Event: An Intimate Conversation with Dani Shapiro, author of DevotionDate: Monday, March 1, 2010Time: 7pmPlace: JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023 Admission: $10/$15 (Get tickets in advance!)
Yeah, it’s ironic that a person who was (emphasis on was) writing a memoir actually doesn’t like reading memoirs. I guess I read one too many bad memoirs and trust me, there are lots of them. I will read just about anything until completion but there are so many memoirs I started and put down… Continue reading Memoir Rant
Event: Talk with Charles London, author of “Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community”Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010Time: 7pmPlace: Be sure to sign up for more information on upcoming Jewish multicultural events: JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023Admission: $7/$10 Join award winning writer Charles London… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community
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According to the Ramban’s Thirteen Principles of Faith, we, Jews, believe that “that the dead will be brought back to life when G-d wills it to happen.” Okay, but what happens if you remarried and your first wife comes back? Dum-dum-DUM! (That’s eerie music playing in the background, duh.) Anyway! Will it be, like, before… Continue reading Does G-d Believe in Comic Books?
Event: Indian-Israelis Book Talk @ Library of CongressDate: Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Time: NoonPlace: Library of Congress, the foyer of the Asian Reading Room located in Room 150 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.CAdmission: Free Details: Israelis of Indian descent continue to live on the periphery, where they were settled… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Indian-Israelis Book Talk @ Library of Congress
Event: Queer Torah with Rabbi Steven Greenberg in celebration of the Israel release of “Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.” Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Time: 7:30pm Place: Jerusalem Open House, Hasoreg 2, Jerusalem, Israel Join the Jerusalem Open House for an evening of Queer Torah with Rabbi Steven Greenbergin celebration of the… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Queer Torah with Rabbi Steven Greenberg at Jerusalem Open House
Here is the list of things I’d like to be blogging about right now: Last week’s wave of Facebook updates where women posted the color of their bras in an effort to raise breast cancer awareness Writer’s block (other people’s, not mine) Prospective converts who rabbis (and the current Orthodox conversion climate) scare off Yoga… Continue reading To blog or not to blog
I think it was one of my blog readers that recommended I check out “The Morganville Vampires” young adult novels and I finally got around to doing it because the series was sooooo cheap on my Kindle. I barely made it through the first novel in the series because I had a hard time relating… Continue reading How to be a Kosher Vampire
Check out these fine lookin’ Jews! There were so many beautiful entries to my “Jewish Faces I Love This Hanukkah” contest that I started to wish I could give a copy of “I Love Jewish Faces” by Debra B. Darvick to each and every one. I even had to get help judging because there were… Continue reading Jewish Faces YOU Loved this Hanukkah!
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