Today’s morning session of the conference was something of a revelation.
One of the highlights of this conference was meeting a young woman who is part of the Muslim roof body.
Did you know the Muslim community has been having many similar debates to us regarding roof bodies and representation?
Did you know that they had their own [...]
Nov
17
2009
17
2009
Interfaith Conference 2: Answers… Some to Questions I Hadn’t Thought to Ask
Jun
15
2009
15
2009
May
26
2009
26
2009
A Brief Comment on Numbers
Before today, the greatest number of visitors to this site was (the very Jewish) 613, on May 22. That particular spike occurred on the day on which we posted about Colin Rubenstein vs David Langsam, and the AJN’s coverage of the protests at the 8 minute play.
Today (May 26) we have had 761 unique visitors. [...]
May
26
2009
26
2009
Reader Response 6: Sha Shtil – Correcting a Misconception
One commenter, Blistering, summed up the sentiments of some of our readers in his last comment, here.
Blistering writes, “I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but the Canadian Jewish community tried to go with the PR approach in about 2004 and undertook the same course that you and others are advocating and it failed [...]
May
22
2009
22
2009
Talking Tachles 2: In Defence of the Right to Responsive Representation and Transparency
In the first post in this series, we asked a number of questions regarding representation, legitimacy and transparency. Some of the responses touched on themes such as apathy and whether there is indeed any “right” to representation at all.
Firstly, a straw man has been created in the suggestion that we are somehow disciples of Joseph [...]