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One of my classmates in LA has recently been diagnosed with a serious and scary disease. The community is seriously rallying, like it does--it's one of the more impressive things about my seminary community, watching people step up when there's a need. One of the...

OK, it's time for another round of de-lurkification! Don't worry, it won't hurt. Really, I'm just curious about who's reading this thing. Some of you I know, either from Teh Interweb or from my actual real life, but I know there are many of the lurking variety out...

So it looks like I'm going to be in what appears to be a very cool theology anthology (say that 10 times fast) geared to teenagers. They were trying to compile intelligent, non-dogmatic answers to questions like, Are Jews the chosen people? What happens when you die?...

Truly, a breed apart.

Every time someone asks me what this book is about, I struggle a little. I'm in the middle of writing, still, and am still trying to figure out how to make the thing do its thing. I don't have the distance to be able to label it in a meta-view way, because I've got...

One of the best things I got for my birthday was this turtle, made by Hallel Ner-David, age 6:

Well, looks like my S.A.D. (Shvat Affective Disorder) is on the wane, which is good. I get the blues every Shvat*, which is logical since it's both that part of winter that just drags on a little too long, and for me personally, it's a month with too many yahrtzeits**...

The good Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David is opening a marriage center for engaged couples in Jerusalem. Here's the flyer; click on it to see the big (readable) version.

I have a dear friend who's trying to make the leap into freelance writing (she's published a book and now wants to quit her day job.) I just emailed her some rambling thoughts on the subject, and thought they might be useful to some other folks as well. If you have...