by danya | Aug 22, 2006 | Blog
The mysterious thing about prayer is that even when I’m an antsy, unfocused mess of monkey mind while I’m davvening, I still take off my tallit and tefillin with the awareness that it has worked, at least on/in me (I’ll never claim to know what...
by danya | Aug 20, 2006 | Blog
Worth reading from this Friday’s Haaretz: Tom Segev’s Ten Theses to consider viz the war’s place in history, why it happened the way it did, and who’s responsible. Favorite sentence: “The Americans are now angry, as though Israel were a...
by danya | Aug 20, 2006 | Blog
Today I’m trying to write about what it was like to start to get interested in Judaism. Somehow, I’m finding this to be more of a challenge than some of the other bits I’ve had to cover for this book. I think part of the reason may be that I’ve...
by danya | Aug 16, 2006 | Blog
OK, some links for those of you who want a break from the war post-game show, from leaders who sell stock when they hear soldiers are kidnapped, from analyzing why, exactly, it’s a bad idea to run a war with a Prime Minister and Defense Minister who don’t...
by danya | Aug 15, 2006 | Blog
I think now that there’s a break in all the war, some of us are finally getting to start processing some of what’s happened. I know that I’m not the only one for whom it was just too hard, too painful, too scary to really face our reactions while the...
by danya | Aug 14, 2006 | Blog
Well, today’s theoretically the first day of the cease-fire, but it’s not clear how much ceasing there will be. I’m nervous, I’m really nervous about this. I’m glad that there’s a break from the killing on both sides, and… I...
by danya | Aug 13, 2006 | Blog
How have I made it all these years without one? I could probably do one of my own of this by hand, but it’d be better properly stiched. Ohhhh, I want one! Man, I had all this green fake fur left over from Purim a year and a half ago. Wonder if it’s still...
by danya | Aug 13, 2006 | Blog
Oof, I’m starting a new chapter; always squirmy on these days. I have very rough stuff as a starting point–the result of a couple of years of jamming on this book proposal has given me a lot of outtakes that didn’t make it into the proposal, and I...
by danya | Aug 10, 2006 | Blog
God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children — less. But adults he pities not at all. He abandons them, And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours In the scorching sand To reach the dressing station,...
by danya | Aug 10, 2006 | Blog
Ladies and Germs, I’m proud to announce the publication of Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine, edited by the always amazing Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, grandes dammes of Bitch Mag. It’s a compendium of lots of the...
