religion

In Philadelphia traffic, everyone’s an engineer*

November 22, 2010

Welcome to Hell! We have cheesesteak! My commute has changed (perhaps you’ve heard?!) from 25 minutes walking-to Metro-to walking to work, to 1 hour 20 minutes grinding it out on I-95 South on what should be a 35-minute commute.  Most of the time, cars going the opposite direction can see this: Insert your own caption here As a result, I have become a very astute civil engineer.  For some reason, there are specific areas on I-95 South that clog up, ...

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Movie Review: Srugim (Knitted)

December 8, 2009

Yesterday, Mr. B and I went to the DCJCC 10th Annual Film Festival (which, by the way, you should go to if you get the chance..going on through Sunday!) to see Srugim (Kintted, in English.) Off the bat, I have to say I am extremely impressed with the JCC, which is much bigger and more comprehensive than any JCC I’ve been to.  Any would include the one in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and my Hillel office at Penn State, which isn’t counting ...

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God(s) is straight-up messing with me

September 16, 2009

So, the other week, I was in Jerusalem to bargain with God.  It’s something I do on a regular basis when I’m in Jerusalem.  Usually, at the Kotel.  However, I have to be careful when I bargain with him there, because God is a jerk and gives me what I ask for.  The first time I went, I’d just met Mr. B casually, and had gone through a horrible break-up, and decided that he would make a good boyfriend. “If ...

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Are you fasting on Thursday?

July 28, 2009

The fast in Jerusalem, via upyernoz on Flickr. Thursday is Tisha B’Av. This is a holiday in Judaism where you fast.  Religious Jews (and yours truly) fast on Tisha B’Av, or as I like to call it, HOLY CRAP B’Av, because on this day in history several bad things happened to Jews: The First and Second Temples were destroyed, resulting in immense national Jewish grief over the loss of our primary place of worship, not to mention thousands of dollars ...

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