A portion of this post deals with UCLA Hillel. Before I launched into the post, I wanted to juxtapose my own experience as a graduate student at this Hillel back in the 1970s with today's reality. Then, I was pursuing an MA in Comparative Literature. The campus Hillel, led by Rabbis David Berner and Chaim Seidler-Feller, was my Jewish home. Each week, … [Read more...]
Seattle Times Refuses to Publish BDS Op-Ed
I've tried to interest local media outlets in covering the BDS event I'm organizing this Friday night. So far I've failed. Repeated efforts to reach KUOW's public affairs programming staff and Dave Ross of KIRO Radio have fallen flat. In the past, I succeeded in getting KUOW to interview the speakers for the Iran event I organized and Dave Ross … [Read more...]
‘BDS and the Future of Israel-Palestine’ Panel Discussion
Last week, the organized Jewish community hosted a very unfunny roast of BDS entitled, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign Against Israel: Bad for Jews in Seattle and Beyond. It was a full house as Ari Shavit and a Detroit African-American pastor who'd been hosted on multiple Aipac-sponsored Israel junkets comforted Seattle Jews with the message that … [Read more...]
Avrum Burg’s Vision for New Israel
Avrum Burg published an op-ed in Haaretz responding to the hysteria over EU parliamentary president Martin Schulz's Knesset address. He gets in a few terrific zingers against Naftali Bennett and contemporary Israeli politics in general: Naftali Bennett is one of the shallowest people I’ve ever encountered here...Give me Moshe Feiglin...but spare me this … [Read more...]