Rabbi Art Waskow, of blessed memory, taught that attending to festivals and the wheel of the seasons is what most distinguishes Jewish Americans from our neighbors. He offered this as a challenge to dominant views in the 70s, that Jews were foremost defined by the Holocaust, the State of Israel, and/or belonging to a particular institution. As a founder of Jewish Renewal, Art encouraged an informed, creative, expansive, liberational, and multivocal approach wherein Jews were

A history of House of Larva Dra Co-Operative after ten years.

In between some of the more typical prose-style blog posts, I'm going to be sharing some of my poems on a semi-regular basis. I wrote and...

Reflections on the work of Derek Jarman on his birthday.