God and the Big Bump
As a rabbinical student, I was required to defend anintellectual argument for my personal belief in God, aposition which my instructor thoroughly annihilated witha few well-placed philosophical thrusts.
Galilee Diary: Do It Yourself
Make for yourself a rabbi and acquire for yourself a colleague... -Mishnah Avot 1:6
Galilee Diary: Dogs
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Play it again
Congress Delays Decision on Child Nutrition Reauthorization
Krugman: Potential Policy Options are all Terrible, and Such Small Portions
Jonathan Backer is and Eisendrath Legislative Assistant. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Who can forget the opening lines of Annie Hall, when Woody Allen sums up his attitude towards life?
Who Dat? It's the CSA in NOLA!
Galilee Diary: Faith and Culture
And the Lord said, “If as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do will be out of their reach. Let us, then, go down and confound their speech there, so that they shall not understand one another’s speech. -Genesis 11:6-7
Tu BiShvat: Happy Birthday, You Beautiful Trees!
My commute to work every morning is not typical. I drive through the Roaring Fork Valley with majestic, now snow-covered, mountains on my left and my right. The sky is often a clear, bright blue, and the sun glimmers off the powdery snow that shifts in the wind. I am the cantor at the Aspen Jewish Congregation, and I certainly feel blessed to live and work in such a beautiful place. This quote from Isaiah is particularly fitting for this part of the country, as the people here are very in touch with the nature around them - often finding their spiritual center while skiing a run or hiking in the hills.