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Live blogging is still surreal to me. Remember when you used to go to events, and you’d be lucky if people took photos, or maybe audio recorded speakers? I know, I sound old, and I’m turning 30 in March.
Anyway, check it out, Velveteen Rabbi is seriously giving it to us, post after post, on the [...]

The American Jewish World Service-AVODAH partnership wants you to self-define as an activist. Last night’s Inside the Activists’ Studio conference in New York (co-sponsored by Jvoices.com) set out to celebrate every kind of social consciousness, from choosing to buy fair trade coffee to going door to door for housing rights. Well over 100 Jewish activists [...]

The New Israel Forum is an annual event put on by the New Israel Fund, an organization that raises money for social change in Israel. It’s a group that has an interesting challenge: it appeals to pro-Israel Jews in the United States, and then gives the money to nonprofits in Israel who are often bitterly [...]

Ah, those New York Jews.
Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Ed Koch, Alfred Kazin.
Katz’s Deli, Zabar’s, Pastrami Sandwiches, Lox and Bagels, Matzoh Ball Soup, Chopped Liver, Gefilte Fish.
The Lower East Side.
All one big Ashkenazi world.
I was once told a story by Mickey Kairey, one of the patron saints of the Brooklyn Syrian Jewish [...]

Now, some of y’all know about my obsession with Project Runway and fashion, so while this isn’t *exactly* the same (damn if I’m not still quite lost to the Bay Area everything organic including your underwear and some sh*t phenomena–this event is gonna crack. me. up.), you know I couldn’t turn my girl Heidi down [...]

(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 [...]

So I was at Cornelia St. Cafe one Sunday afternoon to listen to some Jazz. I noticed that they have various reading series: Greek, Italian, Armenian…(I’d even read once in Dean Kostos’ GREEK AMERICAN WRITERS series). So I asked Angelo, who runs the room, if they’d be interested in something Jewish. He [...]

OK, I try not to just post events, but this just rocks, so I’m putting it up for folks–if you’re in the Bay Area, check out this Three-Part Series on Judaism, Consumer Power, and What It Means to Work for the Greater Good! Big love to AJWS, AVODAH and Congregation Emanu-El Young Adult Community for [...]

Check out this opportunity if you’re in the Providence, RI area!
Therapy with GLB/TGI Clients: Raising Clinician Awareness and Identifying Treatment Approaches
Presenters: Y. Gavriel Ansara, Liz Cantor Ph.D., Beth (Stump) Olsen
Venue: Psychological Ctrs, Inc./URI Counseling Ctr Training Program
Date: Friday, February 29th, 2008 Time: 8:30-4:30 a.m.
Credits: 6 Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists, social workers, mental [...]