Fresh pictures of the Grateful Dead Shabbat!

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:

Shabbat for Dead Heads

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…

Sabbath mode and the environment

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…