The ancient Jewish farming practice that could cure your Facebook addiction

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.617234#               The ancient Jewish farming practice that could cure your Facebook addiction A new shmita-themed program in New York called Fallow Lab aims to help get Jews offline. By Judy Maltz | Sep. 23, 2014 | It’s ancient biblical law meets digital detox movement. Or, what does laying […]

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Unscrolling: My New Weekly Torah Blog Starts Today

UNSCROLLING: A Year of Wrestling, Quoting, and Reclaiming Torah Amichai’s New Weekly Blog (10/2013-10/2014) This year I’m reading the weekly Torah portion through the eyes of 54 creative wrestlers   in Reboot’s new book Unscrolled. My year long journey will be blogged weekly as commentary on their commentary, quoting quotes, plucking pearls from this pool of biblically inspired juices for […]

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MOUTH: 50th and Last Word, Sealed with a Kiss

  WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here. play   A year worth of words is coming to a close as the scroll reaches the end and then […]

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I Am No Abomination:Rewritten Bar Mitzvah Speech, 30 years later. Word #28

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play abomination תועבה This week marks my 44th birthday, and this week’s Torah portion, Achre Mot-Kedoshim, is the […]

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