The country’s largest Jewish social justice group has just extended its reach a little bit further. Bend the Arc, which has been growing rapidly through mergers with other Jewish organizations, has forged affiliations with two local Jewish activist groups in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Washington. Jewish Community Action, the Minneapolis-St. Paul-based group, and [Jews United for…
Alan van Capelle, a well-connected political activist with roots in the labor and gay and lesbian rights movements, will become president and CEO of the recently merged Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice, the group announced October 3. Van Capelle, 36, will assume leadership of the organization in January 2012. JFSJ, which has…
A couple of things became apparent during the Progressive Jewish Alliance’s annual gala in Los Angeles last week, factors which will surely shape the run-up to the 2012 election. These factors did not include the “Yiddish songs of the labor movement,” which were performed entertainingly enough by singer Cindy Paley as guests shmoozed pre-dinner, but…
Most of us know that Pesach is observed for eight nights. But when the United States Department of Agriculture chooses to celebrate and support the Jewish Food Movement, Pesach can, indeed, be extended one day longer. Fifty-five leaders from the Jewish Food Movement and representatives of United States Department of Agriculture gathered in Washington last…
Nearly all of those who have already applied to this year’s Jewish Funds for Justice Community Organizing Residency are women. And last year, which was the program’s first, 14 of the 16 people selected for the interfaith program were women. Overall six Jews, six Muslims and four Christians made up the group. COR pairs Community…
Jewish Funds for Justice’s new video “Al Tirah! Fear Not!” features “Sisterhood 50” selection Rabbi Sharon Brous and two irresistible monsters, “Fear” and “Empathy.” It’s the first video for the Al Tirah/Fear Not Movement, whose stated mission is to help people free themselves “from a nation of fear-based politics and embrace our radical empathy in…
Sisterhood Digest: • New Israeli census numbers are out, showing that Jewish Israeli women bear fewer children, on average (2.1) than their Muslim (3) Christian (2.2.) and Druze (2.7) counterparts. • The Gloss sits down with Tamar Reich, an observant Jew and former Krav Maga instructor who recently opened New York City’s first all-female performing arts…
Really don’t like Glenn Beck? Write a poem about it. Such is the conceit of Haik U Glenn Beck, a crowd-sourced collection of hundreds of haikus dedicated to the conspiracy-minded Fox News host. Ticked off by a recent exhortation by Beck to listeners of his syndicated radio show to “run” from churches that employ the…
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