by danya | Oct 21, 2005 | Blog
Let “two carry-on items” mean “two carry-on items and one long, leafy stalk of assorted plant matter in its own carrying case.” For pete’s sake, it’s the Hol Ha-Moed red-eye from LAX to Newark. I can’t be the only one...
by danya | Oct 17, 2005 | Blog
…to move Sukkot over to Mar Cheshvan, where there isn’t a lot going on, holiday-wise. It’d be a bit chillier, sure, but still quite refreshing. Or maybe to during the Three Weeks? You know, late summer, be nice to be outside, and it’s sort of a...
by danya | Oct 16, 2005 | Blog
I’m not so online after Sukkot, so I’m posting this early: October 29th (motz”sh) and 30th, Barnard’s hosting a conference called Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations featuring yours truly along with folks like Alisa...
by danya | Oct 16, 2005 | Blog
Keep track of UFO sightings all over the U.S.! Learn how to denounce sandwich-eating sheep in Welsh, and communicate other important ideas in many languages! Get free books here and here and here! Write your name in hieroglyphs or, dude, Babylonian...
by danya | Oct 11, 2005 | Blog
…the more Maimonidean I become. I wanted to give it a chance, I really did. And as metaphor, I think some of this stuff is great, very useful. Just ain’t my cosmology, it just ain’t.
by danya | Oct 9, 2005 | Blog, Classic Posts
I don’t put much in the way of actual Torah up here, so I thought I’d share a bit of seasonally-appropriate cheer. Okay, it’s not cheery. But it’s seasonal, at least. This is a d’var that I gave a couple of years back at the Shtibl...
by danya | Oct 7, 2005 | Blog
I’m back, at least for a few days, between holy days. Rosh Hashonah went well, I think, though I return a very, very tired person who did not get nearly enough sleep last week. Now I’ve got to crank for Yom Kippur. Obviously I have a bit of a head start,...
by danya | Sep 30, 2005 | Blog
I was a little shocked recently to discover that some of the more conservative factions of my school refer to the High Holy Days as the “HiHos”. I think that the fact that that term seems cute (to them) and not a little eyebrow-raising (to me) is a...
by danya | Sep 29, 2005 | Blog
That is to say, theodicy c/o The Daily Show. It’s in awful, very bad taste, in the best possible way. Watch it here. (Gacked from JewSchool.)
by danya | Sep 29, 2005 | Blog
So the new issue of Lilith magazine has a short piece that I contributed (with, it seems, a big, honkin’ picture) in one of those roundup thingys where a bunch of people contribute small vorts on one topic. The theme for this issue is “coming of age as a...
