[ha-Safran] internet guide

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

Diane, this is amazing!

 are you open to new catagories? and links?

for example: “rabbis"

I took a quick peek and I could suggest many more so if you are open to it I 
would be willing to solicit some more links for you

R. Rayzel

> On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:00 PM, hasafran-requ...@lists.osu.edu wrote:
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> I'm very happy to announce the relaunch of my site, The Jewish Guide to the 
> Internet, at https://www.jewishinternetguide.com/ 
> 
> 
> Please note the minor change in the URL.
> 
> The site, which is based on my book of the same title, contains an annotated 
> collection of more than 2500 resources in 100 categories. All of the entries 
> have been updated.
> 
> As I noted in an earlier posting on HaSafran, I also have a collection of 
> Judaica sources and secular sources for high school students in yeshivas and 
> Jewish day schools located on the same site.
> 
> I hope you find the material useful and share it with others.
> 
> Diane Romm

Internet Kavannah 5778
As my fingers fly over the keyboard, may I send out only loving, healing and 
clarifying messages.  Oh Great Cosmic Force Within Us and Around Us help me 
feel the connection to the other beings in this technological web. Angels of 
Discernment, grant me the ability to decide which petitions are urgent and 
which can be deleted with joy. Infinite Source of Calm and Patience, grant 
serenity to those who do not hear back from me right away or who are irritated 
by typos.  May all those who read this feel blessed to be alive at this time of 
great transformation and potential.
 Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, 
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy 
Shechinah...what a ride"and by the way "Who let the morning people 
run things?"
 May angelic beings guide your way today.
 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 
 
Angels for Dreamtime: 
https://www.balboapress.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=765903 

Angels Carry You: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbirayzelraphael 

Friday Night Revived: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbigrr 

Bible Babes a Beltin’: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbigrr 

MIRAJ: http:www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Miraj 
New Moon: http://www.shechinah.com/new-moon.html 

Darkaynu: http://www.Darkaynu.org 
 

Think Green. Please don’t print this message unless it’s really necessary. 
Thank you. 



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[ha-Safran] Jewish LGBTQ list of books

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here are some I culled from otherlists
 it's a Jewish/Feminist/Lesbian/Queer parenting book:

Greenberg, Julie  Just Parenting: Building the World One Family at a Time, 2014 
 (It's a mixture of memoir and self-help.)

-

Rabbi Julie Greenberg

  She/Her/Hers

 

 

 

Mychal edited a book called Struggling in Good Faith.  I wrote the chapter on 
LGBTQ Jews.

 

 

Professor Marla Brettshneider:

 coming out in 2018 or early 2019

** A Special JEWISH ISSUES of the Journal of Lesbian Studies

My intro to that volume should serve as a great reference of lots of lesbian 
(mostly) Jewish work…

 

My 2 othe rfull-length  lgbtq works in 2017 and 2018 aren’t specifically Jewish

 

But my:

2016 Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality is jewish & queer

 

And my:

2015 The Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa: The politics of contradictory 
discourses has feminist and queer stuff in it- when NO other work in the field 
does.

 

I would also include Joyce’s new book- has more on lesbians that MOST works

Antler, Joyce. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation 
Movement. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2018.

 

Not exactly sure what forms- many news articles….

Also- I’m sure I’m missing lots of stuff (pre & post 2014)- FEEL FREE TO BRING 
THINGS TO MY ATTENTION!!

 

Dykewomon, Elana.  What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2014. New York, 
NY: Midsummer Nights Press, 2015.

Fischer, Erica. Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943. New York, NY: Harper 
Perennial, 2015. 

Gorlin, Rebecca. "The Voice of a Wandering Jewish Bisexual." In Bi Any Other 
Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, edited by Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu. 
Bronx, NY: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2015.

Lax, Leah. Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home: A Memoir. 
Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press, 2015.

Levins Morales, Aurora. "...And Even Fidel Can't Change That!" In This Bridge 
Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga 
and Gloria Anzaldúa. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015.

Milligan, Amy K. "Expanding Sisterhood: Jewish Lesbians and Externalizations of 
Jewishness." Journal of Lesbian Studies 18, no. 4 (2014): 437-55.

Nepon, Ezra Berkley. "Zamlers, Tricksters, and Queers: Re-Mixing Histories in 
Yiddishland and Faerieland." In Transformative Language Arts in Action, edited 
by Ruth Farmer and Carryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 79-93. Lanham, MD: Rowman & 
Littlefield, 2014.

One of Us. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Performed by Etty, Chani 
Getter, and Ari Hershkowitz. USA: Loki Films, 2017.

 

This is also interesting:

Lachs, Vivi. Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and 
Verse, London 1884–1914. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018.

 

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5126-0293-7 


 


 May angelic beings guide your way today.
 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 
 

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[ha-Safran] Jewish Views of the Afterlife - here is correct code for discount purchase

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

Sorry I sent the wrong code:
I am honored to announce that that my husband’s  3rd edition of Jewish Views of 
the Afterlife has been published. 

This new, 25th-anniversary edition has expanded material on the Kabbalistic 
doctrine of gilgul/reincarnation, an entirely new chapter on "Spirits, Ghosts 
and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature", and a new Foreword by Rabbi Arthur Green, 
the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism.

Individuals can order the book in print or eBook edition from Rowman and 
Littlefield at 30% off list price with Promo Code RLFANDF30. 

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538103456/Jewish-Views-of-the-Afterlife-Third-Edition
 


"Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a profound and comprehensive guide to the 
multiplicity of Jewish perspectives on death, the soul, and eternal life. The 
book includes Jewish perspectives on heaven and hell, ancestors and the 
underworld, reincarnation and resurrection. A cornucopia of primary sources and 
commentary illuminate the development of a variety of Jewish beliefs about the 
afterlife, spanning centuries of Jewish history. Raphael’s book is both 
well-organized and sensitive to the power of this topic. There is no other book 
like this—it is a treasure."
— Rabbi Jill Hammer, director, Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish 
Religion



 May angelic beings guide your way today.
 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 
 

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[ha-Safran] Jewish Views of the Afterlife 25th year edition

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

I am honored to announce that that my husband’s  3rd edition of Jewish Views of 
the Afterlife has been published. 

This new, 25th-anniversary edition has expanded material on the Kabbalistic 
doctrine of gilgul/reincarnation, an entirely new chapter on "Spirits, Ghosts 
and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature", and a new Foreword by Rabbi Arthur Green, 
the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism.

Individuals can order the book in print or eBook edition from Rowman and 
Littlefield at 30% off list price with Promo Code RLFAMDF30. 

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538103456/Jewish-Views-of-the-Afterlife-Third-Edition
 


Library prices might be different
"Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a profound and comprehensive guide to the 
multiplicity of Jewish perspectives on death, the soul, and eternal life. The 
book includes Jewish perspectives on heaven and hell, ancestors and the 
underworld, reincarnation and resurrection. A cornucopia of primary sources and 
commentary illuminate the development of a variety of Jewish beliefs about the 
afterlife, spanning centuries of Jewish history. Raphael’s book is both 
well-organized and sensitive to the power of this topic. There is no other book 
like this—it is a treasure."
— Rabbi Jill Hammer, director, Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish 
Religion



R. Rayzel 




 May angelic beings guide your way today.
 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 
 
Angels for Dreamtime: 
https://www.balboapress.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=765903 

Angels Carry You: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbirayzelraphael 

Friday Night Revived: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbigrr 

Bible Babes a Beltin’: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rabbigrr 

MIRAJ: http:www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Miraj 
New Moon: http://www.shechinah.com/new-moon.html 

Darkaynu: http://www.Darkaynu.org 
 




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[ha-Safran] Resources for these times

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

It dawned on me, I might have some resources for these shut down times and 
wanted to recommend them…. 
help me get the word out by  sharing these around and letting me know where I 
can post them

1. Jewish COLORING BOOKS:

a. My own New Moon: Rosh Hodesh Book/Coloring book: with illustrations and 
pictures to color in:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692676465/sr=8-2/qid=1461032987/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8==1461032987=8-2
 


b. Another coloring book is done by my friend Analesa, and its coloring 
mandalahs of Hebrew letters, great kids for AND adults: 

Its called Keys of Genesis: Alphabet of Vibration
heres the link:
scroll down to see the order

https://analesaberg.com/shop/ 

2. BEDTIME READING:
To calm the anxiety?
 My Angels at Dreamtime, bedtime story ……may calm the family down if they are 
having trouble falling asleep???

https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Dreamtime-Rabbi-Rayzel-Raphael/dp/1504390806 


3. And finally:  SICK and need MUSIC? 
my singing group MIRAJ, put out a CD Healing Chants for the Soul
heres the link for that!

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/miraj3 

More information  and better pictures are on my website: www.shechinah.com


THANK YOU

Rabbi Rayzel

Internet Kavannah 5780

As my fingers fly over the keyboard, may I send out only loving, healing and 
clarifying messages.  Oh Great Cosmic Force Within Us and Around Us help me 
feel the connection to the other beings in this technological web. Angels of 
Discernment, grant me the ability to decide which petitions are urgent and 
which can be deleted with joy. Infinite Source of Calm and Patience, grant 
serenity to those who do not hear back from me right away or who are irritated 
by typos.  May all those who read this feel blessed to be alive at this time of 
great transformation and potential.
 Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, 
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy 
Shechinah...what a ride"and by the way "Who let the morning people 
run things?"
 May angelic beings guide your way today.
 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 


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[ha-Safran] Miracles happen in a pandemic when you follow your heart!

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

Last April when the pandemic hit, - and all of my wedding clients postponed 
their ceremonies- I needed to do something. I was motivated to create healing 
services, and raise money for tzedakah for Covid relief. I followed the calling 
of my heart and began to organize zoom galas on the Aleph platform.  I ended up 
hosting 5 cross denominational programs with 200- 600 participants on each! 
With helpers, I raised a lot of money; gave artists/musicians/teachers a 
platform to showcase their work; and created a forum to keep our souls 
uplifted. 

Today I’m happy to say I’m going to working more officially with Aleph as the 
Director Of Spiritual Arts  (part time) and will be curating more of these 
programs in the coming months.  It feels exciting to begin the new year with 
visioning something beautiful into being.

My intentions behind these are:
-to honor holy space and time with joy, love and spiritual meaning
-to support artists, teachers, singer songwriter, authors, clergy, 
emerging/diverse creative Jewish voices, JPOC, LGBTQ and others affected by the 
pandemic
-to raise money for non-profits at this time of need

So consider this an invitation: 
if you have ever wanted to present "your Torah" to a large audience; 
if you have books or CDs or art projects to promote; 
if you like to teach, sing or dance, do yoga/body movement;  
have a story from Jewish tradition to share; 
or just want to feel like you are part of the bigger Web of Comfort that is 
holding people’s spirits aloft during this time……

Please email me with an offering for the upcoming programs- or a Save my Name 
for the future: rray...@shechinah.com ( alternate: shechina...@verizon.net

The first event will be Saturday night September 19th, second evening of Rosh 
Hashanah… we have found that many people who attend do not have have a 
spiritual home/congregation and will need a place to feel connected.

Seeking teachers, musicians, artists, meditators, authors, astrologists, cooks, 
embodied artists, poets, and more -to help launch a sweet new year with a zoom 
offering.  
Themes for INVITING IN THE SWEETNESS: ROSH HASHANAH Content can include but not 
limited to: blessing the year, gematria interpretations of the year, 
traditional and new melodies; artistic renditions; blessings; shofar 
blowing/teaching; recipes/demonstration/seder foods; Torah vorts; what we've 
learned  this past year; teshuva, (repentence;) t’flilah(prayer); tzedakah 
(charity); Torah interpretation; how to (literally) move into the new year 
gracefully; honey and bees; kavvanot; messages to heed for the new year; 
uplifting blessings, etc.

AND SUKKOT:


The second event will be during SUKKOT SHAZOOM, Sunday evening October 4
Themes include but not limited to: joy; water/Beit ha-shoevah; harvest; 
multicultural/interfaith; shelter; sukkah torah; feasting; showcase your sukkah 
decorations; ushpizin/invited holy guests; kabbalah of sukkot; fragility, 
sitting; history of sukkah; environmentai issues; how to build a sukkah; 
rain;prayers, hoshanot rituals; lulav/etrog and more…

Please respond to 
rray...@shechinah.com 

with either SWEETNESS in the subject line or SUKKOT SHAZOOM

Blessings for the turning,
and miracles in the new year!

Rayzel

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[ha-Safran] books by people of color

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The Color of Love by Marra Gad

Swirl Girl by Taressa Stoval

Ahava by Tarece Johnson


All three of these women are  extremely thoughtful.  The first two are hot off 
the press.  Ahava is slightly dated, but a beautiful book of poetry.

Lots of people talked about how to support the struggle.  Buying these books 
supports Black Jewish women.  Another great book is a children's book:

Ezra's Big Shabbat Question by Jaime Aviva Brown


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[ha-Safran] Ezra’s BIG Shabbat Question.

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

Hello Librarians,

 

In an effort to get more books authored by Jews of Color into our libraries, 
Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman and I have been working with Jamie Aviva Brown, Author 
of Ezra’s BIG Shabbat Question 
.  This is a wonderful 
book which features a diverse Jewish family.

 

The author only has a limited number of copies of the book still available 
(Amazon is sold out), which you can buy at https://avivabrown.com 
.   Jane and I are underwriting ten books @  $10 each 
so that the first ten libraries who respond will get the book for half cost.  
Use the discount code JL50 when ordering.

For more info, you can email Jamie at  av...@springlightpublishing.com 

 

L'shalom,

 

 Rabbis Rayzel Raphael and Jane Rachel Litman



 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael
Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 
http://www.shechinah.com 
www.interfaithjewishweddings.com 

New Moon: http://www.shechinah.com/new-moon.html 

Angels for Dreamtime: 
https://www.balboapress.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=765903 

Angels Carry You: 
https://www.oysongs.com/products/albums.cfm?album_id=16197_id=271 

Friday Night Revived: 
https://www.oysongs.com/products/albums.cfm?album_id=8785_id=271 

MIRAJ: Healing Chants: 
https://www.oysongs.com/products/albums.cfm?album_id=7356_id=251
Bible Babes a 
Beltin’:Beltin’https://www.oysongs.com/products/albums.cfm?album_id=8766_id=271
ETSY SHOP https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShechinahArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav 

 

 Think Green. Please don’t print this message unless it’s really necessary. 
Thank you. 





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[ha-Safran] For immediate release: HER HOLY NAMES: Groundbreaking Jewish Musical Event

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

For those of you who want to know about collections, or have music in your 
libraries/archives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Goldie Milgram, addingourvoi...@gmail.com 
, 914-500-5696

HER HOLY NAMES: Groundbreaking Jewish Musical Event

Complimentary tickets available to the press
* Press kit available *

On Sunday, November 15th, 3-5 PM ET on Zoom, “HER HOLY NAMES: A Concert of 
Groundbreaking Jewish Music" will feature twenty-one leading 
composer/performing artists offering their original Jewish music. These works 
stand out among those that powered fifty years and four waves of Jewish 
feminist activism, innovation, and accomplishments.

Concert tickets to support the project are available on a sliding donation 
scale through the Eventbrite link at 
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AMONG THOSE PERFORMING AND BEING HONORED INCLUDE:
Matia Rania Angelou, Marilyn Bronstein, Shefa Gold, Latifa Kropf, Eliana Light, 
Alan Scott Bachman, Batya Diamond, Diane Elliot, Yael Kanarek, Katie Kaplan, 
Kirtan Rabbi, Marc Labowitz, Lisa L. Levine, Shoshana Litman, Goldie Milgram, 
Geela Rayzel Raphael, Daphna Rosenberg, Susan Rothbaum, Taya Mâ Shere, Hanna 
Tiferet Siegel, Yofiyah Susan Deikman, and Shawn Zevit. 

This upcoming concert’s performers are being honored for mining Torah, Talmud, 
Kabbalah, and the Jewish imagination for over fifty terms for the Divine 
Feminine. They have incorporated in their songs and prayers names of God in the 
feminine, gender-neutral, and/or also those that create gender balance and 
inclusion. 

Co-hosting the event are: Rabbi Goldie Milgram, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael and 
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross.

HER HOLY NAMES concert is part of a Jewish feminist music-themed initiative 
called Adding Our Voices (AOV): The Torah of Jewish Women in Song that began as 
a Jewish feminist songbook project some thirty years ago under the leadership 
of award-winning singer-songwriter-recording artist-ritualist Rabbi Geela 
Rayzel Raphael.

  
 
Adding our Voices is a project of Reclaiming Judaism, a non-profit dedicated to 
Jewish education.  This Jewish feminist songbook project’s goal is normalize 
gender inclusion in prayer and Jewish music.  For over 20 years Rabbi Rayzel 
Raphael, Sarah Ross PHD and Rabbi Goldie Milgram have been collecting, notating 
and cataloging new feminist music to highlight the innovations 
singer/songwriters have brought to Jewish tradition.  The songbook is at a 
critical juncture, with the pandemic providing opportunities to showcase the 
material and performers on zoom platforms.


Composers, performers and works featured in this concert series come from the 
ongoing Adding Our Voices collection that started as a Jewish feminist music 
project that has bloomed into gender-inclusion. Curated from over 1000-pieces, 
collected over a more than 20-year period, and including over 300 composers 
worldwide: 


Sarah Ross, Phd is the Director of the European Center for Jewish Music, 
Hannover University, author of A Season of Singing: Creating Jewish Feminist 
Music in the United States. (Brandeis University Press, 2016), is creating the 
Jewish Feminist Music Archive for the AOV collection at the sharing heritage 
website “Soundscape Synagogue” (SoSy). SoSy is a community based online project 
drawing on the method of cultural mapping that is hosted by the European Center 
for Jewish Music which Prof. Dr. Ross heads at the Hanover University of Music, 
Drama, and Media in Germany.

For more information contact Rabb Goldie Milgram: addingourvoi...@gmail.com 


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[ha-Safran] two books to recommend

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

I  read Menachem’s Book Plunder, Couldn't put it down and plowed through it in 
a few days.

I  don’t know how he made a “deadening” wade through Polish bureaucracy  to 
find his grandfathers inheritance sound interesting enough to read a book about 
it…but he does. The book takes many different turns and surprizes, and 
adventures along the way- which are fascinating….. and yet is is the “Man’s 
search for meaning” aspect of the book that gives it it depth of character. 
There is enough humor, suspense,  and mystery about Nazi treasure to be 
entertaining, and the shear dedication- and tenacity- to the task of connecting 
to his family lost legacy is admirable.

I also read “  The Unanswered letter” another  “third  wave” holocaust book 
searching to piece a family story back together. It  is also profound in is 
thoroughness, and surprizes along the way.

I can recommend both these books.. they are examples of how we are still trying 
to understand and piece together so much that was lost during the war.

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[ha-Safran] weird question

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

with all the holocaust literature/stories coming out, does anyone know of a 
"nazi memoir”
is there such a genre?

Rayzel
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Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 616, Issue 4

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I got this  request from another list: would love your suggestions:

 
I’m hearing from community members who want to help their public schools
find resources to teach about antisemitism in age-appropriate ways.
 
 
I’m specifically looking for resources that are appropriate for grades
K-4th, which perhaps might be less for the students and more for the
parents. What might you suggest that is appropriate for parents of children
from any religion?

Rabbi Rayzel
  
 May angelic beings guide your way today.

 Rabbi G. Rayzel Raphael

Singer, Songwriter, Ritual-Maker and Spirituality Consultant. 

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[ha-Safran] Nechama Minyon

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

I thought I’d let this list know about the Nechama Minyon I started that is on 
gong for anyone who wants to say kaddish, pray  for healing and have spiritual 
support:
 

The Nechamah Minyon meets nightly at 9pm eastern, 6 pm pacific, except Friday. 
I started it in January 2021 to say kaddish for my mother Natalie Robinson, 
(Nechama Leah bat Elke v Chayim). Since then it has become much more. At this 
point, the Nechamah minyon not only is meaning something to me personally,  but 
 also serving a wider cause that is beyond time and space.   It is serving to 
connect people across denominational lines; people whom need a place to pray; 
to grieve;  to heal; to experiment with different forms and modalities of 
prayer; and to be a container for the end of the day. It has helped us relax 
into  the night and to soothe sleepless souls - and to connect people who 
haven’t seen each other in a long time.

It is different every night -depending on who is leading - so come a few times 
to get an array of musical, liturgical, meditative, poetic styles before you 
judge the whole experience…and just jump in - or out - when you want:)

yes please join us
 email me for the zoom link

rray...@shechinah.com


Blessings, Reb Rayzel

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Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 623, Issue 2

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

yes Rabbi Elyse Goldsteins book  for Torah - and another on Haftorah with 
different writers ( I’m one:)

Rabbi Rayzel


 

 

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> On Dec 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, hasafran-requ...@lists.osu.edu wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A friend is looking for a book about the Torah portions of the week that is
> unique.
> 
> Each portion is written by a different Jewish person to his/her knowledge.
> She remembers one commentary was written by an architect..  She bought it
> about ten years ago and used it as a gift and would like to get another
> copy.
> 
> Does that ring a bell to anyone?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Happy new year loazi!
> 
> Dina Tanners
> Congregation Beth Shalom
> Seattle, WA




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[ha-Safran] Kuklya Family Books THE BOOKS need to

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

My distant cousin Ian Levine has published a huge family tree  of the family of 
the noted Rabbi,  the “Levush", among  many others. It was a massive 
undertaking using Ancestry, historical records, visits to meet cousins all over 
the world. The collection of books include: THE KUKLYA ENCYCLOPEDIA
THE EXTENDED KUKLYA FAMILY TREE
KUKLYA
THE KUKLA CHRONICLES
THE KUKLA CHRONICLES UPDATE
and a novel about the family..
It was an extradordinary undertaking and these books belong in libraries.  you 
might find yourself in there:) ..hefound me and I had been tracing my family 
for years

Rabbi RAyzel Raphael


See his blurb below
> 
> 
> From: Ian Levine 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Kuklya Chronicles is four inches thick, weighs fifteen pounds and 
> contains TWO THOUSANS AND SIXTEEN pages in full colour.
> My Grandma Golda always used to joke that the Cooklin Family were the Jewish 
> Royal Family of Liverpool. She had no clue, during her lifetime, how accurate 
> she truly was. Tracing back the history of the Kuklya family, through the 
> years when they occupied their home town of Rezhitsa in Latvia, we learned 
> that they previously came from the village (Shtetl) of Kukliai in Lithuania. 
> Prior to that there was Prague in Czechoslovakia, and then before that it was 
> Vitry in France, in the Normandie area, and then most importantly Venice in 
> Italy, after leaving their ancestral Holy Land. Our family history mirrors 
> that of the Jewish Ashkenazi race that Hitler was so determined to 
> exterminate. Purely as a matter of history, the Jews mostly left the Holy 
> Land when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 
> A.D. and then, around the year 132 A.D. or thereabouts, our race was banished 
> out of Israel altogether, to become a race of wandering nomads, but unlike 
> many other Jews in the world, our family never went to Spain in the way that 
> so many others did, thereby becoming Sephardi Jews. No, ours were all 
> Askenazi, settling in Italy, France then Czechoslovakia and then going east 
> to the Pale Of Settlement, becoming Lithuanians, before half of them moved up 
> to Latvia where the family dominated the ancient town of Rezhitsa which is 
> where we picked up their story twenty five years ago, without ever knowing 
> the rest of the earlier and most fascinating story.
> 
> A number o years ago, when we embarked upon the massive task of compiling a 
> 608 page book, called The Kukla Chronicles, we thought we knew it all - but 
> we clearly didn’t. But in the last five years, we have traced our amazing and 
> unique tree all the way back to Rashi, the famous Rabbi, and then further 
> back to King David, which, with the help of the Bible, takes us all the way 
> back to Adam and Eve. Five thousand years of the Kuklya family, incorporating 
> Joffe and Kalonymos before the actual Kuklya name. Which came from the 
> village of Kukliai when Zalman Joffe, son of Avraham Joffe, called himself 
> Zalman Joffe Of Kukliai, and gave all of his thirteen children the Kukliai 
> surname, which over the years morphed into Kuklya.
> 
> Of course cameras were not really invented until the early 1800s, and 
> photography did not become widespread until 1850, as a public means of 
> capturing the images of relatives. So any photo before 1850 is a likeness of 
> what we imagine that person to have looked like, and we have also used many 
> many authentic drawings and paintings. This was a necessity to give an 
> identity to our enormous family tree.
> 
> This new astonishing massively thick encyclopedia book is the ultimate 
> testament of the history of any Jewish family, anywhere in the world. Our 
> cousin Aaron Godfrey, of the famous Genealogy company, “My Heritage”, has 
> pioneered new technology to convincingly turn old black and white photos into 
> colour, bringing to life our ancestors, and making this Kuklya Encyclopedia 
> come to vibrant fruition. Faced with such an astonishing breakthrough, we 
> simply had to create this book, no matter how costly it turned out to become. 
> We are all a part of a unique private members club that you can only belong 
> to if you are related to the Kuklyas by blood or marriage.
> 
> In this new full colour masterpiece, we examine our biblical ancestors, our 
> rabbinic Rashi line, our move from the Holy Land to Venice, to Vitry in 
> Normandie, France, and then to Prague, and finally laying down roots in the 
> tiny tiny village of Kukliai in Lithuania, but then spreading out all over 
> Lithuania, and then finally settling in Latvia for four hundred years.
> 
> No Jewish family ever, anywhere in the world, could manage to create such a 
> book, until now. Our family encompasses Bob Dylan, the Chief Rabbi of 
> England, two famous Hollywood film directors, and Nobel Prize winners. Be 
> proud - be very proud.

"The Kuklya Encyclopedia" is 2018 pages long, all in glorious colour, and 
chronicles our family from Biblical times to the present day.