It's Purim Torah season at Mi Yodeya, where, in addition to the regular, serious questions, we also welcome parody questions. Our policy (yes, we have a policy) says: It's gotta be distinctly "Purim" (not serious), distinctly Torah, and distinctly Q&A. Purim Torah questions that don't have all three of these qualities may be closed.
So, post ( Read more... )

Kind of like Purim torah, but not. :-) A talmudic take on Thanksgiving by magid. Excerpt:

What turkey fulfills the obligation? A turkey cooked whole, the bones unbroken. However, if he has only turkey cut in parts, he has fulfilled the obligation. Ground turkey does not fulfill the obligation. Abba Arika says, since it is not distinguishable from ( Read more... )

Wandering Stars is the classic compilation of SF around Jewish themes, including halachic issues that just don't arise in day-to-day life like whether space aliens can convert (and, IIRC, managing the calendar on other planets). Some of my readers might be interested in the following speculative questions that have been asked on Judaism. ( Read more... )

At the Giant Eagle pharmacy ( Read more... )

And now for something completely different...
The husband of a member of the Debatable Choir posted video from our Pennsic performance:

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I didn't know enough chemistry to fully parse this geeky comic by ohiblather, but I still laughed out loud when I saw it.
xiphias reports research that seems to be begging for an IgNobel award. As he points out, it's ( Read more... )

(Gentile) coworker: When we realized that the pot-luck dinner was during Pesach, we decided to try our best to accommodate the Jewish attendees. So we kashered the oven, boiled the utensils, used a foil pan, etc... but I didn't kasher the drill bit.

Drill bit?Spade bit, he said -- for coring the pears ( Read more... )

From gnomi: Rabbis, it is time for the morning posts, which I found hilarious. This is what happens when Jewish geeks meet fanfic, I gather.

If you know even a little about talmudic tradition, I recommend it.

I was recently asked about this, and I don't know what the current thinking is ( Read more... )

New word: bloggerrea. I'd been wondering why sometimes an update causes the RSS feed to spew old entries. Pretty annoying.
Clever, in that "uh-oh" sort of way: one piece of spam-sending malware installs its own anti-virus programbecause it doesn't want all your other viruses slowing it down ( Read more... )

Hey lookie -- daylight savings time. More time before Shabbat means time to finish this. (I've been gradually ansering these questions over the past couple days.)
1) What's the least-interesting section of the Torah to you, the one that would be most improved if you read it in the original Klingon. ( Read more... )