Kesher Talk

Turning my midlife crisis into a second career Dept. Doug Rushkoff continues to make friends and influence people: By someone who had no negative preconceptions about the book before reading it and is now searching for her receipt: Best. Rushkoff. Fisking. Ever.

Rushkoff gains yet another fan: I was talking to someone at Rosh Hashanah services who had also attended the Lishmah "day of learning" 2 weeks before, where Rushkoff was one of about a hundred speakers and teachers. She started describing a panel she had attended with 3 congregational rabbis and "some really annoying guy, Rush something . . . ."

"Doug Rushkoff," I said.

"Yes! What an obnoxious, condescending . . . " And she was off and running. Same reaction, same criticisms. This woman converted very recently. She doesn't know Jewish theology, history, contemporary American Judaism, or the NYC community in particular, all that well. She had never heard of him before. But just from his comments on one panel he pissed her off enough for her to rant about him.

posted by Judith @ 10/14/2003 02:29:41 PM