THE DONKEY'S MOUTH

I am back in the blogosphere after a long hiatus. I now blog almost exclusively about ritual and litrugy over at LIVE from the lone star o...

Shvat 25, 5767 All names herein have been changed. My buddy Sunny is a senior in high school. He is one of my closest friends and we hang ou...

Shvat 23, 5767 My basic premise when it comes to tfilah: If you take a group of somewhat educated American Jews and educate them a few inche...

Shvat 17, 5767 Around this time every year, Congregation Beth Israel (my temple) brings in our Scholar-in-Residence for our annual Scholar-i...

10 Shvat, 5767 I think I may have come of age earlier this evening. My status as a Bar Mitzvah, a Confirmand, and a person who has spent fou...

9 Shvat, 5767 I changed the name. Again. My apologies. I just like this better. It may actually be a more recognizable reference too!

Shevat 8, 5767 On Thursday I took the bus from school down to Guadalupe and 38th, then walked to my now weekly Talmud study session with Rab...

Shvat 4, 5767 In the time between when I went to Israel and when I came back, one of the boys' bathrooms in particular has become far mo...

Shvat 3rd, 5767 MY RETURN TO THE BLOGOSPHERE Unless you are brand new to here, you may have noticed me rather proglonged absence from the bl...

The authoress of the blog which I mentioned earlier today has begun to publish a series of surveys about religion from a wide variety of Jew...

Who is my new favorite blogger? Laurel Snyder over at Faithhacker is. She posts some really great stuff that you should all read now. She a...

As previously mentioned, I have been to Gadna. It feels strange to say it now, but not only did I not hate being in the Israeli Army for fiv...

On Sunday I am going away again for almost a week. This time, it is to Gadna, an introduction the Israeli Army for teenagers. I'm scared...

Last night, upon reading the part of the my most recent post which discussed tzitzit, my roommate Eric, who wears them everyday, immediately...

Live from Israel: THE NEWS FROM TZUBA I have not written in quite some time and I hope to God that you have not all deserted me. Since I...

I don't like Yom Kipur . I have always failed to be moved by the fast and I have never met a YK service I liked. I won't go into too...

You've been waiting for it, I know. I've been working on this for many days now and finally, the longest post ever in the history of...

The following, as suggested by the title, is the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard. I like Coke. I like frozen Coke even more. Here ...

I'm not sure if this joke will work in written form. I've only heard it verbally. You'll have to say the punch line out loud to ...

MORNINGS I have become a morning person. I'm not sure when it happenened, but I'm going to guess somewhere withing the last week and...

I promise with God Almighty as my witness that I will post tomorrow. It is currently very late here and I am going to bed now. If there is n...

You like that title? Think maybe it sounds poetic? It's not. It's a Yiddish insult. I'll get to its meaning in a little bit. --...

We've been very busy the last few days. Hence, the lack of posting. I will return to posting as often as I can as soon as my current pil...

Sorry if that last post caused anyone alarm. I was not in a good way when I wrote that. I'm much better now, thanks mostly to my friend...

This is bad. I have been hurt. I have incflicted awfulness on other people. I have not yet had a Coke. This is not a good Shabbat so far. --...

The Hebrew word Hodu means thanksgiving. It also means turkey as in the animal, not the country. It also means India. Go figure. Therefore, ...

This was spawned by a trip today to a spot called Tel Gezer as well as some discussion point in my Jewish History class. Let's talk abou...