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Old and New Heresies: A Double Book-Launch with Rodger Kamenetz, Jay Michaelson, and Basya Schechter Tue, Sep 13 2022 at Congregation Beth Elohim 274 Garfield Place Brooklyn, NY Join us…
The Missing Jew and You: An Elul Workshop with Rodger Kamenetz and Rick Chess Where have you been? Where are you at this very moment? Where are you heading? These…
Asterism Losing infinity I saved up for immediacy. Every hour I put a penny in to see the cornflower open its eye or to hear the thunder mutter proto- names….
GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made…
GILGUL 3: 2022 In the years since I continued to write on Jewish themes, including The Lowercase Jew which Northwestern put out in 2003. I always felt I wanted to…
GILGUL 1 1976 In 1976 after my grandfather David Kamenetz z”l died and my rabbi from childhood, Morris Lieberman died, my friend Dr. Marc Lieberman gave me a copy of…
I wrote this piece about me, Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot in defense of Dylan’s Nobel Prize. Re-upping it today on his 80th birthday. Happy birthday Bob. https://bit.ly/3ukZ7Ei Sign…