by deitybox [➚] · Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Each year, an Israeli organization called Tsad Kadima (Step Forward) hosts the Hike for Hope (website will be updated this week), a three-day hike on the Israel Trail on May 2-4 to raise money for kids with cerebral palsy. They’re a great organization, and it’s a really innovative way to give to a good cause.
You register, then you work to get sponsored at least $1,000, so if they have 45 hikers, they’ve just made $45,000 to help kids with CP and you get an amazing life-changing experience. Win-win situation. The registration fee covers all hike costs – food, tents, mattresses, etc. Shared cabins are additional.
Tsad Kadima is hosting two informational meetings, one in Jerusalem and one in Tel Aviv. Go, bring a friend, get involved. If you can’t hike, consider co-sponsoring someone.
In Jerusalem:
Monday, January 22 @ 19:30
Kehillat Yedidya, 23 Nahum Lifshitz St., Baka, Jerusalem (contact marc@amav.net)
In Tel Aviv:
Monday, February 5 @ 20:00
17/3 Rechov Yishkon, Kerem HaTeimanim, Tel Aviv
(contact yonawise@013.net)
For more details, call 02-654-0062 or email step@zahav.net.il
by deitybox [➚] · Monday, December 18th, 2006
If you’re looking looking for a some interreligious dialogue and good times to make your Chanukah complete, this Tuesday night is the Interfaith Hannukah Celebration with the Abrahamic Reunion at the Van Leer Institute (right next to the President’s House on Rechov HaNasi). Details:
The Abrahamic Reunion, a group of Muslim, Christian, Druze, and Jewish religious and spiritual leaders invites everyone to an interfaith celebration of the fifth candle of Chanukah on Tuesday, Dec 19, starting at 5:00 PM
Rav Ari Smadja, the Chief Rabbi of Ramat Shlomo, will give teachings in the spirit of Hannukah.
There will be music and piyutim for Chanukah and food. The Chanukah candles will be kindled with blessings for peace by Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Druze religious leaders from the Abrahamic Reunion including religious leaders and spiritual leaders.
Planned to be there is an all-star cast including Druze Sheikh Hussein Abu Rukkun, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari of the Old City Sufi Center, Ibtisam Mahamid of the Women’s Interfaith Encounter Network, Greek Melkite Deacon Jiries Mansour, Reverend Abuna Abu Hatoum of Nazareth, Ibrahim Abuelhawa of the Mount of Olives, Elias Jabbour of the International House of Hope, Imam Khalil Albaz of the Bedouin community of Tel Sheva, Elana Roszenman of the Women’s Interfaith Encounter Network, Sderot Chief Rabbi Zion Cohen and other special guests.
For more info: Eliyahu at 02-563-7578 or 050-569-1697.
by deitybox [➚] · Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Hey, here’s the latest that’s going on at the home of Eliyahu McLean, a.k.a. the Jerusalem Peacemakers Center. Stay tuned for more events on a weekly basis.
Where: 26aleph Charlap (down the steps at Moshe Rivlin and to the first left), 3rd floor
When: Tuesday evening, October 24, at 8:30 PM
Featured this evening will be:
~ Siri Om Singh, an African-American Sikh who will share his experience with kirtan, sacred chanting.
~ Rabbi Menachem and Hadassah Froman. Rabbi Froman will share teachings on the universalist Torah perspectives on the meaning of Jerusalem. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the amazing peacework of the Fromans, check out Rabbi Froman’s site on Jerusalem Peacemakers (the site is being updated, but there’s still some great stuff up there).
~ Rebbetzin Emunah Witt, who will share a teaching about Parshat Noach as it relates to peacebuilding and coexistence.
~ A Muslim guest (TBA) who will speak about this week’s holiday of Id el Fitr.
Please bring a snack or drink to share.
For more information, eliyahu@actcom.co.il, 02-563-7578
by deitybox [➚] · Thursday, October 12th, 2006
If you missed out on the Tzom Gedalia/Ramadan Break Fast last month, here’s another amazing opportunity from the gang at Jerusalem Peacemakers.
The Abrahamic Reunion is a group of Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Druze religious and spiritual leaders working towards reconciliation in the Holy Land. For the past several years, they’ve been hosting a monthly gathering at various venues around the country. It’s a great chance to get together for a good meal (kosher food available, just let us know) and in-depth cross-cultural dialogue with leaders and laypersons.
The next Abrahamic Reunion gathering is this Tuesday, the 17th, beginning at 4 pm.
We will be hosted for a meal at the home of group member Abuna Abu Hatoum in Yafia, next to Nazareth.
We will have blessings by religious leaders, dialogue, and a shared Iftar meal. Kosher food will be available by reservation.
Where: at the home of Father Masoud Abu Hatoum, Rehov Hamaayan 53, Yafia village near Nazareth.
Please call Hatoum family for more directions: 04-655-9837, 050-568-3715
For a ride from Jerusalem, we will take a van, please RSVP for a space by Monday. If you need a kosher meal, let us know.
Ride will leave at 1PM from Gan HaPamon parking lot in Jerusalem.
Please RSVP to Eliyahu McLean, Jerusalem Peacemakers director, at 02-563-7578, 050-569-1697, eliyahu@actcom.co.il
Click here for pics from the last gatherings.
Any questions, just email me at djkomisar@gmail.com
Please spread the word to everyone you know!
by deitybox [➚] · Monday, July 10th, 2006
Apparently none of us are “Real Jews.” That is, until we pass the following “test.”
This is from an email sent to the mailing list at UJC, which is supposedly confidential. Hmmm….
Read and try not to throw up.
You’re Not A REAL Jew Until You take this TEST!!!
Want to prove that you are a real Jew?
If you are a real a real Jew, say this prayer out loud three times right now:
If Jesus is not the Messiah, then these prayers will have no effect on you, but if Jesus is the Messiah, they will. Remember, you have to say these out loud 3x each, in a row.
I bet you you will change once you says these prayers. Say them by yourself, you don’t have to do it in front of anyone. If you are reading this when there is someone around, you can close it and print it out and say it then.
Say this WHOLE thing out loud 3x:
HOLY SPIRIT, I RECEIVE YOU. PLEASE COME INTO MY HEART AND GUIDE ME.
OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
THY KINGDOM COME. THY WILL BE DONE, AS IN HEAVEN SO ON EARTH.
GIVE US DAY BY DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.
AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS;
FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERY ONE THAT IS INDEBTED TO US.
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION; BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER.
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
AMEN
Then say this out loud 3x:
SPEAK OUTLOUD
SATAN, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I COMMAND YOU TO LEAVE MY MIND, BODY, LIFE,
AND SOUL TODAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
YOU HAVE NO DOMINION OVER MY LIFE!
I SUBMIT MY BODY, LIFE, AND SOUL TO GOD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
THE BLOOD OF JESUS! THE BLOOD OF JESUS! THE BLOOD OF JESUS AGAINST YOU SATAN!
I APPLY THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER MY LIFE!
I APPLY THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER WHERE I LIVE AT!
I APPLY THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER MY FAMILY!
I DO IT ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS
THE BLOOD OF JESUS! THE BLOOD OF JESUS! THE BLOOD OF JESUS AGAINST YOU
SATAN! IN JESUS NAME I CALL IT DONE! AMEN AND AMEN!
IN JESUS CHRIST’S HOLY NAME I PRAY, AMEN!
DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS.
AFTER YOU HAVE CHANGED, PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FELLOW NON-BELIEVERS IN CHRIST.
ONCE AGAIN, IF YOU WANT TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE A REAL JEW, FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS. If you have the nerve to believe that there is no CHRIST, then you should have the NERVE to prove it! By chickening out and not doing this test, you show that you may have something to be afraid of. This email was not sent to you to annoy you, but to help.
-YOUR FRIEND,
ANONYMOUS
So nu? Has anyone out there been transformed into a “Real Jew”? If so, get an education.
Can this possibly be good publicity for them? And is the whole 3x thing like Islam, and you instantly become a Jew for Jesus? Or if you click your heels three times while saying it, are you transported to their black-and-white world? Or if you say “Beetlejuice” “Jesus” three times, does he pop out of a diorama and take you on a tour of the Netherworld heaven? That would be more impressive.
by deitybox [➚] · Monday, July 3rd, 2006
If you happen to be in the Baltimore/DC area this coming week, check this out:
From the people who brought you Theater Bris: 10 Plays in 90 Minutes comes “Barefoot in the Park,” a hilarious look at dating and marriage in the Jewish world.
What happens when a straight-laced YU law student marries a hippie acupuncturist straight off the Moshav and settles down in a fifth-story apartment with no elevator, no heat, a hole in the skylight, a shopaholic mother-in-law, and an upstairs neighbor nicknamed “The Casanova of 48th Street”? Find out in this classic Neil Simon comedy, newly adapted with a Jewish twist.
When: Sunday, July 9 @ 2 pm, Monday July 10 @ 8 pm.
Where: Morstein Performa, Owings Mills Jewish Community Center
3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue
Owings Mills, MD 21117
Cost: $8/ticket
For more info contact iengland@hotmail.com or djkomisar@gmail.com.
Hope to see you all there!
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
I just heard this on NPR and nearly lost it. Of late, George W. Bush has taken up a lovely little hobby of issuing colorful bill-signing statements to laws passed by Congress that limit his own power. Basically, he writes disclaimers after any law he disagrees, disclaimers which revise and reinterpret laws already passed by the legislature, i.e. the people we elect to pass our laws. Supposedly this is done in the name of “national security in pursuing the war on terror.” So what laws are being “reinterpreted” in the name of Peace on Earth? A little bill called the McCain Amendment on renunciation of torture, for example. And many, many others–statements on 750 bills and counting. According to the Boston Globe, “Bush has used signing statements to reserve the right to disobey more than 750 laws, saying that they conflict with the powers he believes the Constitution gives to him.”
Thankfully, though, Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is really, really pissed about this. In fact, he’s so pissed that he’s pursuing plans to for Congress to sue the President. A hearing is scheduled for this coming Tuesday.
For more, see Seattle Times story.
So apparently he really is a dictator. Who knew? I feel way too jaded to be excited about this, though. It seems that time and time again, this administration somehow slips out of everything. If there was true justice and accountability, there would have been an impeachment a looooong time ago. ITMFA!!!
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Jews for Judaism has learned that the New York Behold Your God initiative , beginning this week in New York, will incorporate a gospel media campaign utilizing a new look and marketing slogan.
Taking their cue from the NY subway system, the campaign logo will consist of bold-colored letters on a black background with a directional sign:
This multi-media campaign will involve billboards, radio spots, subway and newspaper ads, and direct-mail pieces all asking the rhetorical question: “Who’s there for you”? with the standard Christian answer: Jesus. The eye-catching twist is the slogan “Jesus for Jews.”
Those who live in NYC and all boroughs are already receiving direct mail from Jews for Jesus (scroll down in the pdf to see sample).
If you live in New York and encounter these media, you can help Jews for Judaism be informed on the BYG campaign in New York by faxing ads/mail to them at 410-602-0578, by calling them at 410-602-0276, or by emailing nybyg@jewsforjudaism.org.
Jews for Judaism has partnered with the Spiritual Deception Prevention Project of the JCRC of New York to help the greater Jewish community respond to this greatly expanded proselytizing effort which will reach all five boroughs of the city as well as neighboring Westchester, Bergen, Suffolk and Nassau counties, with special ministries targeting the Russian-speaking, Israeli, and Orthodox communities.
Click here for full memo.
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
In 2001, Jews for Jesus launched the Behold Your God Campaign, the largest evangelistic outreach in the history of their ministry, committing 5 years and $22 million to this aggressive effort to convert Jews. Teams of trained missionaries and volunteers have hit 66 cities around the world, outside of Israel, with a Jewish population of 25,000 or more. In their words:
“For the first time ever we are calling together all of the Jews for Jesus missionaries from around the world for this campaign. Reaching into all five boroughs of the city and to the surrounding counties of Westchester, Bergen, Suffolk and Nassau, this major effort will also have a specialized ministry to the more than half a million Russian-speaking Jews, the 200,000 Israelis and New York’s sizeable Orthodox Jewish community. This adds up to nine campaigns running simultaneously!!! … We are estimating the total cost of this campaign to be $3,133,446…”
The campaign will include door-to-door visits, direct mail, phone calling, evangelistic ads in English and Russian newspapers, Hebrew and Russian-speaking teams, music concerts in the cities and at the beaches, special web sites, evangelistic billboards, special media campaigns, art exhibits, film screenings, and more.
Jews for Judaism is working with the New York JCRC and other groups to provide educational resources and programming in the NY area in preparation for the missionary campaign. Click here to find out more about the NY BYG campaign, general FAQ on Jews for Jesus and other missionary groups that target Jews for conversion, and what you can do.
If you would like to volunteer or receive information and response materials or arrange a speaker, program or seminar for your community or institution, please call us at 1-800-477-6631, e-mail us at nybyg at jewsforjudaism dot org or complete this form. For more info, visit Jews for Judaism.
by deitybox [➚] · Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Not very impressive, no real condemnation. The lashon hara bit seems unproductive, and to say that “the first thing that must happen after the revelation of sexual abuse and/or abuse of power by clergy is full and honest disclosure to the community of the facts” is just hypocritical.
But don’t take my word for it:
Rabbi Mordechai Gafni: a formal announcement
Dear members of the Elat Chayyim community
I am very saddened to share with you a situation about which I have recently learned.
Mordechai Gafni, a talented rabbi who has taught at Elat Chayyim and in many other places, has been accused of sexual misconduct by women within his spiritual community in Israel, several of whom have filed complaints with the police. He has not denied the allegations. These are serious offenses because although these relationships were apparently consensual, there is no place for relations like this between a rabbi and his students or between an employer and his employees.
Some of you may have studied with Mordechai Gafni, or participated in other events with him. For others he might be a complete stranger, and this letter may be irrelevant.
I am writing to you because experts who deal with abuse of power indicate that the first thing that must happen after the revelation of sexual abuse and/or abuse of power by clergy is full and honest disclosure to the community of the facts, as accurately as they are known.
It is in this spirit that I am passing on to you the information that I received from Israel, and informing you that Mordechai Gafni will no longer teach at Elat Chayyim. Those who have registered for his classes have been notified, and may either choose another workshop or receive a refund.
The Program Committee of Elat Chayyim had, in anticipation of our move to Isabella Freedman, begun to review our Code of Ethics, which all teachers are required to abide by. This unfortunate incident has strengthened our determination to maintain our high standards and continue to create an environment that is safe and heartfelt for all our guests.
The Committee continues to work in this regard.
This situation is only beginning to unfold. As always, at moments like this, there is a tendency to want to share and speak about what has happened. I urge all of us to do so with the highest awareness of what our tradition teaches about lashon harah, negative speech. We have both the obligation to know and to teach about abuse of power, and the obligation to strive to refrain from gossip — and any harm that we may cause others by our speech.
This is also a moment to send our love and support to those women who have been harmed, and to acknowledge their courage in coming forth.
May we each send forth our blessings for healing, for all those who are involved in this situation and for each of us as we face our own shadows in the journey through our lives,
b’shalom
Lynne Iser
Chairperson, Board of Directors
by deitybox [➚] · Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Writer/Director Yishai Freedman of the Jewish Theatre Workshop, who brought you 10 Plays in Ninety Minutes in NYC and Baltimore last January, has done it again.
The Eschatological Theater Company and Chabad of Dumbo present Vanity of Vanities: A Tragicomedy in One Act, on May 21 and 23. Stay tuned for details on a possible performance in Baltimore to follow. Details below:
Update: This didn’t upload as planned. The show will be performed Sunday, May 21st at 3 pm and 7 pm and Tuesday, May 23rd at 7 pm. $10 each. For directions and reservations, email allisvain@gmail.com
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
It’s not that hard to find those oh-so elusive, mythical beings once you look around a little. Case in point: Lucy Widaad, also known as Palestinian Princess. In her latest post, she writes:
The economy of Palestine is thriving under Hamas rule… NOT!
I wonder what the hell is going to happen here. People are not being paid their salaries (gov’t workers), merchants are not seeing cash flow and renters are not paying the rent in our building claiming that they don’t have the money. Ouch, that hurts my pocket! Us Palestinians have got to get cracking or we will see a insurgance of violence soon. Lack of money will drive some people to work as hired guns for the Islamic Jihad and related groups leading to violence and more hatered towards Israel, this will effect the peace loving among us as we will also feel the Israeli backlash of making our lives EVEN MORE difficult.
Hamas is entering a long dark tunnel with no way out. With the political party Fatah virtually torn and dying, it is time for us Palestinians to think about building a new national movement.
We must save ourselves, but we cannot do it alone either. It is the time to create a political and social entity that is capable of supporting the government of a state, the Palestinian State. Fatah could not do it because they were obviously corrupt. Hamas does not want to do it, because they do not want to give up their sole role as a “resistance” organization. Therefore a new political and social force must be created. And we must do it now!
Now is the time for us Palestinians to create a responsible, honest, moderate, secular movement. It doesn’t have to have a particular political focus but it needs to serve as an organization for supporting life in the Palestinian territories and an instrument for distribution of funds from international donors. This entity will be built using a network of existing NGOs as a nucleus, a support system and guidance. Order and hope need to be restored. and this is the main objective initially. Because we will have funding, and Hamas will not, we will eventually make the Hamas government irrelevant, whether or not the Hamas stay in power.
We will obviously need help to do this and money is not enough. We will need the international community to support us and Arab governments will have to play a big role as moderators and enforcers. The Israeli government has a part to play too. Israel will have to unfreeze the funds it owes the Palestinians to help support our new entity. The ports and border crossings of the Palestinian authorities must be opened to free transport of goods. We have to nip this in the bud NOW, poverty breeds radicalism, and radicalism can be exported. And that means a threat for everyone in the world.
Now the question is, uhhh, how do I get started. Suggestions please. I am so willing to do this, as you all now I am unemployed and I don’t think I want to be a gunwoman, I am a PEACE LOVER. So help me.
So, nu? Not that we’re anything remotely close to being experts on the topic or necessarily being able to relate to her situation, but that’s never stopped us before. She’s asking for any and all suggestions. What do we think? More importantly, what can we do?
Cross-posted from Palestinian Princess (in part), Deityblog
by deitybox [➚] · Sunday, May 7th, 2006
After seeing the overwhelming presence of Jews at the Darfur rally, I knew it was only a matter of time…
Today’s demonstration in Washington was organized by a coalition called “Save Darfur.†It describes itself as “an alliance of over 130 diverse faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organizations.†The Jerusalem Post provides additional information: “Little known…is that the coalition…was actually begun exclusively as an initiative of the American Jewish community.†The American Holocaust Museum has been conspicuously involved, and while many people feel that the term “genocide†should be used very sparingly the Museum hasn’t hesitated to draw parallels between the Shoah and the Darfur situation. Joining Jewish organizations are evangelical Zionist Christian groups who see Sudan as a prime mission ground in these Latter Days.
We’re talking about a rally urging a US/NATO intervention in Africa’s largest country, legitimated by the UN strong-armed by a thuggish neocon-led administration in Washington. We’re talking potentially about regime change in Africa’s second-largest oil producer, in the context of planned U.S. strikes against Syria and Iran. Should anyone in the antiwar movement with a minimal knowledge or recent history be comfortable with that, or suppose that it could be fully benign?
…
By all means, may the people of Darfur, including those in the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudanese Liberation Army (if indeed they represent liberation), using any means necessary, fight their oppression and seek international allies in the process. And let those Americans who’ve really studied the situation and wish to assist the struggle of Darfur’s oppressed provide such help as they can — especially if they do so while fighting oppression globally without any skewed agenda. But let the U.S. antiwar movement not confuse friends with enemies, and in that confusion help those Martin Luther King Jr. once called “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.â€
Apparently it’s just the Jews using Darfur to cover up our “ongoing brutalization of the Palestinians.”
I grant that the author does have a point (which my husband actually wrote a thesis on) in that US action in Darfur would, in fact, be imperialist. This does not necessarily mean that it is wrong, however. US invervention in the death camps of WWII was an imperialist action, and we were right to do it. When hundreds of thousands are being slaughtered, perhaps it is appropriate for outsiders to impose their values on the situation.
Read the full article by Professor Gary Leupp or Tufts, as published on Dissident Voice.
[Ed's Note] See also: Arieh Leibowitz @ Meretz Blog and Kelsey The Ghetto Jew, tho do pay extra attention to the comments from Xisnotx.
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
To Israel, with utmost love and devotion–
Today I got all dressed up in blue and white, said full hallel with a bracha, and ate a cupcake with an Israeli flag in it. I’d been looking forward to this day for a long time, as I’ll officially be Israeli in about four months (!). But something doesn’t feel quite right.
Who really has independence in Israel?
~ The citizenry, a quarter of whom live below the poverty line?
~ The military–100% conscripted, some of whom sent to do unimaginable tasks? The conscientious objectors who are arrested and imprisoned?
~ The original chalutzim, the majority of whom are Holocaust survivors, now a poverty-stricken elderly community that has to do battle for survival, this time with the government they help found?
~ The Arab-Israeli community? What kind of a headtrip is it to get a day off work and go to a friend’s barbecue while your cousins are stuck in Gaza under lock and key, mourning Al-Naqba?
~ The “liberated” disengagees of Gush Katif, the vast majority of whom have yet to be re-settled and receive what they were promised?
~ The Bedouins, who, despite paying taxes and serving in the army, receives virtually no rights and has never received compensation for losing their Negev homes time and time again?
~ The government and the upper-classes, caught in this system of corruption and factionalism that denies the principles the State was founded on?
~ The “working women”, 3,000 of whom a year are trafficked through Israel and live as sex slaves?
~ The charedi community, inextricably dependent on the very State they decry the independence of?
~ The Ethiopian olim, stuck below the color line in the land of their dreams?
~ The anglo olim, watching as the country of their dreams, whatever these dreams are, changes from day to day and makes these dreams so difficult?
Who is independent?
Answer: all of us are
Despite the weaknesses of the government of Israel, weaknesses that have led to the breakdown of normal freedoms for virtually all of its citizens–I believe that there is still abundant hope, in the independent actions of grassroots efforts.
We’re connected to Israel, despite its many flaws, because of the picture in our minds, in our souls, of what the land and its people mean to us. It’s an unexplainable feeling of belonging, of spiritual resonance, walking down the cobbled streets with arms outstretched to the blue, blue dream of sky. And it’s very hard to bridge this feeling to the facts on the ground as they exist for many of Israel’s citizens.
Please don’t misunderstand this post as simply griping stating that there is nothing worthwhile about living in Israel. For a great many people, it is a wonderful place to live. The disconnect occurs in connecting the vision of Yom Haatzmaut to the lack of socioeconomic and political security so many people live with in Israel.
On this Yom Haatzmaut, it is our duty not to simply go to barbecues, eat falafel, go through the self-congratulatory motions…..but to internalize the value of atzmaut, independence, and vow to work towards making Israel a land of real, vital independence for all of its citizens.
Yom Haatzmaut, viewed this way, is a yearly check-in on where we stand, and what our responsibilities are to do more for the sake of the kind of independence that matters–where it transforms peoples’ day-to-day lives for the better, gradually shaping the harsh realities of the land to reflect the picture of our minds that led us to celebrate this day in the first place.
It’s when we own our fundamentally independent status as ethical individuals, despite our status within the State, towards helping one another.
So this Yom Haatzmaut and until next year’s, let’s pledge to do something to get involved in atzmaut. Check out the links below for some ideas, please post more in Comments:
Israeli Task Force on Human Trafficking
Bustan: Sustainable Community Action for Land and People
Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews
Table to Table: Rescuing Food for Israel’s Hungry
Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel
by deitybox [➚] · Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
The Aleph Society, brought to you by HaRav Adin Steinsaltz, announces its new interactive forums on Jewish life, law, and the teachings of R’ Steinsaltz. There aren’t many posts yet, as it’s just opened to the public in the last few hours. Live as of today, the forums include:
So check them out and post all you want. Tell your friends. Oh, and be sure to look out for one dreamy, oh-so-brilliant moderator who may or may not be my husband.
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
After an amazing sold-out debut in Baltimore, Yishai Freedman and Itta Chana Englander are kicking off their as-yet-unnamed shomer shabbat theater company this Sunday in NYC:
10 Plays in 90 Minutes: A One-Page Play Festival
6 pm
The Chabad Loft
182 5th Ave. (between 2nd and 23rd)
2nd floor
Cost: $5
Info: Yishai Freedman, allisvain@gmail.com
This noble effort is co-sponsored by Jewschool and YourSpark.com.
by deitybox [➚] · Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Earlier this evening, Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke and was rushed to the hospital.
Deputy PM Ehud Olmert has been sworn in as Acting Prime Minister.
Whatever your politics are, now is the time to pray. Hashem Yishmor Oto.
by deitybox [➚] · Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Are you worthy of frum lovin’ or destined to remain “in the parsha”? Take the Shidduch Score Test and find out.
[My score? Average. My secret? Met him at an Ani Difranco show, happily married since January. So there.]
Source: nerdtests.com
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