Shefa Gold, a prominent rabbi in the Renewal movement, was in Pittsburgh this weekend. I went to the Shabbat morning service that she led. It was...different.
I went to the Renewal movement's national kallah a few years ago, and ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since the kallah ended and there are things I'd meant to have written about by now. Well, better late than never.
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I attended a variety of services at the kallah (though I did not manage all three each day due to schedule complications). Here are some thoughts on some of them.
Shabbat morning had about six different options. I went to the service ( Read more... )

I am home from the kallah. Short version: I had some very good experiences and some "educational" ones (now I know some things are not for me), met some nice people, heard some good music, and was surprised by the strength of the anti-intellectual vibe. I'm glad I went; I'm not sure I'll go again ( Read more... )

I just came from an interesting demonstration called a "cosmic walk". (People who were at NHC last year might have seen this there. I saw only its after-effects then ( Read more... )

I won't be leading shacharit tomorrow, so no daf bit, but instead I'll share a few short notes from some recent unusual-to-me services ( Read more... )

My rabbi is currently in Jerusalem, so I was asked to lead the torah study ( Read more... )

This is nothing new, but in recent months I have become more attuned ( Read more... )

Having completed the first pass at digitizing or replacing our folk music on old media (we still need to do some proof-listening), Dani and I are merging our iTunes libraries so this might be easier going forward. Oof. We're up to "S" so far. "T" is big because it includes all the "The"s. Tracking changes (e.g. to tagging) going forward is ( Read more... )

LJ tags are spiffy but not as fully-featured as I'd like, and I probably haven't figured out the best way to use them yet. So this entry is something of a cross-reference; if you got here via one of the tags on this entry you might also be interested in some of the others. I'll try to update this entry over time, and eventually will create ( Read more... )