Daily Archives: 10/29/2006

Carnival of the Cats #136

Carnival of the Cats #136 is celebrating Halloween with a spooktacular roundup brewed in the kettle over at Watermark, which based on the Poet’s excellent track record I’m thinking out to be the go-to place for all holiday editions at … Continue reading

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This week’s SNN is up

The Robert Spencer two-parter on Shire Network News is over, but the reports on Jew-hatred continue with tales of the anti-Semitism at UC-Irvine, also featured at CampusJ. UC-Irvine, where the president of the university said—yes, really—“One person’s hate speech is … Continue reading

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The rewards of teaching

Earlier this year, the first of my first class of fourth grade students began having their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. There’s a post sitting in the spike file of my thoughts from the first Bar Mitzvah, because I couldn’t get … Continue reading

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Good Israel news? Not sexy.

The AP sent out an article that describes a good dividend of the Hezbullah war, and it will probably not be running in your local paper. On Israeli border, a surprising optimism METULLA, Israel — For years, whenever Asher Greenberg … Continue reading

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Sunday smiles

Say hello to Peekaboo Gracie, all happy in her tissue-paper nest. (Tissue paper compliments of Sarah a.k.a. the Pumpkin Goddess.) She ate and ate and ate Saturday. It took a few hours for the steroids and anti-emetic to kick in, … Continue reading

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