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One of the things that I love about new media is that sometimes you still get to see at least part of events you weren’t able to make it to in person.
With that, I saw today that the Applied Research Center has posted some videos and summaries from their latest conference, “Facing Race”. The [...]

for poetry month (why april, by the way? ‘the cruelest month’? ‘with his shoures soote’? please.), here’s the text of a talk by irena klepfisz - a fantastic poet in yiddish, english, and both at once, as well as an insightful essayist and deeply committed radical - from a 2006 conference at barnard college called “Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations”. at the bottom is a poem from one of klepfisz’s books. a complete transcript of the “Changing Culture” panel that klepfisz spoke on (and the rest of the conference) is available online here.

Physician-assisted abortion after the 24th week of pregnancy is illegal in Massachusetts. Self-induced abortion, as it turns out, is illegal at any point during pregnancy, and could even lead to homicide charges.

Well, since I just wrote this over on jspot, I can’t not post this here! I really love double negatives–I feel like I’m sitting in a room with a bunch of queer Ashkenazi Jews debating between Bette and Barbara as diva or something…Anyway, here goes: my post on joining SPIN…
I couldn’t resist after seeing Mik [...]

The Reform Movement officially supports a timetable for military withdrawal from Iraq! Click to read more. Warning: This post re-caps some of last week’s headline news, the single most disturbing news week in my recent memory. The URJ’s resolution in support of withdrawal gives me a glimmer of hope.

Yes, you’ll know all too well if you’ve been following the Jewish news how the intermarriage debate raged into the public sphere again in the last month as a result of Steven Cohen’s latest report, “The Two Jewries“. This time, I decided to respond by writing an op-ed to the JTA, and I saw [...]

Microfinance has increasingly been in the news since this past fall, when Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
My friend Avi has been working on this for almost a year, and the first big event is coming up on Thursday March 29th at 6:00 pm in [...]

It’s frequently terrifying, painful, and difficult, but sometimes it’s wonderful. I laughed, I cried… no, I’m not talking about “Pan’s Labyrinth,” I’m talking about health insurance. So is Jenny Price, who writes “Why I’m happy my health insurance costs $12,268/yr.”
Honestly, if a national heath plan went into effect tomorrow, I’d be out of a job, [...]

crossposted from jspot.org
for Molly Ivins, may your memory forever be a blessing — “We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the [...]

I received this alert today from JVP and and thought it was important to post:
Earlier this year, HR 4681, the “Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006″ passed the House overwhelmingly. A milder version, S. 2370 passed the Senate as well. Because the two bills were different, they did not become law. Today, however, the House passed [...]