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Things I support and oppose today


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) [...]


Video: Barack Obama addresses the Reform biennial



Keith Olbermann debunks antisemitic charges of Occupy Wall Street



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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]





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