Friday foolishness :)
Kitchen calamity :)
The specialty of the house, Chez Shira, is fried pot.
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Made you look, didn't I? :)
(Shira ducks. :) )
A tallit-and-tefillin-wearing woman in a traditional Conservative synagogue?! An unorthodox—and non-orthodox—perspective on Jews and Judaism from a perpetual misfit. This blog, welcoming the entire Jewish community, is dedicated to those who take Judaism seriously, but not necessarily literally.
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The bad news:
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In order to give Orthodox women an equal role, Orthodox rabbis need to support it, but Orthodox rabbis cannot support it and be called Orthodox. In order for women to have a voice, they need to be called rabbis, but even suggesting such a thing gets a person evicted from the club. This is a catch-22 if there ever was one.”
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My sincerest wishes for the best of luck to all those hoping to level the playing field (Orthodox Judaism) while still remaining on the field.
I finally found the post I was looking for when I wrote An archeological dig on my blog :). In typical fashion, I found it quite accidentally while looking for Near tears at morning minyan, to which I want to link in a new post that I haven't even written yet! Included in "Near tears" is a link to my Thursday, April 12, 2007 post "Internal consistency," in which I state that, "“ . . . since Rosh Chodesh Adar, I've been making an effort to pray three times a day plus the Bedtime Sh'ma, even on Sundays (so much for my only day to sleep late ): ).” Sunday, February 18, 2007, Rosh Chodesh Adar would be the Sunday Rosh Chodesh to which I referred in the original "Archeological dig" post.
Okay, research project--and this convoluted post--successfully completed. We now return you to our regularly scheduled blogging--or will do so when I get around to writing that next post! :)
The bottom line is that the number of individual members of all ages and categories who currently live within walking distance of the synagogue is probably less than 100.
Last Shabbat/Sabbath morning, we got 18 attendees for services. Yesterday, we got 13. We had to send someone home to fetch their two teenage sons just to have enough people for a minyan and a Torah reading, and when the two teens went on strike thereafter and went back home, we had exactly 10 people left for Musaf/Additional Service. We did not renew the rabbi's contract, which may very well mean that, beginning next fall, many, if not most, of the sermons will be given by the chair of the Ritual Committee, also known as my husband. ("I didn't go to rabbinical school. I didn't even go to day school. And I'm going to be the 'rabbi,' " said my husband, shaking his head with astonishment.) The foolish optimism of our members, who seem to think that this shul can "run on empty" forever, is pure wishful thinking.Labels: Talkin' about language(s)