Netroots 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,...
View ArticleDoes Nasrallah Support Massacres?
The LA Times reports today that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called upon Syrians to support the Assad regime as it massacres them in the streets.In a speech late Wednesday, Nasrallah threw his...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Chukat
Parashat Chukat Numbers 19:1-22:1All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being...
View ArticleDvar Torah: Pinchas
First, a personal comment: It's fascinating how a person's life experience shape them.... As I sit here in the great backwoods of Maine and read about the Israelites in the Wilderness, I realize that...
View ArticlePalestinian Territories in Financial Distress
In yesterday's LA Times it was reported that the Palestinian Authority is being faced with increasing financial difficulties. The PA has until July 26 to pay the salaries of its 150,000 government...
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Lyndonville, VT: From homophobia to antiSemitism
Or perhaps in the Northeast Kingdom in general? On the heels of the anti-LGBT bigotry openly practiced by the ownership of the Wildflower Inn, the Caledonian Record is polling the issue, with...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Mas'ei
Parashat Mas'ei Numbers 33:1-36:13This is the final Torah portion in the Book of Numbers. Numbers is essentially a chronicle of the Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert between the Exodus...
View ArticleIslamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism at the FBI
In a recent article in Wired, Spencer Ackerman revealed the depths Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism at the FBI. As recently as January of 2009, the Bureau was using as a part of its training of new...
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Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Dies
Edited to correct a typo Rudolf and Edi were partners for nearly 60 years, not 30 as originally noted.Multiple European news sources are reporting that Rudolf Brázda, believed to be the last gay...
View ArticleReminder: 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 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...
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