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Category Archives: Dissent

Back to the grind

02-Jan-08

First day back at work of the New Year. Only 5 ½ months until the money I earn is mine.
And in exchange for my labor? I get to lose my rights and my consumer protections, give huge handouts to the scummiest corporations on Earth, have Arabs murdered in my name, and provide lofty [...]

Stop JNF’s disenfranchisement and displacement of Bedouin

02-Jan-08

Rabbi David Seidenberg has initiated a petition to oppose the Jewish National Fund’s uprooting of Bedouin communities in the Negev. Learn more about this issue. Then add your signature here.
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JTA piece on Encounter

19-Dec-07

JTA has a piece up on our site about Encounter, a program (freshly sponsored by Bikkurim) that was founded and is currently staffed by a number of my fellow Dorot alumni, as well as various other friends from my time in Jerusalem.
The program brings Jewish seminary students to Bethlehem to meet with Palestinian families and [...]

Mike Gravel just won the election in my heart

28-Nov-07

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A different sort of surge: 50 rabbis in 50 days

27-Nov-07

Are you a rabbi? Do you believe the Iraq War is a disaster, immoral and contrary to traditional Jewish values?
Sign the Jews Against the War petition today.
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Gonna gitch-ya gitch-ya gitch-ya gitch-ya

29-Oct-07

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Armenian American groups condemn Ahmadinejad honors

29-Oct-07

Kol HaKavod. So good to hear.
JTA reports,
Armenian Americans slammed the decision by a university in the Armenian capital of Yerevan to honor Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
An editorial in the Armenian weekly, the house organ of the Armenian National Committee of America, condemned the university, noting that Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who has disregarded [...]

Mukasey gets it

19-Oct-07

JTA reports,
“Soldiers of this country liberated concentration camps toward the end of World War II and at the end of World War II and photographed what they saw there as a record of the barbarism we oppose,” Michael Mukasey, a federal judge from New York, said Wednesday in his Senate confirmation hearings. “We didn’t do [...]

OneVoice, saying a lot of nothing, loses Palestinian support

14-Oct-07

OneVoice founder Daniel Lubetzky
In his January 2000 Veridian manifesto, Bruce Sterling told of a future in which pressing political issues, in particular environmental sustainability, would not find resonance with the mainstream public until the championing of such causes was seen as fashionable and chic.
Sterling, who had already long verified his penchant for prophecy [...]

Orientalist Sneaker Pimps Against the War

13-Oct-07

Sneaker Pimps recently teamed up with K-Swiss to create the equivalent of the Cow Parade for sneakers. The shoe company handed dozens of pairs of white sneakers over to the Pimps, who redistributed them to street artists all across the United States, and then brought the results on tour.
Here are some of [...]

Watchmen to debut, finally still on trial

03-Oct-07

In early 2005, my friend Jack Faber, a Tel Aviv-based artist, and his colleagues, hacked into the Tel Aviv Museum’s security camera system and recorded a masked character interacting with the artworks in the museum. The piece, entitled “Watchmen,” seeks to question the role of museums as intermediaries between the individual and his experience of [...]

Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

21-Sep-07

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