Judaism has a neat music tradition. I used to live in Tampa Bay and the local community radio station used to have a show called "Sunday Simcha (sp?)" for two hours and it was all Jewish/Yiddish type music. I just listened to the show for the first time since the early 90's (thanks, web), and I actually quite liked it. They kept using the term "klezmer". Not sure if that applies to all Jewish music or not.
I went to a bar mitzvah of a distant relative back in the '00s in Philadelphia, and went to synagogue, and it was kind of creepy. The chanting, and the movements.
In Vermont, at my first college, I went with a teacher a few times to a priory. It was a pretty place. Very rustic. But the service was sterile. Even with all the monks in their rustic robes. It just about gave me a stroke. Some neat people, though.
I went to a bar mitzvah of a distant relative back in the '00s in Philadelphia, and went to synagogue, and it was kind of creepy. The chanting, and the movements.
In Vermont, at my first college, I went with a teacher a few times to a priory. It was a pretty place. Very rustic. But the service was sterile. Even with all the monks in their rustic robes. It just about gave me a stroke. Some neat people, though.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
