From the mind of a seven year old.
“I looked at a screw. And I asked myself, where does a screw come from? And I said that a screw comes from metal. And I said to myself, where does the metal come from? And I said that the metal comes from the […]
Michele Jaslow, a great person (I’m biased–she designed the Brooklyn Jews site along with this blog) has curated a show at the Brooklyn Artists Gym which you should check out.
Here’s the info:
BAG GALLERY SMALL WORKS SHOW
Second annual group show of work 12 x 12 or smaller.
gallery show dates: March 31 to April 15, 2007
opening reception: […]
The last few summers when I’ve taught at Kutz Camp, I’ve used a page or two from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in an attempt to teach one core belief on social action that I learned from the book: some of the most significant change comes from organizing locally. The lesson resonates for […]
Nothing like waking up in a hotel room in Virginia with Jimmy Swaggert singing into three-quarters empty pews on his Sunday morning pre-Easter mash-up. “Satan’s not tough enough for Jesus, thank the Lord,” or something like that. Fingers on the keyboard, healthy gut between the him and the piano, wearing one of those […]
from icasualties.org
Here are this week’s U.S. dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, which we have been reading as part of the Kaddish list at the end of services.
Seeing them listed like this puts everything in perspective.
03/22/07
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03/22/07
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03/21/07
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03/21/07
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03/21/07
Lightner, Nicholas J.
03/21/07
Griffin Jr., Darrell R.
03/21/07
Sams II, Joey T.
03/21/07
Lee, […]
JJ Goldberg’s Forward editorial this week has one excellent summary and charge to move “forward.”
Nathan Guttman covers the controversy.
American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris on Nicholas Kristof’s critique of Israel, as published by Harris in the Jerusalem Post.
Woe is me.
Or them.
Or me.
But not us. Definitely not us.
My tenth graders read S.Y. Agnon’s “Fable of the Goat,” a work of genius that should be required reading for understanding a mid-century Zionist critique of the Diaspora, longingly looking back on European Jewish life prior to the destruction of the Shoah and the triumph […]
Last night I held a reception for those who made donations to my Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund since July.
To date, I have given away approximately $11,000 to a variety of non-profit organizations which are doing really great work out there in the Jewish (mostly) and non-Jewish world.
In the interests of transparency, it was important for me […]
George Soros writes in the current issue of the New York Review of Books about the need for Israel to enter into negotiations with the new Palestinian unity government. He argues that despite the presence of Hamas in that government, direct talks represent a far better chance to achieve peace than the current Israeli […]
“You guys must be a real barrel of laughs during sex,” said my friend Fatty Rosenbloom. (It’s not his real name–I protect his identity–though he doesn’t deserve it–just something I’ve called him since I met him early in my career.
“Whattya work off a manual in bed? BORING!”
He had come to visit, to “see […]