by danya | May 6, 2007 | Blog
I hope people find the blog now that it’s hidden from the URL. I’ve tried to make it pretty obvious. Lag B’Omer is today. Last night I set up shop with some friends and a mangal (small bbq grill) out in one of the public parks; we dropped the ball on...
by danya | May 3, 2007 | Blog
As part of the new design, this site’s going to have an actual homepage now. Which means that the blog has a new URL. Please update any and every bookmark you have to the blog to: https://danyaruttenberg.net/category/blog/. A lot less sexy, I know, but I...
by danya | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Well, I just picked up my boxes for the lift (ie communal renting of a boat to take stuff back to America for much less than shipping by air.) I ordered, uh, a lot of boxes because I plan to ship everything that I can possibly live without until December–the...
by danya | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Revisions continue apace. I’ve gotten to the point with the mss where I’m having trouble telling if the stuff I’m adding and changing is to its benefit–it’s like staring at one thing too long, or saying, “purple purple purple”...
by danya | Apr 30, 2007 | Blog
The freeway broke. Thank God nobody was killed. More pictures here.
by danya | Apr 30, 2007 | Blog
I’m here for less than a month. Then I go back to America. I’m frantically trying to finish up revisions on this book and to make headway on another project and prepare for the various things I’ll be doing this summer and preparing for several...
by danya | Apr 24, 2007 | Blog
I’ve got three chapters left to revise–mostly easy stuff, though I also have to insert a particular thread that I’m not so sure how to approach–and I have to write a proper Introduction. My word counts have already bulged past the mark, and any...
by danya | Apr 23, 2007 | Blog
Today, Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) in Israel, seems like a good time to bring your attention to a project by Jews opposing the American presence in Iraq: Jews Against the War. They have a petition that will be published on Shavuot as an ad in Jewish papers nationwide...
by danya | Apr 23, 2007 | Blog
Couldn’t resist posting this little scene from Jen’s Tefillin Barbie workshop.
by danya | Apr 22, 2007 | Blog
Bibi is sitting next to me at the coffee shop, talking to (who I imagine to be) potential donors. It’s true what they say, his English is fantastic, not even a trace of an accent. One of the Americans just asked if he would run for Prime Minister again, and his...
