Of mountains and molehills

Here are 10 things that happened in the Jewish world yesterday which Tablet thought less significant than the fact that I mistook a piece of art by Dan Colen for one by his longtime collaborator, Dash Snow, in a tweet.

Here are 10 things that happened in the Jewish world yesterday which Tablet thought less significant than the fact that I mistook a piece of art by Dan Colen for one by his longtime collaborator, Dash Snow, in a tweet.

I had the pleasure of spending the day yesterday at Eden Village Camp, the new Jewish environmental summer camp in Putnam Valley, NY, run by Yoni Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer. Based at the site of a former UJA Federation camp, the new camp, which will teach children environmental stewardship, sustainable agriculture, and Jewish agricultural values, was founded with an innovation grant from the Foundation for Jewish Camp.
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?
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. [...]
JTA reports,
“Soldiers of this country liberated concentration camps toward the end of World War II and at the end of World War II and photographed what they saw there as a record of the barbarism we oppose,” Michael Mukasey, a federal judge from New York, said Wednesday in his Senate confirmation hearings. “We didn’t do [...]