What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Philadelphia
The Inland [...]
Bar Ilan University has put their entire database of Jewish texts online. It’s free for the time being, but only a short matter of time before they start charging exorbitant fees for access to this database. I find this to be an affront on many levels, but here are the primary ones:
A. [...]
it’s been rainin’ 24 hours non-stop. first real rain of the season. last night the thunder was so loud my apartment shook. it’s snowing 15 minutes from here. it’s only a matter of time…
stop me before i kill time again
James Brown, RIP
As Reb Davide said this morning at yeshiva upon hearing the news, “I knew there was a reason today felt darker.”
ארבעים שנה אקוט בדור,
ואמר עם תעי לבב הם,
והם לא ידעו דרכי.
אשר נשבאתי באפי,
אם יבאון אל מנוחתי.
{ For forty years I was angry with the generation;
then I said, ‘An errant-hearted people are they,
and they know not My ways.
Therefore, I have sworn in My wrath that they shall not enter
My land of of contentment. [...]
“israel, you should know, for all its first world pretenses, is a third world country. yeah, we have ATM machines, cellphones, mercedes benzes, and digital satellite television. but the way business here is conducted — what kind of hell and hoops you have to go through to get a service that ‘goes without saying’ in [...]
The red line is The Green Line. The square in the center is al Aqsa. To the right of that, Occupied Palestine, where, among other things, my family is buried. The distance between my apartment and al Aqsa is about 20 minutes, walking.
This black spot was spraypainted over the peephole on my front door two nights ago by Idiot The Wise, the Jerusalem-based graffiti artist, who hospitalized my sister this summer after she told him off for stealing my passport.
Through this act he is informing me, “I know where you live.”
Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that [...]
