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We’re in a panel now titled, A Community in Crisis? Reflections on Gender, Generations, Diversity, and the Jewish Future. Join us online at http://www.ssw.umich.edu/programs/JCLP/video.html
1:29 A few highlights from panelists thus far:
David Schoem, sociologist, argued that there is no crisis in the Jewish community, but there may well be one in Jewish organizations. Being in [...]

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 [...]

Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists’ Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for building a sustainable activist life. We caught up with her before the day’s event to ask [...]

That’s right y’all. Tomorrow, Thursday night, Saperstein will be offering the opening invocation on the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, the night that Obama will give his historic nomination acceptance speech, on the 45th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. No pressure, right?
According to the Forward, this is quite probably the [...]

Thank you Jewish Women Watching (JWW)! This cracked me up. It’s undoubtedly wedding season, and being in my late 20’s, I’m filled to the brim with weddings, and babies and all the nice straight Jewish families with the nice straight Jews procreating (and yes, even a few queer ones). I love my family and friends [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

Your shiny white emptiness
Drips rabid promises
From each saccharine fang,
Your glittering emerald eyes mocking
The singular certainty:
This darkness and I must dance and duel
Til the factory of your perfect machine
Cannibalises me
Into the likeness of
Some True Form that bears
Some True Name-
My true name and form, uncodified by
bar code or trademark,
Long since discarded in the Solipsistic Terminal,
Amid the trains [...]

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, [...]

Originally published on Wiretap, June 1, 2007
By Dan Berger and Nava EtShalom
Issue: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Why? Forced expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 and Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in 1967.
Action: The first, ever national march and lobby day in the U.S. exclusively focused on ending the [...]