge or UK higher education
How many of you university lecturers in the UK were Black?
I'll start: zero
How many of you university lecturers in the UK were Black?
I'll start: zero
August 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
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Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit]
Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black?
Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%"
Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black?
Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%"
Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
August 16, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit]
Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black?
Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%"
Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black?
Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%"
Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
"DEI hire." "DEI is discrimination." "Kill DEI." "Look at the DEI training."
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
August 16, 2026 at 2:24 PM
"DEI hire." "DEI is discrimination." "Kill DEI." "Look at the DEI training."
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Watch how fast a term meant to describe fairness got turned into an insult. That did not happen by accident. Let us break down what is actually being done to this word, and why it matters. 🧵
Within the Jewish community, Nathan Cofnas's troubling use of the term "mischlings" to describe Jewish people considered not to be real Jews, warrants some discussion.
I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people.
His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
August 15, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Within the Jewish community, Nathan Cofnas's troubling use of the term "mischlings" to describe Jewish people considered not to be real Jews, warrants some discussion.
Several months ago, they went after Misan Harriman (Misan Harriman). Then, it was Jason Arday. Both were hunted.
This has been happened in plain sight for all to see yet it has taken Jason's death for many to speak.
This has been happened in plain sight for all to see yet it has taken Jason's death for many to speak.
August 14, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Several months ago, they went after Misan Harriman (Misan Harriman). Then, it was Jason Arday. Both were hunted.
This has been happened in plain sight for all to see yet it has taken Jason's death for many to speak.
This has been happened in plain sight for all to see yet it has taken Jason's death for many to speak.
It is incredibly disappointing that:
- @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this
- @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report
*And*
- @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this
- @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report
*And*
August 2, 2026 at 10:21 AM
It is incredibly disappointing that:
- @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this
- @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report
*And*
- @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this
- @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report
*And*
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In late 2021/early 2022 I started talking to my local Democrats about a run for city council. This was still in the heady days of Run For Something and I thought, hey, why not? I'm a lawyer, local businesstype, genuinely interested in politics and local governance.
This is what it means to be Jewish in America. If you do not understand the concerns surrounding Jewish safety, I ask that you please become educated and listen to Jewish friends who don't dismiss such concerns. ==> Michigan AG Dana Nessel to skip Democratic convention over antisemitism fears
Michigan AG Dana Nessel to skip Democratic convention over antisemitism fears
The Jewish attorney general said she believes she will get ‘chased around,’ ‘harassed,’ ‘yelled and screamed at’ and ‘booed off stage’ if she were to attend her own party convention
jewishinsider.com
August 2, 2026 at 5:14 AM
In late 2021/early 2022 I started talking to my local Democrats about a run for city council. This was still in the heady days of Run For Something and I thought, hey, why not? I'm a lawyer, local businesstype, genuinely interested in politics and local governance.
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I don't know if I suspected where things were headed back then. I do remember thinking that it was a bad time to be a visible Jew in a very gentile corner of California. I thought about what it would mean for my immigrant wife and our mixed-race children.
I decided not to put any of us through it.
I decided not to put any of us through it.
August 2, 2026 at 5:14 AM
I don't know if I suspected where things were headed back then. I do remember thinking that it was a bad time to be a visible Jew in a very gentile corner of California. I thought about what it would mean for my immigrant wife and our mixed-race children.
I decided not to put any of us through it.
I decided not to put any of us through it.
With recent decadal spikes in warmer British summers, and more frequent heatwaves, tell me why do only about 2% of buses in London have full passenger air conditioning, while the rest rely on ventilation and air-cooling systems.
July 28, 2026 at 4:53 PM
With recent decadal spikes in warmer British summers, and more frequent heatwaves, tell me why do only about 2% of buses in London have full passenger air conditioning, while the rest rely on ventilation and air-cooling systems.
Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord.
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
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We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
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July 26, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord.
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
1/3
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
1/3
Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord.
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
1/3
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
1/3
July 25, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Seeing Rita Ora’s headline today (“I looked for love in the wrong places”) hits a quiet, familiar chord.
We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
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We’ve all spent time searching for connection or validation in places that were never meant to hold us.
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Sitting here on this warm night, listening, and thinking is there any song that captures the high of new love better than Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”?
Beyond being an absolute classic, it is a brilliant celebration of opening your heart to a brand new chapter with someone special.
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Beyond being an absolute classic, it is a brilliant celebration of opening your heart to a brand new chapter with someone special.
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July 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Sitting here on this warm night, listening, and thinking is there any song that captures the high of new love better than Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”?
Beyond being an absolute classic, it is a brilliant celebration of opening your heart to a brand new chapter with someone special.
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Beyond being an absolute classic, it is a brilliant celebration of opening your heart to a brand new chapter with someone special.
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Does plantain go with chicken soup for Shabbat dinner? It is a silly question. Of course, they do. Shabbat shalom ❤️
July 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Does plantain go with chicken soup for Shabbat dinner? It is a silly question. Of course, they do. Shabbat shalom ❤️
You do not need to be religious to be spiritual. The English and French Black players showed what pure faith looks like: a shared reverence for love, unity, life and joy after their #WorldCup match. More than a game; it's a testament to the human spirit.
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July 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
You do not need to be religious to be spiritual. The English and French Black players showed what pure faith looks like: a shared reverence for love, unity, life and joy after their #WorldCup match. More than a game; it's a testament to the human spirit.