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What I learned from a tiny carrot
2024, Insights and Activism Jill Wener 2024, Insights and Activism Jill Wener

What I learned from a tiny carrot

I harvested the world's tiniest carrot from our garden yesterday.

In a previous newsletter, I shared that we started our first garden at the end of the summer. We planted spinach, little gem lettuce, mesclun greens, carrots, beets, and radishes, all from seeds. We transplanted cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and kale from seedlings that I grew indoors for the first time. Big plans with big expectations.

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The Surprising Place I Found Hope
Insights and Activism, 2024 Jill Wener Insights and Activism, 2024 Jill Wener

The Surprising Place I Found Hope

It was an example of how observance of Jewish rituals can exist, and even thrive, without being tied, in any way, to the state of Israel. There was laughter, tears, community, prayer, solemnity, and lightheartedness. There was a commitment to collective liberation. There was an honoring of all people's humanity, not just the people who look and sound like me. It felt, to me, what religion should feel like.

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A Common Mistake in Social Justice Work
2024, Insights and Activism Jill Wener 2024, Insights and Activism Jill Wener

A Common Mistake in Social Justice Work

We can't 'check the box' on learning about and fighting racism and other forms of oppression. It has to be a new way of thinking, a new way of seeing the world. We have to integrate it into everything we do, even if that happens more slowly than we'd like.

Here are some fairly simple things that I have personally found super helpful in keeping this work top of mind and integrating it into my day to day life, and I will offer them to you as an invitation.

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