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Megillath Eszter: Back - and forth - again
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Back - and forth - again. With an article I wrote to the international MAROM Journal! If you will be in London on the 21st March please join the event of the Journal's launch. The article is about Lab/shul. Where party and davening. Are merging, and where - perhaps for the first time in my life - I felt I could bring any friends, aquaintances or relatives to be part of it, without feeling out of place! A Gesamtkunstwerk of tfillah. What can other communities learn from it? I first heard about Lab/Shul.
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Megillath Eszter: 05/2011
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I found myself with a bunch of goats and jewish activists during the weekend - somehow - in the woods of Connecticut, two hours from New York, at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. The shop had its effect, I spent all my money on cds, e.g. I bought the two cds of Rav Raz. That I was looking for in Jerusalem, because someone told me he saw it, but I did not find it. I guess, I needed to come until Connecticut to get it. IF is a CSA. Harvest is weekly, and the food is delivered to the members in the area.
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Megillath Eszter: 04/2011
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I have been soooo excited about spending Pesach in Jerusalem since the beginning of the year already. This time last year, when we were singing Hashana haba. After too many cups of red wine - it did not even cross my mind that this will be a self-fulfilling oracle - I mean I did not think that this utopistic symbolic act will actually happen this year. All that just to lead up to an orgy with guitars, matzohs, singing, - until you can't tell the difference between Purim and Pesach. Under the couch, also!
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Megillath Eszter: MOHO Philly
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Friday evening I ended up in the Moishe House in Philadelphia. People arrived after 7 and at 1.30 am party was still going on. They finished all of the alcohol broght by the guests (wine) and the Moishe bar was opened, as well, as I heard. What a great idea! We never had that in Hungary - just a small corner. Becca cooked pasta with tomato sauce Friday evening, but the menu was basically put together from the food that people brought to the party - at least half of the guests brought something to eat!
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Megillath Eszter: 03/2011
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Friday evening I ended up in the Moishe House in Philadelphia. People arrived after 7 and at 1.30 am party was still going on. They finished all of the alcohol broght by the guests (wine) and the Moishe bar was opened, as well, as I heard. What a great idea! We never had that in Hungary - just a small corner. Becca cooked pasta with tomato sauce Friday evening, but the menu was basically put together from the food that people brought to the party - at least half of the guests brought something to eat!
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Megillath Eszter: NU!
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I saw Matisyahu on the street the other day! Ok, it was not Matisyahu, but looked like him. It was actually his 1:1 size image in front of a small shop. In the tiny room there were ca. 8-10 kind of T-shirts hanging and two personnel selling them. They were very nice and helpful, immediately explaining where I am exactly. This is not just a regular shop - they claimed. By buying a shirt I can support different causes! I really liked this initiative - the volunteer in the shop, who was so enthusiastic and ...
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Megillath Eszter: Mimuna
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I have been soooo excited about spending Pesach in Jerusalem since the beginning of the year already. This time last year, when we were singing Hashana haba. After too many cups of red wine - it did not even cross my mind that this will be a self-fulfilling oracle - I mean I did not think that this utopistic symbolic act will actually happen this year. All that just to lead up to an orgy with guitars, matzohs, singing, - until you can't tell the difference between Purim and Pesach. Under the couch, also!
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Megillath Eszter: 11/2013
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New York - a city hiding its past. But also a tough city. You really need to earn. Everything here. Of course, relocating - and starting a new life would be challenging anywhere, I guess, not to mention that I just started a PHD program, at a prestigious university, after having left academia for quite a few years. In addition to that I am managing a really awesome, but really challenging project from here that is happening in Hungary. It involved time-travel! And you know what, maybe that's what we need...
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Megillath Eszter: eco-bio-ezo Jews
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I found myself with a bunch of goats and jewish activists during the weekend - somehow - in the woods of Connecticut, two hours from New York, at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. The shop had its effect, I spent all my money on cds, e.g. I bought the two cds of Rav Raz. That I was looking for in Jerusalem, because someone told me he saw it, but I did not find it. I guess, I needed to come until Connecticut to get it. IF is a CSA. Harvest is weekly, and the food is delivered to the members in the area.
