by danya | Dec 3, 2007 | Blog
Mishnah Ketubot, 5:5: These are the tasks which the wife must perform for her husband: grinding and baking and laundry and cooking and nursing her son and making his bed and working in wool. If she brings in for him (ie out of her own money) one maidservant, she does...
by danya | Nov 22, 2007 | Blog
As many of you know, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) is on strike because the major corporations for whom they work refuse to give them fair compensation for, say, DVD residuals and Internet downloading of their work on places like iTunes. The online thing...
by danya | Oct 31, 2007 | Blog
Questions About Angels by Billy Collins Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin or...
by danya | Oct 29, 2007 | Blog
For those of you who are in the area and interested, I’ll be giving a talk on Judaism and sex at the Hillel of San Diego this Thursday (November 1st) at 7pm. It’s at 5742 Montezuma Rd. in SD. Come if you’re around!
by danya | Oct 28, 2007 | Blog
My friend Justin is reading The Travels of Rabbi Pesachia of Regensburg, the travel writing of a 12th Century Ashkenazi rabbi who journeys from Prague to the Mediterranean and Middle East. He sent me the following excerpt, which I thought might be of interest to some...
by danya | Oct 23, 2007 | Blog
I learned last week that if you are not feeling well, it is permitted to nurse from (but not actually milk) a goat on Shabbat.* That’s right, you must suckle the goat itself. In less benignly creepy, more genuinely worrying and scary news, here’s a...
