by danya | Dec 7, 2006 | Blog
So here’s the thing about the Law Committee decision. R. Roth’s teshuvah, advocating that the policy on gays and lesbians remain the same as it’s been–i.e. not ordaining or marrying them–received 13 votes, a majority of the 25-person...
by danya | Dec 7, 2006 | Blog
Sorry about the no-website thing this week; I was moving over to another server and between slowness on the human side and slowness on the actual tech side (not to mention the paper-pushing side), it took longer than expected. While I was gone, I guess some things...
by danya | Nov 30, 2006 | Blog
Those of you who aren’t regular readers of Mah Rabu should definitely go check it out these days. BZ’s got some great stuff going on with his hilchot pluralism series–lots of interesting and yummy food for thought.
by danya | Nov 29, 2006 | Blog
I was sitting in the Philly train station waiting for my train to central PA to give my lecture when I, as I do, took off my glasses. Most of them came with me, but not all of it. One of the (oh, what’s it called) side-ear-holder-thingys–the thing that...
by danya | Nov 28, 2006 | Blog
Bruce Lee Theme Park!
by danya | Nov 28, 2006 | Blog
Nothing says haredi Judaism like thousands of men packed in a room talking about what women need to do, does it? A huge, married-men-only conference on modesty was held a week-plus ago to discuss the necessity of buckling down on dress codes for women and girls. As...
by danya | Nov 27, 2006 | Blog
by danya | Nov 26, 2006 | Blog
Researchers Susan Fournier and Michael Guiry found that only 15% of the people they surveyed said that they’d be satisfied “living a comfortable life.” The other 85% of their survey claimed that they would only be happy when their income and...
by danya | Nov 26, 2006 | Blog
In the wake of the death of a friend of his (who happens to be a friend of a friend of a friend of mine), Neil Gaiman writes in his blog about the importance of writers (and musicians, and artists, and anybody else who might create work that has rights and royalties...
by danya | Nov 23, 2006 | Blog
Happy Secular American Holiday to you all! I hope that wherever you are, you have safely avoided or survived Wednesday’s nightmareathon that is busy air travel under the TSA. I keep forgetting that today is a holiday that I’ve celebrated probably every...
