User:Mobius1ski
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Mobius1ski, aka Dan Sieradski, is the founder of Matzat (http://www.matzat.org.il), a non-profit organization which serves as an umbrella for several projects concerning the cause of progressive Judaism.
One such project is Jewschool.com, an award-winning Jewish weblog with a monthly readership of 45,000. Jewschool earned repute in 2003 when it led a Google_bomb campaign to usurp an antisemitic website from its top ranking when searching for the word "Jew". It was eventually replaced, thanks to the Jewish bloggers who participated in "The Jooglebomb", with the Wikipedia entry Jew, as was Sieradski's suggestion.
Other projects facilitated by Matzat include The Open Source Judaism Project (see Open_source_religion), which was created by Douglas_Rushkoff as a real-world manifestation of the ideas put forth in his book Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism. The project's goal is to promote religious pluralism within the Jewish community. In addition, Matzat also coordinates Corner Prophets, a Jerusalem hip-hop collective which seeks to encourage dialogue between the divergent cultural communities of Jerusalem by uniting them around a shared interest in hip-hop culture.
As a graphic designer, Sieradki was responsible for the creation of the Metrocard logo used by the RNC Not Welcome coalition during the mobilization against the Republican National Convention in New York. The image appeared in various publications including New York and Rolling Stone magazines, as well as the website of filmmaker Michael Moore. Sieradski is also freelance web developer (boasting such clients as counterculture gurus R._U._Sirius and Genesis_P._Orridge, as well as popular Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu). He is, additionally, a journalist, noted for his contributions to Lifestyles and Jewsweek magazines. He has also written for The Jerusalem Post and Paper magazine. He publishes his own weblog, http://www.orthodoxanarchist.com, content of which is featured in a course syllabus on Jewish secularism at the University of Albany.
Sieradski has lectured on the subjects of Judaism, journalism and technology at New York University and The Carriage House, and will appear on a panel regarding Judaism and technology at the University of Toronto in October.
