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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BZ - your comments in your 'unaffiliated' post are so spot-on it is scary. I shared it w/my husband and the two of us are trying to think of how we address these issues. In NYC it is easier in terms of sheer numbers of Jews, but also available resources. Thank you for your insights. Shabbat Shalom!
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