(The Al Chet prayer is a litany of offenses read during the Yom Kippur services. It has become common for people to customize the prayer to express their own sins and repentance. This is mine.)
Through writing I have committed many a wrong, but unlike those whose faces I see, I will likely never know the [...]
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A Blogger’s “Al Chet”
September 29th, 2009 Filed under: Judaism and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
We’re not trashing the IDF for fun, we’re saving her soul
Redacted from a comment I made on Jewschool which perhaps I’ve not made clear so far:
Let’s take a step back: neither I nor Breaking the Silence are in a battle to tarnish the IDF wantonly. It may feel that way. But I’m not. Because I’ve worked so closely with the Breaking the Silence staff, their patriotism is irrefutable [...]
July 20th, 2009 Filed under: Israel, War and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
This month by yours truly
Up on Jewschool over the past month:
Why everyone in the Israel advocacy field might be ostensibly “pro-Israel” there are only a few who can call themselves “pro-peace”.
The left gets our “I told you so” moment as the Gaza mission is revealed a failure.
Our pro-ceasefire, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace rally, our pics, and Max Blumenthal’s hilariously [...]
January 25th, 2009 Filed under: X-posted to Jewschool. 2 Comments
Safeguarding Jewish universalism in times of terror
Last week, I was accused on two separate occasions and blogs of not issuing a “peep” and of a “deafening silence” about the Mumbai killings. One was even on a blog with nothing to do with international affairs. Meanwhile, the conservative blogs are in a bloody feeding frenzy.
But on the other hand, as the Hebron [...]
December 7th, 2008 Filed under: Israel, Musings and X-posted to Jewschool. 1 Comment
Remembering Yitzah Rabin on Elections Day
Cross-posted to Jewschool.
Although his official rememberance day is Monday, November 10th, today is the 13th anniversary of Yitzak Rabin’s assassination, which we consider as violent settlers increase their “price tag” intimidation and as Likud campaigns to end all negotiations. All this in the shadow of American elections. The symbolism is layered within the American Jewish [...]
November 4th, 2008 Filed under: Israel, Musings, Politics and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
Palestein
My new name of choice for the one-state solution, which appears to be making rounds in Palestinian circles again. Check my weekly news analysis / “I told you so” moment over at Jewschool.
September 15th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and X-posted to Jewschool. 1 Comment
The sad and unholy alliance between Bibi and the Jblogosphere
Like I said, my brain is bursting with posts, and here’s the first, intended to underscore the division between “the fossils” (as ZT calls the bedraggled conservative Jewish institutions and the young Jblogger parrots who are rewarded for being their sycophants) and the Jewschool crowd, and why the Jewschoolers attend the Havurah Institute in such [...]
August 22nd, 2008 Filed under: Israel, Judaism and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
Diaspora funders: Let Israel politicians go
Just starting some shit over at Jewschool again with a post on how American Jewish donors love Bib Netanyahu more than his own people. Or rather, how Israeli democracy is bought and sold by foreign Jews in a way that Americans would never stand for with their own country.
July 31st, 2008 Filed under: Politics and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
JTA hunts for big story in old news
JTA just published online a lengthy, nearly 5,000 word invective against the Ford Foundation, the second largest foundation in America, entitled “Ford Foundation still funding anti-Israel groups“.
The article nearly wallows in self-pride at JTA’s seven-year-old expose of boycott work conducted by Ford grantees around the U.N anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa in 2001. Ultimately, [...]
July 24th, 2008 Filed under: Israel and X-posted to Jewschool. 0 Comments
Rachel Ray ain’t got nothing on the Israelis
Mobius is giving the blogosphere a reaming in the motherboard over the rightwingosphere’s dive tackling keffiyah-sporting Rachel Ray in the knees. Far be it from me to comment too much further than the grand-daddy of the topic has already done.
But since Mobes made me more aware of the keffiyah trend, I really did a double-take [...]
June 11th, 2008 Filed under: Humor, Israel and X-posted to Jewschool. 3 Comments
