So Jewschool introduced me to LOLCats in the hilarious LOLCat Bible (“Commandent Six: u lies, i mek u ded”) and since then I’ve patronized the site whenever I need a pick me up. What with the news about the impending end of the two-state solution, I encountered some pics on the make-your-own-LOLz site icanhascheezburger.com which [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Help my friends Jew-peddle for a healthier and more sustainable world
My favorite mezuzah-waving treehumpers are doing the Hazon Jewish Environmental Bike Ride this weekend and you can join me in supporting their cause by reading about their fun and even donating to their fundraising here: Josh Frankel Leah Koenig & Yoshie Fruchter David Rendsburg Ben Rosenthal Tiferet Zimmern-Kahan The ride proceeds support a great many [...]
Aug 26th, 2008 Judaism 0 Comments
There’s no higher principles here than right and wrong, left and right
There’s been an interesting burst of debate in the JBlogosphere since a bunch of bloggers were flown to Jerusalem to attend a blogger summit by Israeli government agency which recruits immigration to Israel, Nefesh B’Nefesh (“Soul to soul,” NBN for short). My own post on Jewschool was just one of many. Bibi Netanyahu’s wildly received [...]
Aug 25th, 2008 Israel 0 Comments
Tell Congress: Abandon sanctions-only approach to Iran
A click a day keeps the neo-cons away… From Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, an action alert in support of House Resolution 143, calling for more than just sanctions to engage Iran. Read the explanation of the measure here and sign it here.
Aug 25th, 2008 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
The sad and unholy alliance between Bibi and the Jblogosphere
Like I said, my brain is bursting with posts, and here’s the first, intended to underscore the division between “the fossils” (as ZT calls the bedraggled conservative Jewish institutions and the young Jblogger parrots who are rewarded for being their sycophants) and the Jewschool crowd, and why the Jewschoolers attend the Havurah Institute in such [...]
Aug 22nd, 2008 Israel, Judaism and X-posted to Jewschool 0 Comments
Back from the Havurah Institute!
I just returned from a week away at the 2008 Havurah Institute and have a brain so full of posts-in-progress that I’m all a’ twitter with unactualized potential. Hang in there. In the meantime, check out some of the posts from the debates sparked around gender and feminism at this year’s Institute over at Jewschool. [...]
Aug 18th, 2008 Judaism 0 Comments
Twitter me this, Twitter me that
Best tweet I’ve seen since starting: You know those anti-mosquito lights? I want one of those for ugly people. So I can bring em on blind dates. *zzzzzzzzzzzap* Check me here: www.twitter.com/kungfujew18 or check the status on the upper-right of this here blog. If I don’t already follow you, let me know.
Aug 4th, 2008 Humor 0 Comments
Hilchot Negotiation
People often are confused by my explanation of my Jewish practice. They ask, “How kosher are you?” or “What’s your Shabbat practice?” and my answer is always something along these lines: “Whatever the Old Man Upstairs and I decide that day.” For whatever reason, that’s always chuckle-worthy to them. Which is unusual, because in Christian [...]
Aug 2nd, 2008 Judaism 0 Comments