Selected Posts
If one is unprotected: a prayer for DC and beyond
Climbing Toward Repair 5781
The Scouting Challenge: Facing Race
Jews: Ditch “stay safe and healthy”
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
Lament for Mismatched Glassware
Rereading & Rethinking Exodus
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 #8
Like buildings with radiators located directly underneath windows, real estate landscapes in cities may look haphazard but reflect our historical values.
Pandemics and Economics #7
Infection’s Legacies Remain Text version differs slightly from audio, with one paragraph omitted entirely (see below.) In addition to public parks, many aspects of architecture that we might take for granted were designed originally in response to public health needs: Balconies and terraces, living and commercial spaces designed to open unto the air, flat roof-tops […]
Pandemics and Economics in History #6
Using disease and fear to foment violence…for at least 700 years.
Pandemics and Economics in History #5
From 14th Century Europe to the US today, hate crimes accompany the spread of disease, whether leprosy, plague, or Covid-19.
Pandemics and Economics in History #4
Paganism and Christianity underwent big changes during and following the “Plague of Cyprian,” beginning in 249 CE.