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Jewish Neocons Gear Up for Midterm ElectionsLet the Good Smears Roll
July 13, 2010It’s not just Israel that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. American Jewish neocons have been proliferating so many hysterically-Islamophobic campaign outfits in the run-up to the midterm elections, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard. There is of course the granddaddy/zaideh of smearmesiters, the Republican Jewish Coalition. In the 2008 election, the [...]
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Judaism, Food and Social Justice
July 13, 2010Hey yall, this is the first part of 3 part series I’m writing for the Huffington Post about the Jewish food movement. I broke it down into 3 areas: sustainability, social justice, and religion/spirituality. I’m real excited to have this opportunity to get the word out about all the great things going in Jewish food [...]
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Sharansky: We can't divide Jewish people
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New Journal for Jewish Fiction
July 12, 2010(from Dr. Nora Gold) Announcing Jewish Fiction .net, a journal committed to showcasing the finest contemporary Jewish writing (either written in, or translated into, English), and creating a virtual home for writers and readers of Jewish fiction from around the world. Unique among English-language Jewish journals today, only Jewish Fiction .net is devoted exclusively to [...]
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Bibi Demands Palestinian Confidence Building Measure, Approving Israeli Impunity
July 11, 2010I was reading a rather mundane Haaretz diplomatic report about the results of the last Obama-Netanyahu meeting. One of the foci of the article was the confidence building measures Obama expects of Israel in order to persuade Mahmoud Abbas to enter into direct negotiations. Even these were rather prosaic and unimpressive. But what caught my [...]
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Jeremiah Fellowship: LA
July 7, 2010“And seek the well-being of the city in which you dwell… for in its peace you shall find peace.” – Jeremiah 29.7 The Jeremiah Fellowship of the Progressive Jewish Alliance educates and trains a select cohort of emerging Jewish leaders to become the next generation of Jewish social justice change-makers. Participate in the Jeremiah Fellowship: [...]
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Guest Post: Planting Jewish Gardens in Chicago
July 7, 2010Hey everyone, this awesomeness is brought to you by the Gan Project. Ever wonder why New York and California seem to have so many exciting and fresh, lefty and liberal, progressive and oatmeally Judaism and Jewish community events while the Midwest gets the short change of traditional, conventional, Vanilla flavors of Judaism? Three Chicago Jewish [...]
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Group of Senegalese claim Jewish past
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Giving Judaism new meaning
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JA adopts plan aimed at securing Jewish future
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Supporting ALEPH
July 1, 2010If you’ve been reading this blog for any period of time, you know that I’ve wanted to become a rabbi for a long time, and I’ve been formally studying to become a rabbi since fall of 2005. I’ll be ordained, inshallah, in January of 2011. The ALEPH rabbinic program has been an amazing experience for [...]
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AJC or AJC?
July 1, 2010So there’s the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee. As far as I can tell, they both do roughly the same thing. And by God, I’m tired of not knowing which one we’re talking about. AJC or AJC? So let’s hope that Fundermentalist’s Jacob Berkman was right yesterday when he said: We are [...]
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Recap: Palestine Rising at the Social Forum
June 28, 2010Israel should not be the graveyard of Jewish people-hood, as it was for so many specific kinds of Jewish culture. Anti-Zionist Jews that I respect aren’t working primarily as subcontractors for Palestinian liberation, they are embracing a positive vision of Jews, for Jews, and by Jews, for Jewish liberation.
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A git-morgn from VARSHE, POYLN
June 24, 2010I’m in Warsaw and its raining buckets of love! This is my third visit, and I’m delighted to be here. I’ll be blogging my days and looking forward to carrying on a conversation in the comments about the possibilities of Jewish culture and community in Eastern Europe. Tell me what you know about this crazy [...]