Reminder: NYC Meetup Monday 8/15!!!
Time flies fast, and suddenly the Great Brooklyn DailyKos Meetup is right around the corner - Monday, to be precise! And the long-range forecast is: warm conversation, with a strong chance of mojitos...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Va'Etchanan
Parashat Va'Etchanan Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11With apologies, I didn't realize until this afternoon that no one had signed up to write this week's d'var Torah. This week's portion is very complicated so...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman is an American Citizen
He's also a schmuck. It's wonderful that come January 2013 he will no longer be representing the people of Connecticut in the United States Senate. It would have been better if he ran for re-election...
View ArticleDvar Torah: Re'eh
A bit of background, for those new to this: This week's parsha (the weekly Torah portion reading in the synagogue) is Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17). The overall theme of this week's parsha is the...
View ArticlePalestinian Statehood - From Agnosticism to Agreement
A few days ago I wrote an article concerning the Palestinian attempt at Statehood called: Confusion in Palestine... The Upcoming Vote. In that article (I like that word much more) I wrote the...
View ArticleNeocon Garbage Comes to NY-09
With the race in the September 13 special election for Anthony Weiner's old seat heating up, Bill Kristol's outfit, the Emergency Committee for Israel, has waded into the race. Rather than explicitly...
View ArticleWe're Done For Now
How many times do people get to call the president an “Uncle Tom”? How many times do people get to uprate those comments? How many other assorted racist statements do people get to make and uprate...
View ArticleJewish Holidays: Calling for Volunteers
It occurs to me that with so many folks boycotting the site this week (fight the good fight, my friends!), I'd better get this out tonight. The Jewish holiday season begins in just a couple of weeks...
View ArticleHell Yes I'm In
I have nothing but solidarity with Daily Kos' black community from what I have experienced trying to tamp down antisemitism at this site.What is Kos thinking? How could he possibly think that...
View ArticleForgiveness: "Getting Even Has Never Healed a Single Person"
I am teaching a college course on research methods and last week, I taught a lesson on ethics in research. This is one of my favorite lessons in the course because I get to discuss the details of some...
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Should I Quit the ACLU Over Durban?
I have been a "card-carrying" ACLU member since 2000, which is basically all of my adult life. I take the First Amendment extremely seriously. I especially think that the defense of our liberty from...
View ArticleShanah Tovah
Rosh Hashanah begins tonight at sundown, bringing in the year 5772 on the Jewish calendar. It also begins our High Holy Days, a period of repentance and reflection lasting from Rosh Hashanah until Yom...
View ArticleWhy Israel Should Be A Jewish State
The same reason that Italy should be an Italian state, and Germany should be a German state, and Russia should be a Russian state.Peoples are entitled to self-determination. It's in the UN charter.A...
View ArticleJews Are A People. Deal With It.
Many people on this website apparently want to deny my ethnicity, culture, and heritage - to pretend it doesn't exist, or even that I have invented it. Well I'm here to tell those folks something.I am...
View ArticleThe Flickers of Hope
Cross-posted at The Progressive ZionistIn our darkest hours, humanity always looks to the future — the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel — to keep us going. That hope, oftentimes, seems...
View ArticleThe Days of Awe
The ten days between Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur - the Jewish new year and Day of Atonement are called the Days of Awe. The Book of Life is opened on Rosh Hashannah and the upcoming year is noted....
View ArticleI Apologize
I am human. I make mistakes. I do things I should not. I accept that. Some of those wrongs, undoubtedly, have come at this public forum. In that spirit, I offer my apology for those wrongs in a...
View ArticleDiverse Jewish Heritage in Music
All too often Judaism is seen as a homogeneous religion, a homogeneous culture. Yet it is, under its image of unity, an extremely diverse religion. It is one of the few religions I know where atheism...
View ArticleWhy You Should Want Israel To Be A Jewish And Democratic State
How should Israel be constituted in a just resolution to the I/P conflict? The standard consensus viewpoint that Israel should emerge as the "Jewish and democratic state" has recently received a lot...
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