Judaism Without Borders

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 edifices [...]

Dear Z Street and RJC: you and your friends are a disgrace to the Jewish experience of history: attacking our President as a foreign usurper and using his heritage as a dirty word (”Muslim”), calling Rahm Emmanuel and others “kapos” and “Nazis” because you disagree with them, and advocating the expulsion of the Palestinians from [...]

Alan Dershowitz, once one of the salient minds of the Jewish community, is becoming the cranky old man of the pro-Israel right. His cache as defender of Israel has carried him far into prestige…but he’s not the sharp mind of his youth anymore. In this video, Dershowitz interrupts a Haaretz interview with Hadar Susskind, J [...]

Ezra Nawi, Israeli activist, is due to be sentenced tomorrow for his peacework in the West Bank. He published a letter on The Nation’s web site worth reading. Of lesser susbstance is the Justice Ministry’s official response to petitions to have him freed.

Brit Tzedek v’Shalom launched today a campaign to back Obama’s push for two states, negotiations and an agreed end to hostilities. Sign the pledge! I’ve been working on this campaign for the past two weeks, taking a lead on the social media and web components of it, thus I’m very very excited to see the [...]