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November 2014

November 19, 2014

Adele Pisses off Musical Royalty

No, YOU missed five days of blogging for NaBloPoMo! Ermahgawd. Sorry, people. Anyhow, I wrote...

November 12, 2014

Jesus Goes to the Dentist.

Sometimes parents avoid their children's questions. There are myriad reasons for this phenomenon...fatigue, discomfort, lack...

November 10, 2014

An Apology to Street Harrassers

Dear Gentlemen, Please accept my apologies for overreacting to your innocent attempts to "be friendly" and to...

November 06, 2014

NotApologies 101

Teacher: Good evening, Class! Last week we learned about the anatomy of an...

November 04, 2014

Vote of No Confidence

I tend to walk out of the voting booth (or desk, now, as it...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Dreams of My Grandfather

This is the third post in an interfaith series on remembrance of ancestors. I've partnered with Yvonne Aburrow,...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Anti-Semitism – To Ignore or Not To Ignore

When Joan Rivers died a couple of weeks ago, one of my friends wrote a...

September 11, 2014

Is MSNBC Guilty of Tragedy Porn?

A friend posed the following question on Facebook. I was the first one to...

September 08, 2014

Color Me…Something

First, I saw this video posted on Facebook. And I tried really hard to...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

Sweet Baby Jesus Frog

So I took the youngest school supply shopping, and afterwards we went to Sweet Frog....

August 01, 2014

My Afternoon as a Hobby Lobby Sidewalk Counselor

Back in June, I was inspired by a Supreme Court decision to take up Sidewalk...

July 2014

July 03, 2014

My Morning as Viagra Sidewalk Counselor

Last Thursday, June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law that created...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

The Teacher Didn’t Do Her Homework

Well, THIS has been an interesting week...I recently published a snarky retort to Rabbi Shmuley...

May 13, 2014

A Rabbi Tells Me What I Want!

Rabbi Schmuley Boteach wrote an unfortunate essay published in the Huffington Post, entitled, "What Women...

May 05, 2014

Celebrating #Patheos5Years! Happy Birthday to Diversity and Conversation!

Ahhhh - I remember when Patheos was just a gleam in it's father's eye...no...no...that's not...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

This Week in Sexism…

Who doesn't love a sexism round-up? I know I do! I even love WRITING sexism...

April 17, 2014

Are Ukrainian Jews Political Pawns or Actual Targets?

As I sat in my kitchen, munching on matzah crack (chocolate-covered matzah, for the uninitiated)...

April 13, 2014

Invocation

As a Jew, I've sat through my share of interminable sermons. I've endured excruciatingly long...

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Mama Mika and Papa Joe

Here's how I imagine the conversation between Mika and Joe (of Morning Joe) and Governor...

February 05, 2014

Let Us Pray – Or Not

"...Prayer and I have a complicated relationship — I’m sure I’m not alone in this....

February 01, 2014

Guest Posting at LeftyPop!

In honor? keeping? line? with the upcoming Olympics, I've written about my favorite sport -...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

My Strange Reaction to “The Book Thief” (Spoiler Alerts, People)

I went to see “The Book Thief” with a friend a few weeks ago. I...

December 02, 2013

Happy ANYTHING, Okay?

I'm a little late with this post, as it's already the sixth night of Chanukkah....

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Jew-ish

Perfect!!! I thought of this about a month or so ago as a way to...

October 04, 2013

Why I’m Cheering for “Popular Science”

A little over a week ago, Popular Science published an article called "Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments." ...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

You Must Buy A Gun! Except, Not Really.

I learned by watching Bill Maher, that not one, but two towns in Georgia have...

September 21, 2013

Sympathy and Advice for the Now-Infamous “Mrs. Hall”

This was written in response to an open letter that circulated a few weeks ago,...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Modern Race Relations 101: A Primer for White People

Well before the Trayvon Martin verdict, I had seen, heard and read about white people dismissing the...

August 02, 2013

Balls of Steel (Trigger warning – Abortion)

A week or so ago, I saw this on the "Being Liberal" Facebook page, and...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

A White Girl and the “N” Word

When I was in elementary school in 1970's Brooklyn, NY (maybe third grade?) a kid...