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...
Tag - Westboro Baptist Church
Is My Name David or Dayveed?
One of the cool things about the whole Westboro Baptist thing is that former member Megan Phelps Roper is really compelling. So compelling that she gets interviewed. A lot. And in some of those...
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...
Westboro Baptist Church Starts Picketing Self; ‘Bunch of Hateful Fags’
“If the influence of those forces is as invidious as Westboro claims, then perforce Westboro is not immune to them.” Topeka, June 2 – In keeping with its tradition of seeing the...
Talking Twitter and Tikkun Olam in Toronto: JEDx Talk with Megan Phelps Roper
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...
Jewlicious Festival 9 – Top Tens
s At the end of a monumental weekend, the Jewlicious Festival staff gathered in our HQ to debrief. We began with an in depth look at all elements of the Fest, and decided to write down our favorite...