A Letter Regarding Antisemitism at Daily Kos — Eight Months Later
Last June, several Jewish posters here appealed to the broader community to support us in the fight against antisemitism at this site. In the initial wake of the letter, several of the worst...
View ArticleWhy Does House Ways and Means Chair Allow Staffer to Chain His Wife?
In Judaism, there is the woman known as the agunah. Today, agunot are, almost exclusively, the wives of husbands who refuse to grant them gets (religious divorces). They are known as chained women...
View ArticleEnough Already!
I get there are plenty of people in this world that hate me. Why do they hate me? For the same reason they hate about 14 million other people just like me — Because I'm Jewish. Antisemitic graffiti...
View ArticleYom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah will be observed beginning at sundown tonight. It honors and remembers the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen during the Shoah (Holocaust). Between 1939 and 1945...
View ArticlePioneer of Global Peace Studies Turns Out To Be Anti-Semitic Bigot
This news is beyond disappointing and disheartening. Not much to add, other than to share the story.From Haaretz:Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made...
View ArticleThe last known gay Jewish Holocaust survivor has died
On Sunday, at a senior citizens' home in Berin, Gad Beck passed away. He was 88 years old. He was also the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.Beck's story has been well documented. He was...
View ArticleA Kaddish for the Connecticut Victims
On what should ordinarily be a joyous evening--the penultimate night of Hanukkah--we are instead facing a horribly grievous tragedy. As of this writing, twenty-seven people are dead, eighteen of them...
View Article***Update: Statement of Opposition to Racist Labels Used by Kossacks to...
***UPDATE - due to the overwhelming and gratifying response to this diary - it has now become almost impossible for some people to get it to load, and we are struggling to add all of the names of...
View Article"[A]s President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."
In October of 2008, as the Presidential race was reaching a fevered pitch, then-Senator Barack Obama came out with a statement that was subsequently published by the news site, The Armenian Reporter....
View ArticleNazi Cabbie Speaks Out. Defends Hitler, Claims He's Not an Anti-Semite, Just...
After receiving a 30-day suspension for wearing a Nazi armband, a cabbie has decided to speak out about his suspension and profess his belief in national socialism. In the interview with WCBS, Gabriel...
View ArticleWorld War II Memorial (photo diary)
I lost lots of my photographs last year, including some that I had set aside in the hope that I could write a diary with photos from the World War I memorial in Kansas City on Veterans' Day. But...
View ArticleNetroots Nation Sunday Service: Contributors Wanted
Loggersbrat and I will be leading the Sunday Service at Netroots this year. If you are planning on attending the conference, please come join us at 9 AM. We will end well before the community service...
View ArticleYet again, Daily Kos fails to be reality-based
I must draw attention to a diary that is currently, for some reason, featured in the Community Spotlight, that is promoting pure fantasy, in direct contradiction to well established history and...
View ArticlePalestinian 'militants' kill 14 and wound 43 in refugee camp in Syria
The Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reports: 14 Palestinians killed in Syria camp.Angered over the failure of camp leaders to organize demonstrations marking the Naksa, the anniversary of Israel's...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Bechelotecha
As many of you know, I have been collecting words of inspiration for the service at Netroots Nation from people of all religious or philosophical traditions. We have gathered quite a collection, all...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Shelach
“.…in the human condition there is a fundamental life and death struggle with which we are constantly faced – the struggle between the soul and the body. Your body usually chooses death – meaning, the...
View ArticleA View From the Shore - Do Labels Make It Better?
So I've been thinking about labels a lot as I try to organise and prepare for the big changes that are coming up around here.
View Article"Are You a Jewess?"
Over the last fifty years, social norms have evolved such that overt expressions of many forms of prejudice are now taboo. If you live in world in which you rarely, if ever, encounter such prejudices,...
View ArticleFive Years of Capitivity
Saturday marked the fifth occurrence of a most sad anniversary denoting the date when Galid Shalit was captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza as their prisoner.Five years have passed without him once...
View ArticleMondofront: Now with Gilad Atzmon
Though still curiously acceptable in some corners, the Middle East-focused site Mondoweiss has graduated from mere Jew-counting to front-page publishing of Holocaust deniers. In his June 23rd screed,...
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