6/28/06

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Good Shabbos. Now I'm really off to work. I start work on July 1st, this Saturday. Wish me luck! I don't know how many of you faithf...

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Getting used (again) to medicalese A man is (God help us) a "male". Patients "deny" some condition or other. A person wi...

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One yoke of servitude, check. We who are about to be beeped salute you.
6/26/06

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Secular conversion to Judaism Or Israelism? The Head Heeb discusses the matter.
6/20/06

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Devil take the translator "Not really a translation, but a conversion, Judaization, or transference." I didn't know that Baude...
6/17/06

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Green Squall Is awesome. Here, read this. MEDITATION ON RUIN It's not the lost lover that brings us to ruin, or the barroom brawl, or th...

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Parsha question too late for Shabbos As usual. If Eldad means "beloved of God," what does Medad mean -- "beloved of water...
6/14/06

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Hiatus prep It's not like I post that much anyway, but soon I'll be blogging even less, what with the start of my residency on July ...
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6/8/06

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A Valediction: Forbidding Rap Music Schorsch's speech was strange, to be sure. Rap is not a devil whispering in the ear of Conservative...

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To the Rabbinical Assembly I just had a chance to daven (as shliekh tsiber) from the newish Sim Shalom siddur for weekdays, known as "S...
6/6/06

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Readings The 11th Street Bar was as packed as a herring barrel. The reading started on time, every reader stuck to the time limits, and no ...
6/4/06

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Stately, plump Boaz Mirsky Has Joyce's Ulysses been translated into Hebrew? My desultory searches are turning up nothing. (Same questio...
6/1/06

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Tales of a Twenty-Sixth Grade Nothing Not a student anymore. Can I handle it? MEDICINE MENSCH: Bidding the Classroom Adieu For some people, ...
5/30/06

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Taste and see: Shavuos foods from many lands Plus, parve buffalo wings with blue-cheese sauce: a whimsical Torah derivation. A tasty post , ...
5/25/06

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Shabbos Dinner On cleaning out some files, I found this account of a memorable Shabbos dinner with some disaffected Jews, originally publish...

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Yet another reason not to buy Rubashkin's/Aaron's Best/Agriprocessors meat It's kosher . . . but it's treyf. See this remark...

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Batter batter batter Swiiiiing philologist! Favorite Yiddish neologism of the week (seen on a Charedi message board ): heymloyfekhts The equ...
5/23/06

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A Note to Mr. Spinoza If God is the All And All is in God What then does one call Every dingy day’s plod? Divine attribute? Or devilish sign...
5/21/06

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The "radical intellectual freedom" of halachah The positive attitude to controversy so frequently encountered in the halakhic sour...
5/18/06

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"The last Yiddish poet in America"? Or: someone wrote a novel about my (greatX12)-granddaughter? [From Publishers Marketplace. Tha...