by Rebecca Honig Friedman

-Salty femme shares a butternut squash, leek and potato soup recipe; gives us a heads up about submissions for a new feminist magazine, Make/Shift; and discusses the recent JAP debacle over at Jew School.
-Life in Israel does the biggest roundup we’ve ever seen. Yasher koach!
-Tashina Byrd, who was outrageously denied her right (her right as a consumer, that is) to buy the Plan B emergency contraceptive from a Walmart in January, has a blog, where she shares her version of the story.
-Feministing tells us about Colorado’s “first piece of pro-choice legislation since 1999.”
-Alas’s Ampersand calls attention to the Pope’s “non-negotiable” stance against the death penalty, which the media has ignored in the midst of the pope’s anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage statements. Guess death as an issue is just not in right now.
-Ayecha is dismayed at an anonymous anti-girl-baby-naming comment left on a RenReb post, and recalls that there were days not too long ago, evening in Conservative Judaism, when women did not have the right to full participation in religious life.
-Barefoot Jewess explains how teffilin were “thrust upon” her.
-Canonist points to “an interesting juxtaposition” of bug-inspecting for kashrut and egalitarianism in Orthodox Judaism.
-Iconia posts about a Jewess artist finding art in burnt pita toast. Personally, I prefer my art on seven-grain.
-For interested parties in Chicago, Maya Escobar will be performing an “interactive piece” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition.
-Chayyei Sarah links to her wedding-related articles in The NY Jewish Week.
-Danya draws us to the Open Source Hagaddah and encourages us to design our own Passover seders.
-Israelity reports that a psychic detective helped catch escaped Israeli serial rapist Benny Sela.
What do you think about that? Wait, don’t tell us…
-Jew School’s Mobius does his own mishegas round up.
-Jewlicious dishes on Leonardo DiCaprio’s visit to the Western Wall.
-JSpot offers some more insight into Rabbi Toba Spitzer, the new head of the Rabbinical Reconstructionist Federation.
And you know what else? They love us, they really love us!
-Orthomom gives a lawsuit update.
-The Yada Blog ties up some loose ends re: hot Jewish entertainers.
-Another new blog on the block, V’s blog.

Posted on March 16th, 2007 Filed under: Uncategorized |