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
Gathering Sources: Weekly Torah Portion
Weekly posts “Gathering Sources” on the Torah portion. (On-going 2019, beginning with Terumah)
Thirty on Psalm 30
Recent series on Psalm 30.
On Modern Poetry
Descending Up and a Rambling Prayer
February 11, 2019- 1
Lake Michigan as Hebrew Landscape
January 14, 2019 Hebrew Poetry: Idiosyncratic Resources
January 2, 2019
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 […]