April 8, 2011 | by emily savage
Get your Shabbat started early with a totally free, freak-folk download from Jdub. It's described as a "psychedlic spin on the traditional Friday night service." The album, "Sabbapath," had inauspicious beginnings. It started with a dusty old record Rob Markoff found…
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May 12, 2010 | by emily savage
You can put this at the top of my random-things-I-learned-today list. Legendary rapper/producer/DJ Q-Tip has come out to the media as a newbie Jewish Sabbath observer.
He told the New York Daily News:
"I'm going to…
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November 18, 2009 | by emily savage
As you may already know (having read Andy Altman-Ohr's excellent column this week) Congregation Etz Chayim's Grateful Dead service was a success! And now they've gratefully (ha!) gifted us a random assortment of photos from the musical service. Enjoy, dear readers: 
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October 23, 2009 | by emily savage
A Bay Area synagogue will host a Grateful Dead-infused Shabbat service next week. For serious. Congregation Etz Chayim plans to celebrate a Halloween-y Shabbat weekend with "Erev Halloween Grateful Dead Service" at 6:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. The service, which includes a helpful booklet, will explore spiritual interpretations of the…
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April 30, 2009 | by stacey palevsky
I just read my colleage Rachel's post about the Shabbos Mode that some appliances are equipped with so that people who strictly observe Shabbat won't inadvertantly work on the holiday. She questions the logic of such a feature, and asks: Is it just another loophole? But I think the…
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