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This post isn’t about how kugel stops heart disease or how studying torah will help you live to 116, but about my Jewish aging process. I’m coming up on my first JewDay. November 17 is my anniversary of going to mikvah and the last 8 months or so of being Jewish have included as much […]
Sniff spice, light your wick and douse the fire.
Separate the holy from the profane in a bar.
This could get interesting…
I’ve been hiding in my secret Jewish lair, redesigning my home blog, planning events with Schmavis*, and reading emails upon emails upon emails.
Today I was forwarded a great program that I wanted to alert you all to. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life is promoting the use of compact fluorescent lights. There will […]
I was talking with Samayach and Wetstein today when a familiar topic came up. Its one I love because its the throughline in the career or my favorite composter, Leonard Bernstein. A Place For US. Not Just Zion, though maybe there’s the answer right there. We were discussing the need for a place for […]
The third Kavanah Shabbat Under the Stars meets in Lakeview:
August 18th.
7:30 Kabbalat Shabbat
8:30 (ish) Potluck Dinner
Last month 60 people showed for spirited davening and dinner. To get on the evite for next month and get in on the action early, shoot an email to kavanah@kfarcenter.com and we’ll send you the e-vite with all the […]
Once again, we learned too late about a great program (THE ASBI announcement went out Monday a 4:53 for a program Tuesday at 10am, wha?) for a Lincoln Park Zoo tour with Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the famed ZooRabbi on a tour of the Lincoln Park Zoo. don’t know who put it together a little more […]
It seems that my last post was provocative enough to get some good comments. I’d like to take the opportunity, as work let out early today, to address some of those, clarify, etc.
*NOTE: I am not a posek/halajic authority. I’m not a Doctor. Or a Policewoman.*
First, to clarify my inability to read a calendar: I […]
Wow. In a bold political move and acknowledging the power of the blogosphere, Bibi Netanyahu invited seven bloggers to a teleconference.
I work in Public Relations and specialize in social media–this is a bold use of the media. Bold. Cheers to Bibi for doing this and cheers to all the bloggers for participating and sharing the […]
Remember after 9/11 when there were commercials running that tried to equate the war on drugs with the war on terror? The juxtaposition seemed strange then, that there’d be people losing their lives over how much someone paid for a joint.
But now I see that some Israelis, egged on by Dan Sieradski, seem to think […]
Last Thursday I headed down to the Chicago Indiefest Chicago to check out a long awaited screening of Awake Zion, Monica Haim’s film about the connections between Rasta and Jewish cultures. It was an interesting and enjoyable piece, though I don’t think it went nearly far enough or dove nearly as deeply as I would […]
NPR today reported that President Mahmud Ahmanedinejahadineminejad of Iran has launched a multi-lingual blog.
Good. Let’s tell him what we think of his Hizbollah-antics, his virulent anti-Semitism and threats to wipe Israel and its inhabitants off the map. Shouldn’t be hard to flood his inbox and comment section with a pretty heavy dose of […]
The third Kavanah Shabbat Under the Stars meets in Lakeview this Friday.
August 18th.
7:30 Kabbalat Shabbat
8:30 (ish) Potluck Dinner
Last month 60 people showed for spirited davening and dinner. To get on the evite for next month and get in on the action early, shoot an email to kavanah@kfarcenter.com and we’ll send you the e-vite with […]
I’ve probably had more strangers inquire as to the status of my genitals than the average American. It’s a door that gets opened if you are a male and you move from Catholicism to Judaism: always on the top three list of questions people ask is, “So are you circumcised?” At first it was […]
The Israeli Consulate to the Midwest set up a blog for students from the region to post their experiences. Here’s the blurb fro the juf e-lert:
NEW BLOG ON ISRAEL: FOR STUDENTS, BY STUDENTS
From Israel conventions to Israeli movie screenings and food festivals, the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest developed a blog […]
Hey Everybody,
Menachem Cohen here. It’s about time I introduce myself. I was born and raised in Chicago and the surrounding environs. I’m 37 and married to Wendy Lauter. We are expecting our first child in Dec (due date is the 15th, the first night of Channukah, but so few kids arrive on due dates). Currently […]
There’s a saying in journalism- report the story, don’t become it. Reuters is the story. If youve been reading up, you know there’s been a stink about Reuters using doctored photos that exagerate the damage done by the IDF… They’ve retractred the photo, apologized and fired the photographer, but its apparently not the first care.
You […]
JPost is apparently looking into whether the “massacre” at Qana was somehow staged, eitherr by bringing in bodies or more likely, herding people into a site, preventing them from leaving and then firing rockets from the building so that there’d be an IDF response… The story is also noteworthy in that Bloggers were apparrently instrumental […]
First a Sydney shul was attacked. Now an Israeli man was stabbed to death. New Zealanders seem to enjoy desecrating Jewish cemetaries. And we all know about Ozzie Mel Gibson’s feelings on the subject. Is there something Anti-Semitic going on down under? John Howard might not think so, but I do. Anyone remember the last […]
Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) is rebuilding their whole building, and kol hakavod! Its gonna be a “green” shul and got a grant to make it a more energy-efficient house of worship. Pretty cool in a sort of modernist take on the Prarie school, and pretty coo in terms of treading lightly on this […]
I’m about to spend the afternoon visualizing what I want for my personal life and I am going to ask all Jewish Bloggers to join me. Below is a post from my home blog, Accidentally Jewish.
I am asking that you write one post about a peace. Not in the abtract, not a military plan to […]
