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
On Psalm 30: Recent Series
“Spend the Night”
December 27, 2018I hope some of what I’ve shared has provided a “backstory” function for words and phrases of Psalm 30.
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Weeping Abides or Does it Lodge?
December 25, 2018“Joy comes in the morning” is probably the most often quoted phrase in Psalm 30. It’s part of a complex verse translated in disparate ways. Exploring these has made “yalin” a favorite word of mine…..
Locating Psalm 30, Redux
December 21, 2018Apropos of the ring of connection between Psalms 28-30, this painting offers an interesting link between “The God of glory thunders” (Psalm 29:3) and “Therefore, Glory will sing praise to You, and will not be silent” (Psalm 30:13).
Psalms Near 30
December 20, 2018“Three consecutive psalms may be connected to each other in a ring (a-b, b-c, c-a).” And Psalms 28-30 form this kind of ring: A>>B>>C>>A.
Journalism, Essays, Etc: Virginia Avniel Spatz
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
Murphy Brown’s Thanksgiving episode, however inadvertently, vividly illustrates crucial lessons about police and privilege….
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
Final breaths from every Tricia who planted seeds for all to enjoy, from every Moe who sought to stop retaliations,…
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 […]
