Kesher Talk

What kind of Jew are you? Gavriel Aryeh Sanders has the best answer yet to the superficiality and willful ignorance of "making a career out of my mid-life crisis" Douglas Rushkoff.

I haven't read Rushkoff's book, just some interviews. But based on those, he seems to have invented a meme ("open-source Judaism") and is riding it for all it's worth, but his complaints aren't new, and his "solutions" have been part of normative Judaism since at least the rabbinic period. If the Jewish community didn't get itself so easily worked up over every demographic bump in the road, nobody would pay any attention to this guy.

UPDATE: Protocols is hosting an online discussion of Rushkoff's ideas, and the author has already commented. (Permalinks hosed - scroll to "Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Alright, it's time to get started on our Rushkoff discussion.")

posted by Judith @ 6/23/2003 03:00:25 PM