Mishegas: MLK, Phillip Roth, Mel Brooks and Hitler
- Above, the Jewish Food Justice Fellowship launches in Southern California.
- Should the Jews make Martin Luther King Jr. Day about Israel? Stuart Appelbaum of the Jewish Labor Committee says MLK’s statements about Middle East peace and Israeli statehood should be taken seriously today.
- Incredible color photos of the Warsaw Ghetto were released last month by LIFE magazine, bought from the Third Reich’s top photographer.
- Do Phillip Roth and Mel Brooks count themselves as “Jewish” writers? They both said no.
- Comic artist Miriam Libicki just released #10 of her graphic novel series Jobnik.
- Want $5,000 towards studying and volunteering in Israel? Apply to the Abe and Gert Nutkis Scholarship by March 15!
- American Jews are organizing in Los Angeles to support African refugees tortured in Sinai and seeking refuge in Israel: Jan 27 with documentary film “Exile No More” and Feb 10 featuring FDR’s grandson Ford Roosevelt.
- Join Encounter’s life-changing dialogue tour to Bethlehem on Feb 21-22.
- An indispensable new guidebook for Israel-Palestine dialogues was just published by the Jewish Dialogue Group.
- Speaking of Hitler, comedian Rogin Kim makes a Hilter time machine joke. Which is totally a genre, now that I think about it. What follows on Reddit are some of the weirdest alternate history speculations I’ve ever read.
