Look up in the sky and you’ll see a sliver of moon, the month of Elul, the last month on the Hebrew calendar for the Jewish year 5767.
As you reflect on the year that was and think about the year that will be, read these words from Ryszard Kapusinski’s Travels with Herodotus:
“Every human being has […]
Two new program ideas that are coming in the Fall.
One, to keep a community meal on Friday nights but to put it AFTER services, not before, and to make it a catered meal. The idea here is to provide a space for prayer and reflection followed by a good meal and singing in community. […]
Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful responses to the question of Reform Worship.
It has laid the groundwork for a really important discussion that I’d like to keep having, with your permission.
I think most fundamentally, one of the shifts that is taking place in an age when more and more programs over the past several decades […]
Never a dull moment in a Reform Movement that is proud of its legacy of bringing change and innovation to worship.
So it goes in Debra Nussbaum Cohen’s piece in this week’s Jewish Week about a debate that took place at Kutz Camp this summer with teens and worship.
Not fond of the jazzy electric piano, a […]
There is a piece in the Richard Serra show at the MOMA called “Delineator.”
It’s on the 6th floor gallery, so make sure, when you go there, to see all three exhibit spaces, including this floor.
Delineator is a two-piece installation, flat sheet steel, treated as Serra’s pieces usually are.
But unlike the others in the show which […]
Today the Chinese government put on a big fireworks show to celebrate the countdown to one year until the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Meanwhile, Haaretz carries the story of a Sudanese man, bound and beaten to death found in the Sinai desert, a refugee from Darfur who sought sanctuary in Israel after being smuggled across the […]
CBE member Sophie and her band Care Bears on Fire will be on NPR’s Soundcheck this Thursday from 2-3 pm–so give a listen.
Also, CBE member Seth Kushner is in a great new art show, Brooklynites, going up in September at the Powerhouse Arena.
One of the tasks I attend to each month is signing Kaddish letters.
They are reminders that go out to members who share with our office the names and dates of those beloved individuals that people remember and mourn each year at their yahrzeit.
I sign dozens at a time, generated by a computer program which retrieves […]
CBE Member Ed Bleiberg is interviewed in today’s Times about Demetrios, the two-thousand year old mummy in the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian collection.
Demetrios was taken for a CAT-scan, a first presumably for North Shore University Hospital, in order to help researchers better understand Egyptian burial practices.
In the Torah’s only reference to embalming practices, no less a […]
Our favorite radio station this time in Israel was 88 FM, which played for us a perfect combination of American and Israeli music, though to my tastes, a little too much of that Classic Rock era (I’ve never forgotten Maureen Dowd’s quip on Classic Rock–worth googling.)
Anyway, listening to the radio one morning move seamlessly from […]