A young student was in my office a few weeks ago, complaining about God.
Not a problem.
It seems he was having a hard time getting motivated for belief, given his own prevalent disbelief.
“What troubles you?” I asked.
“I don’t believe the Exodus,” he said, bored.
“If you mean that God parted the Red […]
Yesterday we went to see the Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum which is on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Ever the overly pedantic parent, I do recall receiving a major set of eye rolls upon explaining that the Assyrians were among the ancient kingdoms which wreaked havoc on […]
It’s been so hard to write lately, mostly as the result of all the deaths in the community these last few weeks. While I love to write and find the solitude of the experience of reflection to be a source of great personal comfort, I’ve needed all my strength for others.
Wednesday, before leaving town […]
Brooklyn’s ever-changing face.
Williamsburg.
We do tend to get a little hysterical sometimes.
The O and the MOT.
In a sign that although millions in America can feel great about having turned a new page in our history, certain sick expressions of American Exceptionalism remain. Like: We do love our guns.
This is just one example of articles that have popped up in recent days about gun-owners’ fears of what a Democratic […]
The second annual Indie Minyan conference was held at Brandeis recently and the JTA has logged this story.
Since CBE hosts Altshul, it’s worth a look to see the ways that academicians and practitioners are attempting to understand this growing phenomenon in American Jewish spiritual life.
Ben Dreyfus adds to the Jewish blog world a rolling liberal version of the Daf Yomi (or Page-a-Day Talmud study) known as Sefer Bloggadah, a daily study of the great collection of classic rabbinical midrash known as the Book of Legends, compiled by the Hebraists Bialik and Ravnitzky.
Enjoy.
If you have to be buried six feet down, today was the day to do it.
The sun was perfectly bright, especially reflecting the spectacular oranges and yellows of late Autumn; the grass was dark green and well watered but not wet, almost proudly showing itself off one more time before hibernating for a long Winter; […]
Factory closings, reverberations across the country, food pantries low–times are tough and getting tougher.
As one small synagogue community in a sea of communities across the country, we need to be thinking in concrete terms about what we should be doing to provide the help we can in the months ahead.
With a new President in the […]