On the Doorposts of My House

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Minyan

Malachi Kosanovich — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:54:03 +0000

So I'm having this conversation on Facebook with a very dear friend. It started with his news that he no longer counted as a Jew for the purposes of a minyan. For those who don't know, a minyan is a group of ten Jews who have gathered for the purposes of prayer. Issues surrounding who is eligible to be counted in a minyan are complicated. Traditionally, only men over the age of 13 count. Traditionally, only men who are Jewish count – if you are in the process of conversion, you are not...

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Dear Mitt Romney

Malachi Kosanovich — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:57:35 +0000

Dear Mitt Romney, I’ve heard you are having money troubles. After all, if the best thing you can think of to do with 10,000 dollars is make a bet with someone on television, then clearly you aren’t getting creative with ways to invest your money. I thought perhaps you could use a little help thinking of things, so I am making a list for you. I’ve stuck with mostly things that could happen in this country (though I have a ton that you could do overseas as well), and I’ve tried to cover...

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Prayers for healing

Malachi Kosanovich — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:00 +0000

One of the strangest parts of my job is the completely transitory nature of the relationships I build. Sure, every bar has it's regulars. They keep the bar going. But for the most part, people come in and out. You see them once or twice, while they are in town, and then they disappear. Because of where the bar I work at is located, these transitory relationships are both fleeting and intensely personal in heartbreakingly strange ways. See, my bar is right next to both a major hospital and a...

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A reading list for the rest of us

Malachi Kosanovich — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:52:49 +0000

Recently, the Huffington Post ran an article on the 18 texts every Jew should read. While it was a fascinating article and filled with wonderful texts, it had a few flaws that should not be overlooked. Most of the authors were men. Almost all of the books are religious in nature. Few of the books mention what it is like to be a Jew of a different flavor – African...

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Breaking up is hard to do

Malachi Kosanovich — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:40:05 +0000

I will admit it readily. I have no idea who Kim Kardashian is. I have no idea to whom she is married. I don't really care that I don't know. Maybe she made a silly marriage. Maybe everyone around them knew that it wasn't going to last. But I find it hard to believe that Kim or her future ex went into marriage intending to get divorced. This is a couple in pain. Divorce – no matter how short the marriage – is painful. But this picture has been floating around the web, and it really...

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The cost of a CT Scan (or why we value being out of debt more than our own health)

Malachi Kosanovich — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:52:19 +0000

X-Ray: $800 CT Scan: $4,300 Emergency Room visit: $1,200 Total: $6,300 These are just estimates. And they don't cover the IV fluids, the two injections of morphine, the anti-nausea medicine, or the urine testing. They don't include the five to seven minutes that the doctor was in the room poking to see if he could feel something wrong. Let's add those in as another estimated $4,000. That puts the total for a four hour visit to the ER at $10,300. Bills like that can take years, and...

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Let there be light

Malachi Kosanovich — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:41:01 +0000

This week Jews all over the world celebrated Simchat Torah, the ending of one reading cycle and the beginning of another. This celebration honors the finishing of one cycle of Torah readings (as we end the last chapters of Deuteronomy) and the beginning of another (as we immediately pick up with a reading of Genesis). It is a time of joy and celebration. We honor the words of Torah and celebrate that we are continually involved in the work of understanding the words of God. Simchat Torah is a...

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Staying in the closet

Malachi Kosanovich — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:28:39 +0000

Today thousands of LBGTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) people will celebrate our ability to come out of the closet and be who we are. We will celebrate being able to tell our stories. We will tell those stories over again. We will reminisce about painful experiences we have moved through and the relationships that saved us during those times. We will call others to come out of their closets. We will tell them to not be ashamed of themselves, their sexualities, their genders,...

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The language of ritual

Malachi Kosanovich — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:26:44 +0000

About a month ago, I took a friend to get her first tattoo. At the same time, I got new body piercings put in. We are both spiritual people (though she is undeniably more of a mystic than I am). Her tattoo was both religious in iconography and spiritual in personal meaning, so we...

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