Elsewhere in çé-berspace
aka things I’ve been too busy to blog…
- Canonist reports that CoP exec. dir. Malcolm Hoenlein told listeners on a Jewish radio program in NJ that he wants to see the borders of Israel extended from Cairo to Damascus. Transcript here.
- Treppenwitz reveals (and condemns) a plan by Arutz Sheva and various popular jbloggers to campaign against the upcoming World Pride Day festivities in Jerusalem.
- Solomonia reports on changes to the Presbyterian policy on divestiture.
- Georgia Republican Lynn Westmoreland, is co-sponsoring a bill on the 10 Commandments, yet can’t even name them.
- 27B Stroke 6 relays the tale of a convicted computer hacker who used Tanakh to justify his resistance to a state-mandated bloodletting.
- The Reform movement got a new executive veep and a new siddur.
- A neighborhood of Kiryat Sefer has enacted a ban on Sephardi residents.
- The head of Mahmoud Abbas’ private militia says the guns they’ve just received from Israel will only be used to attack Israelis.
- Nearly 25% of all Americans are tattooed.
- “A new documentary chronicles a summer camp where children, as young as six, are trained to become devout Christian soldiers.”
- Since 9/11, most Arab Americans have come to fear police.
- A Diebold lobbyist made a $10,000 donation to Kenneth Blackwell’s campaign.
- Iran, last month, arrested over 50 Baha’i on the basis of their faith alone.
Thanks for the mention (and the link). It’s worth noting that I haven’t seen any bloggers I read come out against it yet.
Please see the Y-LOVE analysis to the Sephardi ban in Kiryat sefer at ThisIsBabylon.net 😀
Just to be absolutely clear: The various popular jbloggers in Trepp’s post were not behind the campaign against the upcoming World Pride Day festivities in Jerusalem, as your blurb suggests. At least not this popular jblogger.
didn’t say they were… and didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. curious who the initiators were however.
The Reform rabbinical association — The Central Conference of American Rabbis — got a new director. The Reform movement as a whole, however, is considered led by the exec of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Eric Yoffe
Note that the Ynet article on Kiryat Sefer quotes no Sephardim. Way to make a tragetted community invisible, Ynet!
I don’t blame Arab Americans for fearing police. Hell, I fear police.