Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No squabbling, please: if you want to fight, please step outside. (H/T wasplover)
This has been bit of a busy week for me, so I don’t have a full story or parsha. This week’s Parsha Tazaria is an interesting one, though, all about ritual impurity, and particularly the length of impurity after a woman gives birth. Naturally, women stay in a longer state of impurity after giving birth to a girl rather than a boy. There’s lots to say about that of course, and some clever stuff trying to say it’s not really sexist, but a complement to mother and daughter that I don’t buy. More here. Have at it in the comments as you see fit.
Let’s get the music started with last week’s subject, Marilyn Monroe. I love seeing her with the guitar.
Betty Robbins in 1955 singing for Temple Avodah for the High Holidays. She may be the first female cantor ever:
Amazing conversation and performance of She’s Always a Woman between Billy Joel and P!nk.
Been doing a little reading on the Jewish history of punk rock.
We’ll finish up with the great Yasmin Levy:
So folks, how’s your week been? What have you been listening to?