I’m not going to craft another list of facts to defend Israel’s moral military restraint or highlight the IDF’s legal and ethical accountability systems. I won’t recite doctrine or try to sanitize reality. Mistakes have been made—some unbearable. But I will point out that 381 million people live in the Middle East, and just 8 million Jews—.02% of the population—live in Israel because they are not allowed to live anywhere else in the region. Israel’s land mass makes up just .002% of the entire Middle East.

Moral Fatigues

We are looking forward to an inspiring High Holy Days season and can’t wait to welcome you. One highlight: on Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur evening – October 1), we are thrilled to welcome the Divisi Strings Quartet to our bima, joining Daphnee Johnson, Kelly Dean, Andrew Lienhard, and our soloist (in her 8th year), Hannah Madeleine Goodman. Together, they will lift our spirits higher than ever before.
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Waves of concern, Circles of care

One of the lighter discoveries I’ve come to appreciate while traveling is the simple joy of “scootering” around a city. Yes, scooters carry their share of controversy—safety concerns, cluttered sidewalks, and general urban chaos—but in Tel Aviv I found them both useful and delightful. They are also highly regulated. For example, as I cruised down the boardwalk one evening, my scooter automatically slowed itself to 9 km/h in a congested pedestrian zone. At 9 p.m., under the glow of streetlights, I passed one beach volleyball court after another—each lit up and full of players, hundreds of them, laughing, diving, and spiking. 

Israel, scooters, and volleyball at Night

If the RPMs of your brain waves keep getting interrupted by a record scratch that repeats phrases like, “Why me?” or “What about me?” or “When is it my turn?”, you may have fallen into the circle of control. To climb your way out, just try to remember, “It’s always your turn. You just need to remember to take it.” Then reexamine your yearning in terms of what you can actually do – what power is in your own hands already? And as the Nike commercial says, “Just do it.” 

Just Do It

And there we are, on Rosh Hashanah, check in hand, with a list of what we have consumed over the past year: how much credit have we drawn upon and how much did we reinvest? How much stability have we weakened, and how much have we shored up?  How much optimism have we squandered and how much hope have we reinstilled? 

Check please!

Chicago Style Kids - Careless Whisper

For anyone old enough to remember where they were when the towers came down on September 11, 2001, we still live with the shock. Maybe we learn from our past. May we learn from our strength and resilience.

Kaddish for September 11

Millenial survival against all odds (the story of the Jews) isn’t at all the only reason we should observe our rituals and traditions, but it’s a good start. Showing up, inviting ourselves into the moment, freeing ourselves from only rational measures of the successes and failures of our lives is what we are called to, and especially because we can do so without fear of missiles and rockets raining down on us, I ask you to not only bring your bodies to our Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe), but don’t forget your minds, and souls, memories, and imagination. 

Tzeva Adom - Red Alert


Ooh-woah, ahh-ahh
Ooh-woah, ahh-ahh (yeah)
It's the Chicago Style.

Who want's a fucking kebab?


Pull up, midnight on the street,
hunger in my belly, ravioli on my feet.
Really fancy a kebab, from the boss man
Hey boys, i've got a plan
Ali Barba's takeaway you know it's time
Lets kick his fucking head in, it's a kebab crime.


Hands in the air, but no alarms ring true,
Give me all your fucking donner, or I'll dookie in your shoe
I'm dying for a kebab, so give me your donner
Hand over the meat or i swear you're a gonner!

GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING DONNER MEAT, NOW!
I WON'T ASK AGAIN.


Din dan donner. Oh baby you're a gonner
So you're gonna, hand over all your donner!
We got pockets full of doner, baby, overflowing,
Grease-stained denim, everywhere we’re going.
Pocket full of doner, my pockets splitting wide,
Assaulting the boss man, forcing donner in my insides
(Ooh-ooh, doner, doner — ahh)
Din dan donner. Oh baby you're a gonner
So you're gonna, hand over all your donner! 
ohhh hand over all your donnerrrrrrr
GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR FUCKING DONNER.


Got Raj in a headlock, and i'm on a donner spree
But it’s not about the stealing it's about the meat for me
Not gonna pay later, just filling my pockets and I'm gone
I've got a length of donner meat wrapped around my shlong.


My fucking pockets are bulging like balloons, oh man —
The grease is seaping through to my skin, and that was the plan
Filled my car full of kebab,and a little salad too
Tomorrow on the boggy, i'm going to drop a poo.

My sphincter will look like an exploded joke cigar.
How am I supposed to pass all of this donner meat...


Din dan donner. Oh baby you're a gonner
So you're gonna, hand over all your donner!
We got pockets full of doner, baby, overflowing,
Grease-stained denim, everywhere we’re going.
Pocket full of doner, my pockets splitting wide,
Assaulting the boss man, forcing donner in my insides
(Ooh-ooh, doner, doner — ahh)
Din dan donner. Oh baby you're a gonner
So you're gonna, hand over all your donner! 
ohhh hand over all your donnerrrrrrr
GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR FUCKING DONNER.


Ahh-ahh, pockets of meattt (ooooooh)
Ahh-ahh, i'm a midnight doner lover (ooh)
Ooh-woah, Shove it up my ass and grab another ooooooooooh yeah.

There's a pitta bread on my dong.


Chicago Style Kids - Midnight Donna Lover

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