Along the route I have to take between Orange County Superior Court and my hotel is a little shop called Makom Shalom. Since I need to pick up mezuzahs for the house, I figured this would be a great place to stop in. Odd thing #1 is that this is in a run-down neighborhood in [...]
Why is Christmas more popular and beloved than Easter, even though in Christianity, Easter is the more significant holiday? Why do otherwise self-respecting agnostics and atheists buy trees and tinsel? The Christmas story is a beautiful myth, and it’s a myth about humanity. Easter is about the dying and rising god; important, but not as [...]
John Scalzi writes a cheerful and entertaining report about his long-promised visit to the Creation Museum. The take-away message: Even evolution-denying, Talmud-ignorant, metaphor-tone-deaf, pretzel-headed Christian literalists are forced to acknowledge and honor the utter coolness of dinosaurs. Share and Enjoy:
That’d be “happy new year” to our Gentile guests. This is an excellent time to send a Rabbi-Gram. Share and Enjoy:
I bought a food processor many years ago just so I wouldn’t have to prepare this by hand. (Dates are sticky.) This is kind of a Sephardic/New World mashup, adapted from a recipe in Nina Rousso’s The Passover Gourmet. Ashkenazic charoset is pretty bland stuff. I don’t even remember what the charoset I had growing [...]
While the rest of you are eating your chocolate bunnies and jellybeans and picking out pastel stuff to wear to the Egg Hunt, we’ll be talking about how our ancestors were slaves in Egypt, and were freed after our god visited plagues and death on our oppressors. Also, there will be lamb. Share and Enjoy:
Teresa Nielsen-Hayden has a most excellent proposal for bringing God back into the schools, after following the usual protocols…. Share and Enjoy: