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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?”). st. 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.
3 pavementsThree pavements poured next to each other (contiguous), but not at a property line.
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let me count the (w/d)ays The period between Pesach and Shavuot was one of serious tension in ancient Israel. The barley harvest began at Pesach and the wheat harvest ended near the time of Shavuot. More was at stake during the period of the counting of the Omer than our spiritual growth. The future year’s wealth, […] ז׳ אייר תשע״ג - April 17th, 2013 | Tags: 2000s, blue, holiday, lapel buttons, omer, pesach, shavuot, torah, twitter, white | Category: cross-posting, holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, ritual, when | Leave a comment
what does it mean to have faith? When someone produces the same lapel button for competing candidates, all that individual is interested in is the dollar. So encouraging us to [have?] faith in either candidate from the 2008 presidential election is very odd. Is faith something you can have in someone? We say: “I have faith in you.” Is faith something […] ו׳ אלול תשע״ב - August 24th, 2012 | Tags: 2000s, black, elul, lapel buttons, politics, white | Category: holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, politics | Leave a comment
don’t? It is often hard to know whom to trust. Each of the following buttons were sold as novelty items. The first suggesting we trust Bernard Madoff is very sad. The second is intended for fun. I’ve never worn the first. The other I wear at rabbinic conventions. a shonda!
Date: Size: Pin Form: Print Method: Text TRUST trust me, i’m a rabbi
Date: Size: Pin Form: Print Method: Text ה׳ אלול תשע״ב - August 23rd, 2012 | Tags: 2000s, black, blue, elul, lapel buttons, red, rosh hashannah, white, yom kippur | Category: judaica, lapel buttons, personalities | 2 comments
the numbers’ game The children played by the shore, allowing the ball to bounce lightly on their finger tips before they popped it over to the other side of the line. Now […] the month of elul begins once again return Hosea 14:2: I return to this writing, that I have not visited since early March, shortly before Pesach. I have been many places, but now is the time for return. As she did in anticipation of Pesach, my colleague of unimaginable strength, Phyllis Sommer […] ל׳ אב תשע״ב - August 18th, 2012 | Tags: 2000s, blue, elul, family, holiday, israel, lapel buttons, rosh hashannah, twitter, white, zionism | Category: family, from the archives, holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, travels | Comments are closed
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 out […] כ״ט חשון תשע״ב - November 26th, 2011 | Tags: 1970s, family, israel, lapel buttons, liturgy, music, photograph, politics, red, white, zionism | Category: judaica, lapel buttons, music, politics, ritual | 2 comments
aipac gives koch a pass for flouting iran sanctions I know that Emerson said: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” But, I don’t this is an issue of foolish consistency. I’d like someone to explain if they feel differently. alex seitz-wald, news report: Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that […] י״ט תשרי תשע״ב - October 17th, 2011 | Tags: 2000s, blue, iran, israel, lapel buttons, politics, red, white | Category: judaica, lapel buttons, politics | Leave a comment
judge everyone, how? In Pirke Avot 1:6, R. Joshua ben Perachiah says: והוי דן את כל האדם לכף זכות The phrase is variously translated as: judge every man in the scale of merit It is hard not to judge people. We do it […] ח׳ תשרי תשע״ב - October 6th, 2011 | Tags: 1930s, 1940s, blue, hebrew, holiday, ritual, white, yom kippur | Category: from the archives, holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, music, ritual | Leave a comment
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 I studied music and was involved […] כ״ג טבת תש״ל - October 1st, 2011 | Tags: 1970s, blue, family, holiday, meta, rosh hashannah, white | Category: family, holidays, judaica, lapel buttons, music, ritual, when | 2 comments
back then I understand that during the first half of the 20th century not even the majority of world Jewry supported a nationalist solution to Jewish existence. Jewish working class movements were generally non-Zionist and many of the “leaders” of world Jewry were internationalists, looking for international solutions. Why, then, should I be surprised that the Palestinian people […] כ״ח אלול תשע״א - September 27th, 2011 | Tags: 1970s, black, israel, lapel buttons, white, yellow, zionism | Category: lapel buttons, politics | 2 comments
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In the year 5773 May our voices reach up from the depths
Psalm 130:1b 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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categories¡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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