da·ven (dä v n)intr.v. da·vened, da·ven·ing, da·vens 1. To recite Jewish liturgical prayers. 2. To sway or rock lightly. [Yiddish davnen.] da ven·er n. |
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| But nowhere in the United States do we hear about the old Cuban Jews at a synagogue on a Saturday night, davening to their hearts' content; or about the crowds of men playing chess and trading pigeons in the newly restored Plaza Vieja on a Sunday afternoon; or about the teens who swarm in Graham Greene's Plaza del Cristo at midnight, pouring rum into paper cups, sharing cigarettes, and doing what teenagers up to no good do everywhere. Dressed in a bowler hat and vest for the waltz, Curran gestures like a rabbi or cantor, with a hint of davening (swaying in prayer), to Monk's song in memory of her Russian Jewish grandfather. Besides the obvious protest strategies of not paying taxes, refusing to sit on juries or serve in the military, caterwauling at family weddings, suing to get government-funded churches onto the tax rolls, snapping down our yoga mats and davening for democracy, or just starting impeachment proceedings on any number of grounds, I've got an idea. |
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