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

I wanted to thank Haaretz for publishing in its English edition my first piece in that newspaper, In Praise of Jewish Blogging. It’s a radically edited version of a piece I submitted which was way over their word limit. I’ve tried numerous times to elicit interest on the part of Haaretz editors in [...]

Seattle’s Jewish paper has written a long story about my legal battle with Rachel Neuwirth. The nice thing about the article is that it gives Neuwirth’s attorney all the rope he wants to hang himself and his client. I don’t know about you but I’m not used to hearing lawyers use four letter [...]

Some time ago I discovered what at the time I found to be a compelling progressive Jewish blog, JSpot. It is the blog voice of Jewish Funds for Justice, a philathropic fund that supports domestic social justice causes. I once helped produce a JFJ Ronnie Gilbert-Si Kahn concert and fundraiser back in the [...]

Disclosure: I recently wrote a diary at DailyKos in which I called for more disclosure from political bloggers of their political affiliations (consulting, advertising, etc.) in order to maintain credibility in the eyes of our readers. Some DKos members, Armando chief among them, detested my post. So I’m disclosing my rather heated interaction [...]