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.
daily kaddish: for ziggy ziggurat zussman
[powerpress] Mira and I have been walking our dogs at Ft Funston in San Francisco a lot lately, and naturally these excursions have led to conversations about the dogs we have loved who walk with us no longer—my Sam, Alex, and Candy Pants, and her Elchanan, Pooch, and Ziggy Ziggurat Zussman. When it came time…
daily kaddish: for e coli victims in europe
An e. coli outbreak traced to German sprouts has brought a death toll of 22 (so far), along with 2,153 people ill, hundreds of them in intensive care.
daily kaddish: for don sr
The funeral for our neighbor Don, Sr. was this afternoon.
daily kaddish: family shabbes
This was a Kaddish made for the whole family
a tzaddik walks into a bar…
They were driving between X and Y — who knows where they’d been. They were rushing. Last game of the World Series was about to start, and they weren’t anywhere near getting back on time to watch the game.
daily kaddish: another glass ceiling shattered
Tonight’s Kaddish is decidedly jaunty as I celebrate the shattering of another glass ceiling: Jill Abramson has been appointed Executive Editor of the New York Times.
daily kaddish: for karen’s mark’s mom
A Kaddish for my friend Karen’s husband Mark’s mom, whose funeral was today.
daily kaddish: for lev kogan
A Kaddish for the composer of this project’s “Kaddish” for solo horn, Lev Kogan, who died in 2007.