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Added/edited later the same day: I reread this post and realized how negative in tone it was so I thought I should try to undo some of the crankiness. I didn’t really intend to come down so hard on the conservative movement, it’s just frustration surfacing.
The bottom line is that I am indeed grateful [...]

This week the Israelis and Palestinians began the process of restarting peace talks which have been stalled throughout the presidency of George W. Bush. For the first time in seven years, there is a process - however you see it - through which the parties will be attempting to figure out how to live [...]

Also posted at TamaraEden
Living within two worlds is a challenge that many modern Jews face. Lately I’ve been noticing that living an observant Jewish life, even at the level of my and my husband’s observance, can be an interesting game of push and pull.
A little background for newer readers and for those of you [...]

My rabbi is not a great scholar and he’d be the first to admit it. (Let me just say right off that he is no slouch either. He knows his way around the Torah, the Talmud, and the Shulchan Aruch well enough to guide me and the rest of his congregants pretty well.) He comes [...]

(Note: For those who’ve read this in the past half-hour, that is, between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. (CST), I added to the end!)
I stood in the copy room at work, where the mail and occasional, delicious goodies end up. Today was one of those days. That is, there were goodies.
I popped in to warm up [...]