by danya | Sep 20, 2006 | Blog
Some of you are going to love this and think it’s the coolest thing ever. Others of you will snark and call it hillul hakodesh. Me? I’m just a little confused. Aviv Geffen translated Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” into Hebrew,...
by danya | Sep 20, 2006 | Blog
Oh, good: vanity and fakery all in one nice package! Hewlett-Packard now has a digital camera with the unintentionally hillarious “slimming function”. Gag me with a spoon. As an antidote, I offer you some recent quotables from historian and activist Hanne...
by danya | Sep 17, 2006 | Blog
Talmud study is fun! Really, I keep coming back from the beit midrash all bouncy and high. It’s nice.
by danya | Sep 16, 2006 | Blog
Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name, God. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy....
by danya | Sep 14, 2006 | Blog
Aaargh. Starting a new chapter is always rough, and today is no exception. Yesterday’s activity was mostly about organizing all of the quotes for the rest of the book (I have this screwy system; yesterday mostly involved reading through all the notes I’ve...
by danya | Sep 12, 2006 | Blog
Holy cow, they have tons of Rechov SumSum (the Israeli Sesame Street) up on YouTube. Go here to see Moshe Oofnik (the Israeli Oscar the Grouch-type) get drunk at Shabbos dinner a Passover seder and here for one of the classic shticks from the show. (The last one is...
