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Super Tuesday–have you gotten your fix yet? Well have no fear if you haven’t, I’m sure tomorrow will be filled with delightful commentary. We know this is a big day for Jews, since almost two-thirds of Jews in the U.S. will be voting tomorrow.
Reading through the Jewish papers Presidential Primary commentary on the Democratic front [...]

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 [...]

I was one of a handful of folks the fabulous editor of Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Clare Kinberg, emailed to get feedback, thoughts and more when the Ms. Magazine hoopla was in all it’s glory, creating what the media loves…controversy, controversy, controversy. So, I was happy to see that she got this much needed [...]

A few highlights from our friends in the Jewish Blogosphere:
Jspot tips us off to JCPA’s blog, and Jewish voter disfranchisement in Nevada.
Over at Jewlicious, Y-Love tackles incendiary comments found on the NY Daily News website after they published an article about New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s (D-Brooklyn) inauguration of the “Blacks & Jews Together” [...]

Give it up for The Jew and the Carrot who are giving us some serious holiday love, including Tu B’shvat seders in…yes, I know not surprising…New York and San Francisco.
We’ve got one for you in Seattle, but definitely let us know what’s going on in your small towns, street corners, downtown bars, back roads, [...]

Jewish 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 [...]

Last week, I spent two days in Bethlehem with a group called Encounter. They bring groups of rabbinical and cantorial students, as well as Jewish educators, to various places in Palestine to meet with local leaders, stay with families, and learn about the effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian communities. It was a remarkable trip; [...]

Since we got our first blogad tonight from Media Matters, it seemed apropos for another segment of “media not to be missed,” sometimes known as media mishegaas, especially because I want to highlight a few choice pieces. Hope everyone is having a wonderful chag! I had etrog schnapps for the first time, thanks to Netivot [...]

Almost a year ago, I wrote my first real post for JVoices, which generated more response than anything else I’ve written. The original story is here, if you haven’t read it.
One of the basic tenets of Judaism, as far as I’m concerned, is that no matter what you do, someone will always tell you [...]