Carly Pildis is an organizing and advocacy professional living in Washington, D.C.
Carly Pildis
By Carly Pildis
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Food Chocolate espresso cake for 100+ days without school | #TweetYourShabbat
My daughter is standing on my shoulders. Literally. She is pulling my hair over my eyes. She is pushing Cheez-It in my mouth. She is kissing my cheeks. Normally, this would make me laugh. Except I am at work. During this particular Zoom meeting, my daughter has planted herself on me and will not be…
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Food A $25 Shabbat menu for struggling families | #TweetYourShabbat
Across America, families are struggling to get Shabbat on the table. Over 40 million Americans have lost their jobs. Some 1.5 million Americans have filed for unemployment weekly for the past 3 weeks. The global economy has been battered by the Coronavirus pandemic, with some predicting it will take the U.S. economy a decade to…
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Food I want peach hand pies and a better America for this 4th of July | #TweetYourShabbat
The Shabbat before the Fourth of July. Any other year, I would be sitting on my parent’s back porch. I’d be drinking a gin and tonic and watching the kids play while the smell of grilled corn and steak filled the crisp New England air. My family has always loved the Fourth of July, which…
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Food Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken Worth Staying Home for | #TweetYourShabbat
COVID cases are rising. People are still dying. Please stay home this Shabbat. I know you probably miss a bigger, more communal version of Shabbat. I know I do. I miss Tot Shabbat where all the kids dance and sing and rip hunks of challah and pass it around. That seems unfathomable now. I miss…
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Food Juneteenth Shabbat: Liberation, legacy, and reckoning with America’s history of slavery | #TweetYourShabbat
Shabbat falls on June 19th this year, coinciding with Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the liberation of enslaved Americans and the end of slavery. I’ve chosen to celebrate both holidays this year and I encourage you to as well. Tema Smith argues that American Jews should celebrate Juneteenth every year, and this year, with all…
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Food Juneteenth Shabbat: Liberation, legacy, and reckoning with America’s history of slavery I #TweetYourShabbat
Shabbat falls on June 19th this year, coinciding with Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the liberation of enslaved Americans and the end of slavery. I’ve chosen to celebrate both holidays this year and I encourage you to as well. Tema Smith argues that American Jews should celebrate Juneteenth every year, and this year, with all…
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Food Shabbat is still coming: grief, resilience, and joy | #TweetYourShabbat
I am trying to make an impossible summer as sweet as possible for my child. This week there was deep exhaustion and sadness. Despite it all, Shabbat still comes Within grief, and loss, and hardship, we need to find new ways to be resilient. I find resilience in insisting on joy. That’s what Shabbat is…
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Opinion You don’t have to choose between Black Lives Matter and Israel
All of last week and into this one, Americans grieved and demonstrated and were beaten in the streets by police as we protested George Floyd’s murder. It is an emotional time, with the wins of the Black Lives Matter movement making change seem, finally, possible. Yet existing communal tensions remained. All week, I’ve been asked…
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