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Raksha's Personal Blog: January 2012

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Jewish Identity: The Battle for Self-Definition - 2. NOTE: This is the continuation of an essay originally written to be posted as one long blog entry. I had to break it into two parts because of technical issues I'm having with the Blogger draft window. Part 1 is here. The reason they so desperately wanted us to rebuild the. Assuming we were interested. For me...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: April 2010

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Sunday, April 25, 2010. Just To See If I Can Do It. I just spent the last six hours trying to reconfigure my blog, and almost nothing I tried worked. That's basically why I decided to post tonight- I was determined to have. To show for all that frustration and wasted time if it killed me! Besides, it was getting embarrassing that I haven't put up a new blog post in over four months.

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Raksha's Personal Blog: December 2011

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Friday, December 2, 2011. Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times. Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. Yes For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. I cannot tell you often enough that we are definitely the leaders we have been waiti...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: December 2009

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Monday, December 14, 2009. I stood alone at the foot of Sinai,. A stranger among my people. There was one who called my name,. And we stood together at the foot of Sinai,. But my strangeness came between us. I gave him my love on the Day of the Covenant—. He never knew what door it was he closed against me,. Or what was broken with my heart. I turned away from him on the Day of Atonement,.

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Raksha's Personal Blog: Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Friday, December 2, 2011. Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times. Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. Yes For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. I cannot tell you often enough that we are definitely the leaders we have been waiti...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: August 2014

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Monday, August 4, 2014. A Recovering Zionist: Approaching the Starting Point. A few additional words of explanation are in order here. On July 28, 2014, my daughter Rebecca Riyana Sang began a weeklong blogging workshop called The Big, Beautiful Summer Blogging Challenge. The picture above shows a Palestinian boy in Gaza in July 2014. August 2, 2014. This rhetoric is called hasbara. I have...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: Broken Glass

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Saturday, September 3, 2011. I saw the shattered light on broken glass. Reflected in your eyes when we were young,. Though you were still unborn. The night the glass was broken. I could not name it in those vanished days-. Some of it, yes—but not all of it,. Yet I vowed to keep the flame alive,. To bear witness to what I could not name. Now, having learned better how to translate. 8220;How...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: Jewish Identity: The Battle For Self-Definition

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Jewish Identity: The Battle For Self-Definition. I don’t know why I never got around to saying this in so many words before. For years I’ve believed that the foundational freedom, the one essential right that precedes and supports all the others, is the right to self-definition. 8220;What does being Jewish mean to you personally? As a member of the first post-H...

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Raksha's Personal Blog: August 2009

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Personal ruminations of an unreconstructed aging hippie, with frequent time travel between past, present and future. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Coyote in My DNA (2). Remember the sonnet word-for-word than that I wouldn’t. It turned out to be not quite word-for-word, but pretty damn close! I only got one short phrase at the beginning of one line wrong. I had written:. 8220;If you were not lovely I would leave you now…”. 8220;Were you not lovely I would leave you now…”. 8220;Can you believe that? All three o...