Don’t know what went wrong. Don’t know how it got fixed.
But this is what I wrote on the days of blog silence:
These candles seem to be having an effect on me this year. Last year I was too involved in what was happening in Gaza to think about holiday spirit, but this year seems to be different. I go back to my favorite heroine, the one who didn’t make it into the five books of Moses, the redeemer of the Jewesses, Judith. I like Judith in part because her name means Jewess, and because although a widow, she defends the town of Betulia, or maidenhood. The Panic Ensemble video of my poem about Judith is here. You can see us doing it together, with the Yiddish by be here
December 17, 2009
After a long busy day, Alicia and I watched “Der Yiddishe King Lear” – or at least the first part of it before we got too sleepy. The rest we need to be awake for.
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