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Back to the garden

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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.

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Celebrating Jewish heritage with the Brooklyn Cyclones

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Apologies for the sound.

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Re: Commentary on Jewish hipsters

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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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A very rough cut

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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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Michael Goldfarb's dishonesty on Ron Paul and antisemitism

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If Ron Paul was a Leftist, Michael Goldfarb would be pouncing all over him.
Instead, he has pounced on me (and my employer, no less), excusing the fact that Paul is building his campaign on antisemitic and anti-Zionist momentum.
Such actions betray both Goldfarb’s partisanry and either his ignorance of classical antisemitism, or his willingness to [...]

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Beeeeyaaaaaaah!

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Photo by… Me!
One of the many highlights of my GA experience was getting to be in the same room as Howard Dean, if only for a little while, and to watch him make an ass of himself in front of the entire convention.
As I blogged, live from the session, “Dean took an indirect stab at [...]

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