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And then the long silver bar which you see in the photo above, across the front of the reading table, was affixed to the rollers of the scroll -- holding it braced open -- and two people together raised it and turned in a circle, showing the Torah to the assembled crowd.
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Read Shabbat morning, Italian-style (Links)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |The Nava Tehila leaders in Reb Ruth|'|s living room, singing the |"|Lecha Dodi|"| we davened this week.| | | | | | | |Nava Tehila| |, the local Jewish Renewal minyan, meets once a month.
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Read Waltzing through erev Shabbat with Nava Tehila (Links)
In the world I usually inhabit, capris and a tank top are a legitimate way for a Jewish woman to dress; why should I relinquish that here?| | | | |I believe strongly that there|'|s nothing shameful about the human body.
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Read Jerusalem panopticon (Links)
Read This week's portion: downside (Links)
Some of the Palestinians| |translated their own remarks into English, and some of the Israelis translated their| |own remarks into Arabic; Hamdan translated graciously for everyone else.
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Read The All Nations Café (Links)
I followed an old lady through and emerged into the space before| |the Kotel plaza.| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |I snapped a surreptitious shot of this sign (which forbids photography on Shabbat),| |then walked over to the women|'|s side of the wall.
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Read A solitary sight-seeing Shabbat (Links)
Feeling these two things at the same time -- well, facing| |that tension is part of why I wanted to visit the West Bank, but wow, this never gets easy, does it?| | | |After we left the mosque, we walked down to the shopping street below.
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Read A day in Bethlehem and Hebron (Links)
And it feels| |true to me in the way that all good novels are true: it|'|s a reflection of real human emotional realities, and in places it takes my breath away.| | | | |Ravel spent early childhood on a kibbutz in| |northern Israel, and now lives in Canada.
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Read A novel by Edeet Ravel (Links)
As I| |entered (and went directly to embrace dear friends), Dafna -- one of the| |two musicians who collaborates with Reb Ruth to create | |Nava Tehila| | -- was playing guitar and| |singing a | |niggun| | version of |"| |Yedid Nefesh| |,|"| a love song to| |God.
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Read Another Renewal (and renewing) Shabbat (Links)
On the one hand they feel so restrictive to my modern sensibility, presuming| |as they do that if a woman is tied to a man (as his daughter or his wife) then his word trumps| |even her sincerest promises. | | |And on the other hand there|'|s a hint of progressive values here.
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Read This week's portion: promises (Links)
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