Guest Post by Lizzi Jill Honeyrose Heydemann
eli’s note: I just posted about PresenTense’s online debates, the first of which is on the eternal Jewish food question: latke or hamentaschen. Here is one person’s take on the matter.
The Debate that Really Matters
I arrive 45 minutes early, and the line is already out the front door, around the block and halfway down the street. This seems highly irregular. I’m at the University of Chicago, after all, a place whose general agoraphobia is captured by mottoes like, “The U of C: Where fun comes to die,” and “That’s all well and good in practice, but what about in theory?” It is fricken’ cold outside on this November 25th eve, and pretty close to finals. What Hillel event could possibly attract such a wide and diverse audience– undergrads, business, law and medical students, Jews and non-Jews, community folk and random locals– and have them waiting out in the cold for an hour before the event?
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Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving… I’m over it already. How about a little Hanukkah versus Purim?
PresenTense Magazine—a collaboration of people working together from all over the world to explore Jewish creativity—is taking a step forward technologically with the launching of its online debates (which will be about issues covered in the magazine). At the same time, with its upcoming issue, PT is grounding itself in the most basic of subjects: food.
So, the first online PT Debate is, of course: the latke or the hamentaschen?
Visit the PresenTense Debates site to add your comments, and subscribe or order their Food Issue in mid-January here.
And of course, happy Thanksgiving!
I always describe Bamba as “Israel’s Cheetos, with peanut butter instead of cheese.” I can’t translate the line at the top of this Bamba package–help?–but it does refer to the States and the election. An aleph and vav have been added to the name of the product, turning it from Bamba into Obamba. Just thought I’d share.
(Can someone in Israel tell me if this is for real, and if they’re available in multiple flavors?)shabbat shalom
Vassar’s chapter of Challah for Hunger makes a new a flavor of the week every week, in addition to their regular offerings, plain and chocolate chip. In the past, they’ve done garlic Parmesan challah, “Challahween” challah with various candies stuffed into the dough, parley+sage+rosemary+thyme (minus the parsley) challah. (To send them suggestions, email vassar@challahforhunger.org).
This week they went all patriotic, with “Yes we challah!” challah.
(Sorry for the blurry, phone camera photo.)
And for your reading pleasure, haikus from Pomona Challah for Hunger:
Challah for Hunger? No, haikus for hunger.
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“If there be magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” - scientist Loren Eisley.
I’ve always wondered why there was no special bracha (blessing) in Jewish tradition for water. Water is the source of life, I thought. As Eisley says, “Water…its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future.” Water is magic. So where is its special blessing?
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