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Virginia Spatz
Virginia Avniel Spatz lives and writes in DC, with a focus on Torah and justice, and works with We Act Radio and Charnice Milton Community Bookstore (CMCB) in Historic Anacostia. Her book, Rereading Exodus Along the Anacostia, supports the literacy programs of CMCB while highlighting the need for new perspectives on race, Jews, and power. She is also active in Tzedek Chicago, Hill Havurah (DC), SVARA, and a variety of other communities. Her journalism has appeared on We Act Radio and Capital Community News, and her fiction and nonfiction appears in variety of publications.
Blues for Ḥalah | English vernacular prayer | Grateful Dead | Gun violence in the United States | כוונות kavvanot | דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand | liberation | Needing Translation (into Hebrew) | Neighborhood Violence | North America | Occupy Judaism | Occupy Wall Street | Openers | פרשת שלח parashat Shlaḥ | פרשת שפטים parashat Shoftim | United States | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Kavvanah on Standing Before God-Who-Sees-Me, by Virginia Spatz (1999)
Contributed on: 26 Jul 2010 by Virginia Spatz | ❧
A prayer-teaching for grounding one’s intention at the onset of the Amidah. . . .
