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.
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?”).
st. paintings At least three colors of painted messages on the pavement. By the time there are three colors that fit within the photo, none can have any “meaning” what remains is the pattern.
3 pavements Three pavements poured next to each other (contiguous), but not at a property line.
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from prayerbook to leaflet
I have been involved in writing and distributing leaflets at least since 1966 when our family composed a leaflet [text] we distributed in front of our congregation’s Yom Kippur observance calling attention to the war in Vietnam.
The Hurvitz Family’s Yom Kippur Leaflet calling for an end to the war in Vietnam (1966)
During the […]
Sunday night, December 13, with the staff of Hazon, I had the pleasure of experiencing (and meeting) Yisrael Campbell. He has a one-man show (performance/stand-up routine) now playing at the Bleecker Street Theater (near HUC-JIR).
The New York Times gave it a positive review.
You can watch a variety of videos of Yisrael on YouTube and even (interspersed with some commercials) […]
purim in november
On Thursday night, November 19, 2009, Debbie and I went to see the opera Esther at the New York City Opera in Lincoln Center.
The opera, the last one by composer Hugo Weisgall is based on the biblical Book of Esther. It uses the basic storyline (with some modifications in the sequence of […]
jews and judaism in american elite culture .01
On Sunday evening, November 8, 2009 I attended “Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music at JMF”. I was a bit surprised (after being told to reserve my free tickets in advance) that there were perhaps fifty people in the hall waiting to hear the words of this very popular […]
jews and judaism in american popular culture .01
now, …with harvey and sheila!
There was a time, it feels strange to write this… a generation ago, when being Jewish was very “in”. The thing to be in America. Americans continue to, even increasingly, convert to Judaism in the 2000s. However, back in “The Sixties” some forms of Jewish culture were […]
I don’t know.However, I imagine it something like this
[…from the archives (with minor updating)]:
Bethami knew the way down the narrow windswept alleyways of Tiberias blindfolded
The lapping of the tiny waves of Galilee offered a constant guide. She had walked this path many times, since her earliest years, when she went with her mother to visit the rabbi. The […]
As I wrote the other day, while I prepare during the month of Elul for Rosh haShannah, I think about what is peripheral to my life, and what I should toss.
Aside from blowing shofar each day during Elul, another practice has taken on the nature of a daily ritual: the reading of Psalm 27.
Psalm 27
According to Rabbi Benjamin J. […]
welcome to אלול
As we begin Elul, the month before Rosh haShannah, preparations for the new year start.
blowing shofar
The Hebrew word אלול is considered an acronym for the phrase from the Song of Songs: 6:3a…
אני לדודי ודודי לי = I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
The phrase is meant to suggest a loving relationship between the Creator and […]
The first nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945.
nuclear disarmament lapel button
calling for nuclear disarmament then
I have a clear memory from long ago, sometime around 1959: walking with my family down Hollywood Boulevard, somewhere near Vine. We were part of a demonstration calling for nuclear disarmament, probably organized […]
Over the years I have been asked:
What kind of a rabbi are you?
To which I answer without hesitation:
A good rabbi!
And then my interlocutor stammers a bit and says:
No, no, what… oh, ah…. Are you…?
At which point I gently interrupt and say:
Neapolitan
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In the year 5772 may our efforts bring new creation out of chaos.
Genesis 1:1–2
To see the full size image and those of previous years click the graphic above.
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?
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¡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!
‚\\ark Hurvitz
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