Rachel Adler?

[theyellowhobbit]

She was there. Of all the speakers, she was the one whose philosophy I most agreed with [everyone else was so left wing and liberal and while I didn't completely agree with Rachel, some of the stuff she said was very valid.]

And of course right after the workshop she started talking to someone with a microphone and recorder, who I could only assume was interviewing her. And I couldn't interrupt, and then I went off to get a tour of the mikvah.

And when I got back, she was gone!!! But she was supposed to be at a book signing! Where did she go? She flew home according to the other rabbis. I suppose that I could have signed Engendering Judaism in her place. The book seller dude thought I was her...

So I'm a little disappointed. But the mikvah was beautiful, and there was a cool play and I saw Emelia Diamant [daughter of Anita Diamant, who wrote the Red Tent] who I hadn't seen since like senior year of high school when she was on NFTY-NE board. And I met two cool girls, Sarah and Tamar, who were also in Ivy league schools and learning about Jewish stuff. And I got in touch with a friend, Anna, from Drisha who I hadn't seen since last summer and now she's married.

My head hurts, and I want to talk to Rachel Adler!!! I would have chased her down at Logan Airport but that would be stalkeriffic. Maybe I can give Stevie a message to give her next time he sees her at shul. Something like "Theres a friend of mine who has your name who really wanted to meet you, and then you left the mikvah conference and destroyed her dreams" Ok, not really. But I'll e-mail her. I definitely have to now.

And she's really Racheltacular and amusing. I can use words like "Racheltacular" to describe her.

And I'm still a bit nervous about e-mailing her from my e-mail account, which shows my name in the display. Both the sas and the g-mail do that...

Comments

[batshua]

Ohnoes! Uhm, hugs. How about emailing from that other email you have?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

i don't use that e-mail except for when i actually want to be anonymous. i don't need to be anonymous here, i just don't want to bombard her with Rachel Adlerness

[rivka-m.livejournal.com]

isn't rachel adler fairly left-wing and liberal? or did she make some very valid left-wing liberal points?

and what did she say?

I don't think it's weird for her to get an email from someone named rachel adler. It had occured to me that you guys had the same name, and I thought that was cool.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

She's fairly left wing and liberal, but the other people there were way more left wing and liberal than her.

What I ended up agreeing with was her "ethics of ritual" basically there were a few rules she thought of that people should pay attention to when creating new rituals. the main one, her first one, was that people should have the chance to opt out of participating. She gave an example of being forced to stand like a tree, or being crowded in hugs by people she had never met. People have different ideas of what a comfortable level of personal space is, and that should be respected.