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Allah is the Light: Prayer in Ramadan and Elul
It is a sticky August evening in Garrison, New York. I’m sitting on a park bench at a retreat center with a woman I’ve only just met. I’m wearing capris, a tank top, and my rainbow kippah. She’s wearing a … Read More
Hearing the Call: Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Rabbi Arthur Waskow turns 75 this month. In honor of that milestone, we sat down over Skype to talk. I first met Arthur in 2002 when I attended a week-long class on tikkun olam which he was teaching at the … Read More
Dreaming with Rodger Kamenetz
"A dream provides an exact tincture of the soul…to wake us from a faint-hearted life." So writes Rodger Kamenetz in The History of Last Night’s Dream. Kamenetz is probably best known as the poet who accompanied a diverse group of … Read More
Three Poems from The Brakhot Cycle
From The Brakhot Cycle One whose dead lies before him May be in no position to pray or to converse comfortably or even to make plans for the funeral, reschedule his haircut, inform the book group or the bowling … Read More
Roundtable: The Synagogue/ Israeli Politics Mash-Up
Zeek Contributing Editor (and Velveteen Rabbi) Rachel Barenblat asked Rabbis Camille Angel (Reform), Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal), Fred Guttman (Reform), and Meyer Schiller (Orthodox/Hasidic) to discuss the impact of the Israeli state and its politics on their rabbinate. Zeek: Thank you … Read More