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Be a light unto your own nation: Inside the Activists’ Studio rocks NYC

By: Nina Budabin McQuown on: Dec 8,2008 In: Community Building and Organizing, Education, Events, Jewish Diversity, Jewish Left, Jewish Organizations, Local Organizing, New York, Progressive Jews, Social Action, Social Justice, Youth

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 [...]

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Tags: Agit-Pop, Agriprocessors, Heksher Tzedek, Inside the Activists' Studio, The 6 Project

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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missionaries at work

By: daniel on: Sep 11,2007 In: Christian Right, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Giuliani, History, Ideas, Imperialism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Local Organizing, Mishegaas, Opinion, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Action, Social Justice, Spirituality, Synagogue Life, Tradition, Vision

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, [...]

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Trembling on the Road

By: Sandi DuBowski on: Sep 8,2007 In: Events, JVoices, Jewish Life, LGBTQ, Local Organizing

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JVoices and Immigration

By: Cole on: Aug 2,2007 In: Immigration, JVoices, Local Organizing, Virginia

Yes, it’s happened. We’ve been cited as a source in this week’s Washington Jewish Week in a piece about the Virginia immigration legislation. I appreciate the love. It’s a bit funny I must admit. I do wish Greenberg had contacted me for a decent quote rather than pulling a quick blip from the site. And [...]