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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Another anniversary. Oops! While I was busy with other things, my 2nd year blog anniversary came and went. I joined Kesher Talk, already a fairly respected Jewish blog, on August 9, 2002, which also happened to be the first day of Ellul. So in the Hebrew calendar I am only one day late, since this year Ellul began yesterday.

In that first post I wrote about why I started blogging, going to minyan that morning, and the significance of Ellul.

Here's what I wrote on my 1st anniversary last summer. I summed up the momentous year just past, with lots of links to previous posts which I felt were highlights of the first year.

Here's what I wrote on the first of Ellul last year. The wonderful explication of Psalm 27 has moved to a different URL. I still highly recommend it. According to this spiritual exercise using Psalm 27 as a guide, the theme of Week One is Responsibility.

Since we're on the subject of daily davening, Naomi Chana of the wonderful blog Baraita is writing a series of reflections on the experience of daily davening and her interactions with the prayers. Naomi's writing is always a heady mix of - as she puts it - "academic, religious, and pop-cultural esoterica since 2001. With citations." And funny too. So if you are curious about what one raised-Reform mixed-religious-heritage young feminist post-modern humanities professor - who likes to sing, leyn, study Talmud, and whodavens in local shuls of all denominations - thinks about our traditional liturgy, dive in.

PS In this very funny post from last fall Naomi describes herself as a "feminist mitnagid."

posted by Judith @ 8/19/2004 09:23:45 AM 0 comments links to this post  

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Imperialist Running Dog Lackeys of the Capitalist Ruling Classes can do street theater too, you know. Communists for Kerry know that only John Kerry can help bring about an Internationalist Worker's State, unlike that Imperialist Capitalist Pig George Bush. So on Saturday, CFK fanned out into Union Square, to promote the Glorious People's Revolution to the moonbats who usually gather there. (For example, on weekdays there's a clump of East Village hippie anarchist types with a huge banner calling for US troops to mutiny.)

Lots of great pix!

PS CFK is loosely affiliated with Protest Warriors, who pulled off an equally enjoyable counter-protest last month in San Francisco. Same strategy, different tactics.

posted by Judith @ 8/18/2004 04:36:15 PM 0 comments links to this post