![]() Reb Lesser founded Atlanta’s Rainbow Center, a research and support center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered folk that’s managed by the local Jewish Family and Career Services and sponsored by Lesser’s Reconstructionist and GLBT-welcoming congregation Bet Haverim (House of Friends). There will be obstacles, but you can keep true to your faith and your principles and participate in the American experience.'” Posted in Jews in Sports | 7 Replies Who Says the Deep South Ain’t Progressive?īravo! Brava! Bravissima! to Rabbi Josh Lesser, who was bestowed the Georgia Center for Nonprofits Revolutions Leadership Award last week. ![]() “I told the children, ‘Don’t let this lesson be lost on you. “This is more than clips on a yarmulke,” said the Yeshiva’s headmaster Rabbi Perry Tirschwell. (There’s a discount for bulk orders, and you can even send in your own kippah for modification!) The simple design was approved wholeheartedly and immediately by the Florida High School Athletic Association, a resolution resonant of Talmudic inspiration. Klipped Kippahs made their debut on the heads of Weinbaum’s team, and stay put using small combs attached to the underside. The result: A pin-free kippah that won’t leave the court strewn with clips. This story from Boca Raton has it all diplomacy, ingenunity, and a happy ending: When the powerful governing body of Florida’s high school athletics informed Weinbaum Yeshiva basketball coach Jon Kaweblum that the bobby pins Jewish athletes use to keep their yarmulkes pinned to their heads during games would be suddenly be considered a safety hazard (in spite of the absence of even one hair accessory-related injury in the many decades of Yeshiva sports,) he could have called “foul!” The Yeshiva certainly had a case for religious discrimination, but instead of raising a big stink and threatening to secede from the organization, 26 year-old Kaweblum put his keppe to work to find a solution that wouldn’t punish the players. So until the days are hotter and the nights are shorter, Á presto, amici! (See ya, friends!) Posted in Life, Death and Guilt In Between | 6 Replies Kippot Revolution Dorian Paskowitz: Health nut, Old Testament interpreter and the father of Israeli surfing. ![]() In the meantime, check out this amazing dude, Dr. Once we get back I promise you, dear readers, that I will not be going anywhere for a very long time, as it will likely take me several months to get over the jet lag. Or, I’ll eat too much pasta, develop a taste for chianti and nap a lot.Īfter I return, I’ll have just enough time to wash the marinara stains out of my clothes before the whole family shlep the other way across the latitudes to our old hometown for the famous Fairfax Festival, where we’ll reconnect with our loved ones and assure them that life in the South isn’t nearly as horrible as they’d imagined. Maybe I’ll start that volume of Jewish feminist poetry I’ve always wanted to write. ![]() Yes, that’s right without husband or children. I’ll be unchained from the laptop for the next few weeks, so posting will be on hold unless my dear friend and tushy-coverer Pepe Pringos is able to take some time away from his own busy businesses.įirst, my incredibly generous and cool mother is taking me to Italy (somewhere in the knee section of the boot) for a writing/creativity retreat hosted by author/activist Tania Katan and a coven of other artsy professors.
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