michellej 2.0
June 2013
“But also like Vesper, it’s not the only app of its kind, it doesn’t have the most features, and it’s not the cheapest, so it’s probably not going to set the world on fire. It does one thing well, and if you like that one thing and how they do it, it’ll be worth it to you.”
—Marco.org
“I reject the notion that the job you excel at is somehow not enough to aspire to, that there has to be something more,” Ms. Fischer explained, speaking with her eyes closed, as she tends to do. “I love supporting other artists.” She continued: “I guess it came down to not letting other people decide what was right for me. Everyone’s needs are unique. My happy is different from your happy.”
—Backup Singers Are the Focus of ’20 Feet From Stardom’ - NYTimes.com
“I am a Jewish woman who wears a tallit, and I don’t believe for a minute that I am distorting our religion. Rather, I am simply performing a non-obligatory time-bound positive commandment that the twelfth century Rambam permitted for women. In his Laws of Tzitzit (Chapter 3), Rambam wrote that “Despite their exemption, women may choose to wear tzitzit [….] and likewise [all] other positive commandments from which women are exempt, if they want to fulfill them … we do not prevent them.”
—Why I Wear a Tallit | Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
“When asked what local apps they admire, Matar and Brown were quick to respond. “We love the look of Menu and Hours,” says Matar of the Michelle Jones-created app that shared some of the buzz surrounding WhyWait last fall. Menu and Hours will be expanding regionally soon.”
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WhyWait team builds LocalView as ‘Kayak for local data’ | Insider Louisville
Thanks for the love LocalView!
“You can make lemon curd with a lot of different ingredients and ratios, but I like doing it the 19th century way, using nothing but lemon juice, egg yolks and sugar. With that many yolks, you don’t need cornstarch for thickening or butter for richness. The curd winds up intensely yellow, with a clean lemon flavor.”
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Parve lemon curd
May 2013
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In this week’s Torah portion, Moshe sends the scouts into the land to investigate it.
They come back with two reports. It flows with milk and honey. But, the inhabitants made the scouts feel as puny as grasshoppers.
There’s a teaching here for us. We are always entering into new experiences and new adventures.
Every day has the capacity to flow with sustenance and sweetness. And every day has the capacity to leave us feeling dwarfed.
Which one will you choose to focus on, as this day unfolds? Can you lift up the milk and honey, and shed the fear?
” —Velveteen Rabbi: Choose the milk and honey
Good stuff from Rabbi Barenblat
“If Naftali Bennett has his way, for the first time in Israel’s history, the Jewish state will begin funding all rabbis—including those from non-Orthodox streams of Judaism. The Ministry of Religious Affairs, which is headed by Bennett, announced today that it will be instituting reforms to abolish the position of state-appointed communal rabbis, replacing the current system with one in which rabbis are appointed by their communities, and then funded by the government. This revamping of the rabbinate would effectively take these positions out of the control of the ultra-Orthodox dominated Chief Rabbinate and place them into the hands of Israel’s citizens, who would be free to choose whichever rabbi they wish. As the Ministry’s brief on the reforms put it, the rabbis would receive state funding “independent of which Jewish denomination the relevant community belongs to.”
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BREAKING: Israel to Fund Non-Orthodox Rabbis – Tablet Magazine
This could be huge.
“I am 100-percent happy. When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.”
—Brittney Griner on Owning The Middle (via misterjt)
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“The Taliban?” I asked. “Don’t they hate that you’re Jewish?”
Simintov laughed. “When they were in power, they wanted to pay me $20,000 to convert to Islam. So, I offered them $80,000 to become Jews.”
” —Having Tea With the Last Jew in Afghanistan – Tablet Magazine
That man’s chutzpah is something to admire.
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Sometimes I think I’ve probably written the weirdest headline I’ll ever write. And then sometimes Keyshawn Johnson chases down Justin Bieber for driving his Ferrari at really fast speed through a neighborhood and then calls the cops on the teenybopper heartthrob.
This is, according to TMZ, one of those times. The entertainment website reports that Keyshawn was coming back from a party on Sunday night when the Biebs went flying past Johnson’s car at “breakneck speeds” in a Ferrari through the Calabasas neighborhood.
Keyshawn was apparently so fired up and concerned that he took the child in his car home and then chased Bieber down in his Prius.
Report: Keyshawn Johnson chased down, called cops on Justin Bieber - CBSSports.com
I love that Keyshawn Johnson drives a Prius. And that he did this.
“Reading my father Sam Halpern’s new book being published today by HarperCollins, A Far Piece to Canaan—a novel about a family of Jewish sharecroppers in Kentucky—is like having my dad sit down, take a sip of his favorite brown liquor, and tell you a story you’ll never forget. So, I asked him to share some of the stories behind the novel: about his own childhood in Kentucky, the lives of Jewish sharecroppers, and why he’s decided to cash in on my literary fame.”
—‘Sh*t My Dad Says’ Author Justin Halpern Interviews His Father About His New Novel – Tablet Magazine
“Scale isn’t always the answer, but if it is, then scale. Build the systems necessary to dramatically change your impact. Halfway gets you nowhere.”
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Well damn. Get outta my head Seth Godin.
“I had always associated Shavuot with Revelation and Memorial Day with duty, but I had never associated either of them with hope. And yet when Ruth’s eyes saw nothing but sorrow and death in her family, her heart believed in a brighter future ahead. Her embrace of Judaism was more a prayer for what could be than a reaction to what already was. As I watched the chem-lights twinkle, I realized that was the soldiers’ prayer as well—for a time when friends and loved ones would never be separated by war again. Perhaps in a strange way it’s easier to be optimistic after you’ve actually sacrificed or lost something.”
—An Army Chaplain Deployed in Afghanistan Finds Hope on Memorial Day – Tablet Magazine
“The people who plant the seed are often forgotten through history,” Molina said. “Even though one could arguably associate substantial or equal credit to them. I’m not saying that’s what I want. I just think it’s interesting how the last one wins.”
—The Daily Dot - The real origins of Tumblr
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