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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 [...]

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Jewish Blogosphere Round Up

By: Cole on: Jan 12,2008 In: Blogosphere, Election 2008, Israel, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Life, Mishegaas

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” [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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‘Art is dangerous material’ Irena Klepfisz on the Jewish reponse to Jewish art

By: daniel on: Apr 5,2007 In: Anti-Semitism, Arts and Culture, Ashkenazi, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Gay and Lesbian, History, Ideas, Israel, JVoices, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Jewish Plurality, LGBTQ, Lesbian, National Poetry Month, Occupation, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Queer, Queer Culture, Secular, Sexism, Sexuality, Social Justice, Tradition, Vision, Yiddish, Yiddishkeit

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.

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Intermarriage Debate Round ???

By: Cole on: Mar 11,2007 In: Economic Justice, Education, Intermarriage, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Life

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 [...]