Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Aussie Dave has written once more laying out some of his alleged legal claims against me. Seems he wants to charge me with defamation. I thought it would be worthwhile, if only for a primer in slander, libel and defamation law to examine his claims:
If I do sue you, it will have nothing [...]

Now, we add Aussie Dave of Israellycool as a new honorary member of the right-wing pro-Israeli cyber-bully fraternity attempting to intimidate Tikun Olam with threats of lawsuits. Yesterday, Dave weighed in on my comment thread about an old incident that still rankles him. One thing led to another and before the night was [...]

Well, not so fast with the cheering. The only reason I’m a JIB finalist is that I was nominated for Best Jewish Music Post and there weren’t enough nominees to have a first round vote. So I get to call myself a bona fide finalist. The post nominated is the one I [...]

The first round of voting in the JIBs will come to an end on May 6th. Tikun Olam is nominated in the best left wing post category for The Golem and the IDF and best Jewish Music category for Israeli and Lebanese Music of Peace. I hope you’ll consider voting for these posts [...]

Yesterday, I voted at the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards site for my favorite progressive Jewish blogs in the annual blog competition. Earlier in the week I’d nominated some of them when I noticed that no one else had: Mondoweiss, OCCUPIED and Sholem Zachary Berger among them. To tell you the truth, this [...]

The Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards nomination process will be open for another two days (April 19th). Before I go any farther let me explain that I have an extremely checkered history with JIBA. In its previous incarnation under its founder, Aussie Dave, I detested JIBA as a cheerleading venue for the most [...]

Those of you who’ve followed this blog over the past two years may remember my crusade against the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards (see the many posts I wrote) which were at the time run by Aussie Dave and sponsored by the Jerusalem Post. Among the criticisms I had were that Aussie Dave was [...]

The Jerusalem Post and Aussie Dave have announced the winner’s of the right-wing Jewish blogfest, the JIB Awards. Undoubtedly, one of the most surprising outcomes was that Little Green Footballs, the blog that never met a Muslim it didn’t hate, won in the only two categories in which it competed. But nothing was [...]