A very wise Rabbi once said that anything can be used for the good or the bad including music… Music just creeps into our beings.. It brings out the child
Tag: Jews
FALLING IN LOVE WITH JUDAISM
I’ve talked about NOT wanting Judaism, why love it now? My love affair with Judaism has been a slow burn. Simply the DESIRE was…
MINI SKIRTS & STILL JEWISH part 2
But when I became a mom, my then-husband and I wanted to give our sons some connection to their religion, another feeling of home. I didn’t want to leave them empty-handed…
MINI SKIRTS & JEWISH
I ate bbq pork ribs, delicious Italian salami subs, wore micro mini skirts, and was told often, “you’re Jewish? I thought you were Italian”… I was living the American dream.
THE SHABBOS WHALE
…invited into the intimacy of a home to share a Shabbat meal. Still, I was going to be a no, thank you. Easier to not put myself in this new situation with people I don’t really know and to stay in my comfortable known environment…
AND THE WOMEN DANCED
… the women grabbed their little drums and tambourines! Who does that? I mean their lives and certainly their freedom were at dire risk. Who wants to…
SHOMER SHABBOS: can I do it?
I started weekly Shabbat dinners for our unusual family…my two sons, myself, my ex-husband, and then later, my teenage son began inviting his friends. It became a…
G0D, TUBS, & NY Taxis: the Sequel
Hopping in and out of three, four… five tubs, back to the first and then making the rounds again, Reggie, who’d grown up in the Outback cried out, “Stop! You look like a kangaroo! hopping in and out, and …”
THE BATHROOM…& G0D: Part One
I could admit a bathtub was a pretty low-risk venture. If I could trust G0D with this, I supposed it could grow from there. The bathtub felt far from trivial… and yet…
RED ROVER & the skinny marink
I do remember those magical days when we played outside, dodge ball, kickball, basketball…It’s a memory etched in my mind..I get a kick out of the ‘devil‘ in me that wasn’t afraid…