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April 13, 2008
Best of the Jewish Blogosphere # 162, The Pesach Edition
This Jewish Queen of Egypt commands that you read Haveil Havalim.
Haveil Havalim #162, The Pesach Edition is up.
Our host this week is Esser Agaroth, who provides a lovely and precise introduction:
Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs — a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week and coordinated by Jack. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
We'd like to thank Esser Agaroth for including Seraphic Secret's look at Barack Obama's Black Liberation Theology AKA Bigotry 101.
Gotta run and toveil (ritual immersion for Passover) my dishes now before the line at shul gets too long. It gets embarrassing on line. Everyone's all frum with their noses buried in some great new sefer about Pesach, or learning gemara, and me, well I'm all wrapped up in a fine biography about one of Hollywood's greatest silent stars—a truly important actress who's now all but forgotten—and my friends from shul peer over my shoulder and say:
“What's a silent movie?”
I'm like totally speechless.
Scan of Elizabeth Taylor courtesy of Dr. Macro.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at April 13, 2008 07:56 AM
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I'm like totally speechless.
Which makes you a silent movie writer.
Posted by: kishke at April 13, 2008 08:47 AM
And now for a moment of
Posted by: Jack at April 13, 2008 09:16 AM
Kishke:
I try, oh how I try.
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at April 13, 2008 11:10 AM
Jack:
Lots and lots of dialogue:-)
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at April 13, 2008 11:12 AM
"I'm like totally speechless."
As you said in your previous post, "Less is more."
Yup. ;)
Posted by: Pearl at April 13, 2008 11:24 AM
She was totally breathtaking, wasn't she?
Posted by: Baila at April 13, 2008 12:19 PM
Baila:
I'm still recovering from my first screening of National Velvet.
It was like: is this girl on the same planet as me?
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at April 13, 2008 02:53 PM
Pearl:
Uh-huh.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at April 13, 2008 02:55 PM
Baila, breathtaking is the word. To see her today, is jarring. No one had eyes (besides Paul Newman) like Liz Taylor.
Posted by: cruisin-mom at April 13, 2008 05:15 PM