Glad the winners were all actual Biennial shots, not just Toronto scenery -- although I'll admit that being greeted each day by the woodpecker was a treat.

My favorite: the collage of kipot. Where do we get the white ones with the blue URJ menorah logo in the back?

The grand prize winner is a real winner! Great shot!

The Kippah Collage was my fav too. It's a natural for a URJ poster.

To Larry K:
The one with the URJ logo was given out at the marketplace...can't remember which booth. I have an extra one if you want it.

Had the kipot collage left one head uncovered, it would no longer have been a collage of kipot. Is it appropriate to second-guess an artist's intention for the sake of a religious polemic?

And if the Reform movement stopped innovating, it would no longer be Reform, but would turn into a Reformed movement, an Orthodoxy of its own, saying that because we stood yesterday, we must stand forever. (Precisely the reverse of Reform's origins, which rejected many of the practices of its day.)

As someone who did not divert his attention from the worship experience to count either bare heads or covered heads, I can neither question nor confirm the assertion that the majority of delegates to the Biennial chose to worship bare-headed. Whatever choice Reform Jews make, whether at the Biennial or in most Reform synagogues, is based on an even more cherished Reform tradition, personal autonomy.

It used to be a Reform watchword, as a put-down of the kosher laws, that what comes out of your mouth is more important than what goes in. Might we update that to suggest that what's in your head is more important than what's on it?