Links For 7/9

True Torah Jews Against Zionism - A fascinating and fairly impressive Satmar website about the evils of Zionism from an ultra-orthodox perspective. I especially like the pictures from all their protests and the Torah trivia you have to answer in order to read the articles.

Kosher Keeping Vegans Go Undercover At Agriprocessors and interviewed by Shmarya Rosenberg.

What Kind of Interviewer Confuses Hamas and Hummus? - Bruno (AKA Sascha Baron Cohen) is out and about in Jerusalem and Arkansas.

Reel Bad Arabs on youtube. Definitely worth watching.

Official Barack Obama pins in Hebrew!

A really important list of the organizations who disenfranchise my love for Judaism (although there a couple there that I'm surprised to see). Thanks Kung Fu Jew!

links 5/11

Medinat Weimar - The movement for a Jewish state in Thuringia, Deutschland

Think Tank Aims To Infuse Jewish Mainstream With Dashes of Color - Be’Chol Lashon Conference in San Francisco

Boogie Down: Movement and Music in the Middle of Jerusalem - My favorite pluralistic/post-denominational dance party

Large Knit Kippas and Flowy Skirts Not Required: Neo-Soul Hippie Culture in Israel - Me in a nutshell. I'm facebook friends with multiple people interviewed in this article

Anarchists and Jewish Nationalists - I'm not done reading this yet but it's fascinating so far

I just had a beer and a cookie and I'm feeling great

מימונה שמחה
Happy Mimuna

A big religious-zionist rabbi in Israel is hoping to get rid of "gentiles striving to undermine the country" by coming out with a bill that will revoke non-Jews of their citizenship. They are also trying to give citizenship to Jews who are not even living in Israel.
The ultra-orthodox religious-zionist agenda has become to clear to me now. Just as Mea-She'arim is a community that tries to close itself off from the rest of the world, so too do the leaders want to close off Israel from the rest of the world, making it a national shtetl. What nudnikim.

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (AKA Professor X) being interviewed by beliefnet about his book on Jewish-Christian relations. I love pluralism and I love Yitzy for loving pluralism too, especially when it involves meeting the Dali Lhama. He's one of my favorite (living) Orthodox rabbis. I should make a list of them one day.
Ok, fine... I'll start now:
Yitz Greenberg
Avi Weiss
Shaul Judelman
Aryeh Trugman
I'll add more later.

About two years ago, a Jewish 23 year old boy from France was captured, tortured, and held ransom by a group of anti-semetic animals, most of whom were Muslim. Now this is obviously a terrible act, and it should be known that I'm not posting this to be a right wing conservative, Kahanist, Honest Reporting, Islamophobic asshole, but because I stumbled upon a blog written by "an unapologetic liberal and a proud American Muslim" named Akram's Razor who covered this story and does a great job. It's really interesting to read this post from an eloquent, liberal, Western Muslim's point of view. He touches on the issue of anti-semetism in the Muslim world and I think its a topic that isn't dealt with enough from the inside. I get annoyed by Jews who call on "moderate Muslims" to take back the true message of Islam blah blah blah, but its reassuring to see it actually happening without some asshole like David Horowitz telling them what to do.

I also wanted to post this great article by the Forward about how progressives who are into social justice love Passover, even if they do go a little overboard with the seder plate sometimes.

link for 4/15

Moral Reprobates or Superstitious Lemmings?
For better or worse, I didn't have this kind of experience when I went to Mayanot, but I can definitely relate to where he's coming from.

Links for 4/9

Hipster Antisemitism @ Zeek

Why Social Justice Needs Religion

Obama Menace Dress-Up Doll

Links for 4/8

“Frumka” Group Leader Arrested on Charges of Child Abuse: Reactions

That crazy burka-wearing rebbitzen in Ramat Beit Shemesh gets busted.

Of Golda and Dildos: Thoughts on Israel’s First Sex Festival

The new form of Zionism? Erotic Zionism

Cool links for the day

Spitzer Has Sinned, But It's Our Sex Obsession That's Criminal by Alan Dershowitz

Rilo A Yid!!!

Does a Mikvah Dunk Make Pre-Marital Sex Kosher?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Israel

Stuff White People Like