Last winter I drove to Providence, RI full of trepidation and sadness. My incredible Aunt Esther, my maternal grandfather’s sister, had pneumonia. I was going to see her to make sure I had the chance to say goodbye. To everyone’s, including her own, surprise, she pulled through. “I saw the pearly gates—and they shut!” she [...]
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Y-Love
I recently discovered Jewish African-America hiphop artist Y-Love. I started taking to him on twitter, and he pointed me towards this awesome “Nat’l Jewish Population Survey-inspired hiphop.” If you’ve been catching some of the buzz around Songs in the Key of Chanukah, then you’ve seen Y-Love before, over here: I also recommend checking out Y-Love’s [...]
Nokh a Glezl (Happy Christmas)
I’m one of the lucky early members of the seesmic video blogging community. Seesmic is cool because a) you can record directly to the site and b) it is set up like twitter to be real social and encourage conversations via video. For a fuller explanation, see the link to Steve Garfield in my previous [...]
I Listened to It Straight Through
And it’s good. You can check it out on the player embedded below the fold (so the auto start doesn’t kick in when you load my home page). It’s a project called The Harlem Experiment.
There is Nothing Zionist about These Christians
Max Blumenthal – Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour I don’t call myself a Zionist because I don’t think the ideology is good for Israel, Israelis or Jews, let alone for Palestinians. Blumenthal doesn’t make the mistake of calling the evil nut jobs Zionists, but the usage is so widespread, even among [...]
For Linda
By Marsha Rose Joyner For: Linda From: MarshaRose “Child of pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love gift of a fairy tale”. by Lewis Carroll Time and distance dims memories! And we all [...]
The Long Cold Run
That’s my friend Jesse’s blog. Jesse is a friend from my neighborhood and my Jewish community who is training for his second Boston Marathon this year. As last year, Jesse is running—and fundraising!—for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Marathon Challenge Team. This year, Jesse is keeping a blog where you can follow his training through the [...]
Holidays Shmolidays (Merry Christmas)
This is good stuff for non-Jews (as well as Jews) to read. Aron states precisely why I, too, would much rather people just come out and say “Merry Christmas,” instead of the supposedly ecumenical “Happy Holidays.” The so-called war on Christmas is an utterly stupid concept, except for what it reveals about the right wingers’ [...]
Rokhl Is Live Blogging Klezkamp
If Rokhl (or even I) piqued your interest about secular Jewish American culture, you may want to check out her blogging from Klezkamp, which is this week from Dec. 25-30. Her freylikhe Klezkamp blog is called Mit der kapelye- I’m with the Band; usually you can find her here. If Klezkamp sounds like klezmer to [...]
Keeping Up With The Neo-Confederates
Edward Sebesta has a new blog, Anti-Neo-Confederate. Who are the Neo-Confederates and why should you care? Back in August, Max Blumenthal had an article in the Nation about powerful lobbyists in Washington, who are also part of an extremist takeover of Neo-Confederate groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The article closed with this telling [...]
Identity Is Complicated
Rokhl Kafrissen recently published an awesome statement on contemporary Jewish American identity (via Mark Rubin). This is the sort of thing that I wish I’d written, because it comes so close to my own views. Here’s points 3 and 4, out of 6, central to the manifesto: 3. Jewish religion cannot be divorced from Jewish [...]
Essential Analysis From Kaspit
Go read Kaspit’s Ten days after hurricane Katrina: interim critique for a thorough yet concise critique of I) Preparation, II) Response, and III) Political smoke and mirrors and for many valuable links for further reading. Take special note of Kaspit’s grasp of the environmental issues that follow the Katrina disaster. It is unfathomable that the [...]
Agnostic On “Dying For Israel,” Déjà Vu On The Rest Of It
I had stopped trying to follow the fine details of the controversy over Cindy Sheehan’s Nightline letter. But a couple of nights ago I got drawn back into it. There are nasty elements on both the right and the left who opportunistically insist that Cindy made the comment that she denies. (That’s Christopher Hitchens linked [...]
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