Three Photo Spiritual Journeys were taken to walk in the footsteps of the greats within the Jewish continuum…Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rabbi Joseph Caro and Baruch Spinoza. I took a month for each of these contributors to the world’s knowledge. Many roads traveled: Portugal, Spain, Holland, Morocco, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt and Israel. A total…
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A Peek Inside
A rabbi, chaplain, liturgist, photographer, poet, teacher & tutor, storyteller, blogger and sometimes humorist is me. A father, grandfather, friend and sweetheart is me. A Warriors and Bulls basketball fan, 49er and Chicago Bear football fan and Chicago Cub baseball fan is me. A creative liberal and Democrat is me. Two hundred baby namings is…
Thus Begins a Three Dog Night
There is a joyful essence in the animals I photograph. They are different from the norm. They fall on the scale near the end that represents their form rendered artistically. And yet, we know them. They are different but same. They are playful, imaginative and friendly. I guess it takes one to know one.
Do Not Feed the Animals
My cousin Cary is a Big Game hunter…bagged, stuffed and mounted the big Five in record time. Very impressive, especially that shotgun blast in a charging lions face! And I shot my big Five as well… I had a more difficult time “pulling the trigger” because my shots were of animals not trying to eat…
Creatures in All the Wild Places
When I was 12 years old, I began to pursue a career. I gave it great thought and a decision was made and set in stone. I was going to be a Veterinarian! I loved animals, but their dander set off my asthma every time I left the Big Cat House at Brookfield Zoo. And,…
…falling on my face
The State protects. The community protects. Parents protect. We protect. We cover others with love and with kindness. We cover them with acknowledgment and with authenticity. We cover them religiously with experiences of relationship and with forays into the world of drama and of dimension. We cover them with opportunities to question, to discover, to…
Some Might Avert Their Eyes
Look, I see what I see. I notice form and composition, content and consequence. And, if there is a tinge of naughty in the frame, it is all the better. When I was a rooky rabbi in San Diego, my friend and fellow shooter, Sid F., called me up and invited me over for a…
The Funniest Sound in the Universe
We laugh because it’s funny and we laugh because it’s painful. We laugh because we are embarrassed and we laugh because we are embarrassing. We laugh because the truth is a fiction and fiction may be a humorous reality difficult to bear. We laugh because a stereotype is not politically correct and because what is…
…they just fade away
The Commander of our Military Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur, in an address to the nation quoted a verse from an old US Army song. He said, “Old soldiers never die…they just fade away”. I officiated at a funeral two years ago for a man born in Ukraine…
Mainly Black and White
The Art Critic and Exhibition Reviewer for the Los Angeles Times called me a “Colorsmith” when commenting on my last photographic show at the Art Center in Ojai, California. We live in a colorful world filled with resonance, vibration, discord and harmony. I am attracted by that color. I feel its energy. And yet, have…
