yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com
Yoeitzdrian!: Resources
http://yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com/2012/09/resources.html
Thoughts About Jewish Education in the 21st Century and Beyond. Friday, September 7, 2012. I haven’t been writing much on this blog of late, but I have been actively posting on Twitter, and saving things of interest to Pinterest and Bo.lt. I encourage you to check out the articles and posts I’ve made to Pinterest:. Https:/ bo.lt/app/account/migdalorguy/jewish education. Https:/ bo.lt/app/account/migdalorguy/social media. Personally, I’m finding Bo.lt a more useful tool. Posted by Adrian Durlester.
yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com
Yoeitzdrian!: April 2011
http://yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
Thoughts About Jewish Education in the 21st Century and Beyond. Monday, April 11, 2011. You, Ewe, Yew, U. Note: This is a blog post in progress. I plan to continue editing and updating this post, so please keep that in mind while reading it. Now this is of course not surprising. Texting shorthand has been finding its way into school work at many grade levels for some time now. Slang and other types of shorthand have been finding their way into common usage throughout the history of language. It seems fai...
yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com
Yoeitzdrian!: Paying It Forward – My 2011 Birthday Experience
http://yoeitzdrian.blogspot.com/2011/04/paying-it-forward-my-2011-birthday.html
Thoughts About Jewish Education in the 21st Century and Beyond. Monday, April 4, 2011. Paying It Forward – My 2011 Birthday Experience. Posted both here and on my Migdalor Guy blog]. Yesterday was an amazing day. It was my 56th birthday, and I spent the morning teaching Jewish music to kids at the SAJ, most of the afternoon on a bus back to Amherst, and a quite evening here with a wonderful birthday dinner and desert. Probably not many of them. Are they just marketing tools? The collective effect of all ...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: August 2015
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, August 28, 2015. Random Musing Before Shabbat-Ki Tetzei 5775- Re-Honoring Inconsistency. It’s one of the more flippant musings I’ve written over the years, and I’m in a flippant mood, what with school starting Monday, religious school starting soon thereafter, and HHD choir rehearsals and other preparations in full swing. I revel in inconsistencies. So I thought I’d give this musing. Let's take a look, shall we?
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: July 2015
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Random Musing Before Shabbat–D’varim 5775–Kumu V’ivru (Revised 5760). Parasha D'varim is a retelling. You might think that Moshe rabbeinu might have started this retelling with the story of the Israelite sojourn into Egypt, descent into slavery, and our miraculous delivery from Pharaoh and Egyptian slavery. (Like our Pesakh haggadah, except containing Moses! Surely not. If we look further along...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: Random Musing Before Shabbat–Eikev 5774 (Redux 5773) -The Hills Are Alive
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/random-musing-before-shabbateikev-5774.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, August 15, 2014. Random Musing Before Shabbat–Eikev 5774 (Redux 5773) -The Hills Are Alive. Anyway, as you peruse last year’s musing, you’ll see why it is still so apropos. Eikev 5773 - The Hills Are Alive. By this time, you must be wondering what all this has to do with the weekly parasha. Don’t worry, I’ll get there. Eventually. Now my work has shifted. I have been “between jobs” as they say, in t...I don’t...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: January 2015
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, January 30, 2015. Random Musing Before Shabbat–Beshalakh 5775–I’m Not Doing It Alone. How many times have we heard it? How many times have we said it ourselves? 8220;Come with me! 8221; “If you won’t come with me then I won’t go! וּמָשַכְתִי אֵלֶיךָ אֶל־נַחַל קִישׁוֹן אֶת־סִֽיסְרָא שַר־צְ...8211; the word used here is from the same Hebrew used in the previous verse for “draw.” So, in truly modern...So far so goo...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: April 2015
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, April 24, 2015. Random Musing Before ShabbatTazria-Metzora 5775–Singing a Song of Leprosy Again. Those of you who know me well know that I have a penchant for working to redeem the so-called irredeemable texts. These misogynist, bloody, and questionably unethical texts abound in our sacred literature. In my musing for this parasha in 5758 (1997-1998,) I wrote in part:. Writing in 5762 (2001-2002) I said:. Now that'...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: March 2015
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, March 27, 2015. Random Musing Before Shabbat–Tzav/Shabbat HaGadol 5775–Two Way Street (Revised). The nature of covenant has been on my mind of late, and this musing, originally written in 2004, provides one glimpse at what a covenantal relationship could be like. The reading is full of so many gems. In verse 8, we read. הֲיִקְבַּע אָדָם אֱלֹהִים. Can a person cheat G”d? And G”d's answer is. וַֽאֲמ...G”d answe...
migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com
Migdalor Guy's New Blog: December 2014
http://migdalorguysblog.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Migdalor Guy's New Blog. Random Musings About Life, Torah, Judaism and Everything. Friday, December 26, 2014. Random Musing Before Shabbat–Vayiggash 5775–Rule #2. It’s an old adage, that appears in many variations:. Rule #1: [X] is never wrong. Rule #2: When [X] is wrong, refer to Rule #1. It's a powerful metaphor - the sticks representing the peoples of the two Kingdoms - Judah and Israel - with G"d, through Ezekiel, foretelling their return to Zion from exile. No "lost tribes" in this story. G"d te...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT