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It’s important to manage to be friends. Even when
people disagree with you, I think it’s still important to
be friends. Are they a raging racist? Seriously hate
women? Or anything in that vein? Okay, so maybe
you’re not going to be besties and you just need to
make sure you have a working relationship in the
movement and that their tzevet doesn’t allow them to
run effed content. But short of that, I think it’s
important to prioritize friendship. Don’t compromise:
have parties! Go bowling! Laugh! Eat snacks! The
movement isn’t all fun and games, but it’s mostly fun
and games. When I see friends who don’t agree on
Zionism or Feminism breaking up over ideological
opinions I shed a little tear. We don’t need to only be
surrounded by people who agree with us, and the
movement isn’t a monolith. Celebrate that!

1. The movement is about the chanichimot (and its
leaders, but mostly them)

Sometimes this thing happens in the movement where
we fight about some issue to the death. For example,
what is the right model to encourage feminist
education in the movement? Let’s look at sports for a
moment. Should we create separate spaces for girls
that encourage growth or do the hitmodedut to have
boys and girls play together so that they both grow
from the experience? This is a good, interesting debate.
Definitely worth having. But at the end of the day, we’ll
probably do both, because it’s important to experiment
and find what works best for the chanichimot. Which is
to say, it’s okay to debate and disagree and have hard
things in the movement, but the education needs to be