My son has fallen in love with baseball. He played on a team for the first time this fall. He loved it so much that he decided not to play soccer but to do fall baseball. Baseball sounded good because it was local and soccer required traveling up to 2 hours away.
This baseball idea is all [...]
Archive for June, 2009
What to do about baseball?
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Tradition and customs, tagged children, halacha, parents and children, rules, shabbat on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seriously, what century do they live in?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anti-Semitism, jews and money, steriotypes, to jew me on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know it’s naive to expect something different from a guy living in 2009 in Canada but I can’t help it! I was so surprised to find the guy in this craigslist ad use the saying, “to jew me.”
Here it is!
What I love most about being Jewish: #6 (counting down)
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Spirituality, Tradition and customs, tagged being Jewish, countdown, judaism, mundane and holy, what i love about being jewish on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aharon, in a comment on my #7 in this countdown, brought up an amazing thing to love about being Jewish and I love it enough that it’s my number six in my countdown.
We are supposed to be part of this world, not remove ourselves. The point is to raise up the mundane and make it [...]
What I love most about being Jewish: VI
Posted in Holidays, Michael T. Pullen, tagged jewish, jewish holidays, Succoth, top 10 things about being jewish on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Succoth.
This is got to be one of the best holidays ever. First, it is in the fall. What is better than fall in New England. Second, you build and decorate a Succah. What is more fabulous then the physical act of doing a ritual? It is like a long meditation on the fragility of life [...]
What I love about being Jewish: Sette
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Tradition and customs, tagged drink, Food, top 10 things about being jewish on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Food and drink.
Curried sweet potato latkes from New Orlean’s Jews, hummus and falafel sandwiches NYC style, bagels and cream cheese with a fresh tomato anytime in August, and of course chicken matzahball soup cooked by the best soup cooker in the world – my wife.
What could be better? Everytime Jewish people get together there is [...]
What I love about being Jewish: Hachi
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Tradition and customs, tagged different, jewish, special, top 10 things about being jewish on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being different and special.
I do not like being the same. I have never liked it as far as I remember.
I knew a guy in college, a Brit, who’s self-described goal was to be average, to never stick out. Mind you he would go out at night in New England wearing an ascot – as if [...]
Nueve: What I love about being Jewish
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Tradition and customs, tagged being, jewish, top 10 things about being jewish on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Studying and learning.
Learning, wrestling and growing at no matter what age you are is fantastic. I love how learning is expected all of the time. If you are not working you should be studying. There is always something new to learn even if you are 120.
Hopefully I can keep studying and learning for a long [...]
What I love most about being Jewish: #8 (counting down)
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Humour, tagged 10 things i love about being jewish, being Jewish, jewish, jewish food on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, thanks to a friend of mine, I have a #8!
The food! I do love our food. Yum.
Thanks Elizabeth.
