(Photo credit: Maggie Semple Blog) Here it comes, the holidays! The time that songs tell us is “the happiest time of the year.” Which raises the question, what makes us happy? American capitalist culture has a perpetual campaign to answer that question with THINGS! Things will make you happy! Cars, electronics, toys, whatever they are…
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With all the hype about Thanksgiving and Hanukkah overlapping I decided to try making a pumpkin challah. I was a bit suspicious since I love pumpkin and wasn’t sure it would be good as bread. But boy was I wrong! IT IS DELICIOUS! Here’s the recipe – as I modified it to be a better…
Read More »My daughter, a math – science person, loves this one-liner, “Have you heard about the statistician that drowned while crossing a river with an average depth of 4 feet?” Get it? Numbers can mess with us. Conrad Hackett (Honestly, doesn’t he look like that bad guy on Lost?) Right now (Nov 2013) we are living…
Read More »Discussion Series for Interfaith/Intercultural Couples Interfaith couples get it – this is going to take some discussion, some compromise. But what exactly is ‘fair’? Can each of us get what we want and that will be OK for our kids? Then there’s our parents, grandparents, and siblings – how do we get them on board…
Read More »Jerusalem skyline Robinson’s Arch, south of the plaza A view of the plaza and the wall In the shuk Cafe in the Old City – great shawarma! Jerusalem Street An IDF soldier back to back with a Hasidic teen on the light rail Baklava booth in the shuk
Read More »I just spent 10 days in Jerusalem to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Women of the Wall. Hundreds of women prayed at the Western Wall together. The cantors were put up on chairs so that they could be heard by all the women and lead the singing and chanting. The plaza was filled with elation.
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