About Joe Winkler
A Shul Hopper’s Thought On The High Holidays
As we encounter this month of Elul and the High Holidays, the end/beginning of the Jewish year, this path of ease and comfort begins to fade as the mood of the calendar brings us face to face with our beliefs. Read More
Days Of Awe(some) Books: A High Holiday Reading List
David Foster Wallace, Moby-Dick, and of course some Kafka: This ain’t your typical Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur reading list. Read More
Shul Hopping: Reconstructing Ideas About Reconstructionist Judaism
Of all the shul hopping adventures, my foray into the world of Reconstructionist Judaism felt the most foreign. Read More
Shul Hopping: Wailing At The Wall
If you’re gonna shul hop, sooner or later you have to go to the O.G. Read More
Shul Hopping #5: Getting Conservative
Believing I had taken premature swipes at the Conservative service, I chose a Conservative synagogue known for its younger, more spiritual, livelier crowd for this week’s shul hop. Read More
Shul Hopping: Synagogues Of The Bourgeois
When a synagogue looks like it’s fit for a king, it might not be good for shul hopping. Read More
Shul Hopping #3: Rolling With The Hasids
For this week’s shul hop, after the calm of the wilderness I sought out the controlled chaos of a Chasidic shul. Read More
Shul Hopping #2: Lost In The Woods
If you want to remove technology from your life for Shabbat, what better place than the woods? Read More
Shul Hopping #1: Return To Young Israel Of Flatbush
If you’re going to try and experience as many different Jewish communities as possible, you should probably go home first. Read More