by danya | Dec 12, 2006 | Blog
The Progressive Jewish Alliance offers 8 ways to have an economically just Hanukah. Check ’em out here. An interesting article from The New Yorker on the Bible publishing biz. It’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” played exclusively on bicycle...
by danya | Dec 9, 2006 | Blog
Kol Ra’ash Gadol has posted links to the introduction, notes and tshuvah itself (that is to say, the tshuvah that passed and creates the possibility of gay ordination and movement-sanctioned commitment ceremonies) by one of its authors up on JewSchool. You can...
by danya | Dec 7, 2006 | Blog
So here’s the thing about the Law Committee decision. R. Roth’s teshuvah, advocating that the policy on gays and lesbians remain the same as it’s been–i.e. not ordaining or marrying them–received 13 votes, a majority of the 25-person...
by danya | Dec 7, 2006 | Blog
Sorry about the no-website thing this week; I was moving over to another server and between slowness on the human side and slowness on the actual tech side (not to mention the paper-pushing side), it took longer than expected. While I was gone, I guess some things...
by danya | Nov 30, 2006 | Blog
Those of you who aren’t regular readers of Mah Rabu should definitely go check it out these days. BZ’s got some great stuff going on with his hilchot pluralism series–lots of interesting and yummy food for thought.
by danya | Nov 29, 2006 | Blog
I was sitting in the Philly train station waiting for my train to central PA to give my lecture when I, as I do, took off my glasses. Most of them came with me, but not all of it. One of the (oh, what’s it called) side-ear-holder-thingys–the thing that...