Our Weekend

[davidfcooper]

Yesterday I slept late & stayed home in the morning/early afternoon while Shoshana went to shul and then to Artez'n where she had an appointment with the gallery owner & brought several small works of which five were aceepted and will be exhibited there. When she got home we walked about a mile to Veggie Castle in Flatbush:
http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/28veggiecastle/
http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryDining.asp?JournalID=50449&EntryID=29518&n=Veggie+Castle
http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=2322
http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/usa/Brooklyn-Vegetarian-Restaurants.htm
(third restaurant from bottom)
where the food was delicious (it always is). We had veggie pepper steak and veggie bar-b-q chunks with broccoli, carrots, lo mein noodles (Sh) and mashed potatoes (me) with casava cake for dessert. The servings were ample and it was good to walk it off.

Today Shoshana is in Washington, D.C. for the Darfur rally. Our shul has two buses going there, but to her dismay what Shosh didn't realized is that the organizers plan to sing and daven on the way down. Why do they have to turn everything into a religious summer camp activity? Shosh is thinking that by the time she gets there she'll be so fed up that she'll make a token appearance at the rally & then ditch the group & do the museums. If I get my act together there's a classical concert I could attend (also at our shul where I have a zero gravity recliner--I have to keep my feet higher than my heart when in a stationary position to facilitate my impaired lymph drainage in the lower extremities).

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Today Shoshana is in Washington, D.C. for the Darfur rally

[ragecarnuu.livejournal.com]

Chicago has theirs tomorrow, should be a big one.

Re: Today Shoshana is in Washington, D.C. for the Darfur rally

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I hope there's a decent turn-out and that the powers that be are inspired to act.

[richardf8]

Our shul has two buses going there, but to her dismay what Shosh didn't realized is that the organizers plan to sing and daven on the way down. Why do they have to turn everything into a religious summer camp activity?

Sounds wonderful. Much as Morgan and I love Reform (the theology of the halakhic movements imply too heavily a God who is too arbitrary in His commandments), getting them to daven voluntarily can be a challenge - and its not as if a reform service is even long enough to be burdensome. But I can imagine it gets old when everything gets treated like a youth-group event.

We had our Darfur rally today. It rained but we had about 750 people on the steps of the capitol at Saint Paul. It was organizes mostly by Jewish congregations, with our Rabbi, Sim Glaser, leading the charge.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Shoshana and I grew up in the Reform movement, but after living in Israel we found it strange to go back to praying in English. 20 years after our yeridah we still find the reform liturgy too watered down and the services seem to entail too much spoon feeding. We support those on the left wing of the consevative movement (http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/01/02/will-an-apology-be-forthcoming/), like Neil Gilman, who argue that the movement should no longer consider itself halachic.

Our congregation, Kane Street Synagogue (http://kanestreet.org) had the largest per capita participation of any shul from the greater NYC area in the Washington demonstration.