by danya | Aug 6, 2006 | Blog
It took me three phone calls to three different numbers before I found the right person with whom to make an appointment at Misrad Hapnim for a month from now to discuss the possiblity of extending my tourist visa–and I consider that to have been an easy,...
by danya | Aug 4, 2006 | Blog
As we move from Tisha B’Av to Tu B’Av…. This fall, I decided to write a paper for a rabbinical school class on kiddushin (betrothal, now usually the first half of the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony). Halakha pretty much defines kosher kiddushin...
by danya | Aug 4, 2006 | Blog
Well, dunno ’bout you, but my Tisha B’Av was predictibly plenty. I have a tendency, when Eicha gets going, to intentionally or not get my finger stuck in the socket of great suffering (not just my own). All that feeling? Yeah, never a lot of fun. And this...
by danya | Aug 2, 2006 | Blog
That is all.
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
Ynet reports, High Court allows group to visit Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av The High Court of Justice decided to allow the “Temple Mount Faithful” group to visit the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av against the judgment of the Shin Bet and the police,...
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
Despite the fact that it sometimes thinks so (or would like to believe,) Israel is not a country in Europe. One of the consequences of being, er, geographically out of the way of a lot of Western culture is that touring bands don’t come here a lot. (Often...
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
A while ago, I decided that it would be very theologically appropriate for this current war to end right after Tisha B’Av, since everything really fell apart just before the beginning of the Three Weeks. I didn’t say anything when I first thought this,...
by danya | Jul 31, 2006 | Blog
Hey, anybody know where the following comes from? It’s a quote I think I copied from something in the JTS library nine million years ago (when I didn’t know anything, and didn’t even have the basic sense to note the source) for a short story I was...
by danya | Jul 28, 2006 | Blog
So Wednesday morning I was up by 6 (unheard of over in these parts), met Avieleh in front of her place (right near mine) at 6:40, and we were off in a cab to the Kotel [Western Wall] to be there at 7. We’d been emailing for a couple of years, but never met. Our...
by danya | Jul 27, 2006 | Blog
OK, I just gave in. At the urging of Avielah, I have finally gone out and gotten myself a MySpace profile. Not that I have any idea what it does or what it’s good for, but I guess if it’s good enough for Ira Glass, it’s good enough for me....
