(I'd like to feel like I, in some small part, had a hand in help making this happen ( Read more... )

Friday night after fantastic services and dinner at Jerusalem Open House, I got sick ( Read more... )

Two great quotes from Jonathan Rosen's Joy Comes in the Morning (a book I want to read):

"Deborah sometimes joked that being a rabbi was like working for a boss that everyone hated, like collecting rent in a bad neighborhood"

"Rabbis were spiritually promiscuous -- they belonged to everybody and nobody."

In Jerusalem ( Read more... )

This week on Monday I went to this amazing lecture by Danya Ruttenberg, the editor of Yentle's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism.  I left so empowered and excited.  I was reminded of the power of what I am doing.  Even though I am often bored to tears by the work we have as part of our curriculum (or lack there of),  I am reminded that I am ( Read more... )

There is nothing like waking up in the moring (2 hours late at that) and turing on the computer to find that your community service project is front page news in the New York Times :


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I was so stressed out
Today I had:
a Biblical Grammar mid-term
a Presentation for my class on the Jewish World
a job application due

But its all done now and thats WONDERFUL!

I'm going to bed early. I'm gonna sleep and feel better (I've also been sick for like the last 5 days)

So Molly told me to update my friendster profile and an hour later I am still sitting here playing around with the stupid thing.
So be my friend so I can feel cool and not forgotten.

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( something snarky )