by danya | Jan 30, 2009 | Blog
Hi, there. I know posting has fallen off a bit around here; sorry ’bout that. I’ve been busy gigging, cleaning up the last things that needed to be done on The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism, working on 3 other anthologies, a biggish research project,...
by danya | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog
Judaism has blessings for just about everything–smelling fragrant trees, seeing a rainbow, hearing good news, hearing bad news, encountering a friend one hasn’t seen in a year, and more. There is a blessing that one says upon seeing a non-Jewish king, and...
by danya | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog
As I’ve watched–mostly from afar, sadly, as I’m now living on the other coast–various communities and lots of people that I know respond to the death of Rabbi Lew, I have found myself thinking about some of the stuff in Tractate Moed Katan...
by danya | Jan 13, 2009 | Blog
I just got word that my first and most influential rav, Rabbi Alan Lew, died this morning. I’m a little bit in shock–he was only 65, and from what I understand this was not anticipated from anyone. From what I understand, he died while taking a walk,...
by danya | Dec 4, 2008 | Blog
This’ll be out this summer. Goodness knows the fonts or whatever might change before then, but I’m pretty sure this is more or less the final version. In Boston-area event-ish news, I’ll be giving a book talk at Eitz Chayim in Cambridge on Dec. 7th...
