Alex Hommel
Faith and Practice
Why It’s Good for Jews to Meditate: Convergences, Divergences
Many Jews meditate, and most meditate in ways developed in the Buddhist tradition. That this is so, is undeniable; why this is so, is a subject for the sociologists. But what does it mean for the practitioner? What are the benefits of meditation for a Jewish spiritual path, and what are the benefits of a Jewish path for serious dharma practice?
Arts and Culture
Maybe this Month
We run Maybe this Month, by Jacqueline Nicholls, in Eul because it is a work of outer and inner examination. Nichols’ piece is created from niddah cloths, used by women to check whether they are able to go to the mikveh after their monthly menstrual cycle.
News and Politics
After BP (and Katrina): Rethinking the Economy of the Gulf Coast
Now that the BP gusher has been capped, the media will pack up and return to their scandal du jour. Gulf Coast residents, however, still face an infrastructure destroyed by Katrina, and now a local economy depressed by the loss of fishing and tourism. They need our help–but what they need may be different from what we expect.
News and Politics
Why the Cordoba Brouhaha is a Good Thing
Until New Yorkers can experience what is sure to be a relatively mundane and (excuse me, Cordoba) boring Islamic center in their midst, they will have a hard time recovering from 9/11.
News and Politics
Not in Our Name: Jewish Women Speak out on Israel
In this review of Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Occupation, Turner suggests that “Not in our Name” should be used as a counternarrative to a pro-settler Zionism.
Life and Action
Nosh, Davin, Kvell or Eat, Pray, Love the West Side Way
Nosh, Davin, Kvell: One Jewish woman’s attempt to Eat healthy, Pray with devotion and learn the delight of Love in everyday experience–A memoir
Faith and Practice
Excerpt from The Proper Jewish Mourning for a Queer Ex-Wife
In this award-winning essay, Erlichman asks, What is the proper Jewish way to mourn a queer ex-wife?
Arts and Culture
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2010 Film Diary
I must admit that whenever I receive a word of an approaching film festival, I brace myself for evenings of frustration and boredom. That being said, the curators of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival do a better job than most in separating the wheat from the chaff of the annual crop of Jewish films.
Arts and Culture
Seeking Kafka in Prague
On this photographic walking tour of Prague, we discover the world of Kafka’s imagination.
Arts and Culture
No More Challah: A Zeek Poetry Manifesto
No more kiddush wine poems, no more challah, no more herring! It’s time to imagine a new Jewish poetry.
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