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Since our call for donations, St. Bridget’s has received approximately forty thousand dollars. That’s real money. That’s real money that is making sure people have food, that their rent is paid, that they are getting legal representation, and that is reuniting families. Also, Rubashkin’s has responded to our lead. They have [...]
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Week Five, Day ThreeTiferet of HodWeek Five, Day FourNetzach of HodSo much for Hekhsher Tzedek. Apparently politics wins out over justice.In a not very surprising move, the Conservative Movement has decided not to boycott Rubashkin. Calls this week by activist rabbis for a limited boycott have been muted out of concern that a boycott [...]
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This past January, The Mandel Center at Brandeis put on a conference on teaching rabbinics; it was, all reports indicate, completely amazing. Lucky for us, the Mandel Center folks were nice enough to record and share a lot of the teaching that took place that week, so we can play now, too. Go [...]
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Week Five, Day twoGevurah of HodAccording to the latest news, yes, there’s more, if you can stand it. The Des Moines Register reports that there was sexual abuse and an expectation of sexual favors, according to the workers,If a worker wanted, say, a promotion or a shift change, “they’d be brought into a room with [...]
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Week Five, Day OneChesed of HodSince the most recent debacle at Rubashkin’s, documented widely, with a focus on the huge immigration raid detaining nearly 400 of the slaughterhouse’s 968 employees and sending many of the remaining into hiding (and not to mention so many other violations of so many varieties of American law and halachah [...]
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I spent much of the day at Nextbook’s Jews and Power: New York Festival of Ideas and, though I’m guessing I wasn’t supposed to leave with “soulgasms” on the mind, that’s just what happened.The second session I attended was Sex, Power, and the Holocaust Film. (By the way, kudos to Nextbook for using the Oxford [...]
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Week Four, Day SixYesod of netzachWeek Four, Day SevenMalchut of NetzachLast week a group of rabbis - including two from Israel met in Qatar when that country opened its first scholarly center for interfaith interfaith dialogue as part of a broader push for interfaith relations throughout that region.Ynet reportsEfforts at interfaith dialogue got one of [...]
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This spring, JDub expanded its work into literature with Adam Mansbach’s novel, The End of the Jews. We took this on because we really loved this book. If you haven’t read it yet, i highly suggest you add it to your spring/summer reading list. It’s a multi-generational Jewish family epic tracing assimilation, [...]
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Week Four, Day FiveHod Of NetzachICED, or I Can End Deportation is a game by Breakthrough a group saying of itself that it is an International Human Rights organization that uses education and popular culture to promote values of dignity, equality and justice.From the Breakthrough website: Breakthrough’s video game, ICED, puts you in the [...]
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The Rubashkin’s raid made big news earlier in the week, and we were angry. We were furious, filled with righteous indignation, ready to destroy the kosher meat industry, to throw out kashrut, to bash Orthodoxy until the last black hat disappeared from Iowa. But, now, it’s time to help. With hundreds of [...]
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