by Andrew Oram
This time of year always seems a hurricane of activity: coming back from vacation to reams of email, or starting school, or dealing with all the pent-up housework that went blissfully ignored during the easy summer months.
Traditionally, Jews see this time of year very differently. Like typical Americans, this period is for them both an ending and a beginning: a recognition of the waning of life and an invigorating harbinger of new possibilities. But in place of the chaotic hurricane that starts for us after Labor Day, many Jews launch a period of ...
Danny Bloom grew up in western Masschusetts in the 1950s,
studied Jewish ideas under Rabbi Samuel Dresner, was bar-mitvahed in
1962 under the cantorial direction of Cantor Morty Shames and then
started travelling. France, Israel, Greece, Italy, Alaska and Japan.
Now he's 65 and
working on what he calls a very Jewish project, Jewish because it
comes out of ideas and values about having a vision and being a
dreamer that he picked up on his way to becoming a bald, goateed
senior citizen.
Bloom lives in Asia now working as a public relations writer and ...
by Danny Bloom, CLI FI CENTRAL blogger
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
ANGELES -- With films like "Noah" and "Into the Storm" and "Snowpiercer" -- and"Interstellar" coming in the late fall -- Hollywood has seen thehandwriting on the wall and embraced climate themes in fulltechnicolor. Call the movies ''cli fi'' or disaster thrillers,whatever. There's more to come in the film world.But while Hollywood and studio marketing people (and online socialmedia reporters covering new film releases) have welcomed ''cli fi'' intothe ...
