Producing content on the Web since 1995.
some sayings of ר‘משבצונה“ל
For many years I have worked hard, and struggled with mastering virtuous. Now, in addition, I’m working on becoming more virtual.
This is an expression of that effort.
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השיבנו ה‘ אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו
כעוד לא היו
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ומביא גאלה…
לצאצאיהם All photographs are by Mark Hurvitz unless they are obviously not (or credit otherwise is given).
The photos in the banner at the top (only a shallow sliver of a much larger photo) are either from our home or our travels and are offered for their beauty alone (though a brain-teaser for me: “Where was that?”).
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Psalm 23:5b
May our efforts in the New Year
overflow with goodness
and help create a world of wholeness and peace.
Linoleum cut produced by Mark, September 2014
The “cup” is brown, “overflow” is in shades of blue.
through a sea of sound
Shabbat Shirah usually marks the beginning of Jewish Music Month. However, I’ve not seen any reference to it this year. Nonetheless, it is appropriate that this week marks the celebration of a significant anniversary in American Jewish music.
from חזן to opera star
The family in which I grew up was (to put it mildly) not particularly committed to […]
100!
As Jay writes:
There’s something about round numbers, even if they don’t actually represent anything particularly special.
Were she alive, our mother: Faye [Avrunin] Hurvitz, would be 100 years old today; one day before the winter solstice.
Faye Hurvitz wearing her “I’m a Scientist” button
For someone as modest (about herself) as she, she has quite a presence on the […]
May our efforts spread clouds of glory as we build true tabernacles of peace.
וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶךָ
Sifra to Psalm 18:11–12 and Siddur: Ma’ariv: Hashkiveinu
Linoleum cut produced by Mark, Summer 2004.
©Mark Hurvitz2004
this year’s card
the list of cards
 wow, and how!
Briefly put. Support Women of the Wall (and the New Israel Fund).
Be sure you can…hearwomen’svoices!
women of the wall members blow the shofar at the back of the western wall plaza during its monthly rosh chodesh service, aug. 7, 2013. (miriam alster)
Here’s a Yeshiva world perspective.
And an appropriate button:
women should be seen & heardnew […]
 siblinghood
Especially since September 11, 2001, we’ve heard a great deal about the common bonds among the Abrahamic religions. It is a lovely idea, and something worth working towards. However, even a simple glance at one of the most iconic stories of Abraham illustrates how different the three major “Abrahamic” religions are (the fourth is the Bahá‘í faith).
Jews know […]
 mad man
Ad man William Bernbach developed a number of famous campaigns. For our purpose today, his most important is that for Levy’s bakery.
Correction (January 14, 2014): the woman behind the man!
Judy Portas died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at the age of 91. As the story in the New York Times reports:
As Ms. Protas, a retired advertising executive at […]
 wwmd?
What would you do?
statue of maimonides in cordoba, spain
Maimondes’ “Hilchot Teshuva” (The Rules of Repentance) is available at Mechon Mamre: הלכות תשובה. It was translated from the Hebrew and posted at scribd by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman.
You can read an excerpt and introduction at My Jewish Learning:
If a man transgresses, wittingly or unwittingly, any precept of the […]
 what might knowing change?
What does this (from a recent article in the Forward) mean?
…aggressive prenatal genetic testing has effectively eradicated devastating conditions such as Tay-Sachs…
a friend knows
I asked my friend Jane Herman who has the BRCA mutation why it is important to know.
I understand in your case, as an adult, knowing you carry a BRCA mutation, you have a choice […]
 may the … be with you
Perhaps the most famous blessing is that expressed by the ancient priests in Jerusalem as recorded in the book of Numbers (6:24–26):
יְבָרֶכְךָ יְיָ וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ. יָאֵר יְיָ פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ וִיחֻנֶּךָ. יִשָּׂא יְיָ פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם.
The priests of old are no longer in a position to do the blessing as they […]
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In the year 5775 May our efforts in the New Year
overflow with goodness
and help create a world of wholeness and peace. 
Psalm 23:5b
To see the full size image and those of previous years click the graphic above. Ready for רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה
I began creating a Web site in my head as early as August 1995 when I drafted the following
For a project I’m pursuing regarding Jewish involvement on the internet and the World Wide Web in particular, I’m interested in learning about any sites about which you may know. For example, do any rabbis have Home pages? Which synagogues or synagogue organizations have Web sites? Does Marge Piercy have a site at which you can read portions of “He She and It”? Does Howard Rheingold have a site where you can learn more about creating a Virtual [Jewish] Community? Is there a Web Camera at the Kotel? In the Wilderness of Zin?
More
¡warning! This site remains under considerable reconstruction.
Most pages should still be available in their original location. However, I will be moving the vast majority of the old site (static html pages) into the Web 2.0 (blog) site. If you experience any “link rot”, please let me know.
When I initially created this site I organized the material into what seemed to be meaningful categories (in the days before “tags”). But the time came when, it was hard to figure out which link to click if you wanted to know about Sammy Levinger’s (“who”?) death (“what”?) while fighting during the Spanish Civil War (“when”?), though we had visited Belchite the site (“where?”) of the battle where he sustained his mortal wounds. The new tools should make this process easier.
‘//rite on!
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