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Continue reading →: Divine Darkness in Star Wars
The following short article is made possible only by the near daily exchanges between myself and my wife Kochav. As consummate Star Wars and Spirituality nerds, we are always discussing the spiritual implications of the Star Wars text. While i may have written the text, the ideas are as much…
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Continue reading →: Can Love Stretch Across Time and Heal a Broken Heart? Part 1 : Practical Magic
It’s spooky season and I’m a white woman born in the 1990’s and that can mean only one thing: MIDNIGHT MARGARITAS FOR EVERYBODY!! I don’t drink though. At any rate, this is the first in a two-part series about queer and feminist lineages, pasts, and futures with a little neo-paganism…
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Continue reading →: Film Review: The Bible Collection: Joseph
Joseph‘s narrative constitutes the last story in the first book of the Torah. In the Bible it is told in a straightforward, chronological manner. This film, a 1995 entry in the TNT Bible Collection, plays around with the storytelling structure with fascinating results. Anyone familiar with the story of Joseph…
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Continue reading →: Shalom: Elul Week Four
This is the final of my Elul series for 5785/2025. You can find my introduction to Elul here, and here are parts one, two, and three respectively. As I sit down to write this reflection, just hours before sunset and therefore the start of Rosh Hashanah, I feel a profound…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is a delightful lesbian film from 1995. An era when a number of indie lesbian classics such as But I’m a Cheerleader and Bound were released. Films that would receive a lot of pushback today, despite it being 2025. This is…
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Continue reading →: Ritual and Routine: Elul Week 3
This is my third week of reflection on Elul, a time of reflection and teshuvah, or return, to our best path and best selves in the Hebrew Calendar. You can find week one here and week two here. This is the week where the ritual recitation of psalm 27 starts…
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Continue reading →: Stretch and Expand and Sacrifice: Elul Week 2
(Please note this post mentions sexual assault, climate crisis, systemic violence of many kinds, and death. proceed with care) “When evil men assail me to devour my flesh…my heart would have no fear” In my first ever practice with Psalm 27, this line struck me. I was fresh off a…
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Continue reading →: Apology and Surprise: Elul Week 1
As I mentioned in my post introducing Elul, this is a time of returning to the best self. This requires deep reflection, and the offering of apologies and repentance for wrongdoing. Some thoughts on recent apologies: A while ago I made an apology I am not proud of. It felt…
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Continue reading →: To everything (re)turn, (re)turn, (re)turn…
Each year on the Jewish calendar, we are encouraged to spend Elul, the final month before the High Holy Days , in a time of reflection, repentance, and return. Especially important is that last one, return, teshuvah, a word that has it’s root in turning, with the idea being to…
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Continue reading →: i am becoming who i am becoming
The story of finding who i am becoming is a story of my finding where and how i wish to express myself and who i wish to do it for. It’s a story of finding Allat, Goddess, in myself, my wife, my friends and then in the Qur’an (and vice…