This is a touching story of an exceptional woman. Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her Edith Macefield died at home, just the way she wanted. The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Who made these up? Why is it that biblical book abbreviations do not have periods and are not italicized but rabbinic works are? E.g., “We find in Exod 3:15 that… whereas in Exod. Rab. we find….” My current frustration (the hobgoblin of this little mind) is what to do with […]
Does anyone know what happened to the Beth Mardutho site? It used to be at http://www.bethmardutho.org/ and is now simply showing “forbidden.” For those who do not know this site it is the site for The Syriac Institute, established by George Kiraz. You can read about it in an old […]
This comic brings up a couple of excellent points. The first of which is that science, even that most “pure” of sciences which is physics, is full of approximations, guesses, and hypotheses. None of which is to say that it isn’t good science, or reliable, or accurate. It just isn’t […]
I received an email today from Bro. Larry Kelsey with a link to Pauli’s translation of Targum Isaiah on Google Books. The excellent suggestion was that I should add it to our links of targumic texts in English translation available over at the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies (which […]
If you are paying attention at all to the US political season you are probably already aware of FactCheck.org. This site sifts through all the political mud looking for nuggets of truth. They analyzed Obama’s acceptance speech and McCain’s for example (both were found to have stretched or exaggerated but […]
I am a keen news follower and I have, at various times, commented on the fact that I appreciate Chris Matthews’ Hardball and his approach. You always have a pretty good idea of his views (left-leaning Catholic Democrat from PA) but he is ruthlessly fair about going after his guests, […]