Wednesday, December 26, 2007
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 […]
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.
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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 legitimate […]
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 edit our thoughts.
As the White Queen said, “What good is a […]
Sunday, December 25, 2005
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 […]
Sunday, December 25, 2005
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’ […]
Friday, December 23, 2005
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 […]
Saturday, December 17, 2005
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 […]
Thursday, December 15, 2005
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 culture.
To […]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
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 […]
Thursday, August 25, 2005
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 as […]
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,
she beheld her tender Child
All with scourges rent:
For the sins of His own nation,
saw Him hang in desolation,
Till His spirit forth He sent.
–Stabat Mater
studyholic,
Sorry it’s taken me a little while to respond to your second comment. But maybe it’s a good thing that some time has passed and there is more information […]
In the comments we’ve begun discussing the latest controversy concerning Cindy Sheehan. No, not her and her husband’s divorce. That got cleared up the same day it hit the news. I’m talking about the March 15, 2005 letter to Nightline that’s been shooting around the internet in various forms at least since August 11.
Before I […]
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