(Reposted from the Jewish Voices Pursuing Justice blog, October 18 and 19, 2010)
Questioning Community, Part I:
Last Thursday, I blogged about the sensation of walking through life as a visible and invisible privileged minority. I also wrote about how, within North American Judaism, Ashkenazi culture is often taken to be the Jewish culture; we ‘white’ Jews [...]
Sixty-two year old Orlando* moves through space gingerly. On blood pressure and anti-seizure medications, Orlando has lost his appetite, and with it a great deal of weight. Five months ago, he would have been considered a large man; now he’s gaunt, and his hands and feet seem too big for his body. Despite this physical [...]
Read full post...It’s the end of February in New Orleans, and the magnolia trees are blooming. As I bike along the city’s potholed streets, the purple flowers are my unlikely guarantors that the wet chill of New Orleans winter is finally over.
Turning onto St. Charles Avenue, a different bloom catches my eye; vibrant multicolored beads droop from [...]
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