News: Here is a story from this week. An IDF soldier was sentenced to 11 days of military jail this week and suspended from his command course for... eating a bacon sandwich. To make the context even worse, this is an American soldier who made aliyah so he could serve in the army, and was living with his grandmother at a kibbutz where she made him ( Read more... )

Preface: This post is going to be about a bad experience I had with, specifically, the Orthodox Jewish establishment in Israel, which is technically the only kind of state-recognized Judaism there is here. This country sometimes, I swear.

A good friend of mine is getting married on Friday, and she asked me to go to mikveh with her last night.

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Perhaps inspired by watching the Smallville series finale last week after not having watched the show since 2003, I caught up on a few other season/series finales today. The Office, which I stopped watching regularly about a year ago, was kind of charming. NCIS was not very interesting case-wise but aww, I will never not love these characters (I ( Read more... )

Posting from my iPod, so actual brevity this time:

1. C'mon (streaming link), the new song that's a collaboration between fun. and Panic! at the Disco. I like it a lot :D and look forward to their next collaboration and joint tour :D and am hopelessly amused by the fact that they just had to insert some form of punctuation into their song title ( Read more... )

Okay, so I cannot even begin to tell you how amazing the fic I received for yuletide is, and I am wholeheartedly reccing it for people who have watched the movie and not:

Masks Upon Masks (fandom: the movie Kick-Ass).

Relevant movie recap: Kick-Ass tells the story of a few teenagers with no special superpowers who decide to become superheroes, including ( Read more... )

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A friend of mine recently got a cartoon booklet from a tourist titled "Love The Jewish People", and immediately thought of me. My friends know me so well ♥. The only thing that saddens me about this booklet is that it's too heavy to hang next to the collection of Jews For Jesus pamphlets I have hanging on my refrigerator ( Read more... )

I was so sure my Islam test was at 9:00 like every other History test so far that I didn't even think to verify, which was my stupidest move ever as it is, apparently, at 16:00. The upside is that instead of taking the test on 45 minutes of sleep, I will be taking it on at least 5 hours, because my bed is calling. The downside is that it's very ( Read more... )

WTF, genealogy? Man, I wish I could trace my family that far back, or that I were running for President* so that someone would care enough to do it for me. Sadly, I can only go back four generations, ie my grandparents' grandparents ( Read more... )

You know, there are people whose concept of the universe is so thoroughly different than yours, that there really is no way of having a rational discussion with them because clearly, you're (mis)communicating via two different sets of world views, vocabularies, concepts. So when Knesset member Benizri says that the way to protect the country ( Read more... )