"I'd Rather a Jew"- Lauren Ambrose Funny Girl PARODY-based on Marilyn Michaels Times blog item
Parody of I'D RATHER BE BLUE - live from the Erasmus Bar in Brooklyn (parody vocal & lyric by Fred Landau) They're getting real blue ...
Jewish American Heritage Month
President Obama hosts a reception for Jewish American Heritage Month at the White House. May 17, 2011.
Holiday Crazy
What others have pointed out to me over the past few weeks as I have struggled with questions on how to bring up my Jewish children during Christmastime is how important it is to create customs and traditions that are our own. We may celebrate Hanukkah but we also celebrate things that are unique to Christmas too and that is okay.
For the past few years we have enjoyed putting the kids in pajamas and driving around to look at Christmas lights. We have really enjoyed Weaver’s Winter Wonderland in Cotati and every year we download the City of Petaluma’s map of decorated houses and drive to see those as well. The kids really enjoy this every year and so do we. The best part is tiring them out in the car and getting them home to an easy transition into their beds.
I tend to be an all or nothing kind of person. On one hand I may be struggling with how to celebrate our own customs but on the other I end up taking my kids to not one but two gingerbread-house making workshops in a day. Because of this, Saturday saw my kids consuming about as much candy as they do on Halloween. We finished up our weekend with four wonderful little houses fit for Hansel and Gretel.
Jewish Little Item News
Stieg Larsson's other calling was as an anti-neo-Nazi crusader
Spoiler alert: There's also a serial killer whose targets turn out to have been Jewish women. In “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” the chief villain is not only a sex-trafficker but also a Jew-hater, who uses as his alias the name of a Swedish Nazi, ...
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Answers to a rabbi, part 3: Baptizing dead Jews Even though Mormons perform several ordinances for the deceased, Jews focused almost exclusively on that one. [I have never heard a Jew object to the eternal marriage by proxy of a husband and wife who perished in the Holocaust, for example]. ... |
Economic disintegration, Jews and Israel
This is just one small item shedding light on the major survival problems of the Euro. Against this backdrop, many questions should also be asked about the economic and social consequences of the current major financial problems in Western societies. ...
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Recovering Judeo-Christian ethic precedes European recovery
Asceticism and self-denial have little place in Jewish spirituality. By our labour and inventiveness we become, in the rabbinic phrase, "partners with God in the work of creation." Above all, from a Jewish perspective, the most important thing about ...
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Suffer the little children There have been a series of cases of Jewish leaders, including rabbis, who engaged in similar activities. It is often difficult to crack the protective institutional armor and punish the offenders. Clearly, both Christian and Jewish seminaries must ... |
