Laurance Wieder

Native New Yorker Laurance Wieder had his adult bar mitzvah in Charlottesville at age 65. An independent scholar, editor and teacher, his many books include Words to God’s Music: A New Book of Psalms; Perek Shirah: A Chapter of Song; and the just completed oral text After Adam: The Books of Moses.

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A Month After Charlottesville, A Synagogue Lay Leader Reflects On The Shabbat Of Terror

As a darshan and occasional maftir of our lay-led, traditional egalitarian Sabbath services here in Charlottesville, Virginia, I am often struck by the immediacy of the Torah and haftarah texts. Sometimes Moses and the Prophets ascend from the mundane to the eternal; other times, their words reach down and touch the present. Like Sabbath celebrants…

By Laurance Wieder Sep 8, 2017 | 3 min read

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