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Rabbi A.D. Lobel, MIS, CSLC, PhD
@adlobel.bsky.social
Co-editor, Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, Ben Yehuda Press.

Rabbi/theologian, certified spiritual coach, writer, Researcher & lecturer: religion & science, astronomy, space exploration, AI; academic librarian; wife and mom
Still life with chanukiah, dreidel, giftie, and rose from my husband. ❤️ Feeling deeply thankful.

🕎❤️ Happy Chanukah! Increase the light! ❤️🪬
December 26, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by Rabbi A.D. Lobel, MIS, CSLC, PhD
My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.
November 24, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Rabbi A.D. Lobel, MIS, CSLC, PhD
Oh I won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History?!

And even better, its a tie, which means someone else won too. (congratulations to Eric Choi!)

Nice.

Very nice indeed.

My thanks to the judges, my editors and all the readers who saw beyond the skin of this story.
October 28, 2023 at 4:35 AM
Reposted by Rabbi A.D. Lobel, MIS, CSLC, PhD
Congratulations to Eric Choi on winning a Sidewise Award for his story "A Sky and a Heaven." This poignant tale of Ilan Ramon commanding a space shuttle rescue mission was published in "Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People."
October 27, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Another story in "Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People," “Why the Bridgemasters of York Don’t Pay Taxes,” by Gillian Polack, was a Sidewise Award finalist!

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!
October 29, 2023 at 1:38 AM
2/2 . . . A Dream of Electric Mothers, Wole Talabi, "Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction) (eds Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Sheree Thomas, & Zelda Knight)

Congratulations!

locusmag.com/2023/10/2022...
October 29, 2023 at 1:36 AM
1/2 Announcement: This year's winner of the Sidewise Award (Short Form) was a tie:

"A Sky and Heaven," Eric Choi, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People (eds. Mark Shainblum and me) and. . .
October 29, 2023 at 1:35 AM
Shavua tov! Wishing you a good, blessed week!

Shine your beautiful light to illuminate the world, and speak up when you see what needs to be illumined. #tikkunolam
October 22, 2023 at 1:58 AM
Happy 70th anniversary to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451!

#SFF #RayBradbury #Anniversary #Fahrenheit451 #Bradbury
October 19, 2023 at 10:33 PM
September 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM
September 26, 2023 at 2:34 AM
To all who observe Yom Kippur, wishing you a meaningful day, and if you fast, an easy one.

G'mar hatimah tovah!
September 24, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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Thrilled to report that two Stories in "Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People" are finalists in the 2022 Sidewise Awards for Best Short-Form Alternate History!

August 29, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Shabbat shalom! 💗
August 26, 2023 at 1:56 AM
"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."
-Viktor Frankl
August 24, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Any other David Bowie fans?

What are your favourite albums and songs?
August 23, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands near Moon's south pole!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKS...
August 23, 2023 at 10:15 PM
“No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning"

Good night!
August 20, 2023 at 5:46 AM
A little d'var Torah I wrote nine years ago, on this week's Torah portion, Shoftim, through the lens of Star Trek. . .

https://www.facebook.com/lobelad/posts/pfbid0pLrfVfhjLfNfgn4MeFQ3ooACwgYdTo5QMN9czcQGAtUyaP17pTC5WVPejMQUn1uQl
August 19, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Shabbat shalom! <3

Points of light in the dim. . .
August 19, 2023 at 12:33 AM