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

Rainer Waldman Adkins just forwarded me the 64 page agenda for the Netroots Nation annual conference (formerly Yearly Kos) which begins today in Austin.  It looks smashing with incredibly interesting topics and speakers including folks I’ve been reading and wanting to meet for years.
Now, I admit I haven’t read the entire 64 page agenda and [...]

Several readers have asked to read this original, expanded version of the article Haaretz published yesterday under the title, In Praise of the Jewish Blogosphere:
I began my blog, Tikun Olam, in February, 2003 precisely one month before the Iraq war began. But even more than my budding opposition to the upcoming war, what motivated [...]

Those of you who read Slate or Salon will note their blog roundups which focus on a particularly hot news topic of the day and present sample views of bloggers from different ideolgogical viewpoints. One of my criticisms of the Jewish media is that it’s completely missed the boat on the blogging phenomenon. [...]

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 [...]

I first read about Jew-ish.com in the pages of Seattle’s Jewish paper, the JTNews. On my first attempt to visit, the site wasn’t up yet. But I just noticed that someone visited this blog and Jew-ish.com was their referral URL (thanks for linking to my blog!), so I went over to visit again. [...]