Carly Pildis is an organizing and advocacy professional living in Washington, D.C.
Carly Pildis
By Carly Pildis
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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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Life Passover Prep, As A Feminist, Can Be Enraging
I’ll confess: Passover is the one holiday that makes me resent being a Jewish woman. Throughout the rest of the year, I love Jewish womanhood. I love raising a Jewish daughter. Shabbat dinner is a labor of love. Synagogue means dancing and cookies and songs of gratitude. Even Yom Kippur ends in sweet cakes and…
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Opinion Thank You, Alyssa Milano, For Standing Up To Hate In The Women’s March
When the actress and activist Alyssa Milano announced yesterday that she would not be speaking at the Women’s March until its leaders condemn Louis Farrakhan, I cried. Alyssa Milano says she will not speak at the next Women’s March as long as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory remain a part of the leadership and refuse…
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Opinion The Right Has Blood On Its Hands After Pittsburgh Carnage — And So Does The Left
Grief. Darkness. Uncontrollable rage. These are the things consuming the American Jewish community today, the darkest day in our history in this country. There is little surprise, but boundless, unending sadness and anger. In a crisis, we often feel a desire to move. It’s flight or fight. It’s adrenaline. It’s evolutionary. Today, I want you…
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Opinion Why Jews Should Celebrate The First Muslim Congresswomen
These are dark, painful days in the fight for a more just America. At a time when so many historically marginalized groups are under attack from an Administration that seeks a whiter America at every opportunity, breakthroughs in congressional representation feel like a breath of fresh air. They feel like hope, like there is still…
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Opinion Stop Comparing Immigrant Deportations To The Holocaust
The Trump administration’s treatment of asylum seekers and immigrant communities is filling many Americans with horror and dread. During the dark days of this administration, we are seeing immigrants who have built homes, businesses and lives in America have their legal status arbitrarily revoked by refusals to extend TPS. We are hearing the screams of…
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