I’ve been trying to avoid blog posts about Sarah Palin, who has dominated the content here for almost a week now, but The Web Guy sent me this gem from Jonathan Martin’s blog at Politico that was too good to pass up. It’s a reader email that takes aim at Palin’s community-organizing comment:
“Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.”
Shavuot is known for many things: the celebration of the beginning of the wheat harvest, Torah study and, perhaps most notably, eating dairy.
Personally, I have a special place in my heart for a miracle we will commemorate in a few days, during the holiday of Shavuot.
How an Ashkenazi Rabbi Is Fighting Assimilation Among Persian Jews by Spreading Jewish Joy
It’s not easy explaining the laws of the eruv to a non-Jew, or even to a non-observant Jew.
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