http://iconia.canonist.com/2007/03/10/painting-of-the-week-chagall/ Wherever faith meets art. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://iconia.canonist.com/2007/03/10/painting-of-the-week-chagall/#comment-959 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:51:13 +0000 http://iconia.canonist.com/2007/03/10/painting-of-the-week-chagall/#comment-959 [...] -Announcing a new J-blog: Judean Eve, written by Eve Harow, a mother of seven living in Efrat and doing PR work on behalf of Israel, is meant to “put a human face on the settlers” and “combines life with hopefully a salient point or two about the mess we’re in,” Harow explained in an email to Jewess. -SephardiLady discusses the excessive spending and displays of materialism at weddings and, in a separate post, the possibility that the Orthodox world won’t really address problems of sexual abuse until a lawsuit threatens financial trouble to a frum institution. -Failed Messiah explores “uncomfortable” halachic sources on spousal abuse, with the disclaimer that in this day and age it is definitely NOT OK to beat your wife. Thanks. That’s reassuring. -Abacaxi Mamao shares the stats on sibling abuse. -On the Face blogs about Jobnik!, a comic book series by art-student Miriam Libicki about “her experience as an army clerk on an IDF base in the Negev.” -Canonist rounds up the latest on the Orthomom lawsuit. -Happy belated birthday to Iconia’s Menachem Wecker, our arty brother in the Canonist network, and thanks for alerting us to some Christians’ beef with Sarah Silverman. They don’t approve of Jewesses sleeping with God or something. -Danya Ruttenberg posts an article about Iranian women who were arrested for staging a peaceful protest and are now staging a hunger strike in jail. -DovBear recounts an Atlantic Monthly review of a book comparing turn-of-the-century (19th to the 20th) college women to contemporary ones. Seems the freshman-fifteen and lesbian-phase phenomena date back to over a hundred years ago. -Israelity revels in designer Alexandre Herchcovitch’s “shmatte fashion,” and notes a misguided Bnei Akiva ad campaign. -Lilith’s blog asks, What does Jewish feminist humor look like? -On Jspot, Rabbi Jill Jacobs discusses the connection and the gap between Purim and Pesach, “the constant dance, in which we sometimes encounter clear indications of God’s presence, and sometimes find the divine presence entirely hidden from us.” -Velveteen Rabbi’s Rachel Barenblat introduces herself to those at the SXSW festival, but also useful to others who may be new to the V.R. -Jewschool thinks Jewess kicks ass! Seriously, I think I’m going to cry… (tears of joy)… [...] […] -Announcing a new J-blog: Judean Eve, written by Eve Harow, a mother of seven living in Efrat and doing PR work on behalf of Israel, is meant to “put a human face on the settlers” and “combines life with hopefully a salient point or two about the mess we’re in,” Harow explained in an email to Jewess. -SephardiLady discusses the excessive spending and displays of materialism at weddings and, in a separate post, the possibility that the Orthodox world won’t really address problems of sexual abuse until a lawsuit threatens financial trouble to a frum institution. -Failed Messiah explores “uncomfortable” halachic sources on spousal abuse, with the disclaimer that in this day and age it is definitely NOT OK to beat your wife. Thanks. That’s reassuring. -Abacaxi Mamao shares the stats on sibling abuse. -On the Face blogs about Jobnik!, a comic book series by art-student Miriam Libicki about “her experience as an army clerk on an IDF base in the Negev.” -Canonist rounds up the latest on the Orthomom lawsuit. -Happy belated birthday to Iconia’s Menachem Wecker, our arty brother in the Canonist network, and thanks for alerting us to some Christians’ beef with Sarah Silverman. They don’t approve of Jewesses sleeping with God or something. -Danya Ruttenberg posts an article about Iranian women who were arrested for staging a peaceful protest and are now staging a hunger strike in jail. -DovBear recounts an Atlantic Monthly review of a book comparing turn-of-the-century (19th to the 20th) college women to contemporary ones. Seems the freshman-fifteen and lesbian-phase phenomena date back to over a hundred years ago. -Israelity revels in designer Alexandre Herchcovitch’s “shmatte fashion,” and notes a misguided Bnei Akiva ad campaign. -Lilith’s blog asks, What does Jewish feminist humor look like? -On Jspot, Rabbi Jill Jacobs discusses the connection and the gap between Purim and Pesach, “the constant dance, in which we sometimes encounter clear indications of God’s presence, and sometimes find the divine presence entirely hidden from us.” -Velveteen Rabbi’s Rachel Barenblat introduces herself to those at the SXSW festival, but also useful to others who may be new to the V.R. -Jewschool thinks Jewess kicks ass! Seriously, I think I’m going to cry… (tears of joy)… […]

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