A woman in her 70s showed me the tiny Star of David hidden under her jersey.

The man with her said, "I stopped wearing mine."

Three years after Oct. 7, here's why I wear the biggest one I can find.

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#October7 #BlackShabbat #Antisemitism #AmYisraelChai

@rabbisandra showed me a beauty in our shared traditon that I had known about, but hadn’t been ready to respond to until just then. Thanks for opening my heart to some things I had kept walled off in my head. I’m trying to stay open to them. 5/x

#BlackShabbat

So that brought me to a lot of others to follow. And most of them I just listen to, and sometimes I say “oh! that’s right!” and sometimes have to say “that’s how I look to others? how can act to fix that?” but usually I learn something. Partial list in the next 3/x

#BlackShabbat

if he hadn’t also shown me his fierce pride in who he is, and how to be specific about who one's ancestors were/what we inherit from them. I try to tell everyone to buy @KosherSoul’s book, and I try to follow his insights in my own relationship to my family. 2/x

#BlackShabbat

So for #BlackShabbat I’d like to thank some of my favorite Black Jewish teachers on Twitter. I think @KosherSoul first brought me to this corner of the Twitterverse, because I saw a recipe of his somewhere. His writing is gorgeous and sensual, but that wouldn’t matter 1/x

For #BlackShabbat, I want to thank the Black Jews I follow for teaching me about the intersections of Blackness and Judaism. And how those two identities enrich each other. I have nothing eloquent to say, but I thank you all for sharing yourselves on Twitter.