My father had dual knee replacement surgery on Friday and is having trouble regaining his blood pressure. He has been slipping in-and-out of consciousness.
Also, my grandmother, Thursday, fell and smashed her face up pretty badly.
So if you’d be so kind, please pray for the swift and full recovery of Pinchas ben Rivka and Peska bas [...]
Jeffrey Lewis performs “The Gasman Cometh” by Crass.
I’ve invited my friend Charles Lenchner to join me next week at the Righteous Indignation Conference in my presentation on online organizing. Charles works for Democracy in Action, an organization that specializes in CRM solutions for small-medium sized non-profits. He has a great deal of experience in the field and I have infinite faith [...]
With all the great Jewish social justice events taking place next month, I almost mistook May for Jewish Social Action Month.
Three items of note:
Righteous Indignation Conference
May 4-May 6
Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA
I’ll be giving a presentation on online organizing on the 5th. Representatives from the Religious Action Center, American Jewish World Service, Encounter, [...]
My sister Aliza Hava is back in New Paltz (where she and I both went to college) and she’s back in action, as well, rabble rousing for truth, justice and etc. etc. Last time her focus was a gay marriage initiative (New Paltz was the first city in NY to legalize gay marriage; [...]
Via λιαεω 40:
The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just peace, the [...]
Ronen Eidelman, an Israeli anarchist living in Weimar (and a very close friend of mine) reports on the successful efforts of the German anti-fascist movement to stop a neo-Nazi demonstration in Erfurt, Thuringen, on May Day, in the course thereof, also discussing the manner in which the radical Right is attempting to win converts by [...]
Filmed April 14, 2007. Produced by Mishtara.
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 [...]
Jews Against the War, the Jewish anti-war initiative organized by Aryeh Cohen, Adam Rubin, Joshua Levine Grater, Sarah Newman and Shaul Magid, now has a website where you can add your name to a petition calling for an end to the Iraq War. The petition will be published in Jewish newspapers across America and [...]
Some folks may recall my back and forth convo with Steven I. Weiss (of Canonist and CampusJ) last April, entitled “Picking and choosing”, in which Steven accuses me of selectively choosing the elements of Torah which suit my radical agenda and abandoning or negating those with which I disagree.
Jewcy took an interest in our discussion [...]
