Shiva minyan with an indie minyan
We always hear that one of the disastrous things about indie minyanim is that they will be unable to deal with life cycle events. Yet this morning there was an email waiting for me that was sent out to...
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Kol Nidrei. Occupy Wall Street. Arthur Waskow. Be there.
Jewschool founder Daniel Sieradski is organizing a Kol Nidrei minyan in at Zuccotti Park, home base of the Occupy Wall Street folks, at 7 p.m. this Friday night. I don’t believe it’s set in stone yet,...
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New details on Kol Nidrei at Occupy Wall Street
As I said yesterday, there will be Kol Nidrei at Zuccotti Park among the Occupy Wall Street folks tomorrow night. By way of an update on the logistics, here is a message that went out to everyone who...
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700 attend Occupy Wall Street Kol Nidrei
The Facebook event had 600 by yesterday afternoon. So I figured a few hundred would actually show. Myself and others are now estimating closer to 700 or 750. This was one of the most moving experiences...
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Occupy Kol Nidrei NY: “The fallacy that gold is God!”
(Photo by David A.M. Wilensky (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)) My friend Getzel Davis, a fourth-year rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Boston, delivered a tremendous sermon at the Occupy Wall Street Kol Nidrei...
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The Global Jewish Voice: Home of the international Jewish student conversation
Above, the Chilean Federation of Jewish Students protests discrimination. Over at New Voices Magazine (my day job), we launched a new blog this week that Jewschoolers might be interested in. It’s...
View ArticleDon’t just rewrite ‘Hatikvah.’ Go further.
Hey, y’all. It’s been a while. I’ve been busy having a real job instead of blogging here or at my personal blog. Anyway, this has been crossposted to my new blog at davidamwilensky.com, which you...
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Playing politics: ZOA has it all wrong when it comes to college
Crossposted to New Voices and davidamwilensky.com. JTA has published a new op-ed by me, a response to a piece by some Zionist Organization of America honchos published by JTA earlier this week: Op-Ed:...
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Responses to my ‘conversion’: The bizarre, the brazen and the best
Crossposted to davidamwilensky.com In other news I'm topping the charts over at the Forward: The hed on my piece is 'What Would You Call Me?' Right. So I wrote this op-ed for the Forward about how I...
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ZOA response to my ‘irresponsible’ op-ed: I am ‘young and inexperienced,’ my...
Crossposted to New Voices and davidamwilensky.com Not to get too overwrought, but here’s my blog post in response to a Zionist Organization of America press release in response to my JTA op-ed in...
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