Edition #10 is here. If you want to know who's hosting next week, or you want to volunteer in the future, email Soccer Dad at dhgerstman at hotmail dot com (put "VoV" or "Vanity of Vanities" in your subject line so he can tell it's not spam). (When I get the word on next week's host, I'll add it at the end of this post.)
I am ordering these by timestamp of emails submitting specific posts. When I sent out the invite, I wasn't sure how many submissions I would get, so I also told people they could just give me permission to browse through their blog and pick something I liked. Several people did take me up on that. I am going to put theirs at the end, though, in honor of the folks who did take the time to pick out a post and write a blurb for it.
Attila the Pillage Idiot asks Jewish Democrats: "When things on the Left are getting slowly, gradually worse for basic Jewish interests, like Israel, isn't it time to speak out?" Read more at Boiling the Frog.
In The Wandering Jew, Meryl Yourish catalogues the many ways in which the world doesn't like us. Except for America.
Jewish Current Issues took a picture of a mom's hug in an Atlanta courtroom and made it a moving illustration of a verse from Isaiah.
Steve Silver writes about Brandeis's recent football triumphs. (But that's not Jewish! But it's Brandeis - of course it's Jewish.)
Rishon Rishon writes about God (how many?), Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife. Whew!
Airforce Pundit says: "If you think you have some tough days, see what other Americans are going through now." For example, Corporal John Quinones:
He was home on leave from nineteen months in Iraq after six months in Afghanistan. He's 25 years old. He was in the reserves, but he signed up for the Regular Army after 9/11. "I wanted to go to war against those people," he said.The Velveteen Rabbi recently returned from a trip to India. Before she left, she revisited Rodger Kamenetz's The Jew in the Lotus, as a starting-point for exploring intersections between Judaism and Buddhism and contemplating how travel can enrich one's sense of where one's from. While exploring Bombay on foot, she got a tour of a Sefardic synagogue called Keneseth Eliyahoo.
His standard day involved working with a unit of the Iraqi National Guard to go out on patrols. He says the ones who believe in a free Iraq are among the bravest men he has ever worked with. "They don't even look for cover when the shooting starts," he says. "They just shoot it out until either they or the bad guys are dead." Out of the ten best ones in the unit, all ten have been murdered by the terrorists.
Tears came to his eyes when he told me that.
Norm Geras points out a breathtaking statement by an official in the Church of Scotland on how he can see nothing wrong with spreading an uncorroborated (in fact false) story about the Israeli army.
"Tom Paine" writes on the consequences of voting for antisemites.
Boker Tov Boulder! thinks that Israel's "Disengagement" Plan passing the Israeli Cabinet is very bad news.
It's Almost Supernatural takes us through a succession of roadmaps.
Think about it. . . the monstrous images captured over the past four years could rather have been sources of wonderment had Arafat just said "Yes".Soccer Dad has some thoughts on why the Syrian presence in Lebanon is not considered "occupation."
Paleojudaica comments from a historical and archaeological perspective on recent discussion of the Temple Mount by the new "monarchist" Sanhedrin and fundamentalist columnist Hal Lindsey.
Piled Higher and Deeper - the new blog by veteran Jewish blogger Geoff Meltzner - brings us "Border Serenade," which shows that even on the world's longest, fenceless border, musicians are asked to prove their ability . . . . no, it's not what you think.
Shiloh Musings applies some stories from Tanach to current events. (A lot of that going on lately.)
Mike Sanders writes about how our distractions inhibit us from actualizing our inherent greatness.
Shira is writing an excellent series on raising a child with multiple disabilities. Start here with #8, and click back through the "previous posts" in the sidebar for the whole series.
The Shaister on the life and death of Ofra Haza, whose yahrzeit was last week.
Out of Step Jew notes that Rabbi Shalom Carmy of YU has an interesting look at the famous and often misunderstood essay by Rav Soloveitchik on Jewish-Christian dialogue, "Confrontation."
David Bogner wants you to know about the new group blog at Israel21C. The roster of contributors includes several of your favorite Israeli bloggers.
Finally, Naomi Chana with a valentine for the Jewish blogosphere:
. . . I've been impressed and delighted by the civility with which Judeobloggers discuss the issues which divide us, the force with which we affirm the faith which unites us, the ways we take turns learning and teaching. And after a pleasant few days browsing through classical rabbinic texts, I think I'm safe in saying that Our Sages would be even more ridiculously proud than I am.UPDATE: Next Sunday's host is DovBear. That's March 6th. The week after that - March 13th - the host is Israpundit. Thank you, guys, for taking the ball and running with it.
. . . So, on the eve of the distinctly non-Jewish feast of St. Valentine, I figure I might as well express my appreciation for all the Jewish and Judaic bloggers out there. I did think about writing bad poetry for the occasion, but just because "blue" (as in "violets are") and "Jew" rhyme is no reason to subject y'all to that. I will simply wish you all the best, geekiest, Valentine's Day ever. If I could send you all chocolates (with assorted centers, so that we could argue over at what point one needs to bless ha-etz instead of just shehakol) I would. Since I can't, though, I vote we all do what we do best: go, learn, and (of course) comment.
I'll be over here with my study partner, a box of Godiva, and the Tosefta.
2 Comments:
You should add Solomonia to your list. He has interesting stuff I don't see elsewhere.
He was really busy this week and didn't have time to send me anything. :-(
I agree, he writes good stuff. But there's another Havel Havelim next week for those who couldn't make it this week.
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