Carly Pildis is an organizing and advocacy professional living in Washington, D.C.
Carly Pildis
By Carly Pildis
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Food On Shabbat, cooking for grief
People grieve in different ways. Black people across America have been grieving. Grieving George Floyd. Grieving Breonna Taylor. Grieving Ahmad Aubrey. Grieving the loss of life from COVID-19, which has disproportionately affected black people. In my house, we grieve these losses as our own. They are our own. They are us. Just as those lost…
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Opinion What will YOU do to end systemic racism?
Are you feeling sick? For months that’s been the question we have asked each other as COVID-19 raged and killed over 100,000 Americans. My Jewish family, which is mixed-race with two black members, has been grateful to answer that we are okay. Grateful to be healthy and employed. But after the events of this past…
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Food Tired too? Try double chocolate cheesecake truffles I #TweetYourShabbat
I am worn out. You are too. I have a preschooler and I work multiple jobs, so I am used to being tired. A full 8 hours of sleep is an occasional luxury. That said, the past two months have been grueling. School has been closed since Mar. 12, so I have added “teacher” to…
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Food Mini berry cobblers for a pandemic Memorial Day | #TweetYourShabbat
The Shabbat before Memorial Day is usually a time for celebration. Not this year. This year, there will be no road trips. No days at the beach. No laying by the pool eating watermelon and chips. No fond farewell before camp. No graduation parties. There will be more of this terrible stillness. This suspended animation….
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Opinion Let the pandemic be a time when we learn to grieve together and fight hate
When we step out of our homes in the morning, we assume we will come home at the end of the day. We leave a crockpot with dinner cooking on the counter. We have laundry we’ll fold or bills we’ll pay or a Netflix binge waiting. On February 23, Ahmad Aubrey went out for a…
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Food A perfect kugel for a new life | #TweetYourShabbat
When I got married my mother bought me a dining room table. It was a beautiful dark wood table with extension leaves for when guests came to dinner. My husband and I had just moved from my tiny 450 square foot single girl apartment into a shiny new apartment with floor to ceiling windows and…
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Opinion Sorry, Stephen Miller: Calling Out Your Bigotry Is Not Anti-Semitic
An increasingly loud chorus of voices has been calling for the resignation of Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to President Trump and the architect of his family separation policy. The calls have come in light of emails he sent a former Breitbart reporter, which included links to articles on the white nationalist site VDARE. In…
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Opinion Trump Is Right: I Don’t Love Israel Enough To Enable His Bigotry
This past weekend, President Trump delivered a speech to the Israeli American Council invoking several anti-Semitic tropes. These included a “dual-loyalty” accusation, when he said that many Jewish Americans “don’t love Israel enough.” What Trump is talking about isn’t love; it’s hostage-taking. Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council: “You’re not nice people at all,…
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