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The Reading List: ADL double whammy

By Ben Sales | October 15, 2010

Our fear-mongering friends at the Anti-Defamation League gave us two unfortunate treats yesterday. First, they gave an award and a platform to Rupert Murdoch, the man who is trying to transform the world of honest journalism into a world of demagoguery, pandering, sensationalism, fluff and–sometimes–lies. [ADL] Then they came out with a list of the…

RIP Kesher

By David A.M. Wilensky | May 21, 2010

Crossposted to The Reform Shuckle In September,Â I announced that I was officially a Reform Jew with no movement. I eventuallyÂ worked on some definitions, to make this all a bit clearer. The impetus for this was the shortsighted decision of the Union for Reform Judaism to end all funding for college programming, killing Kesher. A new…