Tonight, my 14 year old sister, after I had made both challah and sugar cookies: “Oh shit, can we eat bread?”
A few moments later, she explained the story of chanukah: Moses was making bread and didn’t have enough bread and he had to use oil instead, and then the electricity went out and instead of […]
Figure out linux. Quickly. I got the most important thing (web browser) to work, but I also would like to figure out why I can’t get some Perl modules to install (others work fine) and why some package installations just fail. Also I suspect that my file organisation sucks and I will soon run into […]
Apparently reasonable accommodations now mean that we need to say that gender equality is more important than religious freedom (except for Roman Catholics). Charest, in a desperate attempt to buoy support in the rural areas, is planning on tabling a motion to say that gender equality trumps religious freedom, which will mean — well, I […]
I haven’t really talked about the Herouxville story, because mostly I can’t be bothered to care. Like it’s a shock to anyone that Quebec is xenophobic mostly about religion.
But I read one article, which said:
“But now, a certain number of groups, mostly stemming from immigration, want their religion to be seen in open society. They […]
I have tried to hold back on this article. I just cannot.
December 25, the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, is a regular working day in the Jewish state and passes with little fanfare.
Well, the anniversary of the date assigned to the birth of Jesus.
While residents in Arab Christian areas such as Nazareth, Jesus’s […]
Is that it makes you hungry. Not 18 hours later, when it’s normal to be hungry. No, a few hours after dinner, when you’re not normally hungry, just because you know you can’t (or are choosing not to) eat.
This morning, I went to shul, for the first time in many years. I have long been disenchanted with the options here, and today has not re-enchanted me. I grew up in a compromise synagogue, a reconstructionist shul with a wannabe-conservative (or maybe conservadox) rabbi. Eventually my family drifted to the reform one here, the […]
Call me insensitive or whatever, but you really shouldn’t be davening on a plane. Really. There’s not much room, so you’re pissing off the people next to, in front of, and behind you with all the rocking. Or you’re taking up a bathroom, which is just rude. And the flight from Mtl to NYC, gate […]
Via Canadian Cynic, an article about a Rabbi who is trying to understand why atheists are so darn angry all the time! (As may or may not be known, I am a Jewish atheist..)
The first paragraph is mostly pointless, you could put anything in there for atheists. For example:
I think I need to understand theists […]
By reading the forums for House.
It’s interesting to me that Cameron professes to be an atheist but is the best Christian of the lot.
See, she’s not any kind of Christian, because she’s an atheist. I’m not sure what “professes to be” means in this context, but it seems to imply she’s lying about it. The […]