118.02/ Lotsa upsets in the #MLBPostseason & sore losers calling to change the new playoff format. Look, this is the key to win a championship in US sports: be good enough to get into the playoffs & then be as healthy as possible and "hot" when in them. That's the secret.
118.03/ Had old friends visit last night, both PhDs, and it was lovely but posed one the downsides of academic households: when I checked on the younger kids - 13, 13, 11 & 9 - they, no joke, asked me to moderate their discussion of the trolley problem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_p…
118.04/ What stunts like this to for me - someone who could be sympathetic to their cause - is put them in the PETA category of "dangerously unreasonable fanatics who probably hate me & are OK with violence." That may be their goal, but I doubt it. nytimes.com/2022/10/14/art…
118.05/ Thank God my family and I were able to get our #BiValentBooster vaccine shot today! Thank God we live in a place with access and that these miracle drugs exist. Got the flu shot too, so now I have a good excuse to not shlep a heavy Sefer Torah around for hours (heh)
118.06/ "Surely there will be no downside to eating another piece of babka, right?": A Yuntif Story
118.08/ I needed to reference this @Calvinn_Hobbes cartoon about the nonsensical "gendering" of language that, thank God, is nearly absent in English. I apply this satirical point to many areas in language and modern life.
(Posting both the full strip & the key panel separately)
118.09/ Just kvelling for a moment about the fun of sports in October. I have my #NYR at 7:00pm, the baseball playoffs at 7:37 and a football game at 8:15. Part of the fun is switching from channel to channel.
118.12/ I knew I forgot something! #NachasAlert: my son has an article in this week's parsha sheet for his High School (he's a shadow editor, too) parshasheets.com/newsletter/bko…
118.13/ This doubling of a thread request will probably crash the system but them's the breaks.
192.02/ So today is #ZayinAdar and Saint Patrick's Day during Ramadan. What could go wrong?
192.03/ There's a resonance in having a fast that commemorates a community sacrifice for soldiers fighting a defensive war against raging antisemites. #TaanitEsther
191.02/ Last #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of the season. How to top last week, and with a movie my youngest hasn't seen yet? "Fletch (1985)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(f…
191.03/ I agree with Prof. Simkovich, re: the Oscar guy.
Also, I see people wrestling to make sense of his convoluted phrasing, but I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a declaration that inherently refuses to give others the same benefit.
190.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues, 2 weeks left before we change the clocks so climbing to the finale. It's "Raising Arizona (1987)" night! I don't need to explain how great it is, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_A…
190.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayakhel #Pekudei 5783 (last year; this year it's Vayakhel-Shekalim)
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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women on the parsha and other weekly Torah. drive.google.com/file/d/1FLeFk2…
189.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight, the sequel to Knives Out: "Glass Onion (2022)." Both movies are great and this one has one of the best portrayals of the vibe of the pandemic/2020. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Oni…
189.03/ Watching the Mets preseason game, listening to Gary and Ron in the booth... that's the first sign of Spring in my house. What a joy. #LGM
188.02/ #MotzeiShabbasMovieNight this week was "The Freshman (1990)" - a very underrated comedy - because my oldest was home for Shabbas and he is a first year in college. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh…
188.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Tetzaveh 5783 (last year) (#Zachor & #Purim in there as well).
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Downloadable PDF with working links of shiurim by Orthodox women on the parsha and other Torah of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/165ZPnh…
187.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues: Spiderverse 2 (I refuse to learn the minor variations of the titles they apply to all the Spiderman movies just to annoy me) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ma…
187.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Mishpatim 5784 (A few days late; please don't sue, it was my ox's fault)
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Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. drive.google.com/file/d/1O-XNKM…