I had a short stopover in Amsterdam yesterday on my way back to Israel (where I sit now). While I was there, I dropped in on the Jewish Historical Museum, among other things. Photoset here.
Once again, shana tova u’metuka.
Leavin’ tonight at 10PM back to Israel.
The end result of my time here? A conclusion of fux0r3dness. I’m in a perpetual catch-22.
Everyone knows that the project I’m working on — Jew It Yourself — is precisely where it’s at. They know it’s needed. It’s overdue. It’s effective. [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
The New Jewish Engagement:
A conference on Young Adults, Culture, and Jewish Identity
Based on the 2006 study: Cultural Events & Jewish Identities
by Steven M. Cohen and Ari Y. Kelman
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Offices of UJA Federation
130 E. 59th St. bet. Park and Lexington, 7th floor
More dizzadetails hizzahere.
I didn’t realize at the time of Ben Baginsky’s writing of his JPost piece on the Acharei Hamilchama concert that he was both a new intern and fresh off the plane in Israel. I judged his writing both hastily and harshly and I owe him an apology. Shortcomings aside (in terms of factual errors and [...]
Yes, yes and act like you know.
Hip-Hop Sulha » More photos
Oh dear lord.
Eversomuch g’wan.
UJA? Pure slaughter.
Hip-Hop Sulha? Really, go ahead and kick yourself. Shit was off the hook. Headcount was placed at around 350.
Prospects? Good. Great, even.
Next week: NFJC panel. More prospects. Two types o’ [...]
“We and Them”
Bob Marley & The Wailers
We no know how we and dem a go work this out
We no know how we and dem a go work it out
But someone will have to pay for the innocent blood
That they shed ever day, oh children mark my word
It’s what the Bible say, Yeah! Yeah!
We no know [...]
Ariel Beery has a knack for standing reality on its head. In a recent post on Blogs of Zion, he claims that the mentality of Jewschoolers is precisely that which prevented the greater Jewish community from mobilizing against the Nazis in the 1930s, while it was, in fact, both ideologically and physically Zionism which [...]
off to nyc in two hours for three weeks.
i will be speaking at:
uja federation conference (sep 12)
nfjc conference (sep 18)
performing at:
mimaamakim @ bowery poetry club (sep 13 / 8:05pm)
co-hosting:
hip-hop sulha @ sob’s (also sep 13 / 9pm)
holla if you want to get up.
Here’s the full text of my review of No Gods No Masters, which appears in the September/October 2006 issue of Tikkun.
There is only so much one can stand reading of Russian and European anti-Semites who wished to liberate the world by killing everyone who disagreed with them. Ignorant of the Judeophobic conditions which had forced [...]
Since leaving America for Israel, the one thing I’ve missed most about the US — more than common human decency, civility and courtesy even — is the ability to see my friend Seth Faergolzia of Dufus in the midst of the songwriting process, from initial composition through the debut of a new song live on [...]
When will I finally learn my lesson and refuse to EVER speak to the Jerusalem Post? Every other line in Ben Baginsky’s article on Acharei Hamilchama is a total fuck up. Bat Ayin is a yeshiva in Nachlaot? From that alone you can imagine how bad it is. But worse, he mashes [...]
