During the week or two leading up to Passover my email inbox included a number of links to alternative haggadot/haggadah supplements. While I didn't really have a reason to compile them before the holiday (except, uh, for the benefit of others...), I'd like to have a listing for future reference in case at some point I actually hold my own seder, ( Read more... )

I was at the Jerusalem Pride March on Thursday and while I don't really know where to start talking about it, it deserves that I write something.  In case anyone missed it, here is my entry where I wrote about issues they've had in past years.  Also, to clarify, because it's come up a couple times, what took place in Jerusalem was a Pride March, ( Read more... )

Yom Kippur felt shorter than it was. This meant both that the fast wasn't super-difficult and that I didn't get very much out of it.

Wal-Mart takes "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" off its online market after Jewish leaders object to it being sold without a disclaimer

Here's a sermon posted on weirdjews that I liked.

Bush-bashing Yom Kippur ( Read more... )

Why am I freaked out by the fact that TBE (the local synagogue) is holding its Rosh Hashanah services at the Unitarian meeting house? It's not like a baptist church o' crucifixes ( Read more... )

( My response to this past shabbat in Baltimore (aka more of my angsting about orthodox judaism being heterosexist) )

Editorial relating Passover to the Israeli-Palestinian peace processI think he could have gone farther than he did. "Dayenu" is often translated as, "It would have been enough,". If each side said, "We'd love this, but that would be enough," peace would be far more feasible ( Read more... )

I feel like I keep giving people the impression that I'm depressed. I'm not, really. It's just that a) I've been thinking a lot and b)I don't have a niche here yet ( Read more... )

My body is fighting off some sort of bug. Current status: require extra sleep (though have a hard time actually falling asleep 'cause I've no deficit), have a ticklish throat, am sneezing. I'm hoping that I can get rid of whatever illness this is before it develops into anything more substantial than its current form ( Read more... )

( Thoughts on Christmas, yoinked from weirdjews )

Good = biologically based in empathy; treat other people the way that you would want to be treated and take responsibility for nonhuman living creatures ( Read more... )