the laptop is dead. long live the laptop

my wonderful little buddy has finally kicked the bucket.  in that way where the AC adapter socket has melted and will not charge anymore - 3rd time it's happened.  we're going to see if there's anything that can be done for it, but in the meantime -

we'd like to welcome to the family our new wonderful and mighty desktop.  hello, love!  we couldn't afford you, but we couldn't afford not to get you. shmushy cute - cheeky monkey.

3 more weeks til drisha's over, and about 8 weeks til ESC is over.  yay for goodness and school eventually being over.  well, the semester at least.  OVERWORKED!  but loving it.

i mut finish my paper for American Cinema  - writing about Jmmy Stewart.  love the man, love his movies.

Yom ha'Atzmaut

For anyone looking for programming tomorrow night, my grandmother - who was born in Me'a She'arim and joined Lechi at the age of 14 - will be speaking at OZ (the following was subtly lifted off of their website):

 

118-24 West 95th Street
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 (8:30 PM)
Yom Ha'atzmaut Chagiga at OZ
Join other Young Professional as we Celebrate Israel's 58th Anniversary with Israeli Cuisine:
Shwarma, Drinks, Falafel, Live music, as well as a Special Guest Speaker.
$20 at the door

the life

we went to a lovely brit this morning.  wow, that sounds weird.  i mean, the cutting and crying baby - not so lovely.  but the families and speeches were.

anyhow, i decided i was very hungry and ate a lot of food.  and then came home and was so overwhelmed by all of my food consumption that i had to go to sleep.

so now i'm up, finishing work for my american cinema class that's due today, and pondering going back to bed.

not good.

must
not
sleep

in other news

In my inbox today:

Schedule for Modern Orthodoxy Conference In Scranton PA - June 13-15, 2006

June 13th 2006 Tuesday 10 AM Opening – Greetings
Alan Brill – Greetings and Vision of conference

10:30- 12:00
Religion of the post-War era
David Watt – Orthodox Jews in Protestant America: Modernity and Supersessionism
Kurt Anders Richardson - 'Beyond Modernism: Realist Orientations in the Neo-Orthodox Theologies of 20th Century Protestantism and Judaism'

Early lunch and check in

2:00- 2:55
Alan Brill – Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy
Marc Shapiro- response to Brill

3:00 – 4:30 Modern Orthodoxy and Philosophy
Avinoam Rosenak – Halahah and Meta-Halakhah in the writing of R. Eliezer Berkovits.
Hanoch ben Pazi-  The Internalization of Psychoanalytic Theory in Orthodox Thought

Coffee 4:30-4:45

Daniel Statman- "The Status of Morality in Modern Orthodox Thought."
Zach Braiterman-Berkovits' critique of Philosophy and Liberal Judaism

6:30-7:30 Supper

7:45 – 9:00 Popular Modern Orthodoxy and the study of history
Kimmy Caplan- "From a Bird's-eye View": Importing Rabbi Dr. Auerbach's (Oyerbakh)Orthodox Historiography to America.
Steven Fine – Modern Orthodoxy and the study of Classical Jewish History

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June 14th Wednesday
9:30- 11:15
Jonathan Sarna- The break between Conservative and Orthodox in America
Two respondents: - Marc Shapiro and Benny Brown

11:30 – 2:00 pm
Religious Zionism in America
Yehudah Mirsky- The world of S. K. Mirsky, Religious Zionist
Moshe Sokolow- The educational Philosophy of Hirschenson and religious Zionism
Shai Held – The Modernity of Shimon Federbush
Larry Kaplan- What is Judaism? The introductions of Eliezer Berkovits, Isadore Epstein, and Aron Barth


Lunch

3:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Modern Orthodoxy in Israel

Benjamin Brown- "Three 20th Century Jewish Political Theologies: Torah State, Halakhic Democracy and Da'at Torah".
Arye Edrei- The Halakhic thought of R. Shlomo Goren
Ariel Pickard "Rabbi Ovadya Yosef, from Jerusalem to Cairo and back - Sociology and Halakhic policy."

6:15- 8pm Supper

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June 15th Thursday

9:15- 10:45
Miri Freud-Kandel- Anglo-Jewish Orthodoxy in Transition: 1960-1970
Alan Yuter- The halakhic approach of Rabbi Emmanuel Rackman
Respondent – David Singer

11:00- 1:00
David Landes- The Birth of the Modern Orthodox Clinic: Modernity and Medicine
Adam Ferziger- "Modern Orthodoxy and the Soviet Jewry Movement"
Josh Teplitsky –Modern Orthodoxy and the Vietnam War

1:00-2:00
Panel and Roundtable
wrap up and prospectus for the future work.

2:15 pm lunch

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and then on the JCC website:

A Conference on the Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy, 1935–1975 Some of the most important scholars of modern Jewish history will be gathering for a three day conference (June 13–15) at the University of Scranton to explore the major influences on the emergence of Modern Orthodoxy. Edah and the JCC are pleased to present a half day sampler of the Scranton Conference. A plenary session on “The Struggle over a Jewish State in the Land of Israel” will feature Dr. Adam Ferziger, Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Brown and Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Mirsky; and one on “The Attitude Towards Rabbinic Authority” will include Dr. Chaim Waxman, Dr. Marc Shapiro and Dr. Avinoam Rozenack. Leading breakout sessions will be Dr. Alan Brill, Rabbi Dr. Adam Ferziger, and Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Brown. For further information, check out www.edah.org.
Sun, Jun 18 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	$20.00 - Member $25.00 - Non-Member JLECON00S6
Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.)
For more information, or to register, please call 646-505-5708.

This closed down the Bronx

so tired!

I am so tired -

tired from not sleeping
tired of not sleeping
tired of waiting
tired of being bored
tired being kicked
tired of not being kicked

let's pretend that Pesach will be vacation time

iraq

i have a friend shipping off in a week -

things to think about