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AmiKaufman, Amik

It doesn’t matter how much the occupation costs

I have so many things I want to write about, and so little time. Day jobs… you gotta hate ’em. I particularly want to write about #J14, about the escalation in the south, and a zillion other things. Inshallah I’ll find the time. But one thing has been on my mind lately that I need…

By Ami Kaufman June 24, 2012

The Israeli 99%

As the world protests, #J14ers seem preoccupied with themselves

I was really looking forward to the #globalchange event that took place Saturday in Tel Aviv and all around the world. I even brought the family down to the Tel Aviv Museum, where the Israeli event was held. Unfortunately, it was a dull happening. A few discussion groups, no speeches, no one to fire up…

By Ami Kaufman October 16, 2011

(photo: Joshua Stephens)

A different and momentous Yom Kippur in downtown NY

Together with thousands of New York Jews who gathered near Zuccotti park on Erev Yom Kippur, Libby Lenkinski took part in a unique, spiritual occasion By Libby Lenkinski It is Yom Kippur 2011, and I get to say “I was there.” Visiting New York, I decided to forego the typical New York synagogue service and…

By +972 Magazine October 8, 2011

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Kol Nidre near Metz for Jewish soldiers during the Franco-German war (drawing by Hermann Junker / Leo Baeck Collection)

1,000 Jews gather at Wall St. for #occupy-yomkippur Kol Nidre

When new media activist Daniel Sieradski, a.k.a. the Orthodox Anarchist, a.k.a. @mobius1ski , suggested having an ad hoc Kol Nidre minyan on Wall Street, in solidarity with the Occupied Wall Street movement, he wondered if he would succeed in attracting 20 participants (an egalitarian minyan of 10 men and 10 women). To his amazement, over…

By Lisa Goldman October 7, 2011

From #J14, through #Occupy-WallStreet, to #Globalchange – be proud

These are great times to be an Israeli and an American, when peoples of both nations are fighting capitalism gone wild Over two years ago I decided to start blogging. I called my blog “Half & Half” (which I later on moved to +972) because of the feeling I had of being half American (born…

By Ami Kaufman October 6, 2011