by danya | Jun 4, 2006 | Blog
Blender Magazine’s 50 Worst Songs Ever Elvis Costello’s 500 Favorite Albums The National Review’s 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs* Blogger Guy From Illinois’ (represent!!) 25 Greatest Liberal Songs British People With Questionable Taste...
by danya | Jun 4, 2006 | Blog
Well, Shavuot was lovely. Sorry I didn’t get to post anything drashy before I went into No Computer mode, but oh well. I hope those of you who do that whole “Judaism” thing got your fill of Divine yumminess this weekend. (For those of you just tuning...
by danya | Jun 1, 2006 | Blog
I don’t want to write papers anymore. But I’m not there yet. I’m soooooo not there yet. Hag sameach everybody. Hopefully I can get some Torah up here before it’s actually Shavuot–if I can finish this paper and get to the grocery first....
by danya | May 28, 2006 | Blog
Ever wondered why the same three letters (בקר) could, with a few vowels thrown in, refer to “morning,” “to criticize,” “cowboy” and “to visit”? Or why the Hebrew word for marker (toosh) sounds a lot like the American...
by danya | May 28, 2006 | Blog
I know that we’re old friends, but I have to tell you: your timing stinks. I have a lot to do the next couple of weeks, and can’t really afford to be exhausted and draggy. How about this, I make you a deal: you leave me alone the next four nights, and...
by danya | May 28, 2006 | Blog
This piece, written by the principal of the Toronto Hebrew Academy, was sent to me by a teacher of mine who evidently reads this blog now and again (*waves hello*). It’s been floating around the internet/blogosphere lately, and given its (sadly) timeliness and...
by danya | May 24, 2006 | Blog
To compliment my other post on covers of a song I can’t stand, here’s a link to at least 34 versions of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Much more my own taste in old skool. Amusingly, there seems to be a reggae cover band for...
by danya | May 23, 2006 | Blog
left to do by 6/12: Shabbatai Tzvi paper Hartman paper Jewish ed paper Divorce law paper Other messianism paper (ETA: on the difference between Sephardi and Askenazi messianism, in the end Talmud exam Halakha exam And prepare and give d’var Torah for Friday...
by danya | May 22, 2006 | Blog
Thanks to the good R. Uri Cohen for passing this along… it’s a revised movie trailer for Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments.
by danya | May 22, 2006 | Blog
So I’m supposed to be writing a paper on Sabbatai Zevi right now, so of course there’s a bit of procrastonation happening before I actually get my groove going. I’ve been ready for a background switch for a while now, to something that wasn’t...
