by Joel
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:00pm
Posted by Sarah Shay on the Ravenna Kibbutz Facebook wall:
Here's Mai Li's performance of "Daughter," as recorded at the February Coffeehouse. Posted on hitrecord.org as promised!
by Joel
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 4:59pm
The following is from Leyna's latest post on Jew-ish.com. We love you back, Leyna!
by Neal
Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 5:14pm
The following was posted to Jew-ish.com after a Ravenna Kibbutz field trip to see Ari Folman's animated film.
by Neal
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 5:18pm
Anyone who read Jew-ish.com’s fairly recent piece on the Israeli cinema boom knows that Jerusalem is the new Hollywood. Okay, not really, though it’s be cool to follow the “Bollywood” model of punning and call it “Holywood.” Anyway, I’ve been programming an Israeli film series at the Ravenna Kibbutz since September; it’ll soon become a Jewish film series, so I can show a greater variety of movies.
by Joel
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 5:21pm
Kibbutz Coffeehouse alumna Moorea Malatt, aka the Naked Folk Singer, just released a new album. Mazal tov and kol hakavod, Moorea!
by Joel
Sunday, February 1, 2009 - 5:25pm
A little rumination on Tamar's and my week-long visit to Hawa'ii...
A point of cultural translation for those from the east: on the West Coast, Maui is our Miami Beach—a way to get Vitamin D in the winter, if you don’t mind visiting your grandparents. The difference is that Maui, like our dress codes and punctuality, is just a bit more relaxed.
by Neal
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 5:33pm
Not until recently did I get a pretty good sense of why I’ve had such an ambivalent relationship to Judaism and, in fact, Jewishness in the years since my Bar Mitzvah. After eight years of Hebrew school, which I disliked, and a ceremony that was enjoyable inasmuch as it made me the center of attention and the target of many gifts, I began to drift away from Jewish life, although I occasionally co-directed services at our lay-led Reconstructionist congregation, T’chiyah.
by Neal
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 10:00pm
I added this as a comment under Leyna’s post, but then decided that it’s long enough (and ranty enough) to maybe be a decent post of its own. So, here it is.
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This is one of my serious buttons, too. (This is probably why you and I got married on Facebook—we have so much in common besides just our Jewishness.)
One of my formative Jewish experiences was receiving a pamphlet in the mail when I was 13 that told me I shouldn’t marry a non-Jew. And why not? Because to do so would be to hurt Judaism.
by Neal
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 5:37pm
In the course of researching an upcoming Jew-ish.com article on Jews and Buddhism, I watched Laurel Chiten’s hourlong documentary The Jew in the Lotus, which is based on Rodger Kamenetz’s book of the same name. In 1990, a number of prominent American rabbis met with the Dalai Lama so that His Holiness might ask them the secret of Jews’ survival—physical, cultural, and spiritual—as a people in exile. One interviewee notes that Tibetans are the Jews of Asia, in that they’ve been displaced and are a people without a country, which Jews were until 1948.
by Joel
Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 10:00pm
