Joe Winkler

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Days Of Awe(some) Books: A High Holiday Reading List

David Foster Wallace, Moby-Dick, and of course some Kafka: This ain’t your typical Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur reading list.

Shul Hopping: Reconstructing Ideas About Reconstructionist Judaism

Of all the shul hopping adventures, my foray into the world of Reconstructionist Judaism felt the most foreign.

Shul Hopping: Wailing At The Wall

If you’re gonna shul hop, sooner or later you have to go to the O.G.

Shul Hopping #5: Getting Conservative

Believing I had taken premature swipes at the Conservative service, I chose a Conservative synagogue known for its younger, more spiritual, livelier crowd for this week’s shul hop.

Freud In Narnia

What happens when Freud talks to CS Lewis?

Shul Hopping: Synagogues Of The Bourgeois

When a synagogue looks like it’s fit for a king, it might not be good for shul hopping.

Shul Hopping #3: Rolling With The Hasids

For this week’s shul hop, after the calm of the wilderness I sought out the controlled chaos of a Chasidic shul.

Shul Hopping #2: Lost In The Woods

If you want to remove technology from your life for Shabbat, what better place than the woods?