Sealed with a Kiss: Eulogy for Bob Loup
Based on the Song of Songs (Chapter 8: 6-7) We place you Bob as a seal upon our hearts We place you Bob as a seal upon our arms For love is truly stronger than death A fire whose flame burns eternally For all the waters of the world Cannot extinguish our love for you Rita […]
Dr. David Sanders’ Interview with Science of Mind Magazine
Exciting! An excerpt from Dr. David Sanders’ Interview with Science of Mind Magazine’s February Issue Finding the Parallels: An Ancient Practice in Today’s World by Julie Mierau “There are things that science may not be able to ever explain,” Sanders says. “The mystery is that there is mystery. Quantum entan- glement in physics — that […]
Wonder Girls
At bedtime last night my girls wanted to know the names of female superheroes and were thrilled to hear me name Wonder Woman. I had little more to add to describing her to them as the last encounter I had with her was a comic book fifty years ago. I looked her up to learn […]
No Strings Attached
These are not whirling dervishes about to place their hats upon their heads. The caption under this photo reads: “Karen (Berg) charging the Red String of the Kabbalah Centre.” In 2012 the Kabbalah Centre led an Energy Tour to Israel which included a visit to the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem “to connect and charge […]
Tumbling Walls
Man is a great wall builder The Berlin Wall The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem But the wall most impregnable Has a moat flowing with fright around his heart A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through without a door for love to walk in. These few lines of poetry by the South African […]
Body Worn Cameras
Those familiar with Malcom Gladwell’s book Tipping Point might recognize that technological advances are now tipping the scales of justice. It is a matter of time before every police officer in this country will be outfitted with a body camera. Statistics do not tell a personal story but they do tell a collective story. […]
The Depth of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is really nothing more than an act of self-healing and self-empowerment. I call it a miracle medicine. It is free, it works and has no side effects. The day I forgave the Nazis, privately I forgave my parents whom I hated all my life for not having saved me from Auschwitz. Children expect […]
Dayenu — The Present is Enough
I recently received a message from my computer, which can be very courteous if it is in a good mood, alerting me that memory was almost full. Any one of your external brains may signal you about reaching critical capacity—too many photos, texts, emails etc. Can you imagine if you periodically received a message from […]
Wishes for a Meaningful Pass Over
Dear KE Community: A few years ago a group of hip Jews wrote and published The New American Haggadah for Passover. For me there was not that much new about it, and beside it being in English, I was not sure what made it American. So this year I created a new Haggadah based […]
The Darkness of Male Supremacy
In 1947, amidst the struggles of the birth of the State of Israel a young Bedouin shepherd boy stumbled across a half-dozen or more clay jars secreted in a cave in the area of Qumran. His findings, which he sold for less than $50, are the priceless Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of mostly Hebrew […]