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Daily Archives: August 5, 2009
The Maimonides Of Pick-Up Artists
JConnectLA‘s Tu B’Av love party at 7174 Melrose Blvd is jammed. I haven’t gotten any sleep for days. I’m stumbling around, feeling old and lost and claustrophobic, yet people keep coming up to me and telling me what amazing energy … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA, Personal
Tagged epiccenter, JDate, lyn paul, manishevitz, sharabi, shuls
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Automatic Writing
I found out about "automatic writing" this week while reading the Richard Elmann biography of the poet W. B. Yeats. "Automatic writing" means writing without conscious control. Say you are watching TV or talking to a friend and your hand … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Personal
Tagged ceremony of innocence, desert birds, lion body, rough beast, stony sleep, w b yeats
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Remembering Slain Israeli Gays
Is there any hip ethical movement in Modern Orthdooxy that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld is not a leader of? JTA reports: WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Orthodox rabbi spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric in the Orthodox community at a Washington vigil mourning … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Israel, Orthodoxy, R. Shmuel Herzfeld, Rabbis
Tagged candlelight vigil, gays and lesbians, internal accounting, orthodox rabbi, rabbi shmuel, two jews
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