So yes and yes

Limmud was good. I’m back at school now. I changed the name of the blog. More on all of the above later

Gregorian year in review

In an ideal world, the first day of January would be meaningless to me. In an ideal world, I would have a hard time remembering what order the Gregorian months go in. Instead, the first of January is an important date year in and year out and I can’t for the life of me remember [...]

The paleo-future of religion

The blog Paleo-Future is an ongoing catalog of what people in the past thought the future would like. Today, Paleo-Future reports on a 1980 theologian’s concpetion of what the future of religion will look like. His idea is that relgion will become commoditized. Unlike most posts on Paleo-Future, this prediction is not laughable, but may be increasingly true.

HD on Yes

This is just too good.
A post of substance tomorrow.

More press for Drew’s study abroad problem

The above picture, which I find laughably unflattering, features (left) Drew’ Chief Communications Officer, Dave Muha, and (right) College of Liberal Arts Dean Paolo Cucchi. This picture accompanied the New Jersey Jewish News story about Drew’s ongoing problem with study abroad in Israel, about which I have reported here extensively already.
New information: Muha told me [...]

Lone Star Sidur Project – Kadish

Today’s examination of the four forms of Kadish and their place and purpose in the service is a departure of sorts from the norm for a Lone Star Sidur Project post. I say this because I’m not offering the text of any form of Kadish because I won’t be referring heavily to the content of [...]

104!

Thank you everyone for reading.
The blog had 104 hits today!

More on the Drew/Israel situation

See the previous post for more on this story as well as links to my previous posts about this.
Lara Portnoy, student member of the committee tasked with re-inventing the rule preventing [EDIT: Name removed as requested] from studying in Israel, a Yid herself and President of MESA (Middle-Eastern Student Association), has sent me a [...]

New Banner for Mark

I have just created a new banner picture for one of my fellow bloggers, Mark Swick. Check it and his blog out here.

Ponder my stats!

According to WordPress’ built-in stats feature:
Today is one of my best days ever with 56 page views so far. My record-holding day had59 page views.
Last week was one of my two best weeks ever with 267 page views. Two weeks previous was the record-holding week with 294.
October was my best month so far with [...]