Selected Posts
Is Our Blood Redder? Synagogue Security and Police Alliance
Some Say 400 Cubits: Slow Dancing with Talmud
Coalition and Redemption
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
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 […]
