09 Dec Overheard on Galgalatz!
Ok, I probably should have done this a year or two ago but better late than never...
music Tag
25 Sep These Jews are Seriously Musical
Just wanted to give some timely updates about a couple of musicians I know who you may be interested in checking out. Gabriel Mann is a guy I knew growing up in Young Judaea in Texas. Though we weren't close (he was a couple of years...
18 Mar Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Weddings, Part Shtayim
Guess where I went last night? A wedding! Good times had by all…mazal tov, Mark and Hadar! As an addendum to last week’s Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Weddings, here are a couple more observations I forgot to include. Read that first if you haven’t already… --Upon entering...
29 Jan ”Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on…..ehhhhh……”
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I recently talked to my friend Noga who's been following my adventures. I was interested but not surprised by her impressions of my writing. She was a tad irked (ech omrim "irk"?), not as much by what was on this site as much as what...
23 Dec The end of intermarriage
What percentage of Jewish females would marry out of the faith if Justin Timberlake was their rabbi? We can dream, can't we? Or you can watch this Saturday Night Live instant classic, featuring Rabbi Timberlake two minutes and sixteen seconds in. One of the things that makes...
15 Oct ANOTHER Jewish holiday???
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Hello, my loyal readers: I’M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!! I told you I had lots to write about. The first person to comment below explaining the meaning of Hoshanna Raba, Chol Ha’moed, and Shemini Atzeret gets a falafel ball dedicated in their honor (three seconds before I eat...