Happy Pesach, ladies, gents, and robot arms.

So far things seem to be going well, aside from this one girl I wanted to befriend cause she likes comics one of our guests only canceling when I called them up the night before to remind them what time to be there. We had our obligatory teenager getting sloshed and my brownies came out seriously damn ( Read more... )

Well, this has been interesting. I'm helping out the local Jewish Day School with this contest US Cellular has been running. It involves inputting a giant load of names, birthdates, and addresses into US Cellular's site along with a code number and while it's something of a good cause it's still mindnumbingly boring work. On the other hand the ( Read more... )

When I left Cambridge the city was practically begging me to stay. I got nice warm weather, a wonderful sendoff in the form of a fair with fireworks shot off right as we got to the top of the Big Wheel, and then I missed my plane because the bus got stuck in traffic ( Read more... )

I have encountered a shanda*. A horrible horrible shanda.

The university cafeteria was doing a ~multicultural~ lunch today with various holiday style foods. The previous night I asked if there were going to be latkes. Of course, they would be having vegetable latkes!

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Latkes are potato pancakes, for those not in the know. If they are not ( Read more... )

A note here--no pictures were actually taken during the service. Due to Shabbat regulations I couldn't take them until after the sun went down and we did havdalah. Anything seen here is a recreation. I did also have some pictures of David doing the practice service but I can't find where I put them right now.

( After havdalah, of course, I couldn't keep my hands off the camera. )

OOOOMG.

Was my bar mitzvah this chaotic? I know it didn't involve David version II and his entire family and Granma in the same house at once. Also less clothing trouble I just had a purple caftan with gold trim and looked like a ninny and running around trying to find the right clothing and my talis seems to have vanished and and...aagh. It's ( Read more... )

So while wandering the comments of the most recent Slacktivist post, I came up with this particular nugget of idiocy that required a bit of Jew rage.

Delivered with very little context.

Along the lines of prohibited foods, in the 9th LB book, Desecration, Nicky defiles the Temple in Jerusalem by riding atop an enormous pig. One of the thousands ( Read more... )

I've always been a fan of showing off, comparative religion, so tonight I took navigatorsghost to the local Orthodox synagogue. It's small and student run, but it's got the basic components of a synagogue and suited our purposes ( Read more... )

I'm still a bit too flaily to write up the thunderstorm/tornado warning from this afternoon, so here's the pictures from the sedar last night.

( Nothing horribly interesting, a lot of it you just had to be there for. )