How the Internet Made Impossible an Internal Debate (And Why it’s a Bad Idea...
Written by me for Amienu.net. Posted here. As Ami Isseroff schooled me recently, internal dissent is internal and not for sharing. We only contribute to the destroyers of Israel by making public our...
View ArticleA Blogger’s “Al Chet”
(The Al Chet prayer is a litany of offenses read during the Yom Kippur services. It has become common for people to customize the prayer to express their own sins and repentance. This is mine.) Through...
View ArticleTefillah punctuation experiments: the Shma
The Torah scroll contains no punctuation marks, not even periods. There are no lower case letters. Or are there no capital letters? Ostensibly, the entire Five Books of Moses is one single sentence. A...
View ArticleDefinitions of social justice
Gleaned from comments I left on a Jewschool post explaining my terms and rationale for service. “Social justice” is a state of right relationships between all — right relationships between...
View ArticleA Hanukah message I can embrace
There are too many trite Hanukah messages out there these days. Watching the smug, kitschy and simplistic children’s story of Jews kicking ass in The Maccabeats’ otherwise well-produced and catchy...
View ArticleRandom Tu Bishvat resources I’m using
Quick and dirty Tu Bishvat resources I found online: Jewish FundS for Justice seder, prepared by Rabbi Jill Jacobs Wikipedia entry on Yetzirah “New Year for the Trees,” a seder compiled by Rachel...
View ArticleTu Bishvat seder meditation on Yetzira
This exercise was inspired by an activity called “Star Cafe” led by Rabbi Yoni Gordis of the Center for Leadership Initiatives when I was a 2008 Kivun Fellow. Rabbi Yoni taught us to value the power of...
View ArticleMechon Hadar’s lecture series on religious Zionism
Mechon Hadar offered this three-part series “Redemptive Dreams, Stubborn Realities: The Past and Future of Religious Zionism” by Rabbi Shai Held, a thoughtful and progressive thinker that I greatly...
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The most ironic haggadot ever
I don’t know who this person is, I don’t know what inspired them to make such ironic haggadot entirely from scratch, or what the cover art relates to the inside content, but these haggadot totally win...
View ArticleBrief reflection on Tisha B’Av
On Tisha B’Av, today, I reflect how my people’s unique tragedies serve to unite with me all peoples who have suffered great tragedies throughout history. Whose people hasn’t encountered loss? These are...
View ArticleMy thoughts on Kol Nidre at Occupy Wall Street
You can find them on Jewschool. Also, you should follow Jewschool on Facebook.
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The most ironic haggadot ever
I don’t know who this person is, I don’t know what inspired them to make such ironic haggadot entirely from scratch, or what the cover art relates to the inside content, but these haggadot totally win...
View ArticleBrief reflection on Tisha B’Av
On Tisha B’Av, today, I reflect how my people’s unique tragedies serve to unite with me all peoples who have suffered great tragedies throughout history. Whose people hasn’t encountered loss? These are...
View ArticleMy thoughts on Kol Nidre at Occupy Wall Street
You can find them on Jewschool.— Also, you should follow Jewschool on Facebook. The post My thoughts on Kol Nidre at Occupy Wall Street appeared first on Judaism Without Borders.
View ArticleRosh Hashana 2nd day dvar: Jewish Engagement for the Next Generation
Delivered at Congregation Beth Shalom as one of four Generation X and— Millennial— guest speakers to share from their personal experiences of Jewish engagement and their visions for Jewish— community...
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