Motley Moose – Archive

I joined a Progressive Reform Synagogue about a year and a half ago. I first wrote about an experience I had there in this diary. Last year I wasn’t too active beyond taking my daughter to Hebrew and Sunday School, a few Friday Night Services here and there and the High Holy Days. I really had no idea how involved the Social Justice and Food Justice committees were in educating and organizing the congregation. I only just became involved a couple weeks before NetrootsNation2013 when I received an email from the Rabbi about my protesting the Keystone Pipeline, would I like to join a meeting about incorporating Climate Change into a Friday Night Service? Um, yes.

I was one of a panel of three in which we were asked to bring awareness about Climate Change to our congregation in the context of the upcoming Tisha B’Av and to describe our personal connection to Climate Change. I learned about the association between Tisha B’Av and Climate Change initially from our Rabbi and then through reading the work of Rabbi Arthur Waskow. I am often amazed at the depth of knowledge and feeling that some people are capable of conveying, and these two Rabbi’s are no exception.

I experienced a lot of anxiety about writing this presentation, I felt lost, like an outsider trying to talk about something of which she really doesn’t understand. My original draft had nothing original in it. So I took a break and read some diaries on Daily Kos, and I found my inspiration.

Some things deserve the honor of our tears and our sadness.

was written in a comment in response to a writer’s grief. What I followed that sentence up with is block quoted below and was presented to the congregation.

As many of you know (or don’t know) I’ve been having a lot of real life drama these last 2 months. They coincided with the launch of the Moose. I remember thinking I could never blog again and at 1 time, bid my farewell. Thinking I’d wouldn’t be back in a long time.

Here we are.

I should of known better.

Could this be it — the death of Hope? ……..Perhaps not — but Hope’s got a f***ing potty mouth.

By “Hope”, of course, we are referring to Ms. Susan Boyle. By “potty mouth” we are referring to her two outbursts this past week prominently featuring everyone’s favorite “F” word:

Cops apparently got in the mix at a London hotel on Wednesday when a couple people decided to rile up Boyle by saying something no one seemed to hear. But they did hear her shout, “How f—ing dare you! You can’t f—ing talk to me like that.” And after a bobby asked if there’s a problem, she shouted “Of course there’s a f—ing problem” before walking out.

She talked to cops for several minutes out in the hotel’s garage, but this is on the heels of an episode Tuesday, in which she apparently got angry after judge Piers Morgan lauded 12-year-old Talent rival Shaheen Jafargholi.

“I think that, pound for pound, that was the best singing performance we’ve seen so far,” Morgan said. Susan, who was watching at the same hotel’s bar, shouted “f— off” and shot the screen a “V,” which, for our readers who aren’t anglophiles, is on par with the ol’ dirty bird.

I’m not the first to get all gushy over celebrities and their statements, but sometimes they get it right.

will.i.am hit the nail on the head with this one:

And now another one strikes a chord with me.

We all have an American Dream.