Great Gay News from Jerusalem

Today’s date has been on the radar for a while – we knew that a fateful meeting would take place in Jerusalem to finalize the vote that will enable Gay and Lesbian Israelis be ordained as Masorti rabbis  Israel’s Conservative Movement. We just didn’t know if we’d get the news today.  I got a photo […]

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12 of 50: twisted wire

day 12 of 50 twisted wire Jacqueline: copper wire twisted & tangled Amichai: Hours in the library today, page after page, searching for just that perfect Hebrew poem, a blend of raw and real and not too dreary, for these days of national memory and historical hope, shoah and Independence, calamities and calmer joys. Oh […]

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Gather the Broken: Day 1 of 50. The Journey Begins.

http://gatherthebroken.blogspot.com/2012/04/day-1.html day 1 Amichai: On the first day of this journey a plate is broken, with intention, not as an accident. This act of breaking is often done when two young people become engaged, a sign of celebration, of promise, of fragments sanctified as a hopeful promise of wholeness, of fixing the broken pieces. In […]

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