Daniel Sieradski

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Daniel Sieradski (b. June 19, 1979) is an artist, writer and activist "devoted to creating, promoting and documenting new forms of Jewish cultural expression."[1] He is the founding publisher and former editor-in-chief of Jew School, a popular left-wing Jewish weblog, as well as the weblogs Radical Torah and Orthodox Anarchist. In August 2007, he was named the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's director of digital media.

Sieradski was raised nominally Orthodox Jewish until the age of ten before his family secularized. He is a descendant of several esteemed hasidic rabbis including Reb Noson Dovid, the Partzover Rebbe; Reb Yitzhak Yaakov, the Bialer Rebbe; Reb Noson Dovid, the Shidlovtza Rebbe; Reb Yerachmiel of Przysucha; and the Yehudi HaKadosh, founder of the Przysucha hasidic movement. He has been a student and teacher of radical Jewish theology and is considered by some a vocal proponent of postdenominational Judaism.

As a web designer, Sieradski has "worked with the leading young Jewish cultural innovators as well as many well-established Jewish organizations in developing their Internet presence and strategies." [2] As the director of Matzat, an organization which specializes in web development and Internet marketing strategy for Jewish non-profit organizations, Sieradski oversees several projects including The Open Source Judaism Project, which attempts to actualize the ideas brought forth by media theorist Douglas Rushkoff in his book Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism.

He has developed websites for an array of artists and organizations including The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, JDub Records, the American Zionist Movement, Israel21C, NCSY, Matisyahu, R. U. Sirius, Genesis P-Orridge, and the High Times Cannabis Cup Band, among others. He has also written for Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Lifestyles, and Jewsweek, as well as several other Jewish publications. He is also the designer of Habitus, a twice-yearly published literary journal that thematically explores the concept of diaspora.

In 2004, Sieradski earned repute for organizing the so-called Jooglebomb, a legal attempt at hacking the Google search engine. Responding to outrage over the placement of an antisemitic website atop the results on Google's search for the term Jew, Sieradski, who goes by the online monicker Mobius, led a successful campaign which replaced the site Jew Watch with Wikipedia's entry on Jew.

Sieradski has been hailed as a "fresh faced iconoclast...redefining American Judaism" by B'nai B'rith Magazine, regarded as "one of the most recognized Jewish literary voices on the Internet" by Tikkun Magazine, and as "a leader in a Jewish movement that is trying to a create a new image for Judaism to project to its youth" by The Jewish Standard.

Sieradski lived in Jerusalem between 2004 and 2007 where he organized hip-hop concerts with Israeli and Palestinian rappers, under the umbrella of a project called Corner Prophets. He has also been a DJ on the jointly-operated Israeli-Palestinian FM radio station All For Peace in Jerusalem. In May 2007, he moved back the the United States where he accepted a position as JTA's director of digital media based in its New York headquarters.