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Aviel Barclay :: Soferet :: Judaica

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Writes about Aviel's journey and current work, including a taste of the debate among rabbinic voices. Another piece on Aviel's first Sefer Torah commission appears in the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. The article is picked up two days later by JTA News. Aviel is mentioned by the Boston Globe. For scribing a mezuzah (her first! For the new Jamaica Plain, Massachussetts synagogue. Of dear friend R' Victor Reinstein. Aviel is interviewed live on Studio 4. Edited by Elaine Berstein Partnow.

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social justice – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. August 16, 2016. It’s supposed to be about security. But really, it’s about bureaucracy.”. This morning I went with Machsom Watch. An all-women, all-volunteer organization to Qalandia checkpoint. The organization, as its name suggests, monitors the checkpoints between the West Bank and Israel proper, of which there are estimated by the Israeli human rights organization B’tselem. Here’s one writer’s account. We parked outside the wall.

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g-d – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. May 26, 2016. I step back into my hotel room from the balcony and turn around to put away my tallit and tefillin. I’ve just davenned Shacharit, the morning service, and ended my prayers with the traditional refrain: oseh shalom bimromav, hu ya’aseh shalom, alienu v’al kol Yisrael, v’al kol yoshvei teveyl. I’m in East Jerusalem, traveling with Interfaith Peace-Builders. For me the difficulty started as soon as our bus drove out of the airpo...

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Boston – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. Of superheroes and soothsayers. December 13, 2015. I gave this d’var Torah at Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue. On December 11, 2015. I asked. That’s all there is, he replied. Let’s do them again! In that moment, sitting in a small chapel memorializing the victims of this seemingly unending, volatile scourge, what we call “Gun Violence in the United States,” I flashed to an episode of my favorite TV show,. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The vam...

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volunteer – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. July 26, 2015. 8220;I can think of one thing that is worse than being sick and in the prison ward here at the hospital. Being well and at Riker’s.” – CPE supervisor. 8220;The midnight shift here on the prison ward is way better than working during the day at the 23-hour lock-up on the island.” – NYC corrections officer. 8220;I would rather try to kill myself than have to go back to Riker’s.” – prison ward psych patient. I walk around the h...

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midrash – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. October 25, 2015. I gave this d’var Torah at Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue. On October 24, 2015, Shabbat. I originally wrote it as an assignment for my homiletics. Class (If you want citations — not here because this text was for preaching — let me know! Put another way, my job is to find myself and to find us in Torah. There are times when this job is harder than others, as in. With the appearance of King Malchitzedek of Salem. But the...

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rabbinical school – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. August 16, 2016. It’s supposed to be about security. But really, it’s about bureaucracy.”. This morning I went with Machsom Watch. An all-women, all-volunteer organization to Qalandia checkpoint. The organization, as its name suggests, monitors the checkpoints between the West Bank and Israel proper, of which there are estimated by the Israeli human rights organization B’tselem. Here’s one writer’s account. We parked outside the wall.

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marriage – no power in the 'verse

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No power in the 'verse. Feminist, rabbinical student, book lover. It’s not in heaven. September 13, 2015. I gave this d’var Torah at Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue. On Friday, September 11, 2015 (and then again the next morning), on my first Shabbat as the rabbinic intern. Today is September 11. I recently recommended to my aunt a podcast called Mystery Show,. The host is shocked and then determined to find out the story behind a plate that is. And in a strange turn of events, today is also the day tha...

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commission batik art boston | B.B. batiks

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My adventures setting up a batik studio and being an artist. Below are some of the commissions I have done. Please contact me if you are interested in a commissioned piece, or series of pieces. It was a true honor to create a chuppah for my dear friends Mary and Keith (photography is not my strength, but if you click on the pictures, they get bigger and you can see the chuppah sorta):. Here is a series of tablecloths done for Shabbat dinners at Nehar Shalom. BBbatiks (at) gmail.com. I made a quilt! Kibbu...