by danya | Dec 21, 2006 | Blog
Well, this is totally horrifying, if not surprising. I’m very proud of and grateful to the woman in question. Hopefully this will make it to the High Court and we can get some “legal clarification”, as they say, on the issue of people being able to...
by danya | Dec 19, 2006 | Blog
I am fried like a fried thing. Potato, rather than jelly-filled, probably. I pretty much hit my limit yesterday, wherein I managed to get a little bit of work done but was in probably the evilest mood ever. It wasn’t pretty, really. Today I had All the...
by danya | Dec 16, 2006 | Blog
Haaretz reports on a new theory suggesting that the tale of the Maccabees’ response to religious oppression may be about as well-founded as the claim that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215-163 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic...
by danya | Dec 15, 2006 | Blog
…where on Earth am I going to put my hanukiya (a “menorah” technically has only seven branches) so that it both “proclaims the miracle” (ie is visible from the street) and can be guaranteed not to burn down my apartment while I’m...
by danya | Dec 13, 2006 | Blog
Some unexpected (recurring) minor characters in this book: My tendonitis The 38 Geary bus (SF) Tefillin The Yiddish-speaking guys at the back of my old shul The first boy I ever fell in love with (though I bet he gets edited out) Burning Man attendees, broadly defined...
by danya | Dec 13, 2006 | Blog
I am so going to Australia. It’s summer there now, and everything.
