Community Building and Organizing Category
Hidden Agendas and Jewish Progressives
By: clenchner on: Apr 29,2008 In: Capacity Building, Community Building and Organizing, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Leadership, Organizational DevelopmentI’m off this weekend to attend the Righteous Indignation conference at Hebrew College. Dan asked me to present with him on online organizing, which is the bestest way ever to build a loyal friendship! When it’s my turn, I’ll talk about some of the things I love about the rise of online advocacy - the [...]
28 Condos Later: A Zombie Purim in New York City!
By: daniel on: Mar 14,2008 In: Arts and Culture, Capacity Building, Community Building and Organizing, Corporate Greed, Economic Justice, Education, Entertainment, Events, Gay and Lesbian, Gender Variant, History, Holidays, Homelessness, Ideas, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Joy, LGBTQ, Lesbian, Local Organizing, Memory, Music, New York, Poetry, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Queer, Queer Culture, Racial Justice, Sex, Sexuality, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Take Action, Tradition, Transgender, Yiddish(apologies to those who aren’t living in new york city - this is an event announcement)
(it seems like there are many more radical purim extravaganzas going on all over the country, though, and i’m posting this announcement in part to encourage folks to think big and exciting for next year…)
this year’s eighth-or-so edition of the [...]
Jewish Voice for Peace Hiring Director of Education & Outreach
By: David Basior on: Jan 9,2008 In: Community Building and Organizing, Education, Israel, Jewish Left, Jewish Organizations, Job, Occupation, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Social Justice, Take ActionJewish Voice for Peace
JOB DESCRIPTION
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
JOB TITLE:
Director of Education and Outreach
SUMMARY OF POSITION:
The Director of Education and Policy is responsible for providing internal and external education through a wide variety of methods that increase the ability for members, supporters and allies to [...]
JFREJ Hiring a Senior Organizer
By: Cole Krawitz on: Oct 31,2007 In: Community Building and Organizing, JobJews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) is seeking a full-time, experienced Community Organizer to lead our community organizing efforts. JFREJ is a membership-based organizing group that fights for racial, social, economic and gender justice in New York City. JFREJ was founded in 1990 to fill the need for progressive Jewish leadership in confronting the [...]
missionaries at work
By: daniel on: Sep 11,2007 In: Christian Right, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Giuliani, History, Ideas, Imperialism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Local Organizing, Mishegaas, Opinion, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Action, Social Justice, Spirituality, Synagogue Life, Tradition, Visionwhenever i start to get bored with the idea of staying vocal as one of the surprisingly few non-closeted secularists in most of the electronic jewish spaces i frequent, something like this comes up.
ruth messinger, former manhattan borough president, american jewish world service president, and makher-in-chief of the current (and problematic as well as important, [...]
two takes on tisha b’av
By: daniel on: Aug 2,2007 In: Anti-Semitism, Arts and Culture, Community Building and Organizing, History, Holidays, Ideas, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Plurality, Opinion, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Justice, Tradition
one.
i’ve been meaning to write something about the destruction of temples, and whether it’s something to mourn. partly because i have a soft spot for some aspects of tisha b’av despite my secularism, and partly inspired by a friend’s experience being told by a progressive jewish organization that a drash she wrote for them [...]
Nation, Religion, Language
By: Tucker Lieberman on: Jul 17,2007 In: Community Building and Organizing, Ideas, JVoices, Racial Justice, Religion“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself?”
– Amin Maalouf, In the Name [...]
Keeping them honest
By: Marisa on: May 14,2007 In: Community Building and Organizing, Ideas, Opinion, Politics, U.S. GovernmentIncreasing numbers of communities and politicians are calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. At the same time, in the race toward the presidential primaries, the candidates are oh-so-carefully detailing the ways that they plan to redirect our government’s priorities from Iraq and Iran towards healthcare, education and global warming. A number of apparently [...]
Granting Peace in our Land: Observing our Greater Shabbatot
By: Marisa on: May 11,2007 In: Community Building and Organizing, Environment, Parshat, Social Justice, TorahA Torah Queeries essay by Marisa James
Shabbat Behar-Behukotai
Leviticus 25:1 - 27:34
22 Iyyar 5767
The teachings in this week’s paired parshiyot, Behar and Behukotai, are meant to prevent us from becoming greedy. At the beginning of Behar, literally “in the mountain? at Sinai, the first thing God tells Moses is “When you enter the land that I [...]
Two Jews, a crumbling empire, and a struggling resistance movement walk into a bar…
By: April on: Apr 19,2007 In: Anti-Semitism, Community Building and Organizing, History, Ideas, Jewish Left, Politics, Progressive Jews, Social Justice, Vision, WritingFrom the introduction:
Two Jews, a crumbling empire, and a struggling resistance movement walk into a bar…
For people who have committed themselves to fundamental social change, the situation we’re stuck in with antisemitism is like a bad joke.
From one side, progressive and radical activists and scholars are being attacked by organized campaigns to brand us antisemites. In particular, it’s virtually impossible to speak out critically about Israel without being charged with antisemitism.
At the same time, we face real currents of unchallenged anti-Jewish oppression in our movements and the world. This endangers Jews, corrupts our political integrity, and sabotages our ability to create the effective resistance our times demand. …
Among the contents:
-Antisemitism is still a world problem
-How could Jews be oppressed?
-But Arabs are Semites!
-Meet the amazing, disappearing oppression
-Let’s look at an example of how antisemitism works.
-If you liked COINTELPRO, you’ll LOVE the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
-The Revolution, the Jews and the “Generous Offer”
-Time Out! (A Word to Jews)
-Innoculate your Palestine work against antisemitism
-Tips for every activist
…and more.
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