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Adam Sandler tops list of overpaid actors for second year in a row
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Actor Adam Sandler has topped the annual list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors for a second year in a row.
The "Waterboy" star only brings in $3.20 in profit for every dollar he is paid, according to the list compilers at Forbes magazine.
Coming in at number two is Johnny Depp, whose "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise has grossed $3.7 billion at the global box office, but other films including "The Lone Ranger" and "Dark Shadows" have fared terribly forcing Depp's profits down to $4.10 for every dollar he is paid.
See the top five most overpaid actors in the gallery above and click here for the full list.
Ryan Reynolds film booed at Cannes
Ryan Reynolds' new film "The Captive" has been savaged by critics following its premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in France over the weekend.
The psychological thriller, co-written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan, stars Reynolds as a distraught father searching desperately for his young daughter eight years after she is abducted from his truck.
The movie was screened in competition on Friday, but attendees at the prestigious film festival were not impressed by the offering and booed the picture at the end of the premiere.
Reviews of "The Captive" reflected the negative reception of the film, with Variety's Justin Chang branding it a "ludicrous abduction thriller that finds a once-great filmmaker slipping into previously unentered realms of self-parody."
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw also lambasted the project as "another one-star turkey", criticizing the "appalling acting" by the girl's abductor, played by Kevin Durand, and a police officer portrayed by Rosario Dawson, and concluding, "Sadly, Egoyan's film is simply a tangled and conceited mess."
The Los Angeles Times' reviewer Steven Zeitchik echoed those sentiments in an article titled, "Atom Egoyan's The Captive performs a self-abduction", claiming the "wild plots and conspiracies… wouldn't be out of place in the most fantastical spy novel."
However, Egoyan has at least received some good news – shortly before the premiere, he learned the film had been picked up by bosses at U.S. distributor A24 for release later this year.
Ryan Reynolds named spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris
Actor Ryan Reynolds has joined his wife, Blake Lively, as one of the new faces of cosmetic brand L'Oreal Paris.
"The Green Lantern" star will serve as the Men Expert spokes model.
A statement from the actor, reads, "I feel honored and excited to join Men Expert, a brand that represents the essence of modernity, edginess and technology."
Lively was named a spokesperson for the French brand in 2013.
Michael J. Fox's famous friends turn out for fundraiser
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A host of famous faces turned out to help Michael J. Fox raise awareness of Parkinson's disease at his foundation's annual gala in New York City over the weekend.
The star, who has been battling the debilitating condition since the early 1990s, was joined by the likes of Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, Julianna Margulies, Seth Meyers and Tina Fey at the glitzy bash at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Saturday night.
Fox joined Coldplay star Chris Martin on guitar for a musical performance, while Reynolds, whose own father is battling Parkinson's, admitted he was impressed by the work of The Michael J. Fox Foundation, saying, "You meet the people who work with this foundation, and so many of them have absolutely no affiliation with the disease whatsoever other than their job, and they were brought to it by a common denominator, which is Michael, and he's so inspiring and you just see the people that work with this foundation and how tirelessly they give everything they have to it and you start to forget that you're only here because someone you care about has Parkinson's. I was really blown away by the whole operation."
Marguiles insisted she turned out at the event to help raise cash for the cause, saying, "When you raise awareness, you raise money. I mean, it's the brutal truth."
Fellow guest, actor John Slattery, added to The Hollywood Reporter, "We're trying to find a cure. Research is expensive, and the more people know about it, that's everything, so that's what he's doing."
'Sisterhood' stars Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn hope husbands make spoof
Ryan Reynolds and David Cross are secretly planning their own movie inspired by their wives' "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" film.
Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn tell Entertainment Weekly magazine their men have become incredibly close through their friendship and would love to star in their own buddy movie.
Tamblyn says, "Our dudes are friends."
Lively adds, "They really love each other and they have their own little man texts. They're dying to do their own Husbands of the Sisterhood movie. We'll see."
But Reynolds and Cross' wives might beat them to it with a third film.
The actress' pal and co-star America Ferrera explains, "The fifth book (in author Ann Brashares' book series) picks up 10 years after the fourth book, so the characters are all basically the ages that we are now.
"I know that the four of us would love it (to make another film), and it would be wonderful."
Ferrera, Tamblyn, Lively and Alexis Bedel have all become close friends since teaming up for the first film back in 2005 and reprising their characters for a 2008 "Sisterhood" sequel.
Ryan Reynolds strips after vomiting incident
Hollywood movie star Ryan Reynolds was forced to strip during a flight after a passenger became ill and vomited over him.
"The Green Lantern" star was on a flight from New York to New Orleans with his "Gossip Girl" wife Blake Lively last week, when a woman sitting in front of the couple threw up on a window, splashing the actor.
Flight attendants rushed to help the star as he stripped off to change into a new shirt.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively return to South Carolina for anniversary
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively celebrated their first wedding anniversary over the weekend by returning to South Carolina, where they wed last year, for a mini-vacation.
The "Green Lantern" co-stars exchanged vows in Mount Pleasant on September 9, 2012, and the New York-based couple headed back down south for a little relaxation in nearby Charleston this weekend.
As part of their trip, Reynolds and Lively also visited Savannah, Georgia, where they enjoyed an all-you-can-eat lunch at historic eatery Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room on Monday to mark their first 12 months as husband and wife.
Owner Marcia Thompson tells People.com, "They were absolutely darling. I asked them what they were doing in Savannah, and she said it was their anniversary, and they had never been able to get in the restaurant before. The line wasn't too terribly long."
However, the couple's lunch date wasn't very intimate – they were seated at a table with six other diners for the family-style meal.
Thompson adds, "Nobody made a fuss over them. I know the other people sitting at the table knew who they were, but they didn't say anything to them about who they were and that was nice. I thanked (the other diners) for that…
"I am honored that they came here on their anniversary. I hope they enjoyed it."
Ryan Reynolds' bad skydiving experience left him with a fear of flying
Ryan Reynolds has developed a fear of flying after a scary skydiving experience when he was 19 years old.
"The Green Lantern" star and his friends were training to get their skydiving license when his main parachute malfunctioned, sending him plummeting through the air.
During an interview with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night , he recalled, "I'm on my 13th jump, lucky number 13, my 'chute opened and what happened was they call it a bag of garbage, which is not a good sound; the risers broke and the thing opened kind of vertically. So it's just sort of flapping in the wind and it really wasn't slowing me down at all. It was just making me spin out of control and almost making me unconscious; also not fun at all."
Reynolds, now 36, admits all was not lost as he had a back-up parachute, but he was too afraid to pull the cord.
He continued, "I was terrified to pull away, to break away and pull my reserve 'chute because in my idiotic 19-year-old mind I thought, 'Then I'll have no more 'chutes left', but I thankfully came to my senses, pulled away, pulled the reserve 'chute and guided down. You can't steer the reserve 'chute, because it's round, so I landed like seven or eight miles away from the actual drop zone and I was sure I was going to land in power lines and I thought, 'What a way to go: you survive a grand malfunction skydiving to burn to death.'"
Ryan Reynolds fears he is destined to have only sons
Ryan Reynolds fears he is genetically destined to father only sons as he and his wife grew up surrounded by brothers.
The actor wed his "The Green Lantern" co-star Blake Lively last year, and he reveals they have big plans for their future, but he tells Details magazine he worries the family home will be full of testosterone.
He explains, "We'd love to have a big family. We both come from big families – my parents did four (kids), Blake's did five. A lot of people say it's crazy, but we'll only know when we're there, you know? We'll walk through that fire pretty happily, I think."
"I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening.
"By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall. There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. … That's something I'm not looking forward to."
Melissa Joan Hart: 'I made out with Ryan Reynolds'
Actress Melissa Joan Hart was so impressed with the expensive gift Ryan Reynolds gave her when they were both teenagers, she made out with him.
The two former child stars, who are both now happily married, enjoyed the briefest of romances after filming "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" together in the mid-1990s, and the actress has revealed she'll tell all about her feelings for the former People magazine Sexiest Man Alive in her new book, "Melissa Explains it All," which will be released later this year.
But she gave fans a taste of her "fling" with Reynolds during an appearance on the late night show "Chelsea Lately" on Thursday.
Hart said, "It wasn't a big deal at the time. It is now. He wasn't on the cover of People magazine as the hottest man, or whatever.
"The last day (on the set), he was leaving, and he came in my dressing room and handed me a gift. We had been hanging out, flirting, we'd gone camping (but) I had a boyfriend. He, like, threw this box at me and basically walked out of my dressing room and I kinda stopped his car very dramatically… because I opened the box and it was, like, a Beluga watch, this gorgeous watch.
"He was, like, 17, and I was 19 and I was like, 'You're too young for me…' but I stopped his car… and I wasn't sure if I was gonna get mad at him… and I just grabbed him and started kissing him. You get a piece of jewelry like that, you gotta make out with the guy."
But Hart has no regrets that she didn't take her feelings for young Reynolds further – because she's now married to rocker Mark Wilkerson, the father of her three kids.
She added, "I think my husband is hotter than Ryan, so it worked out."


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Fifty Shades of Anti-Semitism
When my children were in Kindergarten they learned about the story of Esther in preparation for Purim. Five years ago, at the Purim Seudah, or festive meal, Yadid shared with me what he learned about Purim in school. He learned that, Haman's punishment (for attempting genocide) was having to walk behind Mordechai, who was riding on the royal horse, and pick up the poop. Yadid added with a smile that this is his favorite part of the story. This year at Purim, like every other year, I will try to fulfill the commandment to mistake the blessing of Mordechai with the curse of Haman. It struck me this year that I have been acculturated to expect Haman. He is a stock character in our history. As the adage goes, "What is the definition of an anti-Semite? It is someone who hates Jews more than you are supposed to." I am thankful that Yadid was not taught of Haman and his sons being put to death, but I realize that in retelling the story of Purim, we have normalized anti-Semitism. From a young age Haman is not excused but he is to be expected.
I was reminded of a Sarah Silverman piece in which she corrects her niece who was astounded that 60 Million Jews died in the Holocaust. After correcting her that it is 6 million Jews, not 60 million, her niece responds "What is the difference?" There is a difference, "Because 60 million would have been unforgivable." We make fun, but it is astounding to realize that the expectation of anti-Semitism has made us fulfill the commandment of mixing up Mordechai and Haman all year-long. As if anti-Semitism is normative, if not normal. That's black and white.
You might argue that the hatred of Jews is a central theme of Jewish history. You would be correct. But when is it appropriate to share this with our children? Why would you want to raise your children to think that being hated is expected? Isn't it black and white?
It is particularly scary raising Jewish children in a world in which there is a revival of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere, ISIS is on the rise, and Iran is inching closer to having weapons of mass destruction to aim at Israel. In my mind part of the problem is that we have made it normal to hate the Jews. In each story in our history, we are left trying to figure out who loves us and who hates us. It is a sort of pornographic horror- we hate it, but we just cannot pull ourselves away from it. Like Fifty Shades of Grey, the global audience enjoys watching anti-Semitism. Purim is a time of grey, not black and white. Esther is the queen and also the object of hate. It is the time when we confuse Haman for Mordechai and blessings for curses.
The rest of the year we need to know what is good and what is evil- black and white. Hating people for their religion, racial identity, gender identity, orientation, or ethnic identity is simply wrong and there is nothing normal about it. How will our children understand the horrors of anti-Semitism without trivializing it? We need to confront evil beyond making bad people "pick up the poop."
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A Light in the Dark
As I write this, there is a lot of negative energy in the world. There seems a force asking people to draw lines, point out differences, and make more divisions in the world. In this Holiday season I prefer to see through it all and look for the things that connect us. To this end I find myself looking for what the story of Hanukkah and the story of Christmas have in common.
In the book of Matthew they read:
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. (Matthew 2:1-2)
Having seem the sign of the star the Magi came from the east looking for baby Jesus. They came because this gave them hope for the future. It is interesting to compare this discovery to the Rabbinic story of Hanukkah. There we read:
What is Chanukah? As the Rabbis taught: The twenty-fifth of Kislev begins the eight days of Chanukah. When the Greeks entered the Holy Temple they defiled all the oil that was in the Temple. And when the rulers of the House of Hashmonean succeeded in gaining the upper hand and vanquished them, the Holy Temple was searched and but one flask of oil was found with the seal of the high priest still intact. There was only enough oil to last but one day. A miracle occurred and it lasted for eight days. The following year these days were established and made into festive days of Hallel and thanksgiving. (Shabbat 21b)
Looking for holiness in the rubble of the reclaimed Temple, the rebels found one small jar of oil with the seal intact. They took the fact that this oil lasted for eight days as a sign of the holiness of their reclamation of Temple. Like the Magi they saw in this oil hope for the future.
I think about this in the still of the night in the darkest time of the year. It might be hard to relate to this in our modern lives which are filled with light, but can you imagine trying to find something in the dark in a time before electric lights or even before gas lights? It must have really been a needle in a hay stack.
The adage goes, "If you do not know where you going you will never be lost". It follows from this idea that if you do not know what you are looking for you will never find it. It is tempting in the dark times to grow complacent, but now, more than ever, we need to do the hard work of discovering and rediscovering hope. In the case of the Magi as in the case of Hashmoneans they both knew what they were looking for even if it was needle in a hay stack. We should all be blessed to know for what we are looking. In these dark times we need to be looking for a sign and we need to be looking out for each other. We all just need to find a light in the dark.
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Promises for My Gay Children: Reflections of an Orthodox Rabbi for Yom Kippur
As I prepare for Yom Kippur, I have been giving some thought to all of my and our collective sins. To paraphrase the Al Het Prayer, I have been thinking about both the sins which I have committed intentionally or unintentionally. What have been my sins of commission and my sins of omission? What have I done inadvertently by not doing anything at all? How will I be judged for my actions?
I was thinking about this yesterday when I read a profound blog post by John Pavlovitz, a pastor of North Wake House Church in North Carolina. In his piece entitled If I Have Gay Children: Four Promises From A Christian Pastor/Parent he boldly came out as a person of faith in support of his and other peoples' children who might be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning.
Reading this, I got to thinking ahead to the Torah portion we traditionally read in the Yom Kippur afternoon service. This portion is comprised of a list of sexual prohibitions (Leviticus 18:1 – 30). Why would we read the primary religious source used to substantiate homophobia on our most holy day of the year? While I might not have an answer to this question, I do feel that silence on this issue is its own sin.
As a human being, I feel a need to speak out on this because there are those for whom it is not just their comfort or happiness that are at risk, but their very health, safety, and actual lives. As a Jew, I cannot stomach senseless hatred toward people because of who they are. An integral part of our Jewish identity comes from our experience as victims of the world's hatred. We cannot stand idly by as other people suffer from bigotry. As a rabbi, I feel a need to speak out for justice.
I feel a visceral need to speak out on this issue, not despite my being an Orthodox Jew, but because of that fact. As it says in the Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in the Orthodox Community, which I feel honored to have signed, "Embarrassing, harassing or demeaning someone with a homosexual orientation or same-sex attraction is a violation of Torah prohibitions that embody the deepest values of Judaism."
To this end, in the spirit of Yom Kippur, I wanted to make my own promises to my gay children. Amen to Pastor Pavlovitz (1-4 paraphrased from his blog):
1) If I have gay children, you'll all know it.
My children won't be our family's best kept secret. If my children come out, we'll be out as a family.
2) If I have gay children, I'll pray for them.
I won't pray for them to be made "normal". I've lived long enough to know that if my children are gay, that is their normal. I will pray for them just as I pray for all of my children.
3) If I have gay children, I'll love them.
I don't mean some token, distant, tolerant love that stays at a safe arm's length. It will be an extravagant, open-hearted, unapologetic, lavish, embarrassing-them-in-the-school cafeteria, kind of love.
4) If I have gay children, most likely; I have gay children.
If my kids are going to be gay, well they pretty much already are. They are today, simply a younger version of who they will be; and today they're pretty darn great.
5) If I have gay children, I expect them to participate in community.
Not only are my children a critical part of my family, but they need to know that they are a critical part of the larger Jewish family. We are a kehilah kedosha—sacred community. Bigotry and hatred pose a much bigger risk to this sanctity than the issues that one might profess regarding my children's orientation. I promise to fight with anyone who would want to limit their involvement in school, camp, synagogue, etc.
6) If I have gay children, I will learn Torah with them.
Learning Torah is a central Jewish practice. Engaging Torah writ large is the life blood of our people. I believe in the Torah. My commitment to my children is to have them join the conversation of our people and to have their voices heard. I promise to learn with my children— not just the nice parts, but also the Torah portion we read traditionally in the Yom Kippur afternoon service. I expect to listen and promise to have their interpretation heard. And when my time comes, I look forward to giving God some feedback. They should have the confidence that I will be waiting there for them when they meet the Judge on high. My commitment to my children is unwavering and eternal.
7) If I have gay children, I will celebrate their partnership.
My wife is my ezer k'negdi—she is my helpmate. She pushes me to make sure I am my best self. The key to sustained happiness and a life of meaning is finding a partner with whom to share your life. Having a healthy partnership is not just the key to surviving in the world; it is the key to thriving. This partnership is the bedrock for a bayit ne'eman b'yisrael, a faithful home in Israel, which is the basic building block for Jewish society. I hope that we were good role models for partnership and my children should expect that we do not just tolerate their life partner, but that we find ways to celebrate that partnership.
8) If I have gay children, I will celebrate their family.
Our children are the greatest joy in my life. While my children might not have children in a "traditional" manner, it does not mean that they should not feel the obligation of Pru uRevu—to procreate and raise another generation of proud Jews. I promise to be a great Zayde to link the next generation back to our past. While my gay children will have taught me about liberation, perhaps being older I have what to share with their children about exodus from Egypt. It is my job to hide the Afikoman; I expect their children to read the four questions. I promise that they will never question their connection to Jewish history and their role in our lustrous future.
There is no doubt that some of you may be offended by what I have said here. But as Pastor Pavlovitz wrote, "This isn't about you. This is a whole lot bigger than you." It is about my children and the parent I aspire to be. On these issues I could not stay silent. That is how I hope to be judged on Yom Kippur.
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In the Field
According to Hasidic thinking the days of Elul are the time when "the King is in the field." The metaphor follows that gaining an audience with the King during Tishrei is a whole to-do. We must travel to the capital city, arrange an appointment, and then get permission to enter the palace. It may be days or weeks before we are finally allowed to enter. And even then, when we do finally get to see the King, the audience is likely to be short and very formal. Lost among the throngs of people, it is hard to imagine it being a deeply personal interaction. Since very few of us actually live in the capital city, these royal surroundings we experience during the High Holidays makes us feel out-of-place. By the time we get there we might have even forgotten why we came to seek the audience of the King in the first place. It hardly seems like a good plan for a meaningful experience.
Once a year, the King leaves the capital to visit the various constituents of the Kingdom. According to the Rabbi Schneur Zalman (the first Lubavicher Rebbe) during Elul "anyone who desires is granted permission and can approach the King and greet the King. The King received them all pleasantly, and shows a smiling countenance to all" (Likkutei Torah, Re'eh 32b) Now a King can't just enter a city unannounced. This explains the shofar. Here in the field the formality is transformed into familiarity. We the common folk are allowed to come out to greet the King and receive personalized blessings. During Elul, with limited effort, the King is accessible. We just need to go out and greet the King.
When I try to imagine that space of meeting the King in the field I am transported to rich memories from my youth in nature at camp. Jewish summer camp is an amazing place where many of us had our first experiences of spirituality, community, and personal connections to Jewish life.
In my six years working at the Foundation for Jewish Camp I am consistently amazed by the senior leadership at camp. Each of them in their own way play an incredible role in setting the stage for joyous Judaism in their camp utopia. While most of the year they are running a business called camp, when the time comes to move up to camp they are transformed. You will see many of them walking around their camps picking up trash as if you were in their living rooms. They treat camp as their home and they invite hundreds of people to sleep over. Walking around camp they know everyone's names, their stories, and how to make personal connections. They decide who stays and who goes. They are responsible for so many lives, but they are not cowering behind their desks. Rather, they are out there on the playing on the baseball field. In the environment of camp the senior leadership is king, but camp is special because they know that their power is making room for others and being accessible. Each camp is creating an environment in which their campers and staff feel that they belong, make a difference, and are part of something bigger then themselves. We all owe the camp leadership a great deal. Thank you. In these moments we can experience the majesty of Elul.
Have a wonderful New Year.
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Body of Discourse
"All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, and all that is published should not be read." – The Kotzker Rebbe
Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk, better known as the Kotzker Rebbe (1787–1859), was a Hasidic Rebbe who was known for his caustic character and sharp wit. As the story goes he once asked his disciples, "Why don't we do sins?" Knowing their teacher they should have known that this was a Klutz Kashe, a foolish question, to which they were never going to get the right answer. The students replied, "God does not want us to do sins," "It is prohibited by the Torah", and "The Rabbis do not want us to do sins." The Rebbe snapped and summarily rejected each answer. Finally the Rebbe said, "We do not do sins because it is a waste of time. Rather, we should be using our time to do mitzvot- good deeds."
Recently there has been flurry of writing on the "Body Talk" guidelines at Eden Village Camp. Many of the articles (including The New York Times, Slate, Kveller, The Forward) and just about all of the responding comments and blog posts explore the merits and risks of these guidelines, a warranted discussion for any parent. It should be noted, however, that the articles failed to mention that the camp does promote healthy body-awareness through sports, music, arts, nutrition education, and integrated conversations about body image, social pressures, and self-esteem. According to Eden Village Camp's "Body Talk" guidelines,"the temporary respite from all the body commentary, together with… sessions and informal conversations on body image, allow for important sharing and insight about how one feels about one's own body or the pressure one might feel to look a certain way, and where those messages come from, and tools for going home and being a lighthouse in a world that's usually really different from camp." The absence of this crucial nuance from this discussion has resulted in a conversation that has spiraled from valuable to hypothetical and misinformed.
It seems that we have fallen into the trap of the Kotzker's Hassidim. Have we missed the point? Have we gotten lost in the merit or risks of "Body Talk" instead of focusing on having conversations that matter? What are the conversations that we want to be having?
In Jewish thought, we do not treat speech lightly. Words change lives. In Judaism, words are the very media of the creation of the world. There are so many examples that this world is broken. Each of us needs to do our part in fixing the world. What good conversations are you a part of that will lead to actions that will help fix the world? For thousands of years the discourse of Jewish life has been and needs to continue to be about making the world a better place. We need to demand of our girls, our boys, and ourselves to focus on having important conversations. It is not a question of morality; it's a question of how we use our time.
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Camouflaged Education
How could I try to hide in plain sight? Well if I was well camouflaged I might use any combination of materials, coloration or illumination for concealment. In the wild I might do this by making myself hard to see in my environment or by disguising myself as something else. In terms of education I might do a great job by simply not announcing what I am doing as educational. I was thinking about this during a recent conference for the Goodman Camping Initiative for Modern Israel History. Thanks to generous support of the Lillian and Larry Goodman Foundations with contributions from The Marcus Foundation and the AVI CHAI Foundation, the Foundation for Jewish Camp and the iCenter brought together representatives from 27 camps to have their staff explore how they might animate Israel in their camps for their campers.
It was in this context that one of the fellows remarked, "I used to think that there are Jewish camps that taught about Judaism and other camps that were fun. Our camp is a fun camp. And now I get it. You are asking us to make learning about Israel fun." All of these mostly college aged fellows came together with many Israeli counterparts to enhance the Israel educational programming at their camps. The goal is to get them serious content through activities and materials in a way that they can customize to fit naturally in their camp environment. I am confident that fellows get it. Israel education can happen with rich content and subtle complexity, but at camp it needs to be camouflaged as fun.
Camouflaged education might be the essence of Shavuot, which begins tonight. The premise of our getting the Torah was our promise first to observe the laws of the Torah, and only afterward to study these laws. We received the Torah at Sinai because we said, "na'aseh v'nishma- We will do and we will hear/understand." (Exodus 24:7) If we needed to study it in a formal setting first we might never have committed ourselves to the venture. There is a lot of anti-Israel rhetoric out there today, especially on our college campuses, and it gives me peace of mind to know that we can create a utopia of Jewish camp in which Israel education can hide in plain sight.
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You and I, We Will Change the World
Tomorrow on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, I'll be thinking about Arik Einstein z"l. Einstein, who passed away at the end of 2013, was from Israel's "Greatest Generation" that built the country. His 1971 classic song Ani Ve'ata became the anthem of optimism for a young nation. I do not recall ever learning the song for the first time, but I am sure it was at camp. It is strange how knowing something by heart means that you hardly ever give it any thought. Inspired by his passing, I decided to take a closer look at this song.
What did Einstein mean when he wrote "You and I, we will change the world"? Why does he need someone else to help him make change in the world? It is popularly understood that we need large groups of people to make change in the world. About this conception the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." In terms of bringing about change, quality is more important than quantity, but we always benefit from partnership and support. In the wake of Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, and in celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut we take pause to think about the founders of the state. That small group of people jumped in where others had just talked about it and made the modern miracle of the rebirth of a State of Israel a reality. The sacrifices were serious, but it is noteworthy that none of them did it by themselves.
It was at summer camp where I first formed my connection to the Israel. It was also there that I forged a relationship with a small group of people that thought "You and I, we will change the world." Maybe a meaningful thing to do on Yom Ha'atzmaut would be to reconnect with your bunk age group. It might be time for a check in to see where we can support each other in making the world a better place.
For a longer study of the song Ani Ve'Ata see here.
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Revealing Passover
We come together for Passover to celebrate our ongoing liberation from slavery. During the seder we will speak at length about the exodus from Egypt, but how did we, the descendants of Jacob, get there? Before we ask how did we end up as slaves we need to ask how did we end up in Egypt?
This story starts with Joseph and his brothers. Annoyed by his being different, they sell him into slavery. Through a turn of events Joseph ends up in a position of power in Egypt. Forced by the famine in the land of Canaan, his brothers unwittingly come before Joseph seeking sustenance. Sitting before them, he is faced with a choice as to whether or not he will keep his identity closeted. The text reads:
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me." And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he gave his voice in tears; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard" (Genesis 45:1-2).
When Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, his voice knows no limits, and everyone in Egypt finds out about his identity. Through Joseph's coming-out they were all witness to the unfolding of God's plan. What started off as a family tragedy was transformed into a divine national comedy.
In modern times we can hear resonance of the Passover cry for justice in the words of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He wrote that, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963). I believe that we can hear a corollary to this in the sound of Joseph's tears. There is an inextricable connection between personal and national revelation. While Moses led us out of Egypt we were not truly free until we experienced God's revelation at Sinai. Joseph's personal revelation to his brothers was a precursor to God's coming out to the nation at Sinai. While we need to seek justice for everyone, we should rise to the challenge of realizing that we will not understand the collective revelation until we are all free to express all of who we are as individuals.
A few months ago I went to a benefit hosted by Camp Ramah in the Poconos, the camp at which I grew up. There were some people there who I had not seen for 20 years. Stepping into that room it was as if we were all back at camp. One hug later it was as if no time had passed. We were family. For a moment there I had a sense of what Joseph and his brothers must have felt so many years ago. Camp avails us of the opportunity to expand our idea of family. There in the presence of our camp family we can give voice to hidden parts of ourselves. There we can start to articulate what we aspire to become in our lives. How can we provide our children with that safe place to reveal all of who they are and who they might become?
At your seder, as the Jewish world sits as equals sharing food, I hope that more of us find safe space to share ourselves with the collective. May you have a very revealing and meaningful Passover.
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Hidden Ingredient
Teachers, curricula, grades, rulers, pencils, erasers, chalk, markers, handouts, hands up, heads up, mouths shut, black boards, white boards, smart boards, and (all too often bored) students: the ingredients of formal education. If we were to reject these in the name of awaking our children to the joy and splendor of Jewish life, we would be relegated to the realm of informal education. But calling it informal seems too limiting. By calling it informal we are defining this mode of education by what it is not, as compared to defining it by what it is. That is why I prefer to call it experiential education. But, what is experiential education? In general the core of excellent experiential education is plainly put: excellent education. But if experiential education does not follow the recipe of formal education, what is its secret in ingredient?
So even before I get started I want to say that I believe assessment, evaluation, and accountability are crucial to the educational project, but here I want to explore what positive things happen in the educational kitchen when we take away the grades and remove the perception of judgment. With this move away from presumptive hierarchy, the weight of the education needs to be born out on the shoulders of the relationships. It is only when the educators meet the students' basic needs and achieve a mutual trust that we get cooking. In an environment where we are giving grades we need to be transparent, otherwise we run the risk of being unethical. How can a student be held accountable for something that they did not know that they were going to be tested on? In experiential education, the deepest learning often happens when educators help students get out of their own way in the service of their learning. We often need to use obfuscation and trickery. Being transparent often destroys that magic. Obviously this manipulation can be misused, but if we maintain that trust, the process will yield future revelations and breakthroughs in learning.
It is interesting to think about this aspect of education in the larger context of revelation. When the People of Israel were about to receive the Torah at Sinai, the Torah says, "And Moshe brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood under the mountain."(Exodus 19:17) What does it mean "under the Mountain?" On this, in the Talmud Shabbat 88a, Rabbi Avidimi ben Hama ben Hasa said that this teaches us that the Holy One raised the mountain above them like an inverted cask and said, "If you accept the Torah, good; if not, this will be your burial." So our experience at Sinai was less an intimate moment under the chupah, and more, a carjacking. Rabbi Aha ben Yaakov noted that accepting the Torah under duress presents a strong challenge to the obligatory nature of Jewish law. How can we be held liable for a contract that we were forced into? But Raba said that they accepted it again in the days of Purim, as it says in Megilat Esther, "The Jews fulfilled and they accepted." (Esther 9:27) Why the doubling of language? This means: they fulfilled what they had already accepted. The fulfillment of the added laws of Purim demonstrated that they accepted the laws of Sinai from thousands of years earlier. The difference being that this time there was no duress. It was not only that there was no God to push them into it, in the entire book of Esther there is no reference to God. God is hidden.
The story, and the holiday of Purim, seems to be a theater in which we are exploring what is hidden and what will be revealed. Esther's name and identity are hidden. When will they be revealed? We explore this with all of our customs of costumes. The fate of the Jewish people is unknown. When will that be revealed? We explore this with our community gatherings and of course our eating. There would be no story of Purim if all we had was transparency. Purim seems to be a holiday of delayed revelation.
I am not arguing that formal education is bad. I happen to love it and it has a huge role to play in education, but it is clearly not the only way. We need different ingredients to meet the needs of different learners. The delayed revelation of Purim points to a secret ingredient of experiential education. What does the world look like without a judge or judgment? The absence of God made it possible for Esther to be a true heroine. If there was transparency, Esther would have never learned the nature of her commitment to her community. We see many aspects in camping where it is a child centered institution free of judgment because the adults are hidden and there are no grades. The joyous Judaism and the freedom of camp hide the highly organized and intentional program. If we had to be transparent about our intention to make another generation committed to our future we would not be successful. As we read in Megilah, "The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor." (Esther 8:16) It is only at the end of the story of Purim that the hidden became clear, but boy were they glad.
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A Meaningful Thanksgivukkah
On their surfaces, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving are simple holidays. We see the themes of light breaking through the darkness, a few banding together to beat the elements, and the power of having faith in community. We camp folk know that nothing is ever as simple as it seems. So let's look deeper into the three miracles of Hanukkah. One miracle is that small group of zealots were able to beat the stronger forces and regain control of the Temple. When they recaptured the Temple they found one small jar of oil for the menorah in the Temple. The second miracle was that despite the fact that this small jar only had enough oil for one day it lasted for eight days. This story about the miraculous Hanukkah oil has allowed us to look past focusing solely on the military victory. This is important in that the war was not a black and white fight between the Jews and the Greeks. Rather, it was a civil war between a small group of religious zealots and a larger group of their Hellenized Jewish brethren. The third miracle of Hanukkah is that the story of the second miracle of the oil overshadows the first miracle of a civil war.
Now we turn our attention to Thanksgiving. It is a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and the preceding year. This is traced to a poorly documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. We retell the story of the first settlers to America who found salvation when they reached Plymouth Rock.
But is that the real story of Thanksgiving? On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the national holiday of Thanksgiving. There we read:
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union…It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
Like the third miracle of Hanukkah, Thanksgiving is not really a story about the Pilgrims, but rather the constitution of a ritual of reconciliation post-civil war. Both Hanukkah and Thanksgiving represent the recreation of national mythologies for the sake of mending the wounds of fighting between brothers.
We in camping appreciate the impact of a good story regardless of its true origins. Camp in its essence is a self-made community built on rituals, traditions, and history that is created by its members and need not be based solely on fact. It is here in this miraculous fabricated narrative that we create enduring memories of brotherhood. So while the story might not be true, the community could not be any more real. I hope you have a very meaningful Thanksgivukkah. Happy holidays.
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Having scored four consecutive Top Ten albums in the previous two years, Grand Funk Railroad may not have seemed to casual observers like a band who needed to rise phoenix-like from the ashes, but the title of the band's seventh album referred to its re-emergence after a litigious split from manager/producer Terry Knight. Now, they were producing themselves, and they added organist Craig Frost, credited here as a sideman, though he went on to join the band formally. The biggest change, however, was a musical maturity. After releasing five studio albums in a little over two years, Grand Funk waited more than a year before releasing Phoenix, and in that time they managed to come up with more variety than they had displayed before. "Someone," for example, was a surprisingly gentle ballad, and "Rain Keeps Fallin'" was stronger melodically than most of songwriter Mark Farner's previous efforts. Unlike earlier albums, Phoenix didn't seem like one rudimentary rocker after another, which made it Grand Funk's most listenable album so far. And that's not to say it didn't rock, as the leadoff instrumental, "Flight of the Phoenix," and the Top 40 hit that closed the set, "Rock 'n Roll Soul," demonstrated. Unfortunately, Farner's lyrical abilities had not increased, while his self-importance had. "I Just Gotta Know," "So You Won't Have to Die," and "Freedom Is for Children" all contained political exhortations expressed in simple-minded terms, the worst being "So You Won't Have to Die," in which Farner, later to become a Christian artist, claimed Jesus had spoken to him on the subject of overpopulation. After such cringe-inducing foolishness, the band's return to rocking with "Rock 'n Roll Soul" could only be welcomed. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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propagate fruit trees from cuttings?? not grafts
Anyone have any experience with propagating fruit trees from softwood, semi-hardwood or hardwood cuttings? I'm trying to understand the need for grafting if the cutting will root, then why not just let it root and have a new tree? I want full sized trees so I don't need a dwarf rootstock or anything like that. If I made cuttings from a named variety tree and rooted them, assuming I could, they would be that same named variety tree, right? Would they start producing fruit within 2-3 years, or once it reaches 4 feet or so like grafted trees do? It wouldn't be a seedling, so wouldn't go through the whole juvenile stage, right? Anyone who can clear this up, I'd SURE appreciate it!!!
Certainly some fruit-tree selections are propagated from cuttings (or airlayers), but these are mostly tropical or subtropical (e.g., loquat, lychee, some citrus) or as rootstock (e.g., some pears).
If you have longer-term access to the mother trees, airlayering may have a better chance of success than cuttings. Still, its fairly easy to try cuttings. A stronger rooting hormore concentration and some way to apply bottom heat are the major costs for the harder-to-root types (I am getting these for use on some harder-to-root grapes).
Some apple trees such as northern spy generate root primordia on wood above ground and can be grown from cuttings, but then you will end up with a very vigorous tree. Most varieties of apples don't easily root out from above ground wood as the English apple root stocks (MM 111, emla 7, etc) all do. The problem with some of the Cornell rootstocks is that they don't easily root when stool cultured.
I have noticed a lot of varieties will root along the trunk where a branch has been cut and covered with plastic during the course of using tangle trap. This would suggest that you might be successful by taping a small bag of soil to a small branch still on a tree where some bark has been removed if you keep the soil moist.
My neighbor moved here over forty years ago and brought cuttings of an apricot and a prune plum and, according to him, just stuck them in a hole in the ground and kept them watered. The trees both still bear. I like the fruit from them. I have no idea just when he cut the wood or how woody it was (this year's, second year, or older.)
The plum is a nice size, the 'cot quite a bit too big, to my way of thinking.
I have 5 acres I want to plant an orchard on. I'm thinking apple trees (of course I have to choose one of the harder to root), but if anyone happens to know of a more profitable fruit tree for zone 6, I'm all ears. I need to make a living off these in 5 years even if its a meager living. :) Since I want to plant so many, that is the reason I want to propagate them myself.
So lots of good info here so far, but I do want to also clear up:
If I am successful with rooting (how ever done), these new little trees will be the same as the named variety, even if the named variety was created by grafting???
Will the new little trees skip the juvenile stage and produce within a few years?
yes .. there is no way it can be anything else...
but i am no pro with rooting.. but you are not going to have fruit in 2 to 3 years ... and i would hazard a guess .. of 7 to 10 years ...
have you done any research into what chemical intervention for bugs and disease is needed for salable fruit production??? ... i am guessing 3 to 5 sprays over the whole season ... for prime fruit ... and the cost of that .. might not make a small orchard.. much of a money maker ...
kroach just buy apple rootstocks, in bundles of 100 they are pretty cheap. Then you can graft on whatever apples you want. Forget rooting if you want to grow commercial fruit trees, the fruits you get a good price for are reliably propagated by grafting only.
Marknut, that sounds unbelievable to me. Try sticking some wood in holes and see if they sprout roots. If you could start cots and plums that easily they'd usually be propigated that way- they aren't grown on dwarfing rootstocks much in commercial production so a start from a cutting would be a superior tree produced much more quickly and cheaply than by way of budding.
I'm with HMan on this. For what I've read, rooting hardwood/softwood requires misting systems, optimal temps and certain rooting media (perlite?) and even then, its not perfect... Maybe the guy got lucky? (timing/rain).
I'd go with scott and buy bunches of cheap rootstock. Another option is buying a bunch of various apples and growing out your own seed and getting scion in another year and grafting, but God only knows what kind of growth/performance you will get (it could be a few years before fruit). Apple is very easy to start from seed.
Maybe so. I had my doubts at the time, and found by my own experience that pear is hard to root in any event- couldn't do it, in fact.
As for what the original poster should do: forego the attempt at rooting apple cuttings and examine the possibility of intensive plantings as discussed in Frank's thread of last week.
I used to think it would be heaven to take over a little orchard somewhere and spend all my time tending the trees, but I don't think so now. Now I think it would be daunting, but then again, I'm reaching a stage in my life that doesn't include taking on the world and scaling impossible mountains and such!
Here is a link that might be useful: High intensity pear
Marcus, have you started mulberries from cutting? Figs anyone can do, I suspect citrus requires misting- how about mulberries. All the named varieties I've ever seen were grafted while figs are always on their own roots suggesting that we are talking about 2 different levels of difficulty.
I usually get my big batches of rootstock from Williamette Nurseries. Looks like .67 each for MM106 from them now. I have had them do 50 minimum instead of the 100 before, call and ask to see. There are several other good places but I can't remember the names now.
Some mulberries will and some mulberries won't root readily from cuttings.
A old trick was whip-and-tongue grafting a short piece of an easy-to-root one at the bottom of a longer cutting of a hard-to-root one. They used cotton string to bind so it would rot away before girdling. Sometimes in transplanting after a season of growth they would cut away the bottom root zone after the scion/main-cutting had rooted itself.
One might even graft a short piece of root at the bottom of a cutting. I'm fairly sure I've seen that described too and called "root grafting." This possibly would work with a lot of species.
Great, interesting thread! For a number of years I lived in a high, cool rainforest, on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Madre Oriental, in Mexico. There, at 7500' altitude, we literally passed days and months in the clouds. I had friends who propagated peach and apples by simply sticking branches in the ground. One fellow I knew cut down a pear tree for firewood. He left the smaller branches laying on the ground for several months. They rooted wherever they touched the earth! Conditions can make quite a difference.
Tahlequah, OK
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>>If you could start cots and plums that easily they'd usually be propigated that way- they aren't grown on dwarfing rootstocks much in commercial production so a start from a cutting would be a superior tree produced much more quickly and cheaply than by way of budding.Not necessarily
I had a plum, twice now growing on it's own root from layering but on it's own it just doesn't want to grow, sometimes a vigorous root stock is needed.
I've propagated a pear rootstock by stooling, but I can claim no real talent at it as it other than scoring the stem and removing some bark it more or less did it on it's own and I'm yet to see wether it'll last till next growing season. Apples, and some Citrus seem almost impossible to me. Although it doesn't stop me trying.
Harvestman, sorry to take so long answering. I tried cuttings from 3 different mulberries last year, they rooted but I didn't get back to them soon enough and they died. I had over 150 cuttings I was working on: fig, grape and mulberry. Currently trying Illinois Everbearing.
For the ultimate in geekiness for propagating from cuttings, the cutting edge (no pun intended) is tissue culture, growing plants out from meristem cuttings in sterile laboratory conditions. Because you're taking the cutting from the tip of the plant growth, any virus or disease has not had time to travel to that part of the plant yet, and you get a clean start.
It used to be the domain of laboratories only, requiring laminar flow hoods and autoclaves, meaning growers had to send out their mother plants for propagation. But guess the one industry that doesn't want to send out their mother plants? That's right, the pot industry! So industrious (and stoned) minds spurred on the development of plant preservatives that help make up for the non-laboratory conditions and now home tissue culture kits are widely available.
The plantlets are started in a gelatin-type medium with plant food,hormones, and sugars. Since this medium grows bacteria and fungus much better than it does plants, everything still has to be sterile with lots of alcohol and bunsen burners; a pressure cooker sterilizes your tools. A rubbermaid tub serves as your clean hood and baby food jars holds the medium. Since the sugar is feeding the plants, low light is needed as opposed to the high light needed for hydroponics.
It is a way to propagate clean plants quickly, especially on difficult to propagate plants like blueberry and orchids. WSU has been investigating tissue culture of the G series rootstocks since they do not root well in the layer bed. You'd still have to graft to appropriate rootstock, but it would be a way to cheaply clean up viruses in both. Kits run about $250.
Here is a link that might be useful: Home Tissue Culture Group
The Irish Seed Savers have an entire orchard dedicated to "self rooters" - its an interest read on their website - I'm attaching the link.
There were several early American apple varieties prized for their self rooting ability. Usually discovered by chance when a pile of prunings would root and produce identical fruit. When early settlers had to establish an orchard to meet requirements for their "claim" - the self-rooting ability made things easy and inexpensive. These trees would later be top-grafted to whatever the settler preferred.
Here is a link that might be useful: Irish Seed Savers Self Rooting Orchard