Holy shit, this explains so much about me.
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Archive for January, 2008
The secret’s out of the bag!
Coming to an OJC near you: Philly (Feb 9 - 24) and Boston (Mar 1 - 16).
January 30th, 2008 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Ulpan
Ulpan, n., Hebrew
1. Hebrew language class
2. Hell
Inspired by Yisrael Campbell.
January 29th, 2008 Filed under: Nomenclature. 0 Comments
I love Rabbi Jonathan Sachs
I read Chief Rabbi of Britain Jonathan Sachs’ Dignity of Difference in college and loved every minute of it. The man is the one of the most thoughtful advocates of religious pluralism without relativism that I’ve ever read. I would love to meet him.
And today I read this of his by chance, a 2003 lecture [...]
January 29th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and Musings. 0 Comments
No fear of being progressive
Just because we must guard our reputations and choose our allies with care doesn’t mean we should be cowardly. Because dammit, the progressive populace of the Jewish community has ceded to the terms of the right-wing, the conservatives and the orthodox all too often. But let’s think this through for a second:
As a (pro-peace) Israel [...]
January 27th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and Musings. 0 Comments
Choosing your allies with care
I just got off the phone with a leftist student group who wanted to partner on the Israel-Palestine project I’m coordinating. They were ready to sponsor events on their campus, publicize it widely, etc. They’ve enthusiastically done it before. But when I told her that they couldn’t be seen associating with us, my poor heart [...]
January 23rd, 2008 Filed under: Musings and Politics. 0 Comments
Heading to Boston to scare the OJC
I’m heading to Bean-town (which apparently was nicknamed so because of a giant bean-truck spill, I shit you not) today for more progressive Israel organizing, but have a bunch of thoughts to throw out there:
I’m sure you’ve noticed I’m developing a department on this blog called “Nomenclature” to define not only progressive buzzwords, non/post/trans-denominational slang, [...]
January 21st, 2008 Filed under: General. 1 Comment
JCPA, JCRCs
JCPA, JCRCs, n., acronym
1. “Jewish Council for Public Affiars” and “Jewish Community Relations Councils” respectively, the self-nominated central mouthpiece of the American Jewish community (the JCPA) and it’s 125 local affiliates (JCRCs) which represent the communal voice of their respective American Jewish cities and regions.
2. The central PR guardian of the OJC, a relic of [...]
January 20th, 2008 Filed under: Nomenclature. 0 Comments
JBlogging
JBlogging, n., abbrev.
1. lit. “Jewish blogging”
2. This.
January 20th, 2008 Filed under: Nomenclature. 0 Comments
Shabs
Shabs, abbrev., n.
1. Shabbat
2. An informal term expressing intimate acquaintance with and affection for that beautiful, blessed thing that happens every 168 hours where Jews chill, eat, schmooze, and thank the Old Man Upstairs for all that we got. Ex: “I would totally hit up the bar with you, dude, but Shabs is comin’.”
January 19th, 2008 Filed under: Nomenclature. 0 Comments
