I love my job, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
I have to watch a dozen films and documentaries — and a couple sitcoms — to prepare a dialoge event next Thursday. Who else gets to do this?
Archive for October, 2009
“Are you here for community, or to build an effective lobby?”
JJ Goldberg asked this question Tuesday morning at a much-reported J Street conference panel with Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Chait. Navelgazing afterwards, it’s clear to see that two conversations were occuring in parallel:
How do we solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Can I have some “oppressed Jewish left and happy to be out of the closet” therapy time?
And I [...]
October 29th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 3 Comments
J Street Capital Hill Visits
J Street Capital Hill Visits, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Over 700 people of the 1500 at the overall J Street conference have stayed to visit over 200 Congressional offices, only 50 who previously hosted the Gala dinner.
October 28th, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
J Street press corps
J Street press corps, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
The press corps following Jim Jones’ presentation at the J Street conference.
October 27th, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
At the J Street conference
At the J Street conference, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Finally. We are here.
October 26th, 2009 Filed under: General. 1 Comment
Rep. Jim Maron (D-VA)
Rep. Jim Maron (D-VA), originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Sitting next to me and addressing the panel.
October 23rd, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
Listening to Chas Freeman
Listening to Chas Freeman, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
While I’m in DC, I’m hitting up a panel with Gen by the Middle East Policy Council featuring Chas Freeman. He’s an amazing analyst. Shame that he did not become Obama’s security advisor.
October 23rd, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
The disappointment of Bernstein’s New York Times Op-Ed on Gaza
Redacted from a series of my comments in a Jewschool thread:
Robert Bernstein’s op-ed says exceptionally astute things about human rights advocacy towards closed vs. open societies. But then in the last 100 words, he falls back upon the tired trope of IDF as most moral army in the world. He points to the 80 human rights [...]
October 22nd, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
Daniel Sokatch is my new boss
My new boss wrote his first major op-ed since being hired — and he’s making a fucking spectacular start. My fav paragraphs:
Social justice and human rights issues in Israel also are crucially relevant here at home. The growing indifference of many American Jews, particularly young Jews, to Israel is directly related to their concerns over [...]
October 19th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Killing Gazans like killing Germans
Netanyahu makes me so angry. My disgust with his approach to the conflict, to economics, to social needs and to international court of opinion spills over into my feelings for the State of Israel itself. I received in an email forward (the most trustworthy sources of information on earth, mind you) describing how Bibi Netanyahu, [...]
October 17th, 2009 Filed under: Israel and War. 0 Comments
