Carly Pildis is an organizing and advocacy professional living in Washington, D.C.
Carly Pildis
By Carly Pildis
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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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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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