by danya | Sep 3, 2006 | Blog
I’m a little late commenting on last week’s parsha, but after some discussions on it this Shabbat, I decided that I couldn’t let it just pass by. One of the things we find in Ki Tetze is this, in Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in...
by danya | Sep 1, 2006 | Blog
Last night I went to this Soundscapes thing at Migdal David (The Tower of David). It sounds maybe a little hokey, but boy oh boy was it cool. I didn’t bring a camera, so we’ll have to make do with the pics I found online. You can see more at the...
by danya | Sep 1, 2006 | Blog
Dr. Tikvah Frymer-Kensky died yesterday after, evidently, a long battle with cancer. She was a real revolutionary in the field of feminist Bible studies. From her bio at U of C:Tikva Frymer-Kensky’s areas of specialization include Assyriology and Sumerology,...
by danya | Aug 31, 2006 | Blog
1) I’ve just crossed the line–that is, from tea to coffee when working at home. At least I’ll have to detox for Yom Kippur, so I have hopes that, briefly, I’ll ever be able to feel caffiene’s effects on me again. It’s not going to...
by danya | Aug 30, 2006 | Blog
There is an increasingly long list of things that I need for this project that are not found among the 120 lbs of books that I brought back with me from America. Some of them can be found online, but not all of them, and there’s a limit to how much vague...
by danya | Aug 29, 2006 | Blog
Despite trying to market themselves as a hip, sweatshop-free haven for social justice, it’s really a union-busting org with skeevy advertising practices and an unapologetically sexually harrassing CEO, with a habit of trying to intimidate media sources critical...
by danya | Aug 29, 2006 | Blog
There are some days you plan to work, and discover that all you got is sleeping instead. Dunno if it’s a low-grade bug or what, but it’s knocked me right out the last two days. Yesterday I slept most of the day until 4pm, and would have kept going but I...
by danya | Aug 27, 2006 | Blog
I got my second book of Etgar Keret short stories on Friday for the 2-hour bus trip each way to Haifa (people are pretty much back to the regular routine, though some still understandably quite rattled), and have been enjoying them so much I thought I’d post...
by danya | Aug 24, 2006 | Blog
The internet (or at least a section of it in which I occasionally dwell) is all abuzz with response to Forbes’ little ode to neanderthal dumbistry, Don’t Marry Career Women. (Note that they had to QUICK! find a woman to respond). The fact that women (as...
by danya | Aug 24, 2006 | Blog
It’s Elul. Can you believe it? I can’t, quite. I mean, it always comes as a surprise–hey! Tisha B’Av is over! We can play, now! Uh. And this year, with the heat and the summer and the relief of having a break from war (though the post-game...
