Your favorite banjo playing Georgia boy brings you a few kind words about the Jewish new year. L’Shana Tovah! Share this:
White is Right (in this context anyway)
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What do we as Jews do that makes us so deserving of G-d’s praise and warm light? What have we done in order to wear white on Yom Kippur and not deem ourselves hypocrites within the halls of our shuls and the streets of our communities? White is such an unflattering color! Yet, this white [...]
Tisha B’Av: We Messed Up!
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
PunkTorah will be holding an interactive online Lamentation. Together we will mourn and lament. Right here! At 9:15 PM Central. Participate in the “build-a-lamentation” where we will work together to create a work to be featured on PunkTorah.org! Tonight starts the fast of Tisha B’Av, the ninth of Av. What does that mean? There are [...]
Shavuos Thoughts
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
(Originally Posted Here) By Heshy Fried One of my status updates on facebook yesterday was that I was wondering what to write about for Shavuos. One of the people responded that I should write about how wonderful it was to come to shul to see everyone learning and that I should write something good about [...]
What Is Shavuot?
May 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Shavuot celebrates the revelation of Sinai and the giving of the Torah. It started as a harvest festival and has now morphed, as many holidays do, into something more cerebral and…of course…filled with glorious food. This holiday is marked by a tribute to dairy. Why? Well, we’re not exactly sure. There’s mystical reasons, and historical [...]
Laggin’ On Lag B’Omer
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I get the feeling that Jewish holidays were developed by drunk rabbis throwing darts at a dartboard with words like “etrog”, “no leaven” and “bows and arrows” written on them. Had the inebriated rabbis thrown differently, we’d have holidays like Yom Lag Ba’Chanukkah, which includes repenting our sins while throwing menorahs at your fireplace. Lag [...]
D’var Torah for Earth Day
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earth Day is a Jewish holiday! Share this:
A Punk Exodus
April 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Now every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock-n-roll grabs the mike to tell us, he’ll die before he’s sold…” – Death or Glory, The Clash By Eric Odier-Fink Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. We’re taught that each of us should feel as if we were personally taken out of Egypt, and [...]
