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Let "two carry-on items" mean "two carry-on items and one long, leafy stalk of assorted plant matter in its own carrying case." For pete's sake, it's the Hol Ha-Moed red-eye from LAX to Newark. I can't be the only one who's going to have this problem.

...to move Sukkot over to Mar Cheshvan, where there isn't a lot going on, holiday-wise. It'd be a bit chillier, sure, but still quite refreshing. Or maybe to during the Three Weeks? You know, late summer, be nice to be outside, and it's sort of a gloomy time, a little...

I'm not so online after Sukkot, so I'm posting this early: October 29th (motz"sh) and 30th, Barnard's hosting a conference called Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations featuring yours truly along with folks like Alisa Solomon, Letty Cottin...

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...the more Maimonidean I become. I wanted to give it a chance, I really did. And as metaphor, I think some of this stuff is great, very useful. Just ain't my cosmology, it just ain't.

I'm back, at least for a few days, between holy days. Rosh Hashonah went well, I think, though I return a very, very tired person who did not get nearly enough sleep last week. Now I've got to crank for Yom Kippur. Obviously I have a bit of a head start, but there's...

I was a little shocked recently to discover that some of the more conservative factions of my school refer to the High Holy Days as the "HiHos". I think that the fact that that term seems cute (to them) and not a little eyebrow-raising (to me) is a generational thing....

That is to say, theodicy c/o The Daily Show. It's in awful, very bad taste, in the best possible way. Watch it here. (Gacked from JewSchool.)