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  1. Jeer at them

    http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2008/06/jeer-at-them

    Yochanan Lavie, who regularly reads and comments over at failedmessiah.com, recently shared this poem inspired in general by the sickness and evil near the root of Aaron Rubashkin’s animal slaughtering and meat processing factory in Postville, Iowa, and specifically by Rubashkin’s use of PR flacks, paid industry “representatives,” and the Orthodox establishment to shill for them. …

    5 days ago

  2. Zir’s Presence

    http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2008/06/zirs-presence

    Besides working through the problem of what is meant by being asked to worship an invisible, non-verbally communicative superbeing (who is yet imagined to be present, personal, and ready to intervene), my next most-difficult problem has always been how to avoid thinking or using gendered pronouns in describing the god of my imagination. …

    26 days ago

  3. Zer Presence

    http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2008/06/zer-presence

    Besides working through the problem of what is meant by being asked to worship an invisible, non-verbally communicative superbeing (who is yet imagined to be present, personal, and ready to intervene), my next most-difficult problem when conforming the god of my imagination with the god of Jewish liturgy has always been how to avoid thinking or using gendered pronouns. …

    21 days ago
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    Study Hall of the Goblin King

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    גיבור גיבורים גיפורים והגית בו יומם ולילה ריפינגטון איש סלאגי ממזרח שמש עד מבואו מהולל שם ה יודאיאג'ין הבינלאומי אומפֿאלוס אהרן וזו שכרה This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Counter

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    WSJ: Minnesota Crusader Wants Kosher to be Ethical and Legal Too!

    http://tzvee.blogspot.com/2008/07/wsj-minnesota-crusader-wan...

    • Aharon's Omphalos "And did the Rebbe's feet in recent time / Walk upon Iowa's fields of green?" This blog has a literary take on the problem.

    5 days ago in Tzvee's Talmudic Blog by zahavy · Authority: 21