Crossposted to Jewschool.
more about "Shabos Zmiros – Deleon on Godcast!", posted with vodpod
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This week’s Shabos Zmiros comes to us from Godcast, the weekly animated d’var torah. I guess it’s really less a song than it is a rambling musical narration of the parsha. But never has [...]
I’ve probably written about this before, but I just love it when the flip-flop line in G’vurot (Morid hatal in spring/summer and Mashiv haruach umorid hagashem) actually lines up with a chnage in the weather within a few days. We changed to Morid hatal last week with the coming of Pesach, and today is a [...]
I received a Facebook invitation to a “Feminist Seder” today. It’s being run by people I know and like, yet I’m highly suspicious. There is minimal, it seems, actualy involvement of real life Jews in planning this thing, which only compounds by skepticism.
If I go, I’ll probably be upset the whole time.
On the other hand, [...]
Crossposted to Jewschool.
Google Reader has delivered two new *ahem* midrashic projects into my life this week. On the less blaspehmous end, there is This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein’s new short story volume, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! and on the more blasphemous end, there is The Zombie Bible.
I’ll begin with Ladies and Gentlemen. This [...]
If you’re someone who reads anything in the jblogosphere, you already know about Birkat Hachamah-the blessing we say every 28 years when sun returns, according the Talmud’s goofball math, to the place in the sky where it was at the moment of its creation. You can read about it at Jewschool, Wikipedia, Mah Rabu, Dov [...]
A new album featuring some old words came out a week or two ago. It’s called “Shir HaShirim,” and it’s aptly name. The lyrics of the CD are the entirety of the biblical book of Shir HaShirim. The artists are Shemspeed favorites Diwon, Dugans, and Benyamin Brody.
Below, a few minutes of their arrangement of Shir [...]
The following e-mail arrived in my life via the iWorsphip e-mail list today.
Just wanted to let you all know that the CCAR is beginning a process which will culminate the publication of a new Machzor (High Holy Day prayer book) in several years. It will be modeled after Mishkan T’filah.
A zisen Pesach-a sweet Passover,
Sue Ann
Rabbi [...]
