New expression, local rabbi, oy-that-speech!

Welcome to my first Brooklyn2berkeley blog post.

An expression I learned today is hippy dippy.
Think that this mean a very experiential but "intellectually-constrained" 1960's-aspiring person. Another Jewish blogger, Ryan from Eretz Yisrael, seems to also indirectly try to define this in his blogspot post Reflections on my hippy-dippy shabbos
Someone named Bree O'Connor closer to my old 'hood wrote a hippy-dippy blogspot post around the same time as Ryan's, entitled I Hate To Be Hippy Dippy, But.... Whatever the case, interesting term to use, sort of like the old term, touchy-feely.

The local non-Chabad shul is Congregation Beth Israel or CBI for short.
CBI's rabbi is Rabbi Yonatan Cohen, a rabbi of fairly short stature who always seems to dart around the synagogue or circulate in, out, and around everyone. His wife Frayda, similarly (although maybe in more of a "charging" than in a "darting" fashion) circulates around and seems to try to manage the women's side of the mechitzah and direct many of the synagogue's affairs. I understand that these two were married in Montreal four or five years ago and they choose to remain childless for the time-being.

This past Shabbos, CBI put on a Shabbat Shalem Dinner with Guest Speaker. The food was delicious at both the dinner and at the Saturday late afternoon dinner (Shalosh Seudos). The speaker was a Dr. Zohar, and he stuck to themes of Sephardic Individuality and Liberalism. He basically just read from the his circulated handouts and spoke sermon-style with a few summarizing comments of his own interspersed throughout the speech. I thought that this was basically your typical One-Way Act of D'var Torah'rism. Been there, done that; I've been used to this in Jewish Brooklyn even before the infamous 9/11/01 WTC attack.
Better if he and other speakers would actively engage their audiences with something like accepting questions from the floor (or tables as-it-were) or active, non-monolithic discussion.
As it is, his words for this attendee are already in-one-ear-out-the-other.
Enough already! Next!