Talmud of America
My recent posts..."Talmud of America" Pardes Institute, a non-denominational study center based in Jerusalem, offers immersive Jewish learning around the world. One project is “Talmud of America,” which aims to illuminate and interpret, through Jewish eyes, some...
Twilight Zone
My recent posts...Twilight Zone בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת Bein hashemashot, literally, between the suns. בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת A twilight zone of time, or rather, out of time, between one day and the next. Our sages of old used this concept to explain certain miraculous...
When to Pray Yizkor
My recent posts...My edited comments from this past final day of Pesach. Ellie’s mom, Julia Helfman, died on her 95th birthday, December 24, 2025. This was the first Yizkor service Ellie feels obligated to attend. She said, “I’m now a member of a club I was not eager...
Timing
It had become a Kremer household Pesach tradition, or rather, a pre-Pesach tradition. Somewhere within a couple of days prior the first seder and noon on erev Pesach, something would go awry in the kitchen.
Too Late So Early
a song of our times:
Gets too late so damn early these days.
We’re slogging through thick purple haze
that obscures and confuses, everyone loses.
Gets too late so damn early these days.
Gets too late so damn early these days.
Hope our kids keep their innocence phase;
But the news is so loud, can’t hide in the cloud.
Gets too late so damn early these days.
Late for joy, late for laughter, for life,
Late for those killed by bullet, by knife.
We climb out of the dark, raise our heads, strike a spark,
Build a place to be safe from the strife.
Gets too late so damn early these days.
Make it better together — there’s ways
We can be the new dawn, before it’s all gone.
Gets too late so damn early these days.
music & lyrics by Jonathan Kremer
Shabbat shalom ! שבת שלום