I'm in Israel for this leg of my studies before my scheduled junket to Japan for intense training in Zen. While I'm here, I live in the old Jerusalem neighborhood of Katamon--this place is famous for its singles scene. Recently, Katamon (or "the botz" or "swamp" as its singles wryly and only half-affectionately call the place) came to national attention as it was featured in the new Israeli TV show "Srugim," a soapy but poignant Israeli pop-intervention. Srugim dramatizes the lives of young, "Modern-Orthodox" singles adrift. Modern-Orthodoxy means many things to many people, but as a movement it tries to live in the space between the real world and real ritual (the "liminal space" as my teachers say). Watching "Srugim" is fascinating... Once, I was one of these people. Now, I'm just me/and them/and everybody else.
"On the beach on Shabbat (the Jewish sabbath)":
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