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It's my last Shabbat in Jerusalem. For quite a while, anyway. Huh.

It's raining. It pretty much never rains in the summertime here. Never mind the snow/hail thing that happened in March, or the unseasonable heat we've had the last week or so. I really, really hope that the weather isn't completely broken. Are we going to remember...

I've spent the last three days running ragged, showing some loved ones around Jerusalem. It's been great fun, and a swell excuse to see lots of parts of the city I haven't in a long time, and eating really well (because what, I'm going to take them to the inferior...

Yeah, they pretty much nailed it this time: Women Now Empowered By Everything a Woman Does OBERLIN, OH—According to a study released Monday, women—once empowered primarily via the assertion of reproductive rights or workplace equality with men—are now empowered...

Just realized that folks have put some work online by one of my longtime favorite artists, Bill Viola (who is currently collaborating on a live opera that I'll miss entirely, waaaah). A lot of his work (this piece below included) is engaged wtih various questions or...

I hope people find the blog now that it's hidden from the URL. I've tried to make it pretty obvious. Lag B'Omer is today. Last night I set up shop with some friends and a mangal (small bbq grill) out in one of the public parks; we dropped the ball on massive...

As part of the new design, this site's going to have an actual homepage now. Which means that the blog has a new URL. Please update any and every bookmark you have to the blog to: https://danyaruttenberg.net/category/blog/. A lot less sexy, I know, but I promise,...

Well, I just picked up my boxes for the lift (ie communal renting of a boat to take stuff back to America for much less than shipping by air.) I ordered, uh, a lot of boxes because I plan to ship everything that I can possibly live without until December--the lift...

Revisions continue apace. I've gotten to the point with the mss where I'm having trouble telling if the stuff I'm adding and changing is to its benefit--it's like staring at one thing too long, or saying, "purple purple purple" over and over again until it just sounds...