by danya | Dec 24, 2006 | Blog
Despite the fact that it’s supposed to send me an email every time I have a comment waiting for moderation, the WordPress Bot has been remiss in its duties as of late. Not sure what’s going on (the correct check boxes are checked), but I just discovered a...
by danya | Dec 24, 2006 | Blog
I just realized I only have 4 or 4 1/2 months left here, out of my 2 1/2 year (3 years, minus 6 mos in the US of A last fall) tour of duty. Crrrrrazy. What would I want to do (or do again) before I go? Luckily I have family coming right before I leave, so...
by danya | Dec 21, 2006 | Blog
Well, this is totally horrifying, if not surprising. I’m very proud of and grateful to the woman in question. Hopefully this will make it to the High Court and we can get some “legal clarification”, as they say, on the issue of people being able to...
by danya | Dec 19, 2006 | Blog
I am fried like a fried thing. Potato, rather than jelly-filled, probably. I pretty much hit my limit yesterday, wherein I managed to get a little bit of work done but was in probably the evilest mood ever. It wasn’t pretty, really. Today I had All the...
by danya | Dec 16, 2006 | Blog
Haaretz reports on a new theory suggesting that the tale of the Maccabees’ response to religious oppression may be about as well-founded as the claim that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215-163 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic...
by danya | Dec 15, 2006 | Blog
…where on Earth am I going to put my hanukiya (a “menorah” technically has only seven branches) so that it both “proclaims the miracle” (ie is visible from the street) and can be guaranteed not to burn down my apartment while I’m...
by danya | Dec 13, 2006 | Blog
Some unexpected (recurring) minor characters in this book: My tendonitis The 38 Geary bus (SF) Tefillin The Yiddish-speaking guys at the back of my old shul The first boy I ever fell in love with (though I bet he gets edited out) Burning Man attendees, broadly defined...
by danya | Dec 13, 2006 | Blog
I am so going to Australia. It’s summer there now, and everything.
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...
