The jeans that I wear almost every day don’t fit anymore. I was in denial for a while, but I’m past even discretely unbuttoning the top… now they need to be unzipped a bit to not hurt when I sit down. I wrote the entry “a little more babke” about a month and a half [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Update: A Little Less Babke
Posted in Food/Fitness, tagged diet, feminism, food, health on January 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
memory (looking for an end to mourning)
Posted in General, Poetry, tagged birthright, israel, memory, poem, song on January 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
bring us back to our home shaking and weeping bring us back with songs of joy bring us back to our land praying and dancing bring us back no longer alone we’re looking for a realist’s miracle we’re looking for peace of mind we’re looking for an end to mourning we’re looking with longing for [...]
Yiddish on Taglit-Birthright Israel
Posted in Yiddish, tagged birthright, israel, teaching, Yiddish on January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is the second year in a row that I led a conversational Yiddish class as a Shabbos workshop option for students participating in a Taglit-Birthright Israel: Hillel trip. Last year, about twenty students ultimately came–this year, it was four, plus my guard/medic. (Turns out he speaks Yiddish! My Hebrew is terrible, and his English [...]
15 Minutes
Posted in Food/Fitness, tagged 15 minutes, health, J. Alfred Prufrock, jump rope, jumprope on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Maybe you want to do yoga. Learn Hebrew, or French, or Yiddish, or Swahili. Maybe you want great abs, a great butt. You want to meditate, to release your mind, to concentrate on your breathing. Maybe you want to reflect and express gratitude at the end of your day; maybe you want to create affirmations [...]
