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Archive for October, 2008
Fuel for Truth
For whatever reason, I don’t know why, I just browsed through Fuel for Truth’s photostream on Flickr. I want to barf. For those not familiar, this is the formula for an FFT event:
Two or three celebrities
High budget party locale
PowerPoint slide show of Palestinian children dressed up as suicide bombers
Appeals to you to “do something”
Photographer who [...]
October 29th, 2008 Filed under: Israel. 3 Comments
The first weekend of November is all about social justice in Israel
The Other Israel Film Festival opens with a host of lefty Jewish orgs sponsoring films Nov 6th - 13th. Join the New Generations Shabbat Dinner on Nov 7th with a panel of Jewish Israeli and Arab Israeli filmmakers at the JCC.
UPZ is holding a reunion for all their Birthright Israel alumni on Nov 9th with [...]
October 29th, 2008 Filed under: Israel. 1 Comment
Settler violence still increasing
Settler violence for the first half of 2008 matches the total for all of 2007. The head of the Israeli military’s Central Command says dozens of settler vigilantes have grown to hundreds, and enjoy the approval of the settler leadership. Quotes of their membership read like this gem from The Jewish Week:
[Settler activist] Herbst, who [...]
October 28th, 2008 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
A “common table” for all American Jewry is too radical for the Conference of Presidents
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, along with JCPA, is one of those holdovers from a bygone era of Jewish consensus-making which should really just roll over and die.
But even if its 51 member organizations, many of them the most odious right-wing Jewish institutions around, are not going to disband voluntarily, its [...]
October 27th, 2008 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
Smarmy journalism ethics by ZOA pundit
Just got sent this by a friend: Jerome Kaufman of the ZOA took the materials of a pro-Israel PAC and edited in his own extremism, then tried to pass it off as by the PAC in question. He published this to his blog and, based on his since-public apology, sent it out via email. (Just [...]
October 24th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and Politics. 0 Comments
Pardes meets The Onion
I own both Pardes pluralistic yeshiva and The Onion headlines fridge magnets. The disgruntled Jewish communal employee-themed combinations are delightfully endless…
October 24th, 2008 Filed under: Humor. 2 Comments
I know kung fu
Last weekend, after seven years of practicing various martial arts, I attended my first martial arts tournament! And while I didn’t come home with any foil prizes, I enjoyed myself immensely, spent quality time with my teacher and saw how much deeper my school’s training is above the other school’s in the world. Video proof [...]
October 23rd, 2008 Filed under: Kung Fu. 1 Comment
Preparing for the “Simhat Torah crawl”
For the past two of my three years in New York City, I’ve participated in a Simhat Torah custom which is outrageously possible only here: the crawl. It’s something I regall my family in Oregon with stories about how many damn Jews live here.
The Simhat Torah crawl begins at Ramat Orah on 110th Street and [...]
October 20th, 2008 Filed under: Jew York Culture Shock. 0 Comments
Incredible story of Israeli moral strength and failure
Haaretz runs a truly remarkable story today about soldiers present at the 1956 Israeli massacre of 57 Palestinian civilians at Kafr Qasem who exercised incredible moral discernment against orders to kill and whose fellow soldiers did not.
The summary is as follows: Lampert was ordered with the other commanders of his battalion to shoot to kill [...]
October 20th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and War. 0 Comments
