High-speed Limmud Ny update: Nessa Rappaport on writing Jewish memiors; JJ Goldberg from the Forward on news media; panel debate on Shabbat in a multi-denomination envinronment; Frank London (from the Klezmatics) and So-Called (hip hop DJ)jamming; Yisroel Campbell on Jewish 12 step programmes. Or should that be programs?
I'm having a great time. It's kinda nice to be a regular punter: I don't know anything, I can just do my thing. Also, there's a lot of Jewish hair. A lot. One of my new friends is trying to persuade me to get my hair cut at the Curly Hair book woman's salon downtown on Tuesday. I'm trying to get to the MOMA new building, so it's a tough choice.
THere's been a lot of sharing, but then that's America for you.
Like this guy: "because, y'know, I was in regular analysis, but the therapist, he was, y'know, atheistic, and I was looking for something more... spiritual. So, I found a Jungian - you know from Jung? - analystic, and he understood my spiritual search. I wanted to welcome synagogue into my life. I'm an interior decorator: the space here is making me nauseous."
We just stood together in the coffee place.
It's great though: I love the immediacy, and the openess, and the energy. I love how warm people are, and how I have new friends to go out and play with tomorrow. I love that lots of nice people have lent me their wireless connection even though they don't know me.
Today, I'm thinking maybe I'm a New Yorker: I like black and whites (cookies) and onion baigels, and short attention spans and oversharing. I love the upper west side and downtown. I love wild hair and pushy women, and balding guys who wear round glasses. I love deep intellectual conversation with people I hardly know.
Enough already. Let's just say I'm having a good time. Hello, Louis.
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