JVOICES

Mr. Fischbach is Professor of History, Randolph-Macon College and the author of Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries (Columbia University Press (August 2008).

Michael Fischbach‘s review of his own book is disturbing. Not so much because it has bias, or lacks factual data. It is disturbing because it brings to light another situation concerning the [...]

Ayala stood excited in front of more then one hundred people in a special poetry and music support event that was host and organized by the two poets and activists, Mati Shemoelof and Almog Behar.
(photo taken by Moti Kikyon. from right to left: Mati Shemoelof and Almog Behar) The event took place at the [...]

(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 [...]

After a hundred days of protest, the Writers Guild of America is returning to work. Does the negotiated agreement constitute a “win” or a “loss” for the labor union, for the television networks, for consumers of art? There is much disagreement and debate. The effects ripple out to tens of thousands of [...]

“Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau….at about 5 cents apiece, the [dirt] cookies are a bargain compared with food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 [...]

This Tu B’Shvat, 60 Seattle-ites gathered to reclaim and re-direct another Jewish tradition. Using the Jewish Voice for Peace Tu B’Shvat Haggadah for Healing and Reparation, the Seattle Chapter of JVP kicked off a new national campaign: Trees of Reconciliation. With the goal of planting 3000 trees in the Jenin-Nablus-Salfit triangle of the occupied West [...]

Keeping up with the recent developments in the Middle East…
The peace organization Brit Tzedek v’Shalom recapped in an email newsletter sent out today: “Last week, over two hundred Qassam rockets were launched by Palestinian militants into Sderot and elsewhere in Israel’s northern Negev. In response, Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, blocking access by its [...]

Your shiny white emptiness
Drips rabid promises
From each saccharine fang,
Your glittering emerald eyes mocking
The singular certainty:
This darkness and I must dance and duel
Til the factory of your perfect machine
Cannibalises me
Into the likeness of
Some True Form that bears
Some True Name-
My true name and form, uncodified by
bar code or trademark,
Long since discarded in the Solipsistic Terminal,
Amid the trains [...]

whenever 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, [...]

On the road, so for simplicity’s sake, here’s ACLU’s release:
Judge Issues Order After Lawsuit Is Filed by AFL-CIO, ACLU, and National Immigration Law Center
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge today issued an order temporarily blocking the government from implementing a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that would cause U.S. citizens and other authorized [...]