Jewitches

06/11/2025

These words ring in my ears - I close my eyes & my family flashes before my eyes. I see my mother in law looking her door & drawing her curtains, making sure she has at least 3 forms of ID before leaving the house; I see the markets flooded with uniformed men taking children… you will never convince me of anything but humanity, but empathy, but radical solidarity.

Give now.

We’re printing red cards at & will be distributing via family & friends & will always have some of you need them.

We have raised nearly $2000 over on Instagram. I am hoping we can match it here.

05/09/2025

Tonight, Shabbat gives me hope.

Sometimes, I feel despair creeping in; tugging at the corners of my sweaters, slithering down my spine and making its way into my lungs. It's a smog that ensnares from so many directions: warmongering, lack of empathy and humanity shown to one's fellows, integrity ground to dust, discernment ignored and locked away.
So many things inspire hopelessness in me...seeing Judaism be conflated with nationalism, when I see people choose not to engage in good faith, when people choose ignorance over empathy... the list is long.

But tonight, as I light my Shabbat candles, I keep hope in mind. For we owe it to each other to not give in to despair.

05/06/2025

Returning to our 2020 Jewitches roots 🕊️ who has been here since then? When did you find us?

Make sure to swipe through them all!

Art by Anna Lea Merritt 🫀

05/01/2025

04/24/2025

Defining the words we use is important and considering how much confusion I see about it, I figured I’d dedicate a post to understanding it.

I read a fascinating analysis about how the term was, at one point, embraced because it gave their experiences a name, a name, a verb. It meant that there was a word created solely to describe what happened to Jews — but as time has passed, the community has found frustration with it.

Like I say, this is a brief and incomplete history, but it should answer a lot of the questions and confusions that I see online…

04/22/2025

Our target audience:

Jewish witches
Eldest daughters
Diasporist Jews
Star gazers
Mythology fiends
Q***r Jews
People who yearn for the Old Ways
Jews who struggle to know their “place”
Candle lovers
Seekers of magic
Lovers of citations
Loudmouths

04/22/2025

This is something I’ve been ruminating on for a long time — and it isn’t set in stone. This conversation is one I’ve been having with dear friends and loved ones for a long time — it’s an active conversation and I am interested in hearing what you have to say.

In the last years, I have more and more watched solidarity be thrown to the wayside and experienced harassment and shaming from so many members of my Jewish community with the claim that “you need to care about your own” when I post about immigrant rights, solidarity with other marginalized groups, and of course, solidarity with Palestinians…

This idea of ‘betraying my community” by standing in solidarity with other oppressed peoples forgets that my communities are expansive: I am the child of immigrants. My partner is the child of immigrants frequently and constantly targeted by ICE. I am chronically ill; I am neurodivergent; I am q***r; our identities are so much more; we are so much more.
�And this isn’t to say that I face the struggles of every community or that I am in every community; of course not. I am part of many communities and in order to take care of every member, I must be vigilant against the threats they face.

I am constantly thinking of James Baldwin & his words, “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

I think to the private messages people send me in response to me sharing the news of children murdered by the IDF (in Gaza, the West Bank, on the holy soil of Jerusalem) $ know that morality has fled their hearts. I think of how you disdain my heartbreak for the child of immigrants who took her own life because of bullying regarding ICE and know that you have taken in the ideology of oppression into your heart & made it your own.
I am devastated, but I will not lose hope. Even if you took in the rhetoric of “circling the wagon and only protecting your own”, you can let it go as you expand to remember that our communities are forever intertwined: and so is our liberation.