by danya | Aug 13, 2006 | Blog
How have I made it all these years without one? I could probably do one of my own of this by hand, but it’d be better properly stiched. Ohhhh, I want one! Man, I had all this green fake fur left over from Purim a year and a half ago. Wonder if it’s still...
by danya | Aug 13, 2006 | Blog
Oof, I’m starting a new chapter; always squirmy on these days. I have very rough stuff as a starting point–the result of a couple of years of jamming on this book proposal has given me a lot of outtakes that didn’t make it into the proposal, and I...
by danya | Aug 10, 2006 | Blog
God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children — less. But adults he pities not at all. He abandons them, And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours In the scorching sand To reach the dressing station,...
by danya | Aug 10, 2006 | Blog
Ladies and Germs, I’m proud to announce the publication of Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine, edited by the always amazing Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, grandes dammes of Bitch Mag. It’s a compendium of lots of the...
by danya | Aug 6, 2006 | Blog
It took me three phone calls to three different numbers before I found the right person with whom to make an appointment at Misrad Hapnim for a month from now to discuss the possiblity of extending my tourist visa–and I consider that to have been an easy,...
by danya | Aug 4, 2006 | Blog
As we move from Tisha B’Av to Tu B’Av…. This fall, I decided to write a paper for a rabbinical school class on kiddushin (betrothal, now usually the first half of the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony). Halakha pretty much defines kosher kiddushin...
