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Over the last few days there’s been a flurry of activity on the ROI120 listserve (ably set up by Aryeh Goldsmith, so todah to Aryeh) about ways to support Israel, both here (I write from Jerusalem) and from abroad.
Gabriel Weitz, our ROI 120 frien...
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Folks — This is the first time I have ever entered cyberspace to participate on a blog so please excuse and violations of blogosphere language, protocol or etiquette. It is scary enough for someone my age to be venturing out into new areas for t...
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You were there, and we’ve got pictures to prove it. For more photos of ROI 120, click below or go to Flickr.com and search for tag “ROI120″–and if you’ve got photos, tag them so we can find them, okay?...
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As the ROIniks refuse to go gently into that good diaspora, they’ve been peppering the town with culture and frolicking: from Shabbat dinners at the Inbal Hotel to lunches on chateau verandas and in the verdant Liberty Bell Park (newly named...
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The Six Points Fellowship supports individual artists in the New York area who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme or element. We believe that creative expression is essential to Jewish community, identity, and meaning and the Si...
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So, in the manner of best-laid technology plans going awry, the conference is over and now (yes, now) the blog is back. The posts from the conference that appear here are mirrored over at Jewlicious and have garnered some comments, so if you’d like ...
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They came from all over–the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Hungary, India, and many other places–to congregate at the premiere ROI 120 conference, currently underway in J-town. More posts undoubtedly to com...
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The ROI120 Conference is in (almost) full swing. It started for me on Saturday night when Lynn Schusterman hosted a dinner at one of the local trendy restos in my otherwise blue collar Machaneh Yehuda Market neighbourhood. At the dinner were ass...
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Theory:
ROI 120 is a secret project of the Israeli government designed to siphon the energy of creative Jewish innovators to power the country and replace solar powered energy mechanisms.
Evidence:
120 leaders from all over the world assemble ...
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In Gil Troy’s lecture–still going on as I type this–there was much conversation about contemporary expressions of Jewishness. Harvard Hillel Rabbi Avi Poupko challenged us to create positive statements about why we’re Jew...
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As Esther noted, at ROI120 we had a rollicking session led by McGill University History Professor Gil Troy. The discussion centered around issues of why be a Jew and what does being a Jew mean. The conversation that ensued was very reminiscent o...
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Welcome to the official ROI120 blog....
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One of the guiding themes of the ROI120 Conference is the notion of Projects & Priorities. In any such discussion, the issue of Jewish demographics has to be taken into account. In that respect, we’d like to offer you a brief presentatio...
