Prof. Linda Allen contacted Shlock Rock’s Lenny Solomon’s at the beginning of last year. She had heard his original composition, Ani Yehudi (lit: “I Am a Jew”), and felt it...
Author - sarke
Shmini
I know this isn’t supposed to be an artsy poetry blog. I am meant to be irreverant and hip, or as much of those as I can muster from between suburban loads of laundry. (And no, that...
Psalm for the Sabbath, 2.0
Just in case you missed it on Twitter or Facebook, tomorrow (March 20th) has been declared the National Day of Unplugging by Reboot, a “a growing network of thought-leaders and tastemakers who...
Stressing re: Cross-Dressing
“Please: Do *not* send pix. Really.” It’s been about a week since Purim, but I am still thinking about my broad shouldered and hairy (male) neighbors who, although upstanding...
Big in J.A.P.an
(Cross-posted at my blog) (…Tx for teaching me protocol, V.) Travel literature (or film), when boiled down to its essence, is almost always about some combination of the 3E’s: Escape...
On J.A.P.s, Journeys, Maccabees, and Cable TV
I just finished reading a great and entertaining memoir by Lisa Fineberg Cook, a self-aware, spoiled, very smart and funny Jewish girl from LA who marries a world-traveling educator / adventurer...