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The music of Bob Marley makes me feel really, really good. I could be in the worst mood, stuck in traffic…Whatever…All I have to do is click on ‘One Love’, ‘Exodus’ or ‘No Woman No Cry’ and my spirits soar. However, my knowledge of Bob Marley was limited. I knew that he was a Rastafarian, […]
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Learning from many teachers and many sources helps us embody God’s eternity and God’s majesty, and helps us bring godliness into the world. Join Rabbi Michael Knopf as he explores these ideas in the 8th chapter of the Tomer Devorah by Rabbi Moses Cordovero. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/036.mp3Podcast: Download
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In this episode of Meet Me At the Tzomet (the Intersection) Rabbi Arnie Samlan, of Jewish Connectivity talks about the fact that in the amidah prayer, we say “The God of Abraham, The God of Isaac, The God of Jacob, The God of Sara…” We reference each God separately because each of our ancestors had their own relationship […]
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This week, Aaron Herman had the opportunity to speak to Felicia Herman of Natan and Emily Comisar from Birthright Israel Next
What does it take to be a social entrepreneur? Once you have an “innovative” idea how do you get it funded? Luckily, there are opportunities for young innovators to bring their projects to market and help foster their skills. We had the opportunity to speak with Felicia Herman of Natan and Emily Comisar from Birthright Israel Next about the Natan/Birthright Israel NEXT Grants for Social Entrepreneurs.
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This week we read about the final dedication of the Mishkan. Aaron offers up the priestly sacrifce and it is accepted. Then his two sons, Nadav and Abihu offer up an addition al sacrifice that wasn’t in the game plan. The text says that they used: “Aish Zarah” – strange or foreign fire and were punished […]
Rav Kook, the Song of Songs, tribalism and universality. Rabbi David Ingber on the eight day of passover. For more information please visit romemu.org. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/romemu/069.mp3Podcast: Download
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During a recent class, my Kitah Gimel students received a gift from the religious school, a gift that would have been unthinkable, even shocking, decades ago when I was in the 6th grade of a classical Reform “Sunday School.” Each Kitah Gimel student received a copy of the Journal Edition of the Reform siddur, Mishkan […]
In this episode of Meet Me At the Tzomet (the Intersection) Rabbi Arnie Samlan, of Jewish Connectivity talks about Moses who is a great example of a person who has to make huge changes in his life. What do you do when you are forced or motivated to make changes? Please let us know your thougths on our […]
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A recent study shows that the more business books you read, the more money you are likely to make in a lifetime. In this episode of Oy Vey Isn’t A Strategy, Deborah shares key concepts from three of her favorite business books – and how you can apply these practical ideas to your own work […]
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You’ve probably seen the commercial. A pretty young woman wakes up in her young person’s cheaply-decorated apartment bedroom. She smiles, stretches and leaps from the edge of the bed and in one effortless motion she pulls off an unsightly lighting fixture from the ceiling and reveals the stylish ceiling
fan hidden underneath. She returns to the room, dressed as a bride, carried over the threshold by a handsome groom. She spins out of his arms, peeling off all the ugly old wallpaper and revealing the attractive yellow paint job underneath. In a graceful cascade of never-ending movement, they flash through their lives- dad lifts the young kids off a dingy, toy-strewn rug, mom pulls up the rug and, with the help of her now-teenage boys, rolls out a new carpet and serves them lemonade without missing a beat. Her gracefully aging husband comes down the stairs and joyfully dances as he pushes the kitchen wall back, opening up the space and revealing French doors. The scene shifts and the much older couple are hosting a family gathering on the patio. The husband asks the wife to dance, evoking the courtship of their youth, and as they tenderly move around each other, their two grown sons dance around the perfect green lawn with wives and children of their own. The camera pulls back and the sun begins to set on a perfect American day as the Lowe’s logo appears on the screen along with the slogan “Never Stop Improving.”. Throughout it all, that song keeps playing- you know the one cause it sticks in your head like gum under a theatre seat (trust me, I’m an expert): “Don’t stop doing what you do”
It’s a great commercial, right? Brilliant and inspiring and a total crock of shit.
Seriously, the guy who made this commercial should fucking die. He should be beaten to death with his Clios or forced to eat them all, so that his stomach explodes and he dies really painfully and then gets eaten cock first by a gluttonous gangster and, by the way, if you haven’t seen The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover then do yourself a favor and DON’T. It’s soooo not worth seeing just to get that reference. Wikipedia if you must or just pretend I made a Hunger Games reference or something else current and that I’m not just some weird aging freakazoid who’s pop-culture reference points are still stuck in the 90’s (“Hunger Games” that’s a thing, right? I can’t keep up with all these new-fangled “books” you kids are reading today. Back in my day we didn’t bother with any of that “reading” nonsense. We just watched Ren and Stimpy on VHS in our dorm rooms and we liked it!)
