by danya | Oct 28, 2007 | Blog
My friend Justin is reading The Travels of Rabbi Pesachia of Regensburg, the travel writing of a 12th Century Ashkenazi rabbi who journeys from Prague to the Mediterranean and Middle East. He sent me the following excerpt, which I thought might be of interest to some...
by danya | Oct 23, 2007 | Blog
I learned last week that if you are not feeling well, it is permitted to nurse from (but not actually milk) a goat on Shabbat.* That’s right, you must suckle the goat itself. In less benignly creepy, more genuinely worrying and scary news, here’s a...
by danya | Oct 10, 2007 | Blog
The NYT reports on the latest activities of the American justice system: A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the Central Intelligence Agency and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today when the Supreme Court...
by danya | Oct 8, 2007 | Blog
Christina of ElegantHack has a frustratingly on-target post up now about the ongoing gap between men’s and women’s pay, promotions, and abilities to break into the highest echelons of the business world. She quotes an article from Harvard Business Review...
by danya | Sep 25, 2007 | Blog
Is it too much to hope that the current Supreme Court would outlaw lethal injection? As the NYT observes, it’s unfortunately unlikely that they’ll outlaw the death penalty altogether, though it would be a very good thing if they did. (You will note from...
