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Yom Kippur

By this time, I have lost so many family and friends to death that when Rabbi Jamie calls on us for Kaddish, I can sound

Yom Kippur

Watching CNN and PBS through the year, the talking heads tell us that all our systems are broken: the financial system, the medical delivery system,

Rosh Hashanah

We Jews were uprooted. Nations buried us, someone said, only to find out that we were seeds. So we sprouted here. Now, we seem to have come upon an era of toleration, but is it because humankind is becoming less human and more kind? Or that people just don’t give a damn any more?

Retrieval

Tangled and discarded, my torn word The teenagers have taken up and dressed in it, Sweated in it, dancing, stretched it to fit an overflow

INSOMNIA GOES TO THE DOCTOR

Argue, acne, carcinoma,      Anthrax boils, granuloma,            Botulism, lues, cystitis,                  Beri-beri, blepheritis. Dandruff, diabetes, coma,      Chancre, shingles, melanoma,            Atalectesis, arthritis,            

ROSH HASHANAH – 2014

Cong. Beth Evergreen is forty—that broad vista between the acne and the menopause. Some people don’t believe in miracles, but here we are, almost all