July 10, 2006

That Wikipedia Jewdas entry in full

Well almost. There'll be some broken links but this is just about the best I can do to replicate the Wikipedia page for Jewdas:

Jewdas


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Jewdas is a radical Jewish diaspora group based in London, although many of the founder members trace their roots back to Jewish communities in Iceland and other Scandinavian countries. It has a successful satirical/communal website and stages Jewish events in London and around.

It embraces, hemische, brick lane bagel, radical torah and Jewish hipsterism among other streams of Jewish Culture. As such it has an ongoing collaboration with Heeb magazine

As a secretive organisation based upon anarchistic lines, it is a quasi-political organisation standing both inside and outside of the political spectrum. While not having an explicit view about Jewish identity, religion, the role of women in Judaism, zionism, personhood and other such topics it nevertheless clearly interacts with and examines such issues.

It has been questioned whether it seeks to play upon the traditional insider/outsider dichotomy of Jewish identity or whether it seeks to overcome such dichotomies which has traditionally been seen as an inelianable part of Jewish experience.

Its first event was held at rampART Social Center in London's East End the traditional home of London's immigrant Jewish community, a free (albeit accepted donation)Purim party on Saturday 18th of March, which was open to anyone of any ethnic or religious background, was attended by in excess of 600 people and was covered by the national press.

See also


Jewish anarchism


External links


http://www.jewdas.org (the main website)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1734752,00.html (Article in the national Press)
http://www.heebmagazine.com/
http://www.chabad.org/

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