by danya | Feb 15, 2007 | Blog
OK, it’s time for another round of de-lurkification! Don’t worry, it won’t hurt. Really, I’m just curious about who’s reading this thing. Some of you I know, either from Teh Interweb or from my actual real life, but I know there are many...
by danya | Feb 13, 2007 | Blog
So it looks like I’m going to be in what appears to be a very cool theology anthology (say that 10 times fast) geared to teenagers. They were trying to compile intelligent, non-dogmatic answers to questions like, Are Jews the chosen people? What happens when you...
by danya | Feb 12, 2007 | Blog
Truly, a breed apart.
by danya | Feb 11, 2007 | Blog
Every time someone asks me what this book is about, I struggle a little. I’m in the middle of writing, still, and am still trying to figure out how to make the thing do its thing. I don’t have the distance to be able to label it in a meta-view way, because...
by danya | Feb 11, 2007 | Blog
One of the best things I got for my birthday was this turtle, made by Hallel Ner-David, age 6:
by danya | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog
Well, looks like my S.A.D. (Shvat Affective Disorder) is on the wane, which is good. I get the blues every Shvat*, which is logical since it’s both that part of winter that just drags on a little too long, and for me personally, it’s a month with too many...
by danya | Feb 7, 2007 | Blog
The good Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David is opening a marriage center for engaged couples in Jerusalem. Here’s the flyer; click on it to see the big (readable) version.
by danya | Feb 4, 2007 | Blog
I have a dear friend who’s trying to make the leap into freelance writing (she’s published a book and now wants to quit her day job.) I just emailed her some rambling thoughts on the subject, and thought they might be useful to some other folks as well. If...
by danya | Feb 1, 2007 | Blog
OK, 78.3% done with this draft. I need to tinker a bit with the last section and put footnotes in a form recognizable to anyone but me, but dangit, I have to move on–by next Monday at the latest. February is the Official Month of Chapter Nine. I have two more...
by danya | Jan 31, 2007 | Blog, Classic Posts
In honor of the approach of Tu B’Shvat, I’m going to make a point of recycling–Torah, that is. Here’s something I wrote a year ago for Radical Torah; I know some of you have seen it, but perhaps not everyone has? I’m cranking hard to get...