I am in here.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — Christopher Isherwood (I wonder if any of you know what famous Broadway musical, later famous movie, was made from the book that this quote is from… answers in the comment section, pleeze!)
Tried a new shul today — Reform variety, smallish. Shorter service. Guitar accompaniment. Familiar tune to “Sh’ma Israel.” I quailed a bit when I first saw the girl with the guitar on the bimah. It’s those old memories of the catholic church in the late sixties and early seventies pathetically trying to be “relevant” by … Continue reading Shabbat, Shoftim 5764
Working on a website for a friend today. Someone wants to put a piece of background music on it, which I hate. How to put this to them nicely? Websites with background music make me leave the site as soon as I humanly can. They are a terrible annoyance to all within earshot of the … Continue reading Web sites
The afternoon of Shabbat spent on the beach in Jaffa: just me and a couple of hundred of the people whose acts I’ve been decrying in this blog, as if they’re a people of only one mind and opinion. I still decry those actions. But I can no longer see all Arabs in the same … Continue reading Havdalah
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