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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.
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. [...]
“We wanted to show another possible reality, to suggest that another Jewish community is possible. Those who believed it, even for a moment, were being given a gift — a vision of a Jewish leadership which stands up for peace and justice rather than mindless ethnic solidarity.”
Chabad is claiming that Sholom Rubashkin’s arrest has nothing to do with his culpability for employing hundreds of illegal laborers, violating their rights as employees, running an identity theft mill and engaging in bank fraud. Rather, it has to do with the fact that the goyishe government of the United States secretly hates Jews and wishes to persecute them.
I hate when reporters handwrite out your responses to their interview questions. In the absence of a recording, they always seem to fuck things up.
Take for example this latest feature on me in the Jewish Standard.
Though some of the activism [on Jewschool] has been helpful to the Jewish community
Jewschool has a strong [...]
Monday, Oct. 22 · 1:45pm
Impact Marketing @ Schmoozefest ‘07, NYC
How do today’s innovators use media and technology as effective marketing tools? Join the discussion on strategy and community organizing. With Rachel Chanoff (Celebrate Brooklyn, Sundance in Brooklyn, New York Jewish Film Festival) and Rabbi Shu Eliovson (TheLockers.net).
Monday, Nov. 12 · 9:00am
Next Generation Plenary @ UJC [...]
