Moments of brilliance in the creative arts are rare in the Jewish world. (although last week’s Galeet Dardashti performance at Le Poisson Rouge was quite amazing)so praise is due to the men (and the organization – Reboot) behind Union Square Park’s latest display, Sukkah City. Foer, Cove, and Bennett have concocted this brief explosion of Jewish arts – spun out by artists Jewish and not who worked within the confines of sukkah making. (I love most of them, but “Log”…
Kol Nidrei Men in white space suits sucking asbestos out of the basement All the vowsAll the promisesAll the words that passed across my lipsLet them be as if they never were Every speck of it suctioned into the long curling accordion tube and out into the hazard container on the back of the truck All the vowsAll the promisesAll the words that passed across my lipsLet them be as if they never were The hum of the negative air…
Please note that all of these predictions are within a margin of errorof +/- 2 percent. Enjoy! Daniel ROSH HASHANNAH PREDICTIONS 5771 78% of people will pay more attention to the stickers that say“This prayer book donated in memory of” than the actual prayers. 34% of American three-year-olds will make mildly annoying shofarnoises on the car ride home. 67% of rabbis will say with great sincerity the words “t’shuvah meansmore than repentance” but never actually get to the part where…
Food pantries run low over the summer months and the collective contributions of those of us who are marking the High Holidays can make a big difference. Here’s a little video that is part of an effort I am working on to feed those who are in need this season.
My all-time favorite street musician from Madison, Wisconsin, the artistic genius Art Paul Schlosser, just appeared on America’s Got Talent in the Chicago auditions and was given three rather large red Xs. This is a low point for American television. Schlosser, who did not reveal his real name on the show but went by the moniker of Buddy Holly Cheesehead did wear a large foam block of swiss cheese on his head. I, and other philosophy majors were mesmerized by…
Photo: One of the favorite albums of Eugenia Lee Hancock Z’L I just heard the news that a mentor, Rev Dr. E. Lee Hancock, passed on to the next world I was lucky to have worked with Lee in 2004 and 2005 when she was Dean at the Auburn Theological Seminary. The first thing I think about when I think of Lee is that Lee was cool. She had great taste in music – she introduced me to IZ –…
Forgive the blurry picture, but this is one of my sons (on the left) meeting Yotam Silberstein this past Saturday night after his gig at the Baird in South Orange NJ. Who is Yotam Silberstein? I didn’t know either, but after hearing him I wanted to make sure that my son had a picture with him so that one day he could look back on the night he heard a rising star in the jazz world. You can check Yotam’s…
Steve Nash has always been one of my favorite NBA stars. His brilliant passing, his hustle, his ability to slash through defenders, draw a triple-team and dish back for a teammate to score are all commendable. And I once read in the New York Times Sunday Mag that he has a rug made of used shoelaces. As his Phoenix Suns have recently taken a stand against the Arizona Immigration law, I was looking through my files to find some of…
Lebanon regains hummus title from Israel May 9, 2010 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Lebanon for the second time in a year has wrested from Israel the title of making the largest plate of hummus. More than 300 Lebanese chefs on Sunday created a more than 23,000-pound plate of hummus, in the presence of a Guinness World Records representative, more than doubling the Israeli record set in January. The chefs reportedly used 8 tons of boiled chickpeas, 2 tons of sesame paste,…
Very few conferences in Atlantic City spill out onto the Boardwalk….but an 80 degree May day with a nice wind…you can’t go wrong. My inclination, of course, was to skip the meeting and simply get the “$1 Reading” Fortune in the store behind us. But then I saw the sign that says $5. Oh well…I guess I’ll have to wait for the future to find out what happens.