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If one is unprotected: a prayer for DC and beyond

If one is unprotected: a prayer for DC and beyond

We are never truly safe, if one is unprotected. Amid sources of division, keep us mindful of interconnectedness, collective responsibility and strength.

Psalms for Contemplation

Psalms for Contemplation

Excited to share news of Psalms for Contemplation, selections translated by Max Ticktin (z”l).

Doubled Sacred Space

Doubled Sacred Space

Conflict around sacred visions of public space are unfolding today in the U.S. capital.

Resources for Neighbors Together

Tools for Anti-Racism — PDFs for “Neighbors Together in Faith and Justice” anyone is welcome to these, but they’re meant for this program.

Rambam, Octavia Butler, and Atonement

“Letter from Octavia Butler to Rabbi Moses Maimonides” with some Yom Kippur notes.

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

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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

Bridging Differences Across Faith and Race: Hill Havurah and Mount Moriah

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

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

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.”

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    September 7, 2018
  • Malcolm X and The Power of Small Things

    May 19, 2017
  • Maybe: Janis Joplin, the Chantels, and Jonah

    October 1, 2014
  • Worm-Hole Aliens, the Mikveh, and the Akeda

    October 31, 2008

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