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Words of the Week: The Plowshare Prayer

by Erika Dreifus on
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Music & Lyrics by Spencer LaJoye
(Adapted lyrics by Cantor Lucy B. Fishbein)

If you find yourself moved by this video—and if I didn’t think that you would be, I wouldn’t be posting it—just imagine, for a moment, what it was like to experience the words and the music for the first time at the Yom Kippur morning service last Saturday.

Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links

by Erika Dreifus on
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Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Thrilled to have had the chance to attend the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference this week. Hope to have at least one or two more detailed posts for you sometime soon, possibly over on the Fig Tree Books blog.
  • Speaking of Fig Tree Books: Notice who has published three of the nine books on JTA’s summer reading list!
  • My weekend plans include catching up on Jerome Charyn’s posts for the Jewish Book Council “Visting Scribe” series.
  • The Forward seeks your help in finding “the best new voices in Jewish music.”
  • “An alarming number of poor souls among our brethren seem to feel that all they require for a genuine Jewishness is Woody Allen and Philip Roth and Jerry Seinfeld.” Just one of many eye-catching lines from Leon Wieseltier, via Tablet.

    • Shabbat shalom.