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About Me

"Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the people of Israel, the jewel in the crown of the land of Israel, and all that, but to move anything here you need an American or two, and Dan Sieradski moves things like a rocket powered bulldozer." -- Kol HaIr
A "fresh faced iconoclast...redefining American Judaism." -- B'nai B'rith Magazine
"Fast becoming one of the most recognized Jewish literary voices on the Internet." -- Tikkun Magazine
"Young men with pasts like Dan Sieradski's usually end up unaffiliated, uninterested Jews, who disdain the faith in which they were raised. But Sieradski...has become a leader in a Jewish movement that is trying to a create a new image for Judaism to project to its youth." -- The Jewish Standard
"An event promoter, organizer and professional webmaster, he maintains a dizzying array of popular websites and blogs, most of them devoted to new Jewish thought and paradigms." -- The Jerusalem Post
Matzat | Jew School | Radical Torah | ShulShopper | Open Source Haggadah | Corner Prophets

My Interests

the internets, turntablism, ahimsa jihad, wordplay, burnin' (of various kinds), entheogens, counterculture, jews, judaism, chassidus, israel, anarchy, anarchism

I'd like to meet:

Spiritual anarchists. Traditionalists radically opposed to tradition. Queer hasidim and tzenuah feminists, Orthodox maskilim and secular hareidim, anti-Zionist Zionists and diaspora enthusiasts longing for geulah, talmud chochams who dont believe in God and athiests who want to throw rocks at cars on Shabbos. Jewish American Princesses who have renounced their thrones and joined the resistance in the streets. Neohasidic Patty Hearsts. Jewjihadeen.

Music:

beck, james brown, ghostface, amy winehouse, bjork, gnarls barkley, johnny cash, mf doom, dufus, amon tobin, pink floyd, rza, beirut, grateful dead, sufjan stevens, nirvana, mmw, seu jorge, fiona apple, tom waits, stereolab, kimya dawson, king tubby, misfits, !!!, david bowie, kool keith, dj shadow, boban markovic, jeffrey lewis

Movies:

art school confidential, drugstore cowboy, naked lunch, waking life, pi, requiem for a dream, full metal jacket, the shining, a clockwork orange, last temptation of christ, fear & loathing in las vegas, lost in la mancha, the life of brian, the big lebowski, hudsucker proxy, fight club, down by law, dead man, night on earth, dancer in the dark, scratch, return of the jedi, orgazmo, sonic outlaws, tribulation 99, maybe logic, breaking the spell, bill hicks revelations, being john malkovich, first blood

Television:

aqua teen hunger force, frisky dingo, daily show, chapelle's show, the simpsons, family guy, south park, samurai jack

Books:

temporary autonomous zone, immediatism, fragments of an anarchist anthropology, days of war nights of love, anarchy in the age of dinosaurs, cosmic trigger, the politics of ecstasy, the revolution of everyday life, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, counterculture through the ages, fear and loathing in las vegas, ginsberg's collected poems 1947-1980

Heroes:

gandhi, martin luther king jr., the dalai lama, malcolm x, muhammad ali, emma goldman, reb simcha bunim of przysucha, rav abraham isaac kook, rabbi abraham joshua heschel, allen ginsberg, robert anton wilson, terence mckenna