How Do You Jew

Category: Blogging

  • THIS is how you spend Shabbat?!

    Well, not normally, no.. er… wait a minute! Why am I making excuses? This is MY blog! Yeah, well, I decided long ago that Shabbat observance for me was not going to look like the traditional, Orthodox version. The key elements in the concept and point of Shabbat for me were the separation from the…

  • One-a-day, like vitamins.

    Thanks to my lovely wife‘s pointing it out to me, courtesy of our lovely friend Aaryn posting about it, I’ve joined in the madness that is National Blog Posting Month, affectionately known as NaBloPoMo. Perhaps this will prompt me to establish a regular posting schedule, which in turn will drive me closer to my ultimate…

  • Random thoughts

    I ought to be blogging more. edited to add: and I ought to fix/edit my sidebar contents. I had a productive day at work today, with a “third time’s a charm” situation regarding videotaping a presentation given by our esteemed young employer relations specialist and a rep from SDG&E. Then the day was made more…

  • Random Jewish media moment of the day.

    DVDDossier, which I never would have found were it not for Dave Zatz (and I have no idea how I found him), opens my eyes to this gem.

  • Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the soul.

    I’d like to consider Aaryn a good friend. She’s at least a permanent tenant in my blogroll, which is something, right? Anyway, she’s a brave, beautiful woman who consistently and repeatedly exposes herself to scrotu scrutiny in her blog and in a column in a local paper. In response to her latest, she received some…

  • Long time coming.

    I am a newbie to Metafilter, having heard of it but never visited until today, prompted by the interview with its founder, Matt Haughey, on BoingBoingBoing, the podcast from the folks at BoingBoing. So I added MeFi to my Google Reader collection, and scanned the home page for things to jump out at me. The…

  • Tuesday in Tel Aviv

    This morning, Michael J. Totten, writing in Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, mentions something I haven’t heard a whit about, which is exactly the point of the article. Meanwhile, the Opinion Editor in the Daily Aztec, Veronica Rollin, begs for an education by directly comparing the US campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Israel-Hezbollah war,…

  • The Bitter and the Sweet

    Life is conspiring against me at the moment and preventing regular updates (not an excuse, merely a statement of fact). But in the meantime, please take a moment to sweeten the day of some of my comrades in arms defending Israel: Send a chocolate bar and a greeting to IDF soldiers.

  • Run with it

    I recorded my first attempt at a podcast over the weekend, and wisely shared it only with my family, so I could get feedback and comments before making a complete fool of myself in front of countless other people. Well, OK, I also sent the link to a couple of other people, including Adam Curry,…

  • Did I mention that I’ll be podcasting soon?

    The idea for How Do You Jew originated as a podcast; it’s “limited” to a blog right now because of time constraints, but I have a moment to talk about how I turned in this direction and point to a piece I just found about why I’m so excited to be involved in this new…