For Jewish Deadheads, the music plays on
As a gentle snow fell on the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center last Friday evening, some 85 people gathered inside a wooden lodge to welcome Shabbat — half in a meditation circle in which Grateful Dead lyrics served as a kind of mantra, the other in a more \”traditional\” service where the Lecha Dodi prayer was sung to the tune of the Dead classic \”Ripple.\”