by danya | Mar 25, 2007 | Blog
It is officially watermelon season.
by danya | Mar 23, 2007 | Blog
Soferet Jen Taylor Friedman has started a tefillin gemach for women, based in NYC. She explains, A gemach is a charity which lends things to people in need. Sometimes it’s basic stuff like plates, sometimes it’s wedding dresses, sometimes it’s...
by danya | Mar 23, 2007 | Blog
Award-winning playwright, performer and author S. Bear Bergman has got a new and extremely worthwhile project going on. Bear writes, Last month, someone told me I was her hero. I had gone to her small college and performed, and afterwards her classmates had begun to...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday was mostly about errands. I took a sweater into the dry cleaner–the guys I wave hi to every time I pass by, which is often–and, for not the first time, the owner wrote down my first name on a piece of paper, pinned it to the article of clothing,...
by danya | Mar 20, 2007 | Blog
Over the last few days, a tremendous number of people have gotten to this blog by googling, “How to protect yourself from demons.” I’d like to guess that since we’re in Nisan now and that chunk of Talmud I quoted on the topic a couple of years...
