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This week's joy has been thrown for a loop by a family emergency, now taken its course. I'm sad, grieving and exhausted now, flying back to the West Coast tomorrow with a heavy heart. Not really in the mood to share details just now.

I am now completely, totally, incontrovertably, excessively, blessedly married. It was a lovely day. Even though was bit overcast and chilly/rainy, so there was only a little bit of bootyshaking (fortunately, it didn't start being really rainy until we were in for...

I mean, yeah, people who are dying do have a palpable something about them. There's the thing, and you can feel it. Nobody better than this cat, it seems. What a great cat. I'm glad he goes to give the folks love when they get close to crossing over. Oscar the cat...

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 summarized pretty...

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 thought to...

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...

Worth watching on several counts....

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 hillarious. I'm...

I contributed a little drash-let to Jewess this week on the daughters of Tzelophchad. Here's the beginning part: The story of the daughters of Tzelophechad is a favorite among Jewish feminists. One can see why: five women come before Moshe and the other (male) leaders...