LABA A dialogue with Leviticus 14, Verses 33 to 53 By Ruby Namdar Leviticus: And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a
LABA fellows Anita Glesta and Zvi Sahar respond to the wild in these video shorts
by Michael Bradley Cohen
A new song about mothering in the wild by Alicia Jo Rabins A note from LABA fellow Alicia Jo Rabins about her song: I am interested in internal wildness, emotional wildness, the secret corners of ourselves we try endlessly to tame – though they may be kept secret even from those closest to us.
Cain and Abel and Us by Karen Loew Mountain meadows are fields. So are rolling prairies, and farmers’ plots. In the Biblical imagination, these grassy, open spaces are places of wildness, where the unexpected can happen. (Think of the untamed forest in Grimms’ Fairy Tales.) In Genesis, fields are
Creating love out of the broken pieces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In “Adam Raised a Cain,” Bruce Springsteen explains what happens when children inherit the burdens of a father whose pain trumps his ability to love: In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You’re born into this life paying
Cain, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a trip up the Alps by Elissa Strauss For centuries the Swiss Alps were nothing more than an inconvenience for travelers. They were something to skirt, a sign that it was time to veer left or right because carrying on forward simply wasn’t worth
Freedom and its discontents by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar Ruby: The tale of Cain and Abel, describing the first murder in human history, happens in an open field. Do you think the field location carries a special meaning? Basmat: Yes – the field is not just the
Noah Leads Us From Blueberry Island to the Empire State Building by Karen Loew “Noah’s Ark” by Edward Hicks Once upon a time…a flood covered the entire Earth. A number of humans and animals floated in a ship until the water receded. Then they left the ship and re-started
Noah, Phil Ochs, and Us by Stephen Hazan Arnoff It says in the Bible that Noah was the righteous man of his generation, which commentators of old noted was corrupt and twisted. Noah would have done well to make a Marxist exit from the Generation of the Flood – “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to