Mishegaas
- Jewish Second Life users now have their own magazine, 2Life, which focuses on manifestations of Jewish culture in the online virtual realm.
- The Jewish Week has a great article on JFSJ’s Jewish agenda initiative.
- The Southern Poverty Law Center has a lengthy and informative feature on antisemitic academic Kevin Macdonald.
- Jay Michaelson gets to the bottom of our “culture of outburst” in the Forward.
- Also in the Forward, Mordy profiles Y-Love. Now that’s some meta-Jewschool sh*t right there.
- Reb Yudel calls for public support in keeping Solomon Schechter day schools alive.
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gives over high Torah on love and hate in the Jewish tradition.
- Heeb gets a new website, including a Gawkerish blog that seems less Jewish than hipster, but which is nonetheless an entertaining read.
- Haaretz points to a growing trend of domestic abuse in Israel, wherein the children are beating their parents.
- The IDF violently beat non-violent Israeli protesters in Hebron.
- Israel approved three new settlements in East Jerusalem that seek to create contiguity between Jerusalem and the Etizon settlement bloc.
My review of Y-Love = more meta or less meta than that profile of ShulShopper I did? 😉
Speaking of ShulShopper, my mom actually called this week to tell me about “this new online thing to find a shul!” that she read about in her Hadassah magazine. Mazel tov on hitting the demographics that include my mom! *grin*