Mah Rabu has been nominated for the Jerusalem Post's 2005 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards in three categories: Best Jewish Religion Blog, Best New Blog 2005, and Best Post (for "Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism").
Voting is in progress!!! Vote early and often -- you're allowed to vote once every three days! Voting continues through January 19.
For those who are here for the first time, I haven't had time to post a lot recently, but here is a selection of relevant posts from this year, arranged by topic.
Contemporary American Judaism:
- Profile of an "Unaffiliated" Jew
- Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism
- Just talkin' 'bout my generation
- The wealth of nations
- Just crying out that he was framed / Count the frames / Count the frames: the answers!
- Move along, nothing to see here
- Guns, germs, and steel-string guitars
- Repairing Friday night
- Why don't we get together and call ourselves an Institute?
- Dar es Salaam
- The New Jew
- 770
- Da'as torah
Jewish holidays:
- Why I don't observe Yom Hashoah
- In life there are no second chances (Pesach Sheni)
- Why I don't observe Lag Ba'omer
- Rosh Chodesh Sivan
- Yom Meyuchas
- Why I don't observe the 2nd day of Shavuot
- Tisha B'Av
- Think fast! (Tzom Gedaliah)
- Idle thoughts on Yom Kippur
- Why I don't observe the 2nd day of Sukkot
- Why I don't observe Hoshanah Rabbah
- Eight days a week (Shemini Atzeret)
- Why I don't observe Simchat Torah
Talmud:
- On Bull____ (Rosh Hashanah 26a-b)
- Jubilee throng (Rosh Hashanah 26b-27a)
- No more, no less (Rosh Hashanah 27b-29a)
- We will return to you, the court saw it! (Rosh Hashanah 29a-30a)
- Roll over, Beethoven (Rosh Hashanah 30a-31b)
- Okay, starting with hamelech (Rosh Hashanah 31b-32b)
- Welcome to our Sho-ar (Rosh Hashanah 32b-33b)
- Hadran alach! (Rosh Hashanah 33b-end)
- Amen amen amen selah va'ed! (siyyum on Rosh Hashanah)
- Oh, the Ram Parts! Why a Ram's Horn?
- The whole megillah (Megillah 2a)
- You are likely to be eaten by a grue (Megillah 2b-3a)
- Tournament of champions (Megillah 3a-3b)
- Be my Yoko Ono (Megillah 3b-4a)
- Bowling alone (Megillah 4a-5a)
- Son pied sent il beau (Megillah 5a-6a)
- Chickenhawk feedlot (Megillah 6a-7a)
- Dry wit (Megillah 7a-b)
- Nothing in between (Megillah 7b-8b)
- Baby, you got the tzara'at (Megillah 8b-9b)
- Play it, Leo!!! (Megillah 9b-10b)
- When Esther first saw the Armenian man (Megillah 10b-11a)
- Walking and chewing gum (Makkot 2a-b)
- Wanna know what I'm buying, Ringo? (Makkot 2b-3a)
- Great expectations (Makkot 3a)
Judaism and physics:
Israel:
- Israel at 57: the geeky side
- Israel at 57: the political side
- Israel at 57: the religious side
- Israel at 57: the personal side
- Israel at 57: the culinary side
- Israel at 57: the political side vs the religious side
- Tomorrow I am a man? [Yom Yerushalayim]
- Shed a tear for Greenwich [disengagement]
- I will tell you how our people were once joyous [disengagement]
Good luck BZ, you have my vote.
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