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I was surprised by the volume of emails I received in response to last week’s article by Gabi P. Remz about Arthur R. Butz. Butz is a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University in Chicago. Tenured decades ago, he’s now more well known for his work as a Holocaust denier than his academic areas of expertise, which,…
I don’t mind Occupy Wall Street. I don’t mind civil disobedience. I don’t even mind police officers trying to do their jobs. Here’s what I do mind: People getting between me and taking that first look at my work email in the morning. I’m getting a little weary of OWS at this point. I’m not…
If you haven’t been reading the Global Jewish Voice, our new blog run in partnership with AJC-ACCESS and the World Union of Jewish Students, now is the time to start. There is some terrific stuff being written for that blog. Here’s one example: Loudly Quranic in J-town By Adam Ehad in Tel Aviv So I’m…
This week’s (first) New Voices editorial concerns the curious appearance of an op-ed by Barack Obama in the pages of a few college newspapers last week. If Obama is a Jew (thanks to the Jewish Daily Forward for providing us with that notion), then he was also once one of us, a Jewish student journalist! Here’s a…
Today, in New Voices Magazine, Carly Silver writes about Sephardic student life, or lack thereof, at Columbia University. Though the picture is mostly bleak, one group mentioned in the article stands out, New Yachad City. Part of Columbia University Hillel, New Yachad City tries to create services that are more reflective of the diversity of world Jewry….
Several New Voices writers, including me, wrote a group of brief essays last week about Occupy Wall Street. Some of them were also published in the Forward (in print in the picture scan above). When the essays initially came Jane Eisner, the editor of the Forward, and I were surprised by how negative they were…
Today in New Voices Magazine Max Elstein Keisler recounts the tale of terror and woe that was his brief time living with the anti-Semitic roommate from hell. On top of that, the video above is Max’s rap about the same incident.
Sukkot began last night. Since the 1,000-strong Kol Nidrei service at Occupy Wall Street that kicked off Yom Kippur this year, an Occupy Judaism page has appeared on Facebook. That’s how I found out that Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Occupy Judaism organizer Daniel Sieradski were planning to erect a sukkah at Zuccotti Park,…
Commotion surrounds a man holding a large sign that proclaims, “Google: Zionists control Wall St.” To his right, another man holds a sign that displays the word “ASSHOLE,” accompanied by an arrow pointing at the first man. Several more people are standing near him devoting their energy to telling passersby that the first man is…
I’ll have some analysis up soon. For now, here’s folks are saying about the service, which I’m fully prepared to call greatest Yom Kippur experience of all time: My post at the Forward: I’ve got a post on Forward Thinking blog about my experience at the service. This is the most concise assessment of the phenomenal…
As I said yesterday, there will be Kol Nidrei at Zuccotti Park among the Occupy Wall Street folks tomorrow night. By way of an update on the logistics, here is a message that went out to everyone who has RSVPed to the Facebook event (all links and strikethroughs inserted by me): Thank you for joining us…
Today in New Voices, Geoffrey Edelstein reviews “Bad for Jews,” a new book about Jewish celebrities by Scott Sherman, a “Colbert Report” staff writer. The book has illustrations of each celebrity it deals with by New Yorker cartoonist Andy Friedman. If you go read the review, you’ll see a great likeness of Seth Rogen. The…
The realization that my office is a five-minute walk from Zuccotti Park, home base of Occupy Wall Street, combined with my excitement about the plan that was announced yesterday to hold Kol Nidrei in the park convinced me to spend my morning among the protesters. There’s plenty you can read about Occupy Wall Street out…
Including responses to recent on-campus agitation, tales of Jewish campus life back in the day and more, there is plenty to digest this week about college Jewry. J Street U leader Logan Bayroff has an op-ed in the Forward calling for a more open, less polarized dialogue about Israel on campus in response to Hillel‘s…
Daniel Sieradski is organizing a Kol Nidrei minyan in at Zuccotti Park, home base of the Occupy Wall Street folks, at 7 p.m. this Friday night. I don’t believe it’s set in stone yet, but Rabbi Arthur Waskow may be delivering a devar and or leading the service. Sieradski is looking for knowledgeable service leaders….