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Singing and Praying about Enemies

Singing and Praying about Enemies

Musical context is shifting my perspective on “enemies” and “wicked ones” in the psalms.

Miriam, Amalek, Memory, and Mouths

Miriam, Amalek, Memory, and Mouths

How much do we lose, and what do we gain, when we forget to remember why we chose to remember or forget? What must remembered with our mouths and with our hearts?

Remedy of the Bima?

Remedy of the Bima?

What is our responsibility, individually and collectively, for what is taught — or not — in our synagogues about reparations?

Or Olam: the light ahead and within

Or Olam: the light ahead and within

Seeking pieces of liturgy and other resources for uplift, as we try to move from the depths of Av to the new year, “Eternal Light”….

Hallelu Avdei Adonai

Hallelu Avdei Adonai

A captioned/subtitled video of “Hallelu Avdei Adonai,” from Kaplan & Ziegler’s “Tuning the Soul.”

Selected Posts

  • Remedy of the Bima?
  • Eicha for my city and others, 5781
  • If one is unprotected: a prayer for DC and beyond
  • The Scouting Challenge: Facing Race
  • Jews: Ditch “stay safe and healthy”
  • The Day Clears Away: Daf Yomi #1
  • Three Prophets, Three Crises, Three Cries
  • How Does the Faithful City Harbor Murderers?!
  • Is Our Blood Redder? Synagogue Security and Police Alliance
  • Some Say 400 Cubits: Slow Dancing with Talmud
  • Lament for Mismatched Glassware
  • Toward a Jewish Bible Reader’s Self-Inventory

Rereading & Rethinking Exodus

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Gathering Sources: Weekly Torah Portion

For materials relating to a weekly Torah portion, look for “Gathering Sources” (works for all but a few).

On Modern Poetry

  • Descending Up and a Rambling Prayer

    February 11, 2019
  • 1

    Lake Michigan as Hebrew Landscape

    January 14, 2019
  • 1

    Hebrew Poetry: Idiosyncratic Resources

    January 2, 2019

Journalism, Essays, Etc: Virginia Avniel Spatz

Pandemics and Economics in History #12

Free African Society in 18th Century Philadelphia Yellow Fever outbreak. Mutual Aid Networks in Covid-19.

Pandemics and Economics in History #11

Responses to yellow fever outbreaks resulted in innovation and controversy and were influenced by many differences in philosophy.

Pandemics and Economics in History #10

We are writing history, and we need to understand the basic plotline and act accordingly. What we do now could mean the difference between survival and more death for many.

Pandemics and Economics in History #9

“Amateur in Econ-Land: Is the Intersection with Race Near Here?” Previous podcasts in this series have primarily used the kind of third-person voice that gathers material from several sources and reports those in a style suggesting journalistic or academic objectivity. I have confessed in previous episodes that I’m not a historian or economist and that […]

Pandemics and Economics #8

“Open Windows in Winter: Bug or Feature?” Like buildings with radiators located directly underneath windows, real estate landscapes in cities may look haphazard but reflect our historical values.

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