Rabbi Rayzel Raphael is a gloriously vibrant work of art; as colorful as the painted-on -silk tallit she designs in rainbow array.  A true Renaissance Woman, Rayzel teaches, leads services, runs an organization, records and performs music.   How do you live your bliss? Through music and art, rituals and women’s circles. Music and art…

  Over the past 7 months, my Mom and I have been on a journey through life into death. On Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), she crossed the threshold into eternity and the arms of her Beloved….my father; the man she had married 54 years earlier. I am writing this on the afternoon following her…

Recently I had the joy of meeting and interviewing two extraordinary women: Flora Nikki Zanfrisco and Rene’ Harris who are partners in work and life. Together they are creating a movie called “This Is Our Reality: What’s Yours?”  It is a bio-pic that highlights in graphic detail the intersecting lives of the film-makers from childhood to present time.…

Movies move me in powerful ways. I call it cinema-therapy, especially when the subject matter is near and dear to my heart. Such was the premise of the recently released Clint Eastwood directed film Hereafter. He explores the idea that life in the midst of death in the midst of life is the way of things.  Three main characters’…

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