Filmed April 14, 2007. Produced by Mishtara.
I was recently interviewed by Alyssa Benjamin, a student at Boston University, for a forthcoming article on the controversy surrounding the growing keffiyeh fashion trend. The full-text of the interview is published below.
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What is the proper way to spell kaffiyeh?
Well, the proper spelling is كوفية.
Wikipedia holds by keffiyeh, but it’s transliterated so [...]
David Bogner at Treppenwitz has written an open letter to the Israeli Left in response to the Israeli government’s decision to evacuate the house being illegally occupied by settlers in Hebron. Bogner believes this move is intended to distract the public from the forthcoming Winograd Commission report, and to win Olmert the support of [...]
More Yom Haatzmaut photos.
There’s no way our friend David Braunstein, brother of Hasid Meets Hipster founder Seth Braunstein, can possibly be for real. I can only assume that this is an exaggerated performance, and that he himself is a brilliant comedian pulling a fast one on me.
Because this? This is priceless…
The latest harassing voicemail:
Jerusalem: Queer protest against Israeli Independence Day
GoGay, April 23, 2007
Translation by Yossi Bartal
A group of queer activists painted pink the memorial canon in Jersualem’s “Davidka” square, and added the graffiti “Lesbians against arms” (which in Hebrew also translates as “Lesbians against dicks”). This act is meant as a protest against the occupation of Palestine and [...]
Just kidding!
Show your love for Orthodox Anarchist in the 2007 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards!
OA has been nominated in the following categories:
Best Jewish Skepticism Blog
Best Jewish Anti-Establishment Blog
Best Designed
Best of the Rest
And don’t forget to give love to Jewschool, Radical Torah, and our friends at The Kvetcher, Kosher Eucharist, JVoices, JSpot, The Jew & [...]
Antisemitism on the Left is a problem that just won’t go away.
One may recall a number of thorough discussions on Jewschool to that effect, including “Antisemitism on the Left,” “That’s funny, you don’t look antisemitic,” and “Opposing antisemitism in the movement.”
That last link is to a conversation that took place in response to [...]
Meretz USA, the American supporters of Israel’s left-wing Meretz party, have launched an initiative to monitor and report on the activities of radical settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The city of Hebron, on the West Bank, is home to a group of 600 extremist Jewish settlers who, starting in 1979, and with the [...]
