For many years I’ve had a blog that lived on blogger.com. It was originally started with my congregation (my former congregation, B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT) in mind. When I began I imagined it being a place where the contributions of many voices might be heard – members of my congregation in particular. Hence I called it Shma Koleinu – Hear our Voices. But soon it became a place for my own reflections, occasional sermon, spiritual sharings, etc. In more recent years, since arriving at my current congregation, B’nai Shalom in Westborough, MA, that blog has received little attention from me (and therefore, likely, from anyone else either!). Most recently, it has been a place where I shared my wine recommendations for Passover after co-hosting pre-Passover wine testing events with Julio’s Liquors. See … I’m not only interested in whisky!
I’m going to discontinue posting new posts on blogger, and as someone who has moderate tech skills but is quite good at following directions, I’m rather delighted that I seem to have successfully exported the entire contents of my old blog and imported them onto this new site. So anything from prior 2021 is a posting from Sh’ma Koleinu – Hear our Voices. Over time, I’ll check the 26 pages (!) of posts that were imported. But for now, know that if you find broken links, missing images or videos, etc. it is because these are old postings and I may not have gotten around to cleaning them up yet. While I make no promises to become a much more regular blogger again, with the upcoming launch of the Dram and a Drash podcast (coming soon), I imagine that the blog on this site will be used to share tasting notes of whisky that is sampled on the podcast, along with other tidbits on all kinds of topics… Jewish social history, Reform Judaism, anti-semitism, race and racism, and more that I’ve discovered can be revealed by studying the history of whiskey (particularly in the United States).
Anyway, welcome to my blog 2.0!