Celebrating Jewish Heritage with the Brooklyn Cyclones

Apologies for the sound.

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Israeli-ordained Rabbis: Help sick patients get the treatment they need

MAPS is seeking the assistance of rabbis ordained by the Israeli Rabbinate who are willing to petition Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to support the compassionate use of medical marijuana.

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Re: Commentary on Jewish hipsters

D.G. Myers is out of touch. Out of touch with American Jews, out of touch with the Jewish innovation sector, out of touch with the Jewish tradition. And who can blame him? Have you ever met a “Jewish hipster” who went to Texas A&M?

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This is what happens

…when you get a serious job and a serious girlfriend. You seriously stop giving a sh*t about your blog.

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Democratizing Jewish news gathering

I know it’s kind of lame to relaunch my blog and then never post anything. I’ve been posting far more to Facebook and Twitter seeing how more folks are looking there than they are here these days. Plus I’m just crazy busy with work and not really focused on writing.
Last week we rolled [...]

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Avigdor Lieberman: Bad for the Jews

I’ve got a piece up on Jewcy this evening regarding the relative success of Avigdor Lieberman’s far-right party Yisrael Beiteinu and the impact his proposal to disenfranchise Israeli Arabs will have on pro-Israel advocacy efforts.

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Mishegaas for Jan. 26, 2009

He cleans up well: Artist Shepard Fairey at the induction of his iconic Obama portrait into the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Photo via Supertouch.
Sometimes I’m just too lazy to blog and too exasperated to discuss politics.

This month’s “Harper’s Index” offers an illuminating and horrifying retrospective of the Bush era. [Harper's]
Designers Thomas Fuchs and [...]

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A very rough cut

Here’s about 11 minutes of unrefined footage from my forthcoming documentary The Forbidden Tree of Knowledge: A Secret History of Jews & Drugs. I showed this admittedly rough segment as a supplement to my talk of the same name at Limmud NY this weekend. Don’t worry about volume levels, lighting, color, cropping, etc. [...]

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Supporting civilian victims of Israeli warfare is okay when Dan Sieradski isn't doing it

The same folks who vilified me and my friends for raising money for both Lebanese and Israeli war victims in 2006 are now promoting a similar effort in Southern Israel to provide relief to Gaza.

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Limmuded Edition

The frozen chosen dance a hora to keep their spirits high and their bodies warm. More photos here.
[UPDATED] This post has been updated to correct erroneous information.
I’m at the Nevele Grand Hotel in the Borscht Belt for Limmud NY, where the boiler went bust on the eve of the conference leaving hundreds of attendees with [...]

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