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2004: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2003: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
September 2008
- Shana Tova U’Metuka
- “Finding God Without Losing Self”–Surprised By God in the Jerusalem Post
- On Bailouts and Economic Reality
- Two Media Bits of Interest
- A Text For the End of Elul
- Liveblogging a Rabbinic Conference Call With Obama
- Help Save One Of The Best Things In Independent Publishing
- Well OK
- The Bechdel Rule
- Gettin’ Giggy With It
August 2008
- Not Much to Say
- Inspiration
- We Like Pretty Pictures
- More Extra Bonus Excerpt
- More Book-Related Stuff
- Excerpt!
- Tute-y Fruity
- Sweetness
- Havurational
July 2008
- BUSTing out
- For When You Need To Feel Happy
- Without a Net
- More Reviews
- Another One Down
- It’s Astounding How Many Things Have To Go Right (For Any Big Project)
- Viva La Revolucion!
- Tikkun Review
June 2008
- Arrived
- Notes, Misc.
- Three Things Make a Post
- Booklist Review!!
- Greetings from Elk City
- Albuquerque
- Day 2
- East of Eden
- If Only
- Circumcise Me!
- Receiving Torah/Saying Goodbye
May 2008
- Packing
- Photographic Evidence
- Into the RabbiTron
- A Love Letter, of Sorts
- Happy Happy Thing
- The End is Nigh
April 2008
- Oh Yeah, And
- Gone and Back
- Publishers Weekly!
- No Turning Back Now
- I Want To Live In Bjork’s Magical World
March 2008
- So Worth Seeing
- Feminism and the NYTBR
- Happy Happy!
- Moved by Torah
- Ordination is in 63 Days
- Yes Yes Yes.
- Why You Ask Your Publisher To Show You Any And All Changes They Might Have Made To Your Mss
- Who Knew The Cat Provided the Meaning?
- Life in Three Dimensions
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
- Yay
- 147 Days
- Relevant Metaphors
- Daf Sheni
- Smachot!
- Wardrobe Change
- The Grinch Who Stole The Latkes
- Happy Chanukah!
- On Visible and Invisible Labor, and Economics
November 2007
October 2007
- Sometimes There Should Be a Poem
- Gig
- Historical Nugget of the Day
- File Under “Good To Know”
- We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
- What Glass Ceiling?
September 2007
- Hoping and Praying
- Yay.
- Food for Tshuvah
- Lesson in Practical Rabbinics
- How to Blow a Shofar
- Shana Tovah (almost)!
- The Proverbial New Box of Crayons
- Gone and Back Again.
August 2007
July 2007
- I love this.
- Postscript
- Collective Moral Degradation
- Hello from Studyland
- Harnessing the Hype for the Power of Good
- Interfaith Day
- Drash On
- Still Here
June 2007
- Outgoing
- What Comes Around
- Home Remedies
- Happymaking Things
- Tally
- Oh, right, that jet lag thing
- עיר המלאכים
May 2007
- I Guess We’re Pretty Far North, Huh?
- Partway There
- T-Minus
- Torah from Heaven
- Rabbi-Tron!
- Golly
- About the Weather
- Coming and Going
- I Heart the Onion
- Art is Good Food
- Lag
- New URL–Please Update Your Bookmarks!
- Clearing Out
- Inch By Inch
April 2007
- Holy Cow.
- Counting
- Onward and Upward
- Memory, Action
- We Are All One Under God
- Rechavia Moment
- Baruch Dayan Ha-Emet
- For Shame
- A Friendly Reminder
- Being Edited Is Good Practice for Being Alive
- Transference
- Art and Context
- Late Medieval Musing of the Day
- Happy Easter
- Also:
- 3 Reasons Why J’lem Has Spoiled Me (Pesach Edition)
- Tastes
March 2007
- Preparation
- Geulah
- Fzzzztt
- Closing In
- Baruch Hashem
- Tefillin Time
- Hero Time
- Talisman
- Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
- Huh.
- ?!
- Pesach is Coming II: DIY Seder?
- Pesach is Coming
- Interfaith Coffee Co-op in Uganda
- Today’s Image
- Iranian Women Detained for Peaceful Protest for Women’s Rights and Fair Trials
- Encroaching Reality
- The Next Important Book You’ll Read
- Feminism and Judaism are Friends
- Notes from a Walled City
- Baruch Dayan HaEmet
- From the, “Beats Writing ‘I Don’t Know’ on the Exam Paper” Files
- Kvelling and Kvelling Some More.
February 2007
- Soooo Clooooose
- More Torah for Healing
- What Is Zen?
- Back!
- Occupational Hazard
- Nashot HaKotel Adar
- Chodesh Tov
- Read This
- Torah for Healing
- It’s All Like, Interactive and Stuff
- Books are Fun to Read
- Chicago Sports Fans
- So, This Book
- Turtle!!
- Well, That’s Better
- Reut: The Center for Modern Jewish Marriage
- How to Pitch an Article
- Me vs. 21.7%
January 2007
- Tu B’Shvat Hegia
- Damn damn damn
- and then there are the days
- Civic Pride!
- Free and Spendy.
- Today’s Photograph
- Time Flies When You’re Writing a Book (and Checking Email a Lot).
- MLK Day II
- Dr. King
- For Those of You in the Bay Area
- We Likey Books
- Add Your $0.02 to the Mix
- מצדה
- I Loves Me A Good Writing Day
- In Case You Were Wondering
December 2006
- Folks Haven’t Been Reading Their Bibles
- Happy Sylvester
- Word Counting
- Snow II
- Snow in Jerusalem
- A Little Princess
- Bad Wordpress!
- Whoa
- Montgomery, AL on the Number 2
- Why I Love Living in Jerusalem, Parts 5460684 and 5460685
- Seasonally Fried
- How Much of the Hanukah Story is Hasmonean Propaganda?
- The Inevitable Question for Shabbat Hanukah
- Running Tally
- שיר של יום
- Mostly Seasonal Link Roundup
- More on the CJLS thang
- Lucky Thirteen
- I’m back!
November 2006
- In Which We Learn to Daven at the Shul We Wouldn’t Attend
- Eye Vey Zmeer
- Just Saying
- A Modest Proposal
- I’ve Got That Kislev Feeling
- Today’s Scary Statistic
- Adults Take Care of Their Business
- To Muh Fellow Americuns
- ISO Source (yet again)
- Putting the Whoo! Back in Woozy
- Back in the Holy Land
- Stick a Fork in Me
- The Helsinki Complaints Choir
- Thursday It Must Be…Ummm, Somewhere.
- This is the Post That I Wrote Yesterday
- halftime
- Baruch Hashem!
- A Few Notes about Travel
- Chul’s Away
- This Glamourous Jet-Setting Lifestyle
October 2006
- Disgusting, but Fun, Desserts!
- Just a Little More
- Vote, Baby, Vote!
- More on Barbiegate
- Work is Its Own Cure (Except on the Days When It’s Its Own Disease)
- Fringe it Up, Yo
- FAQ Re: This Past Week
- Andy Goldsworthy Interlude
- I Took My Bread Out Dancing
- Baruch Oseh Niflaot
- Mashiv HaRuach U’Morid HaGashem
- Back to Hol
- Even Though She Kind of Poked Me in the Eye With It
- So Many People
- Someday,
- Baruch Dayan Ha-Emet
- Sukkot, Incoming
- Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn
- Misc.
- G’mar Hatimah Tovah, Y’all
September 2006
- Cutting-Room Excerpts and More
- Today’s Yummy Word of Torah
- Learning for the Ten Days
- The Unetane Tokef and Collective Responsibility
- Shanah Tovah!
- For Your Entertainment, of One Type or Another
- What the World Don’t Need Now
- Yay
- Slichot
- Input and Output
- Barvazoni!
- Forward Motion
- Sea of Reeds
- Emerged, Triumphant
- The Stained Glass Ceiling
- Cost of Living Huh?
- Onward
- And Back Down Again
- Breastfeeding, Class, Babies’ Health
- In the Name of Honor
- Sparkley Twinkley
- Baruch Dayan Ha-Emet
August 2006
- This Glamorous Writing Life
- Inevitable
- American Apparel is Not Good
- Oof
- Yay for Writers Who Don’t Stink
- Retro Journalism
- Chodesh Tov
- more prayer posting
- More Post-War Analysis
- prayer, memory
- Fluff Post
- aftermath
- הפסקת אש
- This is Why I Need A Sewing Machine
- Sweet, Lusciuous Writing Process
- Amichai Interlude
- Hooray For New Excellent Books
- It’s All Relative
- The Kiddushin Variations
- 9 Av
- Tzom Kal, Everybody
- This is a Very Very Very Bad Idea
- Reach Out, Touch Faith
- Theological Arcs
July 2006
- Name That Source
- Drinking the Kool Aid
- I’ve Never Even Actually Watched Buffy
- More of the Same
- On and on
- Wednesday: Jewish feminists and Writing Process
- Another Day, More War
- News Sources
- Cute, though I guess still in progress
- In Which a Statement is Not Issued
- Pray for Peace
- For Everyone Who’s Ever Been, Or Worked With, An Editor
- Rilke Intermisison
- Dear Hive Mind,
- I Knew This Would Happen
- Yay
- Design Time Suck
- Go Kyle Go!
- Settling in
- a) About Dang Time and b) Hah!
- Back Again
June 2006
- google randomness
- a leetle poll
- Booking Gigs
- radio silence
- Chilling. To say the least.
- Clergytastical
- Some Music Lists; No Reason in Particular
- Awake to Tell the Tale
- I think I can I think I can
May 2006
- Geeky Goodness
- Dear Insomnia
- The Charismatic Teacher
- Yom HaStudentim, Erev Keif
- Super Schweet
- and so it begins (continues, really)
- Snarky Goodness
- New Hairdo
- Write Pretty Letters
- Go Rabbi-tron, Go!
- That’s My Hometown
- This Situation is Not Acceptable
- The Parting Glass
- Whoever said that jetlag is easier going west than east
- Out of Office Reply
- K’eliu Jabberwocky
- Fear.
- textual interlude
- so good for the Jews
- calculating the value of unpaid labor
- The Hasidic world really needs to get in on this
- good news
- red-letter day
- the invisible Tuesday
April 2006
- Not gone, just busy
- Dear Jerusalem,
- baruch Dayan ha-emet
- book rec du jour
- “foolish custom”
- I guess today is “gack from other blogs” day.
- Beware of empowering consumers
- waving hello
- well, gee, Pesach is coming
- forwarded on from our mara d’atra
March 2006
- couldn’t resist
- Oooh yum
- optimism
- nuggets of not much
- more election mania
- more on the Rabbinical Assembly vote
- election and books
- coolest site evar
- quote of the day
- this photo makes me happy
- or, no vote
- the vote
- Vikkkkktory!
- This Too is Torah
- still have the icgk
- i hab a code
February 2006
- pod it up, yo
- Adar is good, politics are political
- Two Jewy feministy things in J’lem this week
- fun and games with registration
- on, like, mysticism and other trippy stuff like that
- Merton Interlude
- another art post
- Museum of Tolerance Building on Muslim Graveyard
- The Revelation Will Not Be Televised
- magic happy free things
- Muzika
- okay, sooo
- A Valentine For You
- fun crafty fun
- Yom Darwin
- Jewish Arbor Day is nigh
- art interlude
- They Call Me Joseph K.
- meme’d again
- Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeee
- Another great feminist leaves this world
- classic
- Welcome to the new space!
- The Future of Jerusalem Syndrome
January 2006
- A Bad Day For Art
- Shameless Plug
- Where Credit is Due
- Nashot HaKotel
- My Sacred Text is Fun to Play With
- keepin’ on keepin’ on
- Happiness
- one thing I learned this week
- refuah shlemah
- refuah shlemah
- true confessions
- I knew there was going to be a catch
- T-minus a bit of time
- Vote, Baby, Vote!
- aw, shucks!
- here we go again
December 2005
- deja vu all over again
- moving past two-mindedness
- We Are Living in the Jetsons Era
- another semester sent to the glue factory
- compelled to share
- Rosie the Tefillin Wearer
- צדק צדק תרדוף
- on ritual innovation and the like
- finals countdown
- שיר של יום
- The Fictional 15
- RENT-ed? Or Stolen?
- World AIDS Day
- still here, just not here
November 2005
- well, if Darcy is gevurah…
- A Few Bits of Jewish Metaphysical Randomness
- Soul Train
- more fun in the spiritual marketplace
- Too Angry To Title This Properly
- Can I Get an Amen?
- Oh My Hashem
- huh
- Books are Fun To Read
- Target is the suck
- Hell is Other Places
October 2005
- Please God
- I’d like to start a petition
- Live! Jew! Girls!
- Because Knowledge is Power
- the more kabbalah I learn…
- Death and Yom Kippur Atone
- days of return
September 2005
- HiHo, HiHo, it’s off to pray I go…
- This Week in God
- byline and plug
- gettin’ rebbe with it
- one way to win a war
- a beautiful essay on suffering, writing, and politics
- Today’s question for discussion and debate:
- the winning quote from the book we’re reading in Biblical Criticism
- another post about how I feel bad for not posting so much anymore
- notes from planet exotification
- I still have no internet at home
August 2005
- yeridah
- here we go again
- for fellow members of the hospice squad
- hitnatkut
- schwag the dog
- Jewish feminists, Muslim feminists, and various random bits
- baruch dayan haemet
- words are nice.
July 2005
- At Long Last
- I’m just so confused
- still technically around
- I give up
- I amuse myself
- from the files of the random subconscious
- about bloody time
- at the next place
- on the road again
June 2005
- Skater Telos
- blathering on books
- hungry in galus
- Shabbos goyim and rabbanim
- Good things
- here, things are pastel and smell like seawater sometimes
- still here, it seems
- well, I’m back
- ישראל יקרה,
- Today
- Today I am
- because of course
- Next thing’s next
- more on halakha
May 2005
- halakha is your friend
- still here
- what is WRONG with me?
- Wait a second!
- Back where we started
- I am in a movie!
- Focusing. I am. Really.
- Today’s Famous Mishnah That I Just Learned for the First Time
- please help
- Another Finals Countdown–This Time With Added Moving-Related Tasks!
- Jews Don’t Do Monestaries
- Dear Jerusalem Cinematheque,
- how to kasher a lightsaber
- um, has anybody tried to send me anything?
- some ruminations on Yom HaShoah
- I ♥ stupid stupid sexist literature
- Today’s Poem
April 2005
- slow torture
- Greece is the word
- you know your life is weird and specialized when…
- new theory
- Impending Yom Tov
- back, and scrubby
- mazel tov to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- new good book alert
- still here, just bleary
- West Bank Trip, Part Two
- DIY mitzvah gear
- the week’s report
March 2005
- purim for three days
- Hag Purim Sameach!!
- West Bank Trip, Part One
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- More Timeless Wisdom From Our Ancient Masters
- do the hustle….
- Dartmouth Conference on Gender in Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies
- Hashem Rock
- but but but
- more fun with old books
- life without a cellphone
- Innards of the Old City
- Oh yes, yes it is.
- images of spring
- gemara nugget #2578
- and I thought uploading all that Fugazi was a bad idea…
- Jerusalem moment
February 2005
- The more I learn, the less I want to eat
- today’s bad news
- more notes on a new semester
- It’s fun to fear and tremble!
- all in all
- Amsterdangit (or, Trip Files, Part Two of Two)
- Book Review: I Want My FrumTV
- Francy-Pants
- so far lovely
- Out of Office Autoreply
- 50% Rabbi
January 2005
- scorecard
- was lost, but now am found with a brontosaurus on a boat
- Yahrtzeit
- Today’s Hebrew Lesson
- Truer Than I Intended
- Yar!
- Kooky reprint
- Unngh
- the thing about this place
- How to protect yourself from demons
- request
- on disaster
- I *heart* Movie Day
- Ode to the Shabbos Nap: An Intentionally Bad Poem
- another bombing
- aaaahhhhhhhh
- job listing of the day
- martyrdom and Mishnah
- heck, I’ve seen weirder hanging outside my apartment building
- Check it
- McSchwarma
- be afraid, be very afraid
- yay
- even more self-indulgent post than ususal
- progress report
- mot du jour
- all in all, it’s just another brick part II
- public opinion poll
- Jewish blog awards
- halakha of the day
- all in all, it’s just another brick part I
- bad bad bad
December 2004
- Not helping
- so wrong
- can anybody explain to me
- happiness is zillions of books squished onto plastic
- mazel tov to my dad
- I should be set,
- 110400700947553575
- here’s my talk
- AJS report
- American grocery stores
- kickin’ it, Anglican-style
- sleep is the new sleep
- The German Report
- greetings from Germany
- dispatch from my weird little brain
- I’m not very entertained. Are you entertained?
- blog is it
- 110193639674041304
November 2004
- a coupla links
- no no it’s not personal
- one way to take away winter chill
- I am positive that my time is bound by mitzvot
- what I learned today
- Is that shiznit any gravy?
- well, guess it’s the other season now
- vayetze, y’all
- Tzfat Emet
- maketh me to lie down in green meadows
- another thing I can check off my list of things to do before I die
- what’s fun
- poem
- denominations, domination, etc.
- quote of the day. agree? disagree? discuss.
- Holy Tongue
- no kidding
- advance warning, and blogdebt
- gloomy
- slurrrrp
- another piguah
- eating, sleeping, breathing
October 2004
- settling in
- Five Randomly Selected Things I Like About Jerusalem
- Five Less Randomly Selected Things I Miss About The States
- a little story
- do they know that not everybody is a Christian?
- that was fun
- bleary hi
- What’s interesting
- correct proportions
- Orienting
- Who are you people?
- more bombs.
- Huh
- Geektastic!
- Why modern life amuses me sometimes
- for all you Mac geeks out there
- Home Gravity.
September 2004
- Happiness
- Access denied
- pop music
- Yom Kippur statistic
- a bissel more Torah
- IMPORTANT: succah buying from the wrong people
- fasting math
- quote
- I’m OK
- to all the coffee shops I’ve loved before….
- Fun blogtoy
- a bissel Torah
- ar-no-no-no-na
- some days Israeli culture doesn’t seem so different from American culture, really.
- This must be what it’s like to be Christian in America in December
- even better than the Bible in Klingon
- what new year?
- Oleh* syndrome
August 2004
- This, then, is how it works
- Whatever gets you through the night
- peace of my heart
- socialized medicine is the best thing ever.
- 100 Gates
- Exposed
- Jew*Schoolhouse Rooock
- what gets taught/what doesn’t
- davvening and polka-dots
- check-in
- What didn’t come
- God, Peace, and Other Unsolvable Problems
- Moshavalicious
- Ragzon
- For those of you in the LA area
July 2004
- miscellaneous observations about shopping in the shuk (open market)
- Tel Aviv day (yom keif)
- 9 Av
- Bedouin Issues
- the feral cats of Jerusalem
- poems and photos
- Day 3
- here
- Leaving Post
- Yes, sometimes prayer feels exactly like this.
- the evening news