A kaddish for Oscar Grant, on the day of his killer’s release from jail after serving a single year.
Category: kaddish in two-part harmony
The Academic and the Musician. The academic immerses in Kaddish with thoughts of thinking rather than feeling—the emotions being too raw. The musician spends her time in making us feel, whether we want to or not. And making the music of kaddish. Making music kadosh. A flurry of emails ensue between the two. Their blogs lock horns, as do the writers themselves. They start a joint blog. They start a podcast.
A commitment to a year-long project has begun: a kaddish in two-part harmony.
A conversation among an anthropologist, a musician, and their audience on themes of death and dying, grief, ritual, the interplay between musician and listener.
my father’s favorite boys speak up
Did the tzaddik walk into a bar? Did he drink a beer? Did he watch the World Series on that day? So. The answer appears to be (I’ll cut to the chase) — no, he did not. The whole tzaddik walks into a bar story that I told, turns out to be almost completely off….
daily kaddish: for sadness of houses
Houses seem to have a sadness of their own when things are not right with their inhabitants. This is a Kaddish for the sadnesses of houses.
bonus kaddish: for chuck stine, from the blooper reel
This is from the blooper reel of Mira’s and my attempt to make a Kaddish for Chuck Stine on his Yahrtzeit.
daily kaddish: for chuck stine
Tonight’s Kaddish is for Chuck Stine, my friend Sharon Jacobson Stine’s husband, on his Yahrtzeit.
daily kaddish: for oscar, tim’s wiener dog
Tonight’s Kaddish is for my high school friend Tim’s beloved dog, Oscar, a wiener dog who is gone after only four years being a light in Tim’s life.
daily kaddish: for A.D. Gordon on his birthday
A kaddish for A.D. Gordon z”l on his birthday.
daily kaddish: for jack kevorkian, md
Last Friday, Dr Jack Kevorkian died at age 83 of natural causes.
the religion of labor: remembering a.d. gordon
I can’t seem to let A.D. Gordon go. And yet his is not an ideology that almost anyone seems to care about these days. Isn’t the modern task to seek more leisure and relegate labor to lesser beings — transient workers, illegal immigrants, cheap Arab labor, robots if you’ve got ’em? Aharon David Gordon was…
daily kaddish: for Lev Kogan on his Yahrtzeit
The “kaddish in two-part harmony” project takes Lev Kogan’s “Kaddish” for solo horn as its musical focal point. Kogan died on this day in 2007.