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Producing content on the Web since 1995. some sayings of ר‘משבצונה“לFor many years I have worked hard, and struggled with mastering virtuous. Now, in addition, I’m working on becoming more virtual.
השיבנו ה‘ אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו
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?”). davka flickrst. paintingsAt 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.
davka flickr3 pavementsThree pavements poured next to each other (contiguous), but not at a property line.
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dark mornings As the northern hemisphere moves deeper into winter with less light for each day, our mornings begin near dawn. This is a beautiful time of beginnings and promise. While the sounds we hear each morning are not those of birds chirping and children learning, but the clanking of men at work, even these call […] כט חשון תשעב | Tags: 1970s, family, israel, lapel buttons, liturgy, music, photograph, politics, red, white, zionism | Category: judaica, lapel buttons, music, politics, ritual | 2 comments
changing technologies Most people who know me understand that I am not averse to technological change. I have been interested in how communications technologies have been used and changed for many years. In June of 2010, I wrote about my involvement in the development of what I called “the electronic leaflet”. When I was in college […] כג טבת תשל | Tags: 1970s, blue, family, holiday, meta, rosh hashannah, white | Category: family, holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, music, ritual, when | 2 comments
polity not piety™ Yes, that’s a “trademark” symbol there. Why not? I continue to tell people that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer. A quick check on Google indicates that I’m nearly the only person to have used it… and, at that, significantly more frequently. nathan hurvitz Our […] a growing haggadah We printed a private new edition of A Growing Haggadah last year for personal use. We will use it again this year. If you are interested in having a PDF version of the text to print and use (in whole or in part) at your Seder you can download it here: A Growing Haggadah (for […] Last year at this time I wrote about the “MAD“ness of nuclear armaments. In essence: There does not seem to be much value in having nuclear weapons. They may exist for a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) purpose. And yet, many people tell me that Israel’s enemies don’t care about MAD, because they (as well as dispensationalist Christians) […] כו אב תשע | Tags: 1980s, black, family, hiroshima, iran, orange, yellow | Category: family, lapel buttons | Leave a comment
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 […] כו סיון תשע | Tags: 1970s, blue, family, israel, lapel buttons, white, yom kippur, zionism | Category: family, judaica, lapel buttons, politics | Leave a comment
queen city of the west When Debbie and I decided to continue our rabbinic studies at the Cincinnati, Ohio campus of HUC-JIR rather than at the New York campus, a number of our friends made fun of us. They joked that we’d spend all our time in rocking chairs on the porch of our apartment. We actually […] יד סיון תשע | Tags: 1980s, family, gold, hebrew, Hurvitz, white | Category: family, judaica, lapel buttons | Leave a comment
We have been called a People of the Book for nearly 1400 years. We did not invent the term. It was given to us (as well as to Christians) by our cousins the Muslims. Nonetheless, even as our technologies move us beyond the physical book, the text remains. We return to the text that has […] יז אלול תשסט | Tags: 2000s, Bible, black, family, food, lapel buttons, red, white | Category: family, food, lapel buttons | Leave a comment
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, […] …from the archives (with minor updating), reposted on what would be her 4th Yahrtzeit Faye Hurvitz celebrates her 90th birthday a bit early with her family gathered, August 2003 21st of Tevet 5674 — 8th of Tammuz 5765 Our mother, Faye Hurvitz, died July 14, 2005 (8th of Tammuz 5765). Three months […] ז תמוז תשסט | Tags: Avrunin, family, Faye, Hurvitz, music, yahrtzeit | Category: family, from the archives, who | Leave a comment
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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 followingFor 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? davka publishing calendar
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