[HANASHIR:9211] Re: Online Ruach

[Carol Boyd Leon <cbleon...>]

Want a report from Northern Virginia?

Ok, you may not exactly think of this area as a hotbed of Judaism.  In 
reality, however, there are lots of synagogues in these Washington, DC 
suburbs.  And maybe we're making the map... the entire Jewish community is 
holding its first annual (how's that for confidence?) Jewish Cultural 
Festival on Sunday in Reston Town Center.  It's sponsored by the local JCC 
and will have hundreds, well, dozens of Jewish organizations represented and 
an afternoon of music.  We can't exactly brag about having big-name 
performers on stage, but my not-so-big Community Youth Choir will be the 
afternoon's last performance; these kids may be small in stature but they've 
got very big Jewish hearts...

As for how Jewish music has affected my life, the best word to describe it 
is "profoundly."  I'll offer this as proof:  I'm having an adult bat mitzvah 
in a week, and it started with my deciding to teach the "Alef Bet Song" some 
years ago but being frustrated because I didn't yet know how to read 
Hebrew...  :-)

-- Carol Boyd Leon
   Burke, VA


>From: Robbi Sherwin <sherwin (at) earthlink(dot)net>
Myself, I'm headed to the Kerrville Folk Festival again this
>weekend.  We do a helluva Shabbat service there and I've had some amazing
>surprise guests sit in with me:
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