Life Reflections
Priorities priorities
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Life Reflections
Pavarotti Died at 71 leaving one small child. Chgo Trib story by Garrison Keillor on him. "That was his tragedy at the end. All that money and acclaim and a great career to look back on, but what he really wanted was 10 more years to see that kid grow up. Dear God, give us more time. The heart...
Thousands of Languages dying so learn hebrew
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Life Reflections
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Dying languages Researchers say many languages are dying By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - When every known speaker of the language Amurdag gets together, there's still no one to talk to. Native Australian Charlie Mungulda is the...
The end of hyphenated words but not the hyphen
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Life Reflections
Hyphenated words are gone News story just off the presses: About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. And...
Toward A Hopeful Judaism
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Life Reflections
Toward A Hopeful Judaism Rabbi Menachem Creditor Potholes are rarely celebrated. Their appearances in the road as I drove with my wife to the hospital for the birth of our first child were cause only for gripped belly and gritted teeth as my imagination translated each opening of the path into a...
Legacy and Family: A Hadran for Harry Potter
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Life Reflections
[note: this piece is deeply inspired by J.K. Rowling's final installment of the Harry Potter series. There will be no 'spoilers', but the emotionality of completing the book just now compels its own 'Hadran', its own traditional commitment to return and relearn its lessons.] Legacy and Family:...
