http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:44:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Initially to the tune of Fiddler on the roof, please try it – yes, I know it’s a stretch.)Transition! Transition. Transition! Transition. Transition!Just now I bite into a perfectly toasted bagel, note the blandness of the cream cheese, slippery fishiness of the lox, and the aromatic of the onion, soothing juiciness of the ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2009/04/17/rebbe-on-the-road-cross-country-2009-the-entertainer/ Goldie: “Zman heyruteynu mikra kodesh - times we are free holiness happens,” this line from the Passover Kiddush leapt to mind as one of the docent’s vignettes struck a chord of awe. Last week, in Richmond, VA we perched for one-night at the reasonable and excellent Museum B&B. While the ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2009/04/12/rebbe-on-the-road-north-america-2009-part-i-times-we-are-free/ We're off teaching across the country starting April 2009 - we'll be featuring communities, teachings and sights to see through a Jewish spiritual lens as we travel.  We hope you enjoy the blog when it begins and write to us with ideas and reflections when you can!  Rabbi Goldie Milgram ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2009/02/12/rebbe-on-the-road-2009-blog-start-in-april/ Goldie: A few days back we visited the birth place of the opera composer Rossini - Pesaro, by the sea. There was a line about Rossini that awakened some new consciousness for me as an organizer. It was about how he would spend time getting to know the vocalists and rewrite ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/05/19/o-soul-o-we-o/ We are on a mountain top in Urbino, Italy at the university, home to a key stem cell bioethics professore. [pro-fessor-ey], central to my own recent professional research, so this is exciting. We’re finished with the cruise-rabbi segment of this trip, but one thing that happened on the ship connects ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/05/11/cellutations-from-urbino/ Rebbe on the Road: A Dearly Belated Seder Goldie:  Ellie the Elder breaks off a fragment of afikomen, wraps it in a napkin and quite obviously places it in her purse. The fellow beside her jokingly asks if she koshered her purse for Passover or, perchance, is the afikomen lodging next ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/04/27/a-dearly-belated-seder/ Rebbe on the Road Europe 2008 Part One: Hard"ship" Radical awe is my favorite companion in life. Via cruise, we’ve just spent a day each in Rome and Barcelona, cities where the tipping points of civilizations yield magnificent markers of art, literature and architecture. Time’s airbrushed streets of Barcelona’s former Jewish ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/04/14/rebbe-on-the-road-europe/ We’re back home in Philadelphia My teacher, Rabbi Dr. Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer wrote to say the Buddhist seminary across from the rabbinical college needs a homiletics teacher, would I be interested. What a cool compliment. Meanwhile, just about everyone I know who’s Jewish knows more about Buddhism than I do and when ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/03/16/reform-buddhism-go-figure/ Curacao was heart-breaking. A world heritage site is located here that contains a room of a man named Jacob’s collection of biblical period and earlier artifacts is better known for its museum on the history of the slave trade on that island. Here individuals stolen from their villages in Africa ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/03/16/curious-curacao-simmering-st-martin/ The pride of place, language and culture we witnessed among residents of Puerto Rico resembled what I wish more Jewish people could recover. This sense of cultural pride was uniquely evident on the cruise ship we boarded for a week’s travels around the islands.  While I was serving as rabbi, ... http://reclaimingjudaism.org/blog/2008/03/16/cruise-ship-rabbi/