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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial...

Butch is a Noun author S. Bear Bergman is an extraordinarily talented writer and performer, and this flyer is too cute not to post. If you live in the area, you should definitely go.

Yesterday I had an errand to run towards the city center, so I decided to nip over to Mea Shaarim as long as I was in the area. Dressed in a long skirt and such, I wound my way over to that one street where I always buy books (I forget what it's called--the one just...

The 2006 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards is now taking nominations.

So this past Shabbat I got to get out of town, which was nice. I'd never been to Masada, so we went down early Friday, took the cable car up (the Shabbos clock was ticking, after all) and had a nice few hours tromping around and looking at all of the history. I was...

Even though at the end of it, my brain is nothing but hot mush. Man, that was a lot of words I cranked out today (5k?) Be interesting to see how many of them I get to keep in the end. Some, at least.

Crocs plus rudimentary electric space heater? Bad combination. (They're not melted, just, uh, warped a little.)

Now, I don't have any words at this very early juncture about the presidency of the US and all that, but dang, does Barack Obama have something to tell us. I hope he doesn't shut up any time soon if he's going to keep talking like he did in this speech. It's good...

...that's what they call it around here, since the New Year already happened in September, natch. It seems that the Israelis got the name from the Germans--it comes from the 4th c. pope (Silvester I) who knew Constantine--though evidently the story that he baptized...