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’ […]
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 […]
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Last weekend began news reports that the Red Cross still had not entered New Orleans and that this was because Louisiana state officals were barring entry to the relief organization. While it is true that the Red Cross is not delivering aid to people inside New Orleans, Media Matters documents that responsibility for this genocidal […]
Thursday, September 15, 2005
On Friday, I posted a first hand account of a woman who volunteered her services as a counselor for survivors of Katrina. As noted by a Samantha Joy in the comments and by J Flenn, who emailed me last night, authorship of this piece was widely misattributed to Anne Gevarsi. The true author is […]
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 […]
My brilliant and zany friend now has a blog called Kaspit! Kaspit isn’t my friend’s real name, of course. Kaspit (by my friend’s coinage?) is the Hebrew word for Quicksilver. Kaspit’s blog is about Jewish law, comic books and public policy, among other things. You may have seen other blogs on classical rabbinic literature, but […]
[Jonathan’s comments frequently deserve more air than they get in the comment fields of my posts. –BG]
Passover makes me think of the black slave experience in contemporary Sudan. Thursday evening I met a terrific man named Simon Deng who works for a group called iAbolish [www.iabolish.com] (I actually introduced Mr. Deng before he spoke to […]
[I never marked the first anniversary of HungryBlues back in March, but I think that gives me occasional license to rerun posts that are more than a year old. What follows is a slightly shortened version my post from this time (on the Jewish calendar) last year. I think I have some more readers since […]
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
I worry that many people have come to believe that the successes of the Civil Rights Movement are due only to the moral convictions and the heroic fortitude of the protesters. The protests, however, had a very specific, crafted intent, “the surfacing of tensions already present,” in the words of Dr. King.
jerusalem wanderings is a new blog by, Leah, an American born Israeli woman.
As usual, while I’m here at my mom’s house, I’m sifting through the documents and objects that fill the house. I’ve been looking through some of the documents from Dad’s work on Proportional Representation (PR) in New York City. In the late 1960s, there was a move, ultimately unsuccessful, to bring PR back as the method of electing the New York City Council members. PR was the method used for NYC Council elections from 1938 to 1949. In the early 1970s there was a successful campaign to change the New York City School Board Elections to PR. Both of these efforts were spearheaded by my father, who was Executive Director of the New York Proportional Representation Committee from 1969-1971 and Associate Director of the Special Unit for School Board Elections of the Board of Elections in the City of New York from 1970-1973. The work that he did around the NYC School Board elections was enormous. He used to refer to his 1973 testimony at the New York State Education Department Hearings on Community School Board Elections as his master’s thesis. (For a description of the kind of PR that he worked to institute in NYC go here or here.) Before I can write fully about my dad’s involvement in PR for NYC, there are many documents here in Delmar that I need to read and a there’s a lot more that I need to learn about this bit of NYC political history. Still I’m going to post a little from what I’ve been reading while I’m here on my Passover visit.
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