HeyJaredeBenBrandeis by Benjamin Rubin
Real time Jewish history reports from a time traveling poet spy.
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The Lesser Contains the Greater (opens the original)
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On Monday, at Yom Kippur services at the vulnerable-feeling, police-car-protected entrance to the Jewish Community Center gym in downtown Toronto, our community’s wise and kind Rabbi, Ed Elkin - during a 25-hour fast, between leading services from 9 a.m. and giving an incredibly moving, very personal Yom Kippur sermon about surviving trauma, loss and grief at noon, and four hours before concluding the “Closing of the Gates” neilah service at 8 p.m. - at 4 p.m., our rabbi led a shiur, a public le
One is God, and 3 other poems, one by my sister (opens the original)
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One is GodText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOne is God in the heavens and on Earth. Two is just the two of us, in this big house, aging more or less gracefully. Three is our children. Five is our grandchildren. Six are the millions killed. Seven are the days of our 7th- day week. Eight are the days of circumcision, including my own, that of my son and our grandsons, of my father, and back through to the binding of Isaac, way up on Route 66. Nine are th
There Are Days - ישנם ימים (opens the original)
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It has often seemed to me that when people say that they don’t read poetry - let alone recite it - they think poetry is what you studied in literature class in high school. But the truth is most people know a lot of poetry off by heart, and sometimes even recite it (mostly to themselves) when a line from a song pops into their head. Because of course these days the poems you know off by heart are popular songs, especially songs you first heard in your youth, that time when first you loved popula
Nolan’s Odyssey vs Homer’s Odyssey vs Rubin’s Odyssey (opens the original)
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To take my mind off of current events over which I have no control, I went to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, in a special 70mm engagement at Toronto’s Cineplex Varsity, with a full house of mostly young adults.I am of two minds about this, just as (in T.E. Lawrence’s translation) Odysseus was said to be a “various-minded man”. On one hand, I am loyal to the close reading of The Odyssey that I learned during my Golden Age as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, in the mandatory Humaniti
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