by danya | Jul 25, 2007 | Blog
Just on the other side of Tisha B’Av, this is too good not to repost. This recent-ish story in the Washington Post is, as Kol Ra’ash Gadol points out, the perfect antidote to the Kamtza/Bar Kamtza story about why the Temple was destroyed. (It’s...
by danya | Jul 20, 2007 | Blog
The good Dr. Aryeh Cohen has some worthwhile commentary on the Iraq war and Tisha b’Av over on the Jews Against the War site. It begins: When we are lucky we get a second chance. Tragedy often results from blowing the second chance. Two stories bring this...
by danya | Jul 18, 2007 | Blog
My world is pretty small these days. Most of my days are occupied with various iterations of scheduling with my 3 hevrutot–L. on Monday morning, J. on Monday afternoon, S. on Tuesday morning, J. on Tuesday afternoon, etc. Periodically I study the dappim (2-sided...
by danya | Jul 15, 2007 | Blog
Worth watching on several counts….
by danya | Jul 9, 2007 | Blog
So evidently a lot of folks are getting here today because someone name-checked me in a Dutch blog–thanks to whoever did that, but what on Earth were you guys talking about? I tried translating via Babelfish and the results were pretty unintentionally...
