skepticality #067 - Humanistic Judaism and Lily The Pink - Interview: Michael Adelson

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This week Skepticality features Michael Adelson, a staff conductor for the New York Philharmonic, and conductor of the Auros Group for New Music in Boston.Mr. Adelson had the good fortune to study with the late Rabbi Sherwin Wine. Rabbi Wine founded Humanistic Judaism, a secular movement which provides atheistic and ignostic Jews around the world with a means for organization, mobilization, and a sense of community.Speaking to Swoopy as a skeptic, Mr. Adelson shares insights from his lecture series, the âForum for New Thinkingâ (inspired by Rabbi Wine). He also takes a critical look at music history, dispelling some false beliefs about artists â creative humans who are often painted with the brush of divine inspiration.Building on the musical theme, Swoopy talks to Canadian blue grass trio The Dirty Dishes about their new rendition of âLily The Pinkâ, an ode to the late 1800âs âqueenâ of patent medicine Lydia Pinkham.

 

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