by danya | Feb 5, 2006 | Blog
Betty Friedan, baruch dayan ha-emet! Oh, you will be missed. Thanks for everything.
by danya | Feb 5, 2006 | Blog
Near my apartment there’s been this spray-painted graffiti of a naked woman with green spikey hair, gleefully riding a broom and giving the viewer the finger. Very Hothead Paisan in style. I’ve been trying to decide what I think of it–I’m...
by danya | Jan 31, 2006 | Blog
Wendy Wasserstein and Nam-June Paik, Baruch Dayan Ha-Emet. You will both be missed.
by danya | Jan 31, 2006 | Blog
My wonderful friend Shane Hipps has just published a book called The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture : How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church (Zondervan). He argues that the glut of new media (cell phones, the internet and everything else) has had a...
by danya | Jan 30, 2006 | Blog
You know that picture of Rosie the Riveter in tefillin that I posted a while back? Well, the Photoshopper (actually, I think it was a different program, but whatever) in question has come forth for identification. Her name is Miriam, she does a blog called Rose...
by danya | Jan 30, 2006 | Blog
Chodesh tov, everyone! As today is the first day of the Jewish month, Women of the Wall met, that is to say, got together to pray at the kotel (Western Wall) and, per court order, hold the Torah service nearby but not at the kotel. For those of you who don’t...
by danya | Jan 27, 2006 | Blog
So Dan over at JewSchool is starting a new project, Radical Torah, in which I’ll be participating. Each week, number of people, mostly rabbinic types, will be blogging in the parsha (Torah portion of the week). I’m going to try to do something every week...
by danya | Jan 26, 2006 | Blog
Things here are trucking along. I’m mostly at cafes trying to get some work done during the day (ohh, Israeli breakfast, how we love you! Eggs, salad, cheese, olives, bread, granola, juice and coffee for one good price!) and catching up with folks at night. Saw...
by danya | Jan 22, 2006 | Blog
I have a new favorite place to work. The coffee’s great, the salad was dangerously delish, the wireless, outlet and sunlight situation is entirely acceptable, and I’ve been here so long that they’ve given me a free cappucino on the house. (Wait...
by danya | Jan 21, 2006 | Blog
Is that one should never, ever try to kasher a kitchen on the afternoon of Erev Shabbat. Especially not in the winter, when darkness falls 4:30 or so, and one still has cooking to do. Whoa stress. Other than that (and the deluge of windy rain in which I was caught on...
