The bulletin board in Trinity Presbyterian Church in Havelock, NC
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My friend, Dr. Uri Gordon, and I started writing a lengthy rebuttal to Yehezkiel Dror’s anger-inducing op-ed in The Forward calling for the shuttling of morality out the window in the face of threats real and imagined against the Jewish people. And perhaps we will finish it soon. In the meantime, Eli Valley [...]
I joked for days about what I’d do, given the opportunity. I joked seriously, half-seriously, “I’d be willing to martyr myself for this cause.” I’d throw tomatoes, a pie, drop a banner, talk trash to his face, strangle him with my bare hands. Something, anything.
I considered the pie my best [...]
You can view more photos from this panel, as well as from the rest of the President’s Conference, here.
I just sat through an hour and a half of infuriating dialogue on Jewish identity that has only further concretized my belief that Jewish leadership is completely out of touch with the greater Jewish public.
Jews and Judaism [...]
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After two days with the American Jewish Committee down in Washington, D.C., I am now in Newton, Mass., at the Righteous Indignation conference.
The train up from D.C. took seven hours(!) and I arrived rather late in the day. Thus, the only content I have to share with you at the moment are the following [...]
My friend, Dr. Eva Fogelman, has written a piece for Jewcy about third generation Holocaust survivors for which I was an interview subject. It’s an interesting piece and worth a read, though I regretfully disagree with her assessment of “intergenerational transmission of trauma” and her assertion that “Trauma cannot be transmitted to others.”
As Eva [...]
All this talk about democratizing Jewish institutions (and, for that matter, my obsession with HBO’s miniseries John Adams) has given me a thought…
It is often held by Jewish historians that the Torah is the Constitution for Jewish civilization (just like the Constitution is the foundational document of these United States).
Though I am grateful to [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Paul Maltby writes in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice:
Compassion and justice shine out as core values in Jewish ethics. Consider the obligation of tzedakah, which in Hebrew means both charity and justice, and which, when dutifully practiced, is esteemed for its redemptive power: “Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who [...]
But two in a day? What are the odds? Should I feel special?
Check out Benny Shanon in today’s Haaretz, emailed to me so far by three individuals familiar with my drash on manna and the Revelation at Sinai, which I delivered for the umpteenth time at the JCC the Shabbat before [...]
I’ve never been much for the Hip Hop Hoodios, the Latino Jewish hip-hop outfit from New York. But this made me crack a smile.
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