why would you bother?

i don't know if this is general knowledge, but when people post things to blogs, the person who runs the blog can see the IP from which each post was made.  Which means that when someone posts to the blog board pretending to me, not only is it silly but i know who did it.  so, keeping this as friendly as possible seeing as i barely slept last night, let's review the rules for using this blog:

1. don't troll
2. don't post comments under someone else's name
3. if you post comments under someone else's name in the future, i will replace the post with your IP address

i'm going to delete the offending post from the blog board and call this settled for now.

anyone else here ever work at JCC camp?

Wherever you go there's always someone Jewish

Wherever you go there's always someone Jewish
You're never alone when you say you're a Jew
So when you're not home
And you're somewhere kind of 'newish'
The odds are--don't look far--
'Cause they're Jewish, too.

Some Jews live in tents and some live in pagodas
And some Jews pay rent 'cause the city's not free
Some Jews live on farms in the hills of Minnesota
And some Jews wear no shoes and sleep by the sea.

Amsterdam, Disneyland, Tel-Aviv---
Oh, they're miles apart
But when we light the candles on Sabbath eve
We share in the prayer in each one of our hearts

And some Jews wear hats
And some Jews wear sombreros
And some wear k'fiahs to keep out the sun
Some Jews live on rice, and some live on potatoes
Or waffles, felafels, or hamburger buns.

Amsterdam, Disneyland, Tel-Aviv---
Oh, they're miles apart
But when we light the candles on Sabbath eve
We share in the prayer in each one of our hearts.

Wherever you go there's always someone Jewish
You're never alone when you say you're a Jew
So when you're not home
And you're somewhere kind of 'newish'
The odds are--don't look far--
'Cause they're Jewish, too.
The odds are--don't look far---
They're Jews just like you.

not to be beaten by the following brilliant work:
HaMotzi LeHem Min HaAretz, we give thanks to God for bread.  Our voices join in song together as our daily prayer is said: Baruh Ata Adonai Elokainu Melech Haolam, HaMotzi Lehem Min HaAretz, Amen!

you need to hear it sung to appreciate the beauty of it...

mr. wendal

speaking of songs, i'm not sure that as a kid i fully realized the meaning of arrested development's mr. wendal.  i mean, i got that it was about homeless people, and their worth as human, but the song resonates more now as i look back.

Bobby Darin in my head

Somewhere beyond the sea
      Somewhere waitin’ for me
      My lover stands on golden sands
      And watches the ships that go sailin’.
 
      Somewhere beyond the sea
      She's there watchin’ for me
      If I could fly like birds on high
      Then straight to her arms I’d go sailin’.
    
      It's far beyond the stars
      It's near beyond the moon
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon.
 
      We'll meet beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      I know beyond a doubt
      My heart will lead me there soon
      We'll meet … I know we'll meet … beyond the shore
      We'll kiss just as before.
 
      Happy we'll be beyond the sea
      And never again I'll go sailin'.
 
      No more sailin' …
      So long sailin' …
      Bye, bye sailin'...
      Move on out, captain …
      So long, ensign …

about damn time

War of the Worlds / Tom Cruise Boycott

*sigh*

law and order svu is too good.  every so often i need to stop watching it because it's so overwhelming.

i seem to have a thing for darkness -
Veronica Mars
CSI
CSI Miami
Without a Trace
Law and Order SVU
LaO Trial by Jury

i was into Rescue Me for a while but now that we no longer have FX it's hard to catxh up on - TWoP's recaps are too confusing when you haven't seen the ep (i.e. for familiarity with the characters).

used to be into Nip/Tuck, but it got to be too weird and too gross.

Although i can also spend many a happy hour watching golden girls, who's the boss, yes dear, king of queens...

today i watched hunter, which i dimly recall from my childhood. good stuff.

and we catch jeopardy and wheel of forture every so often to prove just how smart we are, although nothing is as good as watching win ben stein 's money to realize how little we know.

i enjoy being a girl

there's one thing i hate above all others as regards being a Jewish woman - we're not really taught what is Halacha versus what is Chumra.

i remmeber as a kid i was at my aunt's house and she was eating tuna fish and egg salad.  i suggested that she compliment it with cottage cheese.  she looked at m in horror and said "you can't eat milk with fish!"

i was so embarrassed.  i had no idea that i'd been over this my whole life, that my parents didn't know!

i did my daughterly duty and told my mother.  she laughed for a second, then told me that it's a chassidishe chumra.

this has stuck with me for years.  the certainty in my aunt's voice as she declared what she thought was Halacha.  the dread in my mind.

years later this was mirrored for me in a much sadder way.  a relative of mine had been raised not talking to boys, and decided that she wanted to start hanging out with them.  apparently her mother had taught her that talking to them was as much of a Halachic problem as touching around with them.  so guess what?  within days of talking to them, she was fooling around as well.  i called her and tried to explain that she could befriedn guys and still maintain negiah laws, but the point was lost on her.

i worry about having kids, about raising daughters.  i'm scared to undereducate them and leave them vulnerable to a world that would rather saddle them with chumra than deal with the ramifications of a simple Halachic life.  i'm scared to overeducate and have them stand out from the crowd, mocked and ridiculed by others for their knowledge.

please tell me that there's another choice?