What is the Occupy Movement Accomplishing?
‘Nuff said. From an October 18, 2011 post on ThinkProgress.org, from the last week of July, 2011: The same survey done between October 10 and October 16, 2011: See also the Huffington Post from the...
View ArticleTechnology for Rabbis
At the Brickner Seminar listening to Sean Thibault, the RAC‘s Communications Director. Ever heard of HootSuite? I hadn’t, and it’s a couple years old already. Manage all your social networks and...
View ArticleNow I can change my Facebook profile picture
My Facebook profile picture since March 23 has been this: (Note that this “hoodie” — we just called them sweatshirts when I was a kid, or hooded sweatshirts — is from the Women’s Rabbinic Network...
View ArticleDear God –
I don’t usually address You this way. I don’t mean it like I’m starting a letter. I mean, Dear One. You Who are tender and compassionate toward Your creatures. You Who are precious Yourself. You...
View ArticleMorality and Marriage Equality
"You don't have to agree that what I'm doing is in accordance with what God wants, as I believe it is. You don't have to agree that God rejoices in my marriage, my love, and my family, as much as in...
View ArticleA Legally Married Woman
"Youngest Daughter came whispering by my bed, 'I’m awake and my belly hurts.' I knew what it was; it probably stemmed from not eating enough yesterday. Our wedding was at 11am, followed by a cake and...
View ArticleMy … Wife
Quite an inspirational evening tonight, with “the usual suspects” from the local interfaith community: The Interfaith Alliance annual awards dinner. My parents were there and I took it as an...
View ArticleI’m *Family* Now. Legally.
Watch this (the video is better than the article, and surprisingly neutral given that it’s from Fox): April 11, 2013: “Missouri Man Arrested for Refusing to Leave Gay Partner” <Rabbi swearing> In...
View ArticleAfter Death, Holiness Speak
.אחרי מות, קדשים אמר This week’s double Torah portion: Acharey Mot-K’doshim. Next week, Emor. Put them together as a sentence and you have: “After death, holiness speak.” This week there’s been a lot...
View ArticleThe Diameter of the Bomb
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two...
View ArticlePrayers (and Disaster Aid) for Oklahoma
Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God” (Exodus 8:15) Then Israel saw the great hand which God had used against the Egyptians… (Exodus 14:31) As Barry Goldman...
View ArticleI Just Want To Be Treated as a Family, Like Any Other Family
Around 2:30pm, Monday June 24, 2013 I just want to be treated as a family like any other family. We’ve been waiting at Adirondack Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for over an hour because they looked at...
View ArticleRights
Social Security Federal pensions and health benefits Joint filing of 1040 All kinds of rights and tax credits for non-biological parents in jurisdictions where same-sex partners cannot do...
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