November 2011
6 posts
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...