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צדק צדק תרדוף

I went to the rally for Tookie Williams for a little bit tonight. I wasn't sure why I was going--usually I'm not much of a rally-goer--but I felt like I needed to, I was so full of rage and sadness about how this all went down that I needed to put it somewhere. When I...

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on ritual innovation and the like

My teacher, professor and friend Aryeh Cohen says some smart things on JewSchool today. For example:While the danger of performance as ritual is that it merely recapitulates the hierarchical structure of the community, the danger of empowered but uneducated Jews doing...

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finals countdown

Well, I've been working already. Here's what I know: Conservative Halakha paper Talmud (Blind exam, can't study for it) History paper Biblical Criticism paper Kabbalah mystery assignment Pastoral Couseling Psalms test If I can get the history paper out of my life...

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שיר של יום

With No Immediate Cause Ntozake Shange every 3 minutes a woman is beaten every five minutes a woman is raped/every ten minutes a lil girl is molested yet I rode on the subway today i sat next to an old man who may have beaten his old wife 3 minutes ago or 3 days/30...

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The Fictional 15

Forbes magazine has published its list of the 15 Richest Fictional People. I was sorry to see that Foster Kane and Jay Gatsby got bumped off this year, but not surprised to learn that Lucius Malfoy, evidently, invests heavily in Wal-Mart.

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RENT-ed? Or Stolen?

I saw RENT on Broadway in 1995 or 96 with a friend who had been one of the major players in AIDS activism from the start--he was one of the four people who started the Red Ribbon Project, he himself spearheaded A Day Without Art, he was one of the guys behind Visual...

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World AIDS Day

Today is A Day Without Art. Art is covered up in museums around the world to commemorate the many people in the art world who have died of AIDS. It's also World AIDS Day. Here are some links to learn more and, perhaps, donate some money to help those drowning and...

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still here, just not here

Dunno how much blogging I'll be doing in the coming weeks--just up to my ears in paper writing, and then finals, and then preparations for the next thing, which I'll reveal at some point over here. Haven't had a lot of interesting things to say viz. this forum....

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