Nora School Photography Festival

Wow! Almost 400 photographs entered this year, with 236 selected to be shown this Saturday night. Students from the following 22 schools and teachers have works being shown...
Academy of the Holy Cross, Martha Schlabs and Mrs. Hoffman
Albert Einstein High School, Amber Carroll
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Jerry Eisner
Clarksburg High School, Lynn Galloro
Earle B. Wood Middle School
Edmund Burke School, Allen Jackson
Gaithersburg High School, Stephen Walker
Green Acres School, Victor Stokoll
James Hubert Blake High School, Sarah Hartenstine
John F. Kennedy High School, Ms. Ingersoll-Gilbertson
The Nora School, Dave Mullen
Paint Branch High School, Emily Aumaitre
Poolesville High School, Nori Thorne and Shannon Heaton-Pembleton
The Potomac School, Elizabeth Kupersmith
School Without Walls, James Cunningham
Sherwood High School, Deborah Bernhardt
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Mary Battaglia
Washington Waldorf School, Barbara Bancroft
Watkins Mill High School, James Wu
Westland Middle School, Mr. Ritter
Winston Churchill High School, Michael Foo

The exhibition begins at 7:30 pm, with the awards ceremony around 8:15pm.

A musical treat for Passover and Easter

Dan's revenge

The same kid who moaned and groaned while hiking and backpacking all the way through scouts, ten years later can't wait to show his mother and me the peak of Camelback Mountain... 1.5 miles straight up. Nice views of Phoenix from here, but it may take weeks for our knees to recover. Karma!

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Interesting questions from Rabbi Mitelman

I just read an interesting article on Huffington Post by Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman posing the propositiong that the question "Do You Believe In God?" is profoundly uninteresting. In Mitelman's view, those who ask the question generally believe that the answer is "yes," while for those of whom the question is asked the answer is generally "no" or "I don't know." The question itself, being closed ended, invites little dialog, and is often purposely provocative. The more interesting questions that Mitelman proposes we ask "How can we bring more kindness and justice into the world?" and "When have we felt moments of deep connection?" Interesting to ponder, and interesting to see what's left out. A link to the full article is here.