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I’m a stickler for kneading my own bread and beating my own egg whites. Which is something I regret every Jewish holiday. Including this Rosh Hashanah.

Practicing chanting my first-ever Torah portion (Tazria from Vayikra) in English and Hebrew, read from the Sefer Torah column of my Tikkun.

Three weeks before I chant Torah for the *first time* on Shabbat, I'm practicing my portion (Vayikra/Leviticus 12:1-12:8, "Tazria" the portion on childbirth) reading from the unvocalized Sefer Torah column in my Tikkun.

Ryan and I on the curb at Disneyland as the awesome Mickey's Soundsational Parade begins.

Ryan and I in Disneyland's Main Street Cinema.

A crowded New Orleans Square from the back of the Mark Twain.

Practicing to be able to survive last-minute High Holy Day honors for the Yom Kippur 5774 afternoon service.

From ChicagoCarless.com.

Ryan at Disneyland

Overly earnest security measures can carry a great price. They can make of our synagogues unnecessarily unwelcoming places. I explore that idea in this video post. View the original blog post here www.chicagocarless.com/2012/12/27/a-badge-to-visit-your-rabbi-video

Lake Michigan Waves the morning after Sandy, directly behind my synagogue, Emanuel Congregation, in Chicago's Edgewater Beach neighborhood.

Lake Michigan Waves the morning after Sandy, from my 20th-floor balcony in Chicago's Edgewater Beach neighborhood.

Lake Michigan off Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood as waves grow in advance of the effects of Sandy.

The Modeh Ani: prayer upon waking or jaunty country song? It's how I greet the world every morning, thanking God for the gift of another day. But I'm never able to get a certain Kol B'Seder melody out of my head, y'all. View the original blog post here www.chicagocarless.com/2012/10/26/the-amidah-project-modeh-ani-video

The Amidah Project: Laying Tefillin Wearing Your Prayer on Your Sleeve

Can You See The Other Side?

New Horizon View from Our Edgewater Balcony

Marina City Floods...You Know, as Usual

R'tzei

iPhone Hammer Death Match

CTA Transit Union Deserves No One's Sympathy

Lido's Coffee Klatsch Does Lincoln Park Zoo Lights

Death of an AT&T DSL Modem

What Windows Users Think of Mac Users

Should You Believe Everything You Read Just Because a Reporter Writes It?

Laser Pussy

Where'd Chicago Go?: Skyscraper Roofdeck Fog Bank

WI State Fair Big Slide

On Why Chicago Transit Authority President Richard Rodriguez Shouldn't Be Driving to Work