Without a machine or a wormhole, we travel through time every day of our lives. We don’t do it instantly, but every photo we take is a picture of us in the past. Recent past, long ago past. All our… Read More ›
Judaism
FANDANGO’S PROVOCATIVE QUESTION #33
Fandango’s Provocative Question #33 It’s hard to talk about this stuff without sounding pious or self-righteous. Personally, I always wonder if I have a price too and it’s merely that no one has offered to pay it that I have managed… Read More ›
MOSES FOR WHOM THE GPS WAS INVENTED – Marilyn Armstrong
So, THE WAY THEY TELL IT, God wanted to get rid of all those who had experienced slavery. To accomplish this task, he made the twelve tribes walk around the Sinai wilderness for forty years. Forty years? Seriously? That area… Read More ›
PEDIATRIC RELIGION – Marilyn Armstrong
When my first husband and I were getting married, he was something vaguely Protestant, though no one in his family knew what. They never attended church and while they were wild about Christmas, it was a very non-Christian version of… Read More ›
BEWARE OF MAN! – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC – Beware of Man! Harking back to yesterday’s long discussion of ARE YOUR VALUES WORTH A SONG AND A MOVIE? – Marilyn Armstrong which was based on Fandango’s Provocative Question #18: Man (as opposed to a woman) should not… Read More ›
99 New: Rumination
Originally posted on Red's Wrap:
Anti-Semitism isn’t just the stuff of white nationalist Neanderthals. Some of your best friends have anti-Semitic reflexes. Oh, your friends would never admit to this. They’re too intelligent, too socially conscious. They wouldn’t be…
GUILTY – BUT WAS I CHARGED? Marilyn Armstrong
BROUGHT UP GUILTY To be brought up Jewish is to be brought up guilty. I think Catholics have a similar problem. We are guilty of different things, however. Catholics have the whole “sin” thing to deal with. Jews get to… Read More ›
NAVIGATIONALLY-CHALLENGED: MOSES IN THE DESERT
So, THE WAY THEY TELL IT, God wanted to get rid of all those who had experienced slavery. To accomplish this task, he made the twelve tribes walk around the Sinai wilderness for forty years. Forty years? Seriously? That area… Read More ›
COVET NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR’S ASS
So there we were in the car driving home. I was mentally shuffling the heap of miscellaneous stuff that passes for my brain and trying to remember all ten of the commandments. Why? Because I thought I should know them. They are supposedly… Read More ›
LIFE AFTER CHRISTMAS: A SURVIVOR’S TALE OF RECLAIMING MEANING AT THE HOLIDAYS – REBLOG BY SEAN MUNGER
In 2015, I officially converted to Judaism. While I was not brought up in a particularly religious household, my family has no Jewish background; the reasons why I converted are complicated, but suffice it to say that it was the right… Read More ›
THE MIKVEH
In 1980, I got married. In Israel. Israel is a funny country. A democracy and also, a theocracy. Family matters fall under religious courts, including marriage. To get married in Israel, you have to be Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. If… Read More ›
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION – BY ELLIN CURLEY
Today is Tisha B’Av — a good day on which to talk about The Holocaust. Tisha B’Av, the Fast of the Ninth of Av, is a day of mourning which commemorates the many tragedies which have befallen the Jewish people. It… Read More ›
