*** IMPORTANT UPDATE *** After several emails back and forth with Elizabeth (Damomma), I am rewriting this post. She’d rather move on from this incident, and I don’t blame her one bit. While I think she and I have different views about this situation, I respect her desire to keep herself on the down-low, so … Continue reading
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Amy Meltzer Rocks
. . . and not just because she wrote lovely things about me. She is an amazing mom, educator, blogger and one serious Jew. She was kind enough to say that she considers me her “blogging Bubbe” and I am honored to carry that title. I have learned so much from Amy and I know … Continue reading
I Don’t Think This is What My Creative Writing Teacher Had in Mind
Limerick Discipline. Hey, at least I’m using brain cells :-)
Raising a Free-Range Kid
AMEN, sing it sister!
WTF????!!!!
<rant> How is that in 2009 we have people who believe the president of the United States is transmitting a “socialist propaganda” message to our children by telling them to stay in school? This is unbelievable to me. I did not agree with President Bush 75% of the time, I did not vote for him, … Continue reading
Parashat Behar (a bit late): Sabbatical and Ger V’toshav: a Guide for Parents
This is a few days late, but it is my thoughts on parashat Behar, which is in the book of Vayikra, Leviticus. This portion introduces the laws of shmita, or the agricultural Sabbatical year (the seventh year in a 7 year rotation). It also introduces the yovel, or Jubilee year (the 50th year in a … Continue reading
Monday’s Random Thoughts: parashat Behar, Why Don’t Parents Get a Sabbatical?, and Lag B’Omer Upsherin
Vayikra (Leviticus) Chapter 25 1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: 2 Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Lord. 3 Six years you may sow your field and six years you may … Continue reading
Preschool Theology, Part II
Overheard in the bath: my daughter Shayna, the daughter of very ideological Reform Jews, and her cousin Maia, daughter of my brother and sister-in-law, who are Orthodox (the girls are the same age – just a few months apart): Shayna: Maia, guess what? God lives in my pupik. Maia, very shocked: SHAYNA! THAT’S NOT TZNIUS … Continue reading
Preschool Theology
Shayna: “Mommy, I know where God lives.” Me: “Really? Where?” Shayna: “In my pupik [belly].” Me: “In your pupik?” Shayna: “Yes, Morah Julie told me God is everywhere and inside all of us.” Me: “Oh. Does God like it in there?” Shayna: “Yes, I eat very healthy.”
the Rebbetzin Rocks 