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Continue reading →: Joan is Bustin’ Out All Over
This post title is a reference to a random old Broadway song that is maybe to cutesy and punny even for me, and also at odds with the rest of the post, but I couldn’t resist. I got to meet a NEW JOAN. Well, new to me. May 30th is…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Jewish Holiday and An Erotic Springtime Countdown
Yesterday marked Shavuos, a holiday holding a lot of weight around ancient harvest festivals and cosmic revelation of the Torah to the Jewish people. Shavuos is my favorite Jewish holiday for a few reasons; as a convert I really love that there’s an idea all Jews who ever were/are/will be…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Cosmic Well
We talk about faith a lot in our house, which is perhaps to be expected for a multi-religious queer convert couple navigating Jewish and Muslim holy days in an increasingly puritanical country while building a life in the American South. For us faith has been – together and individually –…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Bible Collection: Jacob
Jacob – Jan 10 I’m a bit late posting this review, and in writing it. We watched the film on Jan 10th, whereas I’m posting around Feb 23rd. I tend to move through phases of excited interest, with some things remaining constant but still ebbing and flowing. One of those…
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Continue reading →: The Miracle of Hanukkah is Resistance
Welcome to 2025! A new (gregorian) year has begun, and the challenges forced on us by Patriarchal-Colonialism, from ongoing genocides, biosphere collapse, and lack of access to food, water, community, and land continue. To end 2024 and start 2025, I wrote a Hanukkah reflection that touches on some of these…
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Continue reading →: The Other “Genesis 1”
Here is a speculative “reconstruction” of the Other Genesis 1, a potential version of the Israelite story of Yahweh, son of El Elyon, slaying Tehom/Leviathan and creating the world from her body. Scholars are mixed on whether there ever was an Israelite version of a story like this, but here…
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Continue reading →: Film Review: Abraham (1993)
I’m posting this a week after we watched it, which coincided with the start of Abraham’s story in Rabbinic Liturgical Calendar for Torah reading. Right off the bat, I’ll say this was a very different viewing experience than Genesis: Creation and Flood. Whereas Genesis was an inventive film, this one…
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Continue reading →: A Potential Reconstruction of John 11-12
Inspired by the work of Elizabeth Schrader, who has written on the perplexing presence of Martha in the Fourth Gospel, I put together a hypothetical reconstruction of John 11 and 12. For those that don’t know Dr. Schrader has argued that Martha was added to John 11 in the second…
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Continue reading →: Review: Genesis: Creation and the Flood (1994)
On the evening of the 22nd of Tishrei, 5785, the 19th of Rabi’ II 1446, October 24th, 2024, during Simchat Torah I sat with my wife to watch the film Genesis: Creation to Flood (dir. Ermanno Olmi.) Now, my wife is Jewish and I’m Muslim, so it might seem a…
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Continue reading →: War, What is it Good For?
Recently, the Interfaith Socialist Movement put out this statement regarding the escalating United States-Russian Federation conflict: Joint statement of concern about the conflict in Ukraine and Russia Peace and blessings, dear comrades and friends.