Jets upset about home game on Jewish holidays

I'd like to see how the NFL handles the request from the Jets.

I just posted this at my LJ, but even though this isn't a fic comm, I thought I'd link. If there's anyone who might understand what it's like to mentally write fic during the hagaddah reading, it's you guys :-)

Title: For the Want of a Goat (Discworld/Passover)
1100 words, gen, Death, Vimes, G
Summary: dizabin abah bitrei zuzei, or whatever. Vimes ( Read more... )

Purim's coming up, and holidays + exams = extra fidgety me --> procrastination --> icons!

Without too much ado, here are some holiday-neutral chag sameach icons: Jewish characters, and almost every image appears three times: once with the phrase 'chag sameach', once with the same phrase in Hebrew, and once with 'happy holiday'. To be used in any ( Read more... )

I've been working for a while on a story that I thought might be of interest to some readers here. Apologies to anyone who also reads my journal regularly and has already seen this announcement!

A Narrow Bridge
by Kass
18,430 words
John/Rodney; Elizabeth Weir/Steven Caldwell

Rav Caldwell, the rosh yeshiva of Sha'arei ha-Kochavim, was standing ( Read more... )

Hi, I hope that this is all right, but I just posted an essay about being Jewish and listening to Christian readings of our holy books.

This isn't fannish, but ... this is something I want to say to other Jews, and y'all are the ones I know on the internet. :) Thank you.

Hi! It is my great pleasure to announce the official opening of the


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After creating an entry on stilljewish at Fanlore, I realized that part of the story behind the creation of this lj comm is the interconnected series of conversations about Judaism and fandom that many of us have been having over the last -- what: year? few years? decade? lifetime? *g ( Read more... )

Hi all!

I've been spending a lot of time at Fanlore lately, and realized that there was no page describing this lj comm, so I created one. It's very bare-bones and needs more info; please jump in and edit at will? :-)

( Contains spoilers for the 10/31 episode of Numb3rs, Scan Man )

Did anyone catch Stephen Colbert tonight blowing a beautiful shofar?

(In a skit spoofing calling Sarah Palin for help a la Batman, with a moosehead-shaped skylight and the shofar sounding like a moose call.)