We hosted a small dinner gathering of localization professionals, which presented an opportunity to collaborate with a pair of native speakers reading Kaddish.
the red kaddish walking tour
SUNDAY, MAY 15 • 2PM Red Kaddish Walking Tour The stories and voices of past Jewish and Russian radicals come to life on this combination walking tour/performance art piece visiting sites of political radicalism of 19th-century Lower East Side. Fiks maps the Lower East Side of Emma Goldman via writings by Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, Abraham Cahan’s via Russian revolutionary…
daily kaddish: heart events
I decided to try making a Kaddish that told the story Mira told us about her evening in the ER.
the heart of the matter
I used to be able to spend decades not thinking about my own demise, although as a teen thoughts of mortality were a constant companion. But in recent years, watching the death and dying of family members and friends, the mortality thing seemed to dominate absolutely everything else. Still, ‘my own demise’ is a fairly…
daily kaddish: for karl savage
Our friend J. Todd Ormsbee shared a yizkor of his dear friend Karl Savage recently, and tonight’s Kaddish recording is for Karl. Todd told me a bit more about Karl after seder at Mira’s, and I can still see the sadness in Todd’s eyes as he quietly answered my questions.
how to play Rook Wanamingo style
A kaddish for all my Norwegian-Minnesotan relatives who played the most cutthroat game of Rook you can imagine.
daily kaddish: for the sjsu parking lot 3, and thanks
A kaddish for the three killed in the SJSU parking lot shooting Tuesday night, and a prayer of thanks that Mira parks in a different garage.
a kaddish for the music man
A kaddish for Bill McDonald, The Music Man, the guy who finally taught me trumpet for marching band several years after teaching me horn against his better judgment. A kaddish for the guy who led a whole community through its seasons for six long, exhausting years.
the sjsu parking garage shooting — a kaddish —
I’ve never worried about the SJSU parking garages. All these many years of night classes, of colleagues and students getting police escorts back to their cars at night — I’ve never once seen the necessity. And I don’t see it now, either. And yet, last night, while I was heading for my own car in…
daily kaddish: for hindy nobler
An audio response to Mira’s kaddish for her biofather’s wife, incorporating yesterday’s joint reading of the text.