I’m writing this post while sitting in on a on “Jewish Expressions in New Media” (does that count as my meta moment of the day, Esther?) so please forgive anything that might sound...
Category - Jewlicious
Everything Jewish and Delicious
Potential Mission Statement
[Esther’s note: The following suggestions were sent to me by a number of ROI120 participants representing various countries, perspectives and tracks. They thought it could benefit the...
Linguistics, Soccer and Stuff: Muffti’s Life as a Non-ROI Participant
Muffti at the Kotel. Ha ha. ROI 120 is probably a wonderful event. However, since Muffti is not a real participant, he’s been fortunate to avoid the apparently continuous speaches about...
The July Fourth Pogrom
Sixty years ago, July 4th, 1946, a mob of thousands of Poles surrounded a house in Kielce, Poland. They gathered because of a rumor that Christian children were being held there, in order to get...
Fourth of July
Plus que ca change, plus que c’est la meme chose
As Esther noted, at ROI120 we had a rollicking session led by McGill University History Professor Gil Troy. The discussion centered around issues of why be a Jew and what does being a Jew mean. The...
Why AreYou Jewish?
In Gil Troy’s lecture–still going on as I type this–there was much conversation about contemporary expressions of Jewishness. Harvard Hillel Rabbi Avi Poupko challenged us to create...
ROI120: It Begins
The ROI120 Conference is in (almost) full swing. It started for me on Saturday night when Lynn Schusterman hosted a dinner at one of the local trendy restos in my otherwise blue collar Machaneh...