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Descending Up and a Rambling Prayer

Descending Up and a Rambling Prayer

Annabelle Farmelant’s poems, “Flowers of Identity” and “Skyscraper” are just two reasons to explore her work and that of Adriana X. Jacobs, translator and biographer of sorts.

Gathering Sources: Tetzaveh

Gathering Sources: Tetzaveh

Some material for exploring the weekly Torah portion, Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10)

Gathering Sources: Terumah

Gathering Sources: Terumah

first in series “gathering sources” from previous material on the weekly Torah portion.

The wingCatz of Terumah

The wingCatz of Terumah

When does religious imagery — like the cherubim atop the Ark — work for us? and what do we do when it doesn’t? Thoughts on this week’s Torah portion and beyond.

Shabbat Mishpatim: One Woman’s Conclusion

Shabbat Mishpatim: One Woman’s Conclusion

“Aaron suggested looking for Moses, who’d disappeared by then, but Miriam and I agreed — a rare event in our acquaintance…”

Selected Posts

  • Ishmael, Isaac, and a Reunion of Cousins
  • Lament for Mismatched Glassware
  • Toward a Jewish Bible Reader’s Self-Inventory
  • Dick Gregory and Rabbis Under Rome
  • Exploring Babylon: Intro
  • MiShebeirach for Circles of Pain
  • Maintaining Self and Struggle
  • Map Your Heart Out, part 1
  • Teapots in Babylon
  • Tefillin Barbie Tries a New Siddur

Gathering Sources: Weekly Torah Portion

Weekly posts “Gathering Sources” on the Torah portion. (On-going 2019, beginning with Terumah)

Thirty on Psalm 30

Recent series on Psalm 30.

On Modern Poetry

  • Descending Up and a Rambling Prayer

    February 11, 2019
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    Lake Michigan as Hebrew Landscape

    January 14, 2019
  • Hebrew Poetry: Idiosyncratic Resources

    January 2, 2019

Journalism, Essays, Etc: Virginia Avniel Spatz

Imagine Them Grown

Imagine Them Grown

Dawoud Bey offers one way to visual what a community loses in the death of its young people. Sans artwork, we can still imagine the grown people we will be missing due to violent deaths of our youth.

#TacoTruckTerry and the Spatula Threat: Murphy Brown, Privilege, and Police

#TacoTruckTerry and the Spatula Threat: Murphy Brown, Privilege, and Police

Murphy Brown’s Thanksgiving episode, however inadvertently, vividly illustrates crucial lessons about police and privilege….

Opportunity for Deanwood Venture…

Opportunity for Deanwood Venture…

“The place looks like a ghost town now,” one Deanwood resident says. “But those few bottles left on the shelves don’t tell the whole story.”

Last Breaths Demand

Last Breaths Demand

Final breaths from every Tricia who planted seeds for all to enjoy, from every Moe who sought to stop retaliations,…

Community Backbone

Community Backbone

“This is a healing model for us as a community,” said April Goggans, looking out on a candle-lit circle of community members outside Marbury Plaza on November 1. The vigil marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Alonzo (Zo) Fiero Smith, age 27, who died following an encounter with special police officers (SPOs) at […]

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