Memory Category
Naqba Reflections #1
By: clenchner on: May 2,2008 In: 60 years later, History, Israel, JVoices, Memory, PalestineAs a child growing up in Israel, the Holocaust was omnipresent. There was the makolet (grocery store) owners with numbers on their arms, Begin yelping ‘Never Again’ as an election slogan, and the opening line of countless comedic monologues that begin with ‘as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and the mother of a soldier to be, I hereby light this torch in the name of (fill in the blank).’ [Thank you Hanoch Levin)
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 [...]
This past week, I found out that my cantor from my childhood, Cantor Y’shaya M. Grama, passed away in his sleep. For most of the week, I kept on, knowing that underneath, a sadness had taken over me. But, I couldn’t find a way to meet it in the days of what often feels like [...]
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