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Agree or disagree: the Jewish state gives my values headaches
June 15, 2010Jewschool is co-sponsoring Love, Hate and the Jewish State 3: What’s Jewish about a Jewish state? on Thursday, June 24 at 7 pm at the JCC in Manhattan, along with 14 other Jewish social justice, spiritual and online communities. The premise behind the Love/Hate series is that social justice and Israel feel awkward together. They [...]
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A slim sliver of hope for a more religiously pluralistic Israel
June 15, 2010Crossposted to New Voices Magazine God bless the supreme court of Israel. They aren’t always as daring as I want them to be, but sometimes they do the right thing. And that’s what they did yesterday when they decided that the state may no longer subsidize the learning of yeshiva students. Here’s the full Haaretz [...]
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Live from Gaza: A Conversation with Blogger/Journalist Ashley Bates
June 15, 2010An important learning opportunity: blogger/journalist Ashley Bates will discuss life on the ground in Gaza this Thursday, June 17 . Ashley has been living in and reporting from Gaza for the past several months and her blog Dispatches from Gaza offers invaluable, in-depth perspectives of life under the blockade. Her articles have appeared in such [...]
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The God of a Talmudist
June 15, 2010The March/April 2010 volume of Tikkun had a roundtable on God in the twenty-first century occasioned by the publication of Art Green’s new book Radical Judaism. I was asked (along with fifteen other thinkers) to contribute to this roundtable. We each had 750 words. My contribution is here: The God of a Talmudist by Aryeh [...]
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Write for Jewschool
June 15, 2010Our apologies for the slow nature of posts, our contributors are away on vacations, study tours, and saving the world in India. Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that we accept guest posts and petitions to become summer contributors. Send an email to editor {at} jewschool(.)com var [...]
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Few Words on Condition of Jews in Kyrgyzstan
June 13, 2010The Kyrgyz Government has declared that it has lost control of the southern city of Osh to anti-Uzbek rioters. Few Jewish media outlets or humanitarian organizations have reported on the condition of Jewish communities living throughout the country, including in the embattled cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. Ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the [...]
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A correction and a changed viewpoint
June 12, 2010In my last post, I expressed strong dismay with specific actions of the Freedom Flotilla organizers: When the Gaza Freedom Flotilla refused Noam Shalit’
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Food Politics
June 11, 2010Epicurious, a wonderful food website and recipe treasure trove, has published a cool little blog called “Around the World in 80 Dishes.” I think it is a cool way to learn about the important food around the world and possibly cook a very tasty meal. But guess what? Epicurious is now in on the World [...]
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Colbert on the Flotilla, Michael Oren as guest
June 10, 2010Michael Oren on Israel’s loosening of restrictions on food: “We were not feeling obliged to provide Gaza with snack food.” He also asserts that the Turks were “hired thugs.” I think this is what the Twitterverse is calling “Hasbaracalypse.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Formidable Opponent – Michael Oren www.colbertnation.com Colbert [...]
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Jewschool co-sponsors Love, Hate & the Jewish State 3
June 10, 2010Jewschool co-sponsors the third in this series of dialogues on the intersection of social justice and Israel. Themed “What’s Jewish about a Jewish state?” this dialogue couldn’t be better timed. With the Gaza flotilla still all over the news and with old Jews talking about young Jews’ non-attachment to Israel, it seems to be more on [...]
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Rationalizing the unrationalizable
June 9, 2010The blockade of Gaza is one of the most egregious components of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It imposes tremendous suffering and has not provided Israel with any significant tactical advantage. Yet Jewish leaders continually voice support for it. “There are 1.5 million people living in Gaza and only one of them really needs humanitarian aid,’
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Peter Beinart vs. the AIPAC worldview
June 8, 2010Peter Beinart is still on his (incredibly polite but) hard-hitting crusade against the Jewish establishment’s lockstep on Israel. First on the NY Review of Books, then bloggingheads.tv, now NPR with Brooke Gladstone. In this 12-minute clip, he politely brushes aside the “self-perpetuating victimization” of Steven Rosen, a 23-year AIPAC senior staffer, and the charge of [...]
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Open Thread on Helen
June 7, 2010In case you missed it: Now she “retired.” Discuss UPDATE: What is next for Helen Thomas
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Establishment losing young leaders over flotilla responses
June 6, 2010Attentive as always to the sentiment of my peers who obsess less about this issue than I do, the past weekend’s flotilla events have only confirmed what Peter Beinart wrote. His words confirm what I and others on Jewschool have long prophesied: young Jews are refusing “to check their liberalism” at Israel’s door. All week, [...]