My head is about to explode with thoughts but none are so formed that they deserve their own posts. Things I oppose today: One-minute divrei torah (sermons). For a given parsha (Bible reading), one would have to be a masterful speaker to accomplish in 60 seconds an exegesis that makes Torah relevant, thought-provoking and (yes) [...]
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Video: Barack Obama addresses the Reform biennial
Dec 20th, 2011 Establishment Jewry and Politics 0 Comments
Occupy Yom Kippur
Over 700 people (exact number up for debate) prayed Kol Nidre in an exuberant, politically thoughtful and intently spiritual gathering across from the main Occupy Wall Street camp. Blogging to come, catch the photos and the press: Huffington Post — http://is.gd/feRSK1 Daily Kos — http://is.gd/oqzqKk +972 — http://is.gd/aFdjUd Religion Dispatches – http://is.gd/00hj1X Alef – http://is.gd/3LAmsW And join Occupy Judaism’s email [...]
Oct 8th, 2011 Judaism and Politics 0 Comments
Kol Nidre minyan this Friday at Occupy Wall Street
“Prayer is useless, unless it is subversive, unless it shatters pyramids of callousness and power.” — Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel For those for whom traditional prayer alone will not suffice this year, for whom the subversive is key, perhaps Kol Nidre in Zucotti Park, in the Financial District of Manhattan, would both inspire the soul [...]
Oct 4th, 2011 Politics 0 Comments
Osama Bin Laden killed; remarks by the President
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON OSAMA BIN LADEN East Room 11:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder [...]
May 2nd, 2011 Politics 0 Comments
Glenn Beck: I stand with Israel
No, no, no, my silly little hate purveyor, you stand with Gush Katif, not Israel. You’ve condemned the vast majority of American Jews who support Israel in one way or another — Reform Jews specifically, all liberal streams by extension, saying Orthodox Jews are the only good Jews. Those people don’t support Israel the way [...]
Mar 30th, 2011 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Statement by the President on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Courtesy of Danielle Borrin of the White House: Statement by the President on International Holocaust Remembrance Day I join people here at home, in Israel, and around the world in commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as we mark one of the darkest, most destructive periods in human history. To remember is a choice, and today [...]
Jan 27th, 2011 Politics 0 Comments
More movement to recognize the Armenian genocide
Marx Arax, Armenian American journalist, watches Jewish communal leaders “come out” in support of recognizing the Armenian genocide. Turns out, 20 years ago he wrote a piece about the Jewish community’s covering for Turkey as a political quid pro quo for being Israel’s ally. And got fired. Jewish leaders have recently “recognized” the Armenian genocide [...]
Jun 16th, 2010 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Self-appointed American Jewish spokespeople are (oxy)morons
JJ Goldberg, editor of the Forward and arbiter of Jewish communal affairs, wrote a beautiful opinion piece for Haaretz summarizing the inconsistencies, backtracking and general full-of-shit inanity that emerges from the American Jewish establishment. Who represents the Jews? The people who give big money to organizational dinosaurs that long lived out their practical mandate. Towering [...]
May 7th, 2010 Israel and Politics 0 Comments