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Choose-your-own Judaism
So apparently there’s this Reform university student who took a week to increase her observance by observing kashrut, tzniut, daily prayer, and other mitzvot. She then wrote about her experiences in a...
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Help me pick a siddur!
So I’m trying to find the ~perfect siddur~ (that is, the perfect one for my purposes) for months now and have remained kind of stuck. I’ve gotten fairly used to the Artscrollified Orthodox service...
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Irrationally annoyed: a rant
Generally, I’m fairly easy-going with regards to davening. I’ve been to quite a few different types of services (Reform, Reconstructionist, Orthodox, traditional egalitarian, Conservative) and enjoyed...
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Some topical music for you today!
This (terrific, and terrifically cheesy) video is a musical rendition of a piyyut called Adon HaSelichot, the translation and transliteration of which can be found here. I make no secret of my deep...
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Exciting new adventures!
As of quite soon, I’ll be a contributer at Global Jewish Voice, a project of New Voices‘! I’m really excited to join this venture, and see what happens! I’ll still be posting here, of course, but I’m...
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Demons, prophets, and the law
I’m taking a break from studying for – what else – my Judaism and Feminism term test to bring you a post on the beautiful work of illustrator Ilene Winn-Lederer, whose book Between Heaven and Earth:...
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Stuff I cooked: Shabbat edition
Today my roommate is super busy, but I am not, so I took on the Shabbat prep and cooking responsibilities. Fortunately for both of us, I love cooking, so I didn’t mind. (My roommate makes a killer...
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Something’s happening here, and I’m not really clear on what it is
Yesterday I posted an article at Global Jewish Voice about Canada’s first mainstream yeshiva and rabbinical school. (You can read that here.) I’m not really sure how I feel about this institution— I...
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Search terms
Or how people got here. I think most people get to this blog because of the link at my facebook page, or from the masthead at Global Jewish Voice, but some people come across my blog when they’re...
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I do have faith, but I don’t seem to have will.
I read Chaviva’s post on faith this morning, and it made me resolved to write about and post what I’ve been thinking about lately. I’m not having a crisis of faith, but I think I have been having a...
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