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And reading about the election process there, such as it is. The Turkish Press website is won’t load right now.
What has become of the term, “democracy”?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:03 pm May 1st, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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And reading about the election process there, such as it is. The Turkish Press website is won’t load right now.
What has become of the term, “democracy”?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:03 pm May 1st, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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What do Jews do, Bar Mitzvah Edition
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The words I could use to describe what life is like right now are as unpronounceable as Daryl Hannah’s name in the movie Splash (no, not Madison, the other name – EEEEEEEEEEEEE). So over the next few days, I’m going to take some posts from my more or less defunct blog, The Bar Mitzvah Blog, and re-post them here for your fun and amusement while I work to pretend that I’ve got it all under control. Let me just tell you that the best part of doing this for the first time is that there will never be another first time.
This is the cover I drew, by my own self (artist is not my middle name, although my mother’s mother – the one that died of breast cancer? – she was an amazing artist and in fact there is a self-portrait of her that is so incredible, my mother has never displayed it, since her death nearly 40 years ago, because of how much it looks like her; but that’s a topic for yet another blog), for the cover of my Bat Mitzvah service prayer book.
Now, I was raised in a Reform synagogue and we put together our own service. Inside the cover, there are photographed pages (have I mentioned before how hippie-ish my shul was?) with prayers in Hebrew and English. All the relevant ones you have to have, whether you’re Orthodox, Reform or Conservative, plus a few elective ones that I liked. I chanted a long Torah portion, did the prayers and gave a sermon. I don’t know where that sermon is, but I might have it somewhere, somewhere.
In any case – look at that cover. I was 13 when I decided to make that image. I’d seen a similar picture in a book called The Jewish Catalogue, which is a very ecumenical directory of all things Jewish. I just liked the fish, honest. But of course, adults being adults, they all saw so much more in there. You’re so deep, they’d say. Yeah, whatever. I was 13. Just let me finish my stuff and have my party in the basement, okay? It was 1975 folks.
But now that I’m in my 40s with three kids of my own, when I re-discovered that cover? I nearly went into shock. I mean, look at it – how creepy is it that a 13 year old picked this symbol of the food chain!? That there is always someone or something bigger to eat the smaller? Goodness, that’s just really, well, kind of morbid almost. Even though Jews can be great at drama, they are also excellent at denial. So when I shrugged off their interpretations with a smile and a nod, no one ever followed up to see if maybe I was just a wee bit disturbed, even as a 13 year old.
And still, I’ll never tell.
Up next in the, what did Jill do for her Bat Mitzvah 31 years ago: a picture of me in my Bat Mitzvah best. O.M.G. Did I mention that it was 1975? Think corkies and tube tops and polyester.
Oh. And braces.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:47 pm May 1st, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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And reading about the election process there, such as it is. The Turkish Press website is won’t load right now.
What has become of the term, “democracy”?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:03 pm May 1st, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Validated on national public radio re: media makes up "Mommy wars"
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It’s not so much in what I said and what she said in response (click on “listen” and my call is about nine minutes in). It comes a couple of minutes after my call ended and the NPR guest, E.J. Graff, says she wants to go back to what the caller, Jill, said. That was kind of cool.
My son also thought it was remarkable that his mom got onto Talk of the Nation in the first place. Always good to impress the teen.
And Wendy: couldn’t help myself but I had to mention Judith Warner, one of the biggest peddlers of the media’s Mommy Wars myth. Sooo bad.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:19 am May 1st, 2007 in Politics | 7 Comments
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