My latest blogging venture

I’ve started a new blog. Not that I plan to neglect this one, but I had a great idea for a new blog.
It’s called Bein Adam laMakom: Jews at Prayer and the Places they Pray. It’s about Jews. And the places they pray. Hence the name. Check it out here and submit your photos!

Identifying low-hanging mitzvot to increase observance

A fantastic post over at Three Jews, Four Opinions about increasing observance among Reform and Conservative Jews. The whole post is great, but it’s money quote, for me, is this:
Fifty years ago and earlier, these movements could operate with what I will call subtractive Judaism. They could take the existing set of traditional beliefs and decide [...]

Further cognitive dissonance in Mishkan T’filah

I apologize for the radio silence of this blog of late. I don’t really know what’s going on with it. I’m still writing from time to time at Jewschool.com, which is a much better blog than this anyway. So go read Jewschool.
Anyway, I’m at home for a week or so before heading back up north. [...]

Shabos Zmiros – Ner Dolek from fem-ortho-rapper Rinat Guttman

Crossposted to Jewschool.
The title speaks for itself. More about her at Mattue Roth’s jblog.

Shabat Shalom. Amen. Selah.