The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now famous tweet she spoke about Judaism’s “dead rote rituals” and chided me for...
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Review: Sarah Silverman Loves America
Sarah Silverman has a new show on Hulu called I Love You America. It’s a half hour weekly series produced by Funny or Die – you know, the funny video people. It’s kind of like a...
Talking Twitter and Tikkun Olam in Toronto: JEDx Talk with Megan...
Megan Phelps Roper (former member of the Westboro Baptist Church) and I spoke at JEDx in Toronto in front of a sold out audience of 1000 people on behalf of The House. You can read about my role in...
Westboro Baptist Church in Israel??
Well, it’s more like a former member of Westboro Baptist Church is visiting… I “met” Megan in 2009 when she basically told me that as an unrepentant Jew, I was going to go to...
Jewlicious and Westboro Baptist Church: The Jewish Angle
The story of how a twitter exchange between Megan Phelps Roper and, well… me, helped Megan and her sister Grace leave their hateful Church, has already been broadly covered. This coverage...