SAY-A-BLESSING!

Um. So. Go here.
I need one of these desperately.
I can’t even deal with this.
Goodness gracious.

LONE STAR SIDUR PROJECT: G’ulah part II

 
As I noted earlier today, I have re-(but not totally)reversed my opinion on Miryam’s place in G’ulah. For the first part of this discussion, go here.
The idea proposed by Reconstructionist liturgy was compelling one, achieving what I would call a noble end, but the means, despite what I may have said a couple of weeks [...]

The blog’s new name, Limmud NY, sidurim

The semester here at Drew begins today. I have one class today at 1:15, Human Evolution. If I have to answer one more damn question from someone who assumes that because I am religious, I will be unable to tolerate this class, I will shit on them.
In my absence from this blog, I’ve been travelling [...]

So yes and yes

Limmud was good. I’m back at school now. I changed the name of the blog. More on all of the above later

LONE STAR SIDUR PROJECT: G’ulah

We in the progressive Jewish community tend to think of the section I’m writing about today as two separate prayers. We think about Mi Chamochah and we think about “that long thing before it that we don’t do.” Let me dispense with that and get to today’s meat quickly; there’s nothing objectionable in “that long [...]

Extraneous prayers–for our country, for our congregation, and for the State of Israel

I’ve been away sitting on my ass too intently to post these last days, but I’m back.
To review, though I now go to school in New Jersey, I’m currently back in my hometown of Austin, Texas. While here, I’m attending services every Shabat at CBI, the congregation I grew up at.
While I was away, the [...]