Daniel Sieradski
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| Born | June 19, 1979 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Web strategist, writer and activist |
Daniel Jonathan Sieradski (born June 19, 1979) is an American writer and activist. He was the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Jewschool, a popular left-wing Jewish weblog, as well as the weblogs Radical Torah and Orthodox Anarchist. He is also the creator of the defunct synagogue listings and reviews website ShulShopper. In the Fall of 2011, Sieradski organized a Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service at Occupy Wall Street that drew around 1,000 participants, and erected a sukkah, the first structure in Zuccotti Park the police allowed to remain standing.
In 2001, Sieradski, founded Jewschool, which was called "influential" by Cnet. Sieradski has also worked as a web designer and digital strategist with several Jewish organizations, including the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Repair the World.
In 2004, Sieradski organized a so-called googlebomb, an attempt at manipulating Google's search rankings. Responding to outrage over the placement of an antisemitic website atop the results on Google's search for the term "Jew" and a call for Google to censor its search results led by , Sieradski organized a campaign which replaced the site Jew Watch with 's entry on Jews.
Sieradski organized hip-hop concerts with Israeli and Palestinian rappers, with a project called Corner Prophets, with the stated intention of promoting peace and coexistence through the arts. He has also been a DJ on the jointly-operated Israeli-Palestinian FM radio station All For Peace which broadcasts from Ramallah.
In August 2006, Sieradski and two fellow yeshiva students organized a benefit concert in Jerusalem attended by 80 people, that raised more than NIS4,500 or around $1,000, for Israeli and Lebanese victims of that summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah. In January 2009, Sieradski led a similar effort to express empathy for victims on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Responding to the renewed violence in Gaza, he organized a demonstration in New York City, attended by fewer than 50 people, condemning both Israel's and Hamas's attacks on civilians.
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