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The Kotel Decision: The Parties at the Table
Posted on February 12, 2016 Leave a Comment
I remember going to visit Judy Chicago’s art installation “The Dinner Party” long ago at the Brooklyn Museum. This iconic feminist art piece sits in a mood-lit room, in the middle a triangular table upon which are 39 place settings, using mixed media, to highlight thirty-nine women: goddesses, historical figures, and women of importance […]
An Old Story Re-newed/Re-Jewed for Halloween: The Rabbi Who Was Turned into a Werewolf
Posted on October 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
(This story has been adapted, shortened, and changed for re-telling. The original is from the Mayse-Bukh a collection of Yiddish folk tales published in 1602. A translation of the original story can be found in Joachim Neugroschel’s “Great Tales of Jewish Occult and Fantasy: The Dybbuk and 30 Other Classic Stories”.) A true story: Once a rabbi, […]
All Beginnings Are Hard
Posted on October 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
“All beginnings are hard.” (Mekhilta Yitro BaChadoesh 2) With this thought I begin my personal professional blogging career. I have occasionally been blogging as a guest poster on Kol Isha, the Women’s Rabbinic Network blog for a while. But this new blog aims to be a personal conversation between you and me. In this age of new media, the […]
Rabbi Linda Joseph 