This was a new performance format for me to learn – I’d taped myself reading the essay “The iPad Wars” for City Tales, the annual storytelling reading by LACC students and faculty, and sent it to the organizers for post-production. The show went live on YouTube June 4. Previously published in The Citadel, “The iPadContinue reading ““The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show”
Author Archives: Lane Igoudin
AWP20 “More Than Me” Panel Review in Assay
Great write-up in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies about our panel at AWP. I didn’t know about it until a friend alerted me. Thank you, Stacy Murison and Heather Kim Lanier.
From a Failed Burglary to Hanukkah History
With these new additions, the Heliodorus stele places of the beginning of the Hanukkah story in its historical context.
Bird Sacrifices in Ancient Israel
Touring the caves of Tel Maresha in Beit Guvrin National Park (Israel), we came upon a columbarium – nesting boxes or perches for thousands of pigeons and doves.
“Christmas Dreidels” in The Citadel 2020
“Christmas Dreidels” explores one gay couple’s experience of building an adoptive family built on the richness of Jewish and African American heritages, one in which widely diverse cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds add up to a new, organic whole.
Mujerista Theology, or Finding Sacredness amidst Poverty and Oppression
This post is part of Blessing the Sea 4. Is search for the sacred a class privilege? Or to put it differently, are the opportunities to touch the divine – beyond the formal religious settings open to the masses, like synagogues, churches, or mosques – luxuries afforded only to those who can afford them, andContinue reading “Mujerista Theology, or Finding Sacredness amidst Poverty and Oppression”
Spirit and Spunk of a Merchant’s Wife
This book review is part of Blessing the Sea 4 newsletter. Gluckel of Hameln’s memoir has many layers. Written in simple, vivid language for her children over 300 years ago, it makes a surprisingly fast and lively read. There are anecdotes galore – funny, heartwarming, or bizarre, like when she and her mother give birthContinue reading “Spirit and Spunk of a Merchant’s Wife”
Meeting Life’s Challenges with Palms Together
This fall, I am participating again in a three-month practice period at Zen Center Los Angeles. Traditionally called Ango, this is the time of intensified practice to strengthen awareness and concentration, built around a particular theme. The theme of this year’s ZCLA Ango is gassho. As its website explains: Gassho is the act of placingContinue reading “Meeting Life’s Challenges with Palms Together”
Serialized Blog on Morning Prayers as Meditative Practice
The Applied Jewish Spirituality institute in Jerusalem published my 3-part mini-blog called “Setting the Right Intention with Morning Prayers,” which describes how to set up an individual spiritual practice that combines Jewish morning prayers with mindful techniques.
Article in The Forward: This High Holiday Season, We Are in Charge
Delighted with my first publication in a major Jewish newspaper: an opinion piece in The Forward on the challenges of celebrating Jewish High Holidays amidst the unprecedented synagogue and communal space lockdown. These extraordinary times offer an opportunity to create individual sacred spaces to celebrate the end of one Jewish year and the start ofContinue reading “Article in The Forward: This High Holiday Season, We Are in Charge”
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 