November 2011
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How to Occupy Rosh Chodesh
Prepared by Rabbi Ezra Weinberg and Shuli Passow Organize a planning team. This can be as small as two people, but it will be helpful to have others on board for tweeting/facebooking/promotion. Decide on the goals of the event. As an example, here is what we determined for Kislev RC in New York: Ongoing Jewish presence at OWS that links the tradition to what’s going on down there. Educate...
Nov 22nd
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After Raid, Occupy's Ideas Live On
by Daniel Sieradski, co-organizer Occupy Judaism The Forward, Nov. 25, 2011 · Source Occupy Wall Street is in exile. Her benches, once bountiful, lay barren. Her sidewalks — a wasteland. Where there were tents bustling with life, there is breeze. As the Book of Lamentations wonders, “How does the city sit solitary that was full of people?” Under cover of night, eschewing the eye of moral...
Nov 17th
Statement on Eviction of Liberty Square
Occupy Wall Street has been exiled from Zuccotti Park. As Jews, we know that exile is not the end. Occupy Judaism stands shoulder to shoulder with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. We are outraged by Mayor Bloomberg’s contempt for the rights of American citizens and his use of public health and safety to justify beating and macing nonviolent protesters. The mayor’s actions reflect...
Nov 15th
OWS Official Statement Against Anti-Semitism
The following statement was approved by the NYC General Assembly November 12, 2011. Friday’s anti-Semitic, racist acts that occurred on Ocean Parkway in the Midwood Section of Brooklyn and the attempt by the Daily News to link Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to these heinous acts have compelled us to release this statement. When an act of violence and bigotry occurs in our community, we, as a group, need...
Nov 13th
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Occupy Shabbat this weekend!
Occupy Shabbat is happening in four cities this weekend! NYC Boston Chicago Vancouver Want to Occupy Shabbat in your community? Here’s how! Shabbat is a reflection of a redeemed world – a taste of the World to Come. In that time, writes the rabbinic sage Rambam, humanity will be free “without anyone to oppress or disturb them. In that era there will be neither famine nor war,...
Nov 2nd
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Jewish Leaders Denounce Right-Wing Smears of...
For immediate release, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 Contact Carinne Luck, luckca81 at gmail dot com A Statement Against Smears We are publicly engaged American Jews who support both Israel and the ideas behind Occupy Wall Street and who also strongly oppose right-wing attempts to smear that movement with false charges of anti-Semitism. It’s an old, discredited tactic: find a couple of...
Nov 1st
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Putting the "OWS is anti-Semitic" meme to rest
“We’re not calling all the Occupy Wall Street protesters anti-Semitic, and we’re not calling the movement, as a whole, anti-Semitic.” —Noah Pollak, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, which started all this with its advertisement calling on Democrats to condemn anti-Semitism at OWS [Source] “There is no evidence that these anti-Semitic...
Nov 1st
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October 2011
6 posts
How to Occupy Shabbat in your community
Photo of the first Shabbat potluck at Occupy Wall Street Want to Occupy Shabbat in your community? Here’s how to get started! Start planning a week in advance. Decide whether you want to do Kabbalat Shabbat and a potluck dinner, or just a potluck dinner. Check in with your local occupation’s relevant working groups to make sure you won’t be creating a disturbance and find a...
Oct 31st
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Sukkahs are the new front in the battle to occupy...
For immediate release Contact Daniel Sieradski [email protected] 347-560-0440 Protesters at Occupy Seattle lock arms to defend a sukkah from destruction by the Seattle Police. This weekend, police in NYC and Seattle forced Jewish protesters to take down temporary shelters used to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot – the Feast of Tabernacles – an annual week-long harvest festival, which...
Oct 15th
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Statement on Occupy Sukkot
Mark this: on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you all have gathered in the yield of your land, you shall observe the festival of YHVH [to last] seven days… On the first day you shall take the product of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHVH your God seven days… You shall live in booths seven...
Oct 12th
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#OccupySukkot in Twelve Cities
The movement is growing! Join other progressive and radical Jews at your local occupation for Sukkot! Atlanta Boston Chicago London Los Angeles New York Oakland Philadelphia Portland Seattle Toronto Washington, D.C. If you’re planning activities in your community, let us know!
Oct 12th
Occupy Yom Kippur coverage
Mainstream Press Yom Kippur Service Taking Place At Occupy Wall Street · Huffington Post · 10/7/11 · Link Interview · CBS 880 AM NY · 10/7/11 · Link Day Of Atonement for Occupy Wall Street Protesters · CNN iReport · 10/7/11 · Link Rediscovering Yom Kippur Through Occupying Wall Street · Huffington Post · 10/8/11 · Link Photo · Associated Press · 10/8/11 · Link Religious Groups Join in Wall...
Oct 11th
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