by danya | Sep 26, 2005 | Blog
I was just flipping the channels and couldn’t resist stopping at the Chabad Telethon, the Jewish world’s best-distributed examples of kitsch unawares. I got there just in time to hear a 70-something hasid with a big white beard standing next to a tacky oil...
by danya | Sep 25, 2005 | Blog
I’m reading Tom Segev’s One Palestine, Complete for my history class. It’s about the British Mandate years, and so far (60ish pages in) pretty good–he certainly doesn’t romanticize anybody, but he doesn’t strike me as unfair. I know...
by danya | Sep 21, 2005 | Blog
By Bee Lavender on her blog, here, dated today. …human suffering is not symbolic. My pain, and rage, stand for nothing whatsoever. My body is simply a body.Amen, sister. Her gorgeous, difficult memoir Lessons in Taxidermy is very much worth reading, as...
by danya | Sep 21, 2005 | Blog
Is David Broza, in fact, the Israeli Billy Joel? If so, what are the theological and halakhic implications of this claim? How might it be understood by the two primary populations affected by this claim: those who enjoy this music, and those who do not? If not, what...
by danya | Sep 21, 2005 | Blog
…so far, anyway. I’m only on page 24, and I suspect there might be more to come. Today’s quote, though:Christians, who are often woefully ignorant of the Jewish roots of their own Christian faith, and only vaguely aware of any Jewish practices, could...
by danya | Sep 18, 2005 | Blog
Really, I’ll be more fun after Sukkot. I think. Maybe. My life isn’t so interesting these days; I’m working on school and not-school projects, seeing friends just about only on Shabbos (and even then, not even so much–needing a lot of solitude...
by danya | Sep 9, 2005 | Blog
I’m at the fancy corporate yuppie organic grocery store picking up a few things, and stop to have a conversation with The Cheese Guy about the brie–do they have any that’s kosher, or at the very least not made with animal rennet? We chat for a bit...
by danya | Sep 5, 2005 | Blog
So I have to do things like sit in this annoying corporate cafe and use the internet that’s not provided BY them (for which one must pay) but that my computer picks up from someone else’s wifi out there. To everyone out there who has wifi that’s not...
by danya | Aug 30, 2005 | Blog
Well, I’m here. Finished my 1177 mile drive last night. My key to my apartment still works. It’s humid, I had to get up early this morning to move my car so I wouldn’t get a ticket, all the coffee shops charge actual money for you to use their...
by danya | Aug 24, 2005 | Blog
I’m packing up to drive back down all the waaaaay down to my city of (permanent-ish) residence tomorrow. I am one with the I-5. It’s kind of a bummer that I didn’t make it up to Vancouver (though there was some excellent playtime on Mt. Ranier this...
