WE’RE OUTA HERE–EGYPT, THAT IS

Yes, it’s time for the second annual Firepit Minyan SEDER! I like to think last year’s was a high point in reverently unorthodox Jewish tradition. So please check the details below and join us. The more, the minyan-er.

SECOND ANNUAL FIREPIT MINYAN SEDER

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 (5769)

6:30 pm, Robin and Eric’s house–see Shabbat for directions and contact [...]

FIREPIT MINYAN WRITERS AT BOOK WOMAN THIS WEEK!

Robin Chotzinoff and Pamela Villars, regular Firepit shabbatniks, will be reading not-your-father’s Torah commentaries this Wednesday, March 18 at Book Woman.

The reading is sponsored by Drashpit – a cool new Jewish website and brainchild of Austin writer Neena Husid. Each week on Sunday, Neena posts several themes suggested by the week’s Torah portion and invites readers to [...]

THE WHOLE UN-PERFECT MEGILLAH

Friday the 13th (of March, 2009) means PURIM! We invite you to meet at the usual place at 6:30 for a full, though slightly unstructured, calendar of Purim events. I (rabbi-wannabe Robin) have been struck down with Fifth Disease. The symptoms are indistinguishable from rheumatoid arthritis and I feel very sorry for myself. BUT I [...]