Never put honey in your bedtime tea
Nov. 5th, 2004 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leftyjewI had two cups of jasmine (read: No caffeine) tea last night before bed at 10:30. I added lots of honey. Then I lay in bed from 10:30 until 5:37+ trying to fall asleep. I went to bed early because I need to leave work before 4 so I can be home for shabbas at 4:46. This means I had to wake up at 6:45 at the latest. And I did it, too! And no dawdling - straight to the shower and out. w00t! but anyway, that means I'm exhausted.
I did, however, get to read about 100 pages of my new book, Shiksa. Entertaining read, but frustratingly anti-Ortho and I don't know if the author really gets observant Judaism (she's a Reform or Reconstructionist convert. I only say convert because her name is Christine, and she makes a big deal over her conversion). It's sad that she discredits herself on page 17 by saying that Ezra, Nehemiah, and II Kings are all books of the Torah... Also funny that she cites Rabbi Toby Manewith whom she refers to as the director of Jewish education at GW's Hillel (or something like that). Ok. She was there for one academic year. In a temporary position. She left in May 2003 as expected. The editors should really check up on these kinda things. Anyway, now I'm up to the whole matrilineal descent issue and apparently, the Reform movement is mainstream Judaism and Orthodox Judaism "purports" to follow halakha. The book does give a good representation of the archetypes of gentile women. The one it missed is the convert, but that one's got a whole chapter devoted to her, so no worries.
A joke from the book:
A secular Jew is told over and over by his parents, "Don't marry a shiksa - it'll be nothing but trouble." So he goes to college, meets a gentile girl who falls in love with him and Judaism and they get married on a Sunday. After thinking a while and swallowing their pride, the parents call Friday evening after the wedding. "We just wanted to congratulate you." "Thanks, Mom, Dad, but I can't talk for long. The sun's starting to set and I want to observe Shabbas with my wife." "Oy! See, what'd we tell you? Shiksas are nothing but trouble!"
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I did, however, get to read about 100 pages of my new book, Shiksa. Entertaining read, but frustratingly anti-Ortho and I don't know if the author really gets observant Judaism (she's a Reform or Reconstructionist convert. I only say convert because her name is Christine, and she makes a big deal over her conversion). It's sad that she discredits herself on page 17 by saying that Ezra, Nehemiah, and II Kings are all books of the Torah... Also funny that she cites Rabbi Toby Manewith whom she refers to as the director of Jewish education at GW's Hillel (or something like that). Ok. She was there for one academic year. In a temporary position. She left in May 2003 as expected. The editors should really check up on these kinda things. Anyway, now I'm up to the whole matrilineal descent issue and apparently, the Reform movement is mainstream Judaism and Orthodox Judaism "purports" to follow halakha. The book does give a good representation of the archetypes of gentile women. The one it missed is the convert, but that one's got a whole chapter devoted to her, so no worries.
A joke from the book:
A secular Jew is told over and over by his parents, "Don't marry a shiksa - it'll be nothing but trouble." So he goes to college, meets a gentile girl who falls in love with him and Judaism and they get married on a Sunday. After thinking a while and swallowing their pride, the parents call Friday evening after the wedding. "We just wanted to congratulate you." "Thanks, Mom, Dad, but I can't talk for long. The sun's starting to set and I want to observe Shabbas with my wife." "Oy! See, what'd we tell you? Shiksas are nothing but trouble!"
(part x-posted to
jewishbookclub)
