Fringesters: Short but delightfully packed interview up on Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again (my blog) that I conducted with Scott Korb and Peter Bebergal, authors of The Faith Between Us, A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of G-d. Beautiful read, wonderful guys. Show some love: Meet Korb and Berbergal, check out the interview, [...]
American Jewish World Service prez Ruth Messinger was on WBEZ’s WorldView with Jerome McDonald, speaking about her organization’s work and leading role in the Save Darfur Coalition and the Darfur Divestment campaign. Give it a listen here:
WorldView
State Sentator Jan Schakowsky is living on food stamps to raise awareness.
Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, along with Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA), Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) and Tim Ryan (D-OH), will be cutting way back on grocery shopping this week as part of the Food Stamp Budget Challenge,which started on Tuesday. For a week, Schakowsky will [...]
Shalom Rav goes on about Fair Trade, Temple Taxes and our Torah portion, Behar-Bechukotai:
This week’s Torah portion, Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25-27), contains numerous commandments to the Israelites to create a society based on principles of economic equity: the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, the equitable redemption of land, fair interest rates, the “tax scale” for funding the [...]
Everybody bemoans the state of Kosher options in Chicagoland, and while some recent entries into the market have improved things over the last three years, the number eatery and grocer options and locations doesn’t come close to making life comfortable for those who want to keep kosher in and out of their homes. It [...]
Today, leaving shul after feeding our souls, we went to Kiddish where we fed our tummies, from whence we left for a lunch at Matthue’s where we knew we’d further stuff ourselves… As as we Yiddin, with our tzniut skirts on girls waists and kippot on guys heads left the kiddish for lunch, one of [...]
Teva (not related to the national Teva group) is a new eco-Jews group that’s been started by a couple Temple Sholom folks. Its about friggin’ time. Doing it during Sukkot would have of course been better, but I”m glad its at last getting started.
From Hildie Cohen-
The Teva meeting is coming up! We have [...]
Hey everyone! I’ve been signed onto Jewish Fringe for a while, and finally got off my ass to write my first ever (EVER) blog entry. I’ve got my first JFringe event coming up and thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about it.I’m excited to be working with Adam on building a young [...]
