I call it a "food mood." I don't know what it is exactly - we've never consulted a doctor for a technical term - but there is something very real and disturbing that happens to my husband's blood sugar when he gets hungry. It makes him faint, dizzy, and downright iRrAtiONal. It runs in his family, and now it runs in mine. (Aren't genes the best?)
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February 19th, 2009
Disgusting As a Danish
On Thursday morning I woke up to find my danish - the one that was meant to be my breakfast danish - sitting at the top of the nearly-overflowing kitchen garbage can. My initial disappointment in seeing it there was quickly curbed by the fact that I knew I pretty much deserved it.
Continue reading Disgusting As a DanishJanuary 7th, 2009
Has Moshiach (the Messiah) Stood Us Up?
Dear Jew in the City-
I have read your blog many times and usually I enjoy it. I am very disturbed by one post in particular: Dirty, Money Grabbing, Parasitic Vermin. I am more disturbed by the passage from Deuteronomy than by the baseball loving Jew hater. As a Jew from Ukraine, I have seen this hell and the curse upon the Jewish people. I don't however see the lighter side as you seem to. If this is the infinite destiny of the Jewish people then there is no point to follow the laws and keep mitzvot. This curse may last forever even in your opinion. Even in Israel we have no peace. The waiting has become boring after over 3000 years. We have been stood up by our date and it's time to face the sad fact. He isn't coming. Having been stood up by men in the past, I'm familiar with the disappointment. You'll get over it and find another date. My mother told me not to expect too much from a man and not to expect him to save me from my life. Perhaps we expect too much from Moshiach and knowing that he will disappoint, he just decided its better to stand us up than disappoint us in the future?
T
Continue reading Has Moshiach (the Messiah) Stood Us Up?November 18th, 2008
Can my Orthodox neighbors be friends with me if I'm not Jewish?
Dear Jew in the City,
I live across the street from an Orthodox Jewish for family for 32 years. We have always gotten along and helped one another out. Can they be friends to anyone other than their religion?
We also are getting a lot of Syrian Jewish in our town (by the Jersey Shore) and they seem different. They seem not to look or acknowledge any of us. There seems to be a lack of respect and rudeness about them. Can you explain.
Thanks,
Hellen
PS - I love the U tube videos
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November 5th, 2008
Do Dates
Although I have not been formally diagnosed, I think it would be safe to say that I'm in nesting mode. For anyone who's never nested nor observed nesting firsthand, it looks something like this: Woman with large, protruding belly begins to exhibit erratic behavior. Said woman runs around her home frantically attempting to lift, move, and organize things she ought not be touching. In some cases power tools are used (or rather misused).
Continue reading Do DatesJuly 29th, 2008
I'm in an Upstate New York State of Mind
I have never successfully made an omelet in my life. Not even once. But it's not for lack of knowing how to cook - and no, I don't cook because Orthodox women are relegated to the kitchen. My husband and I both cook because we like to eat good food - but anyway, as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself, every attempted omelet in my life has always morphed into scrambled eggs because omelets require one ingredient that I've never been able to acquire....patience.
Continue reading I'm in an Upstate New York State of MindJuly 3rd, 2008
The Giving Geezer
Well, ladies and gentlemen - it's official. I'm old. Now despite the fact that forty is the new thirty, (which puts me at a mere eighteen and a half) it has recently come to my attention that I'm a granny, a fogey, a geeze. I'm not proud to admit it, but I'll tell you anyway: on Sunday I got sick from a kiddie ride at an amusement park.
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