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Maddening, Mundane, Moadim Lesimkhe
The summer wore on, sometimes so open-ended with shifts and worries and overbearing humidity that I found myself questioning how everything would settle into the more regulated academic season in autumn. But time…
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Changing Seasons
While my Omer posts didn’t continue as smoothly as I’d planned, I’ve embarked upon a season of change. I spent many days preparing and helping my parents move, something which is still in…
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Omer 18: Navigating a Negligent World
By now, these Omer posts clearly communicate my own processing of and reflection on the difficulties I, along with many other people, have navigating a topsy-turvy, frightening, sometimes almost debilitating period in history.…
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Omer 17: Unknown in an Upturned World
As I have been thinking about how I want to use my research, skills, experience, ideas in the future, the balance between notoriety and fully blending into the crowd has become more prominent.…
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Omer 16: Emotions in an Entropic World
The last few years, the time and energy required to process emotions about personal life, work and creative enterprises, and the world have increased greatly. As society hurls further and further toward the…
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Omer 15: Dance in a Dark World
This year, I had the opportunity to be in a dance film that is now on exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York in Urban Stomp: Dreams and Defiance on…
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Omer 14: Flowering in a Frantic World
This spring, along with many other people, I am enraptured by the blooming trees and gardens along my paths and throughout the city. I have visited Wave Hill Gardens, the Heather Garden in…
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Omer 13: Preparation in a Panicking World
This season, for my communities and friends, feels like a new time for preparation to bring change and support each other in the upcoming years of difficulty. I certainly feel as though I…
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Omer 12: Listening in a Loud World
This erev Shabbos, I played clarinet for a service in Brooklyn. As is true many weeks, much of the music was played by ear, creating harmonies and chord structures to support singing through…
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Omer 11: Memory in a Moving World
Yesterday evening, I ran supertitles for a Yiddish Play written in 1944 about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (just a year and a half after the event), דער נס אין געטאָ (Der Nes in…