Paging Billy Crystal, Paging Billy Crystal

Maybe Mandy Patinkin and Carey Elwes can serve as expert witnesses in this case about to go to court in Washington, D.C. And maybe it will be the subject of a project in the Jewish Ethics elective at Heschel I once taught (bad memories of that class - the material, not the students).

Looks like the Ultra-Orthodox need to get a move on emending the halachah on this one.

Sick Sick Liturgical Move

Wednesday morning, at the Conservative Yeshivah, Josh Laydon, a good man and a good ש"ץ, sang Ps 150 (the last "הללויה") to "We Shall Overcome." Powerful. People cried. (And I can't quite figure out how it works.)

I wasn't there.

This probably beats singing it to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," though anything that reminds me of the best West Wing episode ever is pretty money (and props to Goldberg).