Sen. Sanders met with Pope Francis early Saturday morning in the foyer of the Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse where Francis resides and where Sanders and his wife spent Friday night as well. No photographs were permitted.
Break Free into Renewable Energy Now!
Break Free Albany 2016 on May 14 in Albany, NY is a mass demonstration for climate justice … a unified demand to keep fossil fuels in the ground and implement renewable energy now. Anyone interested in clean energy and a renewable energy future is welcome to attend.
Sign up for a bus departing the New Jersey area from Teaneck, Wayne, West Nyack and South Jersey. $35 round trip if you can afford the cost and scholarships available if you can’t.
Sen Bob Menendez Hosts Empowerment Summit in Trenton on April 22 – Free
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez Hosts an Empowerment Summit for the Community
Friday 22 April 2016
9:00am-1:30pm
Trenton War Memorial
1 Memorial Drive
Trenton, NJ 08608
Cost: Free
Lunch will be served
RSVP here
Visit the summit event page for additional information
Cis seems like just another word for ‘straight’ … and about gender as a spectrum
Came across the word cis today, which I looked up and discovered it means exactly the same to me as the word ‘straight’ always meant. So, has straight been run over by the politically incorrect bus and I can’t use that word any more?
Cis (aka cisgender) is the term for people biologically born as women, who identify as women or people born male, who identify as male. So, another way of putting would be: cis is a person whose gender identity matches the sex into which s/he was born.
Kristof: It’s not easy for white Americans to own the advantages systemic racism gives them
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In a 2014 article, WaPo’s Emily Badger interviews Kristof on the topic of systemic racism: how it affects its victims and why it’s so difficult for white Americans to see that their advantages cause other people to be disadvantaged.
I just got educated about some election rigging methods Dem Party & Hillary use
Press conferences. Sanders is happy to talk to the press, Hillary not so much. Ostensibly, she wants to stay in charge of her message and make sure reporters don’t get the chance to pin her down on the weird stuff she does… (like flip-flop positions, steal Sanders’ most popular position stands, get huge support from soul-sucking Wall Street firms and from the Daddy of public education destruction in the US, Eli Broad – whose lawyer HRC used to be).
Dems step up cheating attempts to push Bernie down: this time, blocking him from DC ballot
After Bernie won 3 caucuses in one day on March 26 and closed the gap between his pledged delegate count and Hillary’s to just 200, the people who do these things refused to allocate all of the Washington delegates. That way, nobody could see how much ground Hillary had lost. Stepping back a few days, we had massive voter fraud in Arizona‘s Dem primary. Some say the fraud doesn’t involve Hillary but, What! Who do they think they’re kidding?
Suspended Wyckoff NJ Police Chief stands by statement that racial profiling is necessary
But Fox claims that his statements aren’t racist and don’t promote racial profiling. Read the NJ.com article, let me know what you think.
Ivan and Kimi are Bernie delegate-selects & we need your petition signature! (in LDs 37 & 38)
The way this works, is that selected delegates need to collect petition signatures from registered Democrat voters in a Delegate District (DD), which is a combination of two New Jersey Legislative Districts (LD). Our Delegate District is 19, which encompasses LDs 37 and 38. You sign one petition for all of the Bernie delegates in the DD, which in our case is 4 people.
Clever, informative and interactive election results by The Guardian
Hillary’s BFFs Wasserman-Schultz & Rahm Emanuel: called out by Moyers for persecuting the working poor
Debbie Wasserman Schultz … embodies the tactics that have eroded the ability of Democrats to once again be the party of the working class. As Democratic National Committee chair she has opened the floodgates for Big Money, brought lobbyists into the inner circle and oiled all the moving parts of the revolving door that twirls between government service and cushy jobs in the world of corporate influence.
Syrian refugees have support and assistance from the last place we expected: Israel and Jews
From Aboud Dandachi, the founder of thankYouAmIsrael.com:
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that”. For Syrian refugees, these are very dark days indeed. Driven from their country by a brutal war fueled by regional and sectarian ambitions, displaced Syrians find themselves thrown into a world where the environment has over the past year become increasingly hostile towards refugees and asylum seekers.
But while wars and conflicts tend to bring out the very worst in human beings, dark days such as these have also given rise to amazing acts of compassion and humanity. Turned away from Arab countries, increasingly unwelcome in Europe, Syrian refugees have found support, aid and assistance from the last place they could have expected; Israeli and Jewish organizations and individuals.
Purim Megillah readings in North Jersey 2016
Purim sameach! Book of Esther Megillah readings for Northern New Jersey, Purim 2016:
Megillah Readings Wednesday night 23 March 2016
| 7:20pm | Arzei Darom, Teaneck | |
| 7:40pm | Anshei Lubavitch, Fair Lawn | |
| 7:40pm | Teaneck Jewish Center – Pressburger | Regular Megillah Reading |
| 7:40pm | Teaneck Jewish Center – Library | Quiet Megillah Reading |
| 7:50pm | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 8:00pm | Zichron Mordechai | |
| 8:00pm | Zichron Mordechai | |
| 8:15pm | Teaneck Women’s Tefillah | |
| 9:00pm | Arzei Darom, Teaneck | |
| 9:15pm | Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn | |
| 9:30pm | Keter Torah, Teaneck | |
| Bnai Yeshurun | ||
| 9:45pm | Beth Aaron, Teaneck | |
| 9:45pm | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 10:00pm | Anshei Lubavitch, Fair Lawn |
Megillah Readings Thursday, 24 March 2016
| 5:55am | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 6:40am | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 7:30am | Teaneck Jewish Center | |
| 8:10am | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 8:30am | Anshei Lubavitch, Fair Lawn | |
| 9:25am | Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn | |
| 9:45am | Paterson Federation Building (and special event*) | Contact JerrySchranz@gmail.com |
| 11:00am | Teaneck Jewish Center – Women’s Reading in Stein | Contact Judi Resnick |
| 2:00pm | Anshei Lubavitch, Fair Lawn |
Shuls/Reading Locations
Teaneck Women’s Tefillah: 595 Wyndham Road, Teaneck.
More Megillah readings and special Purim events
- Chabad Megillah Readings list
- Paterson Federation Building Megillah Reading and Light Breakfast
Learn more about the last of the Jews of Paterson and enjoy a light breakfast/seudah with these seniors, so come with costume, come with ruach! Parking is available on the street and just across the street at Rosa Parks School (former Yavneh Academy)
Truly scathing excerpts from NYT writer’s article on Cory Booker, circus barker
Cory A. Booker talks of his adopted city of Newark as if it were his very own Wild West … This makes for excellent commencement speech fodder … But a recent state audit underlines that the former mayor might have paid more attention to the prosaic business of running his city. Instead of shoveling driveways — he loved on snowy days to run about Newark with his shovel — he could have attended a meeting, just one, of his Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation.
New White House #DiaperGap program will cover every baby’s bottom!
This may sound way out there but I can totally relate to the difficulty 1 in 3 families have with the expense of diapering their babies, because I had it too when my kids were diaper age – a couple of decades ago. Tomorrow at SXSW, President Obama will announce the new ublic-private-donation partnership the White House is brokering called The Community Diaper Program, which is designed to bring a comfy diaper to every baby’s bottom.
The combination of these efforts created the Community Diaper Program, launching today, and available to any 501(c)(3) organization in the United States. Now, any non-profit (whether or not they currently provide diapers to families they serve) will able to purchase diapers as much as 25 percent cheaper than the current available price, with no minimum order and 48 hour shipping. This process addresses head on the storage and timing challenges expressed by non-profits in the field. The National Diaper Bank Network, which nationwide operates over 280 diaper banks (similar to food banks), estimates that their members will order more than 15 million diapers through this program in 2016 alone. Best of all, the Community Diaper Program is sustainable, fiscally and organizationally, and will continue to benefit families for years to come…