Chabad

After reading that article, I feel even more respect for Rabbi Yehoshua and Zlata than I did before. I've always thought they were wonderful people; part of my very good first impression of them was that the rabbi was so very different from the Chabad rabbi who preceded him. The other rabbi made a point to call a woman rabbi "Mrs." rather than "Rabbi."

I mean, live in the real world, already. I may not want Bush to be president but he IS whether I like it or not.

Well, Rabbi Yehoshua made it a point, at a Lag B'Omer picnic co-sponsored by Beth Shalom and Chabad House several years ago, to refer to Mira as "Rabbi." That made a lot of fans for him.

I would have gone to the Chabad ceremonies on Sunday if I hadn't been sick.

Even though I don't share many practices or beliefs with the Chabad movement, I have to say that I admire Yehoshua and Zlata -- they really live their beliefs.

And it's strange, but a few years ago, here's my very-loose-Jewishly husband asking Rabbi Yehoshua to pray for his dad when his dad had a quadruple bypass while on a business trip in Iowa. As if, somehow, those Orthodox prayers counted just a little bit more...