Selected Posts
Jews: Ditch “stay safe and healthy”
Vayikra, The Rona/COVID-19, and Mutual Aid
The Day Clears Away: Daf Yomi #1
Fugitive Slave Act and Deuteronomy
Three Prophets, Three Crises, Three Cries
Eicha for my city and maybe for yours
How Does the Faithful City Harbor Murderers?!
Is Our Blood Redder? Synagogue Security and Police Alliance
Some Say 400 Cubits: Slow Dancing with Talmud
Ishmael, Isaac, and a Reunion of Cousins
Lament for Mismatched Glassware
Toward a Jewish Bible Reader’s Self-Inventory
Rereading & Rethinking Exodus
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
Bridging Differences Across Faith and Race: Hill Havurah and Mount Moriah
Separated by just 14 city blocks, Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Hill Havurah are still quite distant in some ways. Their interfaith alliance both highlights and attempts to bridge their differences.
A Long-Ago Plea to My Neighbors
In 1992, there were 451 homicides in DC and hundreds of nonfatal shooting injuries. (vs 161 last year and 70+ as of June 2019.) My plea then: Live in your community, celebrate the life within it, and help all of your neighbors to thrive.
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.”
