I ♥ Ami - Updated
My friend/fellow blogger Ami Horowitz is in hospital at the moment after being hit by a speeding car on Saturday. Tragically, Ami's parents were killed by the driver. Their family friends are also in...
View ArticleYK with a Humanist Slant
Wishing an easy fast to all those who will be fasting. And, for the lighter side of Yom Kippur here's Guy Branum's take on the Holy Day . . . Also, The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism had an...
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Question! About Holidays . . .
Happy Hannukah Everyone!!!Just wondering . . . between 8 days of Hannukah, a week of Pesach, other multi-day holidays, and Shabbat every week: do holiday days outnumber ordinary days in the Jewish...
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Question! About Muksa, mukse, mikse . . .
Or however you spell that!!!Been a while since my last post . . .Things have been busy, and I thrive on busy, so therefore things have been good!!! But I do miss this place, and your comments :), so...
View ArticleHappy Purim! - Updated
Mr. CL dragged me to a Megillah reading tonight for the first time in decades that I can remember . . . and I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually fun. Purim was something we never celebrated...
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Question! About being grateful for what one is not . . .
T-shirt sold here.I'm sure this has been discussed abundantly online, but I'm interested in the bottom line. Why are Orthodox men meant to thank God everyday for not being made a woman, and why don't...
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Weighing the Value of Jewish Day School
This year will be Mr. CL' s and my 14th year together. We met in high school, and started dating in university. Before we were together, Mr. CL invited me to go camping with his buddies. I was...
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Question! Is Smoking "Kosher"?
And by kosher, I mean not forbidden by Jewish law/assur (i.e. colloquially kosher). By extension, if smoking is halachically permitted, do cigarettes - like some other non- food items - get hechshers?
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Atheist Shul Hopping
http://www.jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Shul-Hopping-450x270.jpgI have a very vague memory of my first childhood visit to shul. It was a high holiday, and we went to what I remember as a big...
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Question! About Boredom . . .
We've been on the sick-again-well again Merry-go-Round a lot since January. It's part of the business with young kids. In any case, what it translates to is a lot of missed work days for me, and though...
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Lena Boroditsky's Thoughts on Language and Thought
For anyone interested in how language affects thought, Lena Boroditsky's lecture is really fascinating. She demonstrates how the specific grammatical structures in a language influences its speakers...
View ArticleWhat's the Best way to deal with religion peddlers?
When I was in France, the family I stayed with would tell missionaries that they were practicing satanists. Though I'm not a big fan of missionaries, we usually just nicely say, "Sorry not...
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Last Year's Seders Behind the Scenes
Though I didn't blog about this part, last year's seders were pretty contentious at our house. It was just the four of us both nights. Mr. CL lead the first seder, and I did the second one. Mr. CL...
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Happy Passover!!!
Happy Pesach!!!Last year I made a passport to keep the kids engaged at the seder. This year, we're doing SEDER BINGO instead.We'll be at my sister-in-law's. My brother-in-law's family is Moroccan, so...
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Smoking is "officially" Kosher for Passover
A couple of weeks ago I asked why cigarettes don't have a hechsher . . and now they do. Will try not to give people any more ideas :p.Here's the article that elaborates.
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On a Scale of One to Ten, This Passover Was . . .
a Seven. Not too bad. The seders were small and kid focused, with an excellent Food:Haggadah ratio. There won't be a Behind the Scenes post next year :). The first night was just songs and food. (Mr....
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Some Diversion . . .
http://poponandon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Starships-Nicki-Minaj1.jpgLast year I posted a video of Opera in Yiddish, and here is an incredible meeting of cultures with a Chassidic remix with...
View ArticleQuestion! $ $ $
Since halacha requires that people follow the law of the land (from what I understand), would getting paid under the table violate halacha?
View ArticleQuestion! About Shabbos . . . .
In the comments of my last post, Anonymous (and I) asked how Orthodox Jews hire people on Shabbos. JRK answered that question beatifully (thanks JRK!), so here's another one . . . with a bit of a...
View ArticleA Little Mother's Day Song . . .
A cute mother-son duet by local talent Abdominal and The Obliques . .. "The most courageous among us must possess inordinate amounts of fear and stress . . .meet my mother."
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