Shabbat Dinner

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Tuesday March 01, 2011 · 12:49 PM PST

2011/03/01 · 12:49

Shabbat Shalom to you all!

March 4th is "Shabbat Across America", and my synagogue is taking part with services and a Shabbat dinner. In the past we've purchased the entire meal already prepared, which can cost up to $25 a person. In an effort to have a more affordable, home-made meal, I volunteered to plan and coordinate cooking the meal in our temple kitchen.

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Mazel Tov! Bar Mitzvahs and MLK

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 4:52 AM PST

2010/01/18 · 04:52

This past Saturday was our son's Bar Mitzvah. Of course, we are bursting with pride at how well he did at the ceremony, capping many months of study and practice!

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it literally means "son of the commandment". Interpretively, it means more like: "one who is obligated to observe the commandments".

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 4:50 AM PDT

2008/10/23 · 04:50

McCain's stump speeches emphasize "fighting". He's a "fighter" who "fights" for America. He encourages Americans to "stand up and fight" to "defend our country from its enemies".

I was bothered by his choice of words ever since I first heard them during the Republican convention. But hey, they're just words, right?

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 6:54 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 18:54

McCain's stump speeches emphasize "fighting". He's a "fighter" who "fights" for America. He encourages Americans to "stand up and fight" to "defend our country from its enemies".

I was bothered by his choice of words ever since I first heard them during the Republican convention. But they're just words, right?

mlecin

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 8:19 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 20:19

My mother, 74 years young, has a computer which she uses to manage her finances, send e-mail, read the New York Times on-line, and play Scrabble. She'll often forward me e-mails from her friends about PC viruses, cautionary tales about travelling alone at night, and inspirational "to my daughter" or "things my mother taught me" compositions. (I usually point her at Snopes.com for the first two.)

But lately, she's been forwarding me political propaganda.

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Sunday July 08, 2007 · 4:52 PM PDT

2007/07/08 · 16:52

Watching Live Earth yesterday, and picturing (hopefully) hundreds of thousands of other viewers all getting fired up to do something about global warming, was very inspiring.

The backdrop of the stage had informational messages scrolling by, and one of the most striking was this: "Globally, we use as many as 1 million new plastic bags every MINUTE at a cost of 2.2 billion gallons of oil a year." You could drive your car a mile with the petroleum used to make 14 grocery bags! And plastic isn't just filling up our landfills, it's also wreaking havoc on our oceans.

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Saturday April 08, 2006 · 7:52 PM PDT

2006/04/08 · 19:52

PBS (Channel 13) in New York is showing "All the President's Men" tonight. Can you believe it was released in 1976 - just 2 years after Nixon resigned?

Is there any chance that within 2 or 3 years there will be real public knowledge of what this administration has been up to with Iraq, lobbyists, cronyism (jeez, the list could go on and on), not to mention a movie about it?

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