Pygmania

reposting a nice little piece from last week's nyt magazine [ link ] with several parts that felt like inside jokes between us. should we feel robbed? Bitten to the Quick By ABIGAIL MEISEL SEPT. 19, 2014 In the spring of 2013, a family of pigeons nested in scaffolding outside my apartment building two blocks off St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan’s Washington Heights. From the window of my first-floor apartment, I heard the cheeping of baby birds and affectionately observed their downy forms and tiny black-tipped beaks: my very own slice of nature. But in May, when the squabs matured into fledglings and flew off, it seems that a horde of barely visible parasites that had been feeding off them — bird mites — needed a new blood supply. They launched an Old Testament-worthy invasion of the first-floor apartments. Relentless and nocturnal, the bugs robbed us all of sleep, raising painful red bites on my skin that were ringed with bruises. They appeared to prefer warm and damp l...

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Angiepymytu is lurking on a three-year-old forum topic called "Most Uncommon Frum Names" , on a website called Yeshiva World News. Not sure what more there is to say here... A600KiloBear Inactive, per member request BS"D But are the Bahiyas named Batya for kodesh the way an American Batya might be known as Beth on paper, or has Bahiya become a kodesh name the way the French names have in Morocco? Annette is Chana, but there are granddaughters of Annettes who was born at the time the Alliance started in Morocco is called Annette and only Annette even if her parents are very haredi. Especially in EY, people do not even know that the name was French but think it is an authentic Moroccan Jewish first name - which I guess it is once the name is given in memory of someone. My friend's mother by now probably has (great)grandchildren named Annette for their (great)grandmother as per Sefardi custom. If you saw Rabbanit Annette shopping in Boro Park, the only wa...

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i feel SO smiley and satisfied with myself right now. is this what it's like for certain guys whenever they succeed in "convincing" a girl to date them?  the thirst of the hunt , the thrill of the catch ? the transcendence of conversion ?  of conquest ?  ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:  Rachel Hannah Polsky   <rachel545@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Vus titzuch? To: Anita Comiskey <anniesea712@aol.com> that made me smile :)  On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:27 PM,  < anniesea712@aol.com >  wrote: wow.  what a wonderful answer.  you are soo intelligent.   makes me feel good about being born jewish  even though i seldom identify with religion as you probably know from alex. -----Original Message----- From: Rachel Hannah Polsky < rachel545@gmail.com > To: Anita Comiskey < anniesea712@aol.com > Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:06 pm Subject: Re: Vus titzuch? I'l...

idk it was just hilarious to me.

So I just saw a clip of the view with Joy Behar and sat there for the first half like "OMG WHO DOES THAT REMIND ME OF WITH HER VOICE, ACCENT, NO-NONSENSE ATTITUDE, etc."  Maybe it's just me...

Pym I just found where we need to get jobs: Google Mazel Moment NYC based start-up that helps match Jewish families with bar/bat mitzvah locations, wedding halls, etc. I can't even. I really just can't.

The first [commandment] forbids the worship of any other gods.  This is not yet monotheism: the existence of other gods is not denied.... Around the time of the Babylonian exile we shall find stronger assertions that YKVK is the only true God, in the prophet we call Second Isaiah, but strict monotheism is developed only in the Hellenistic period, under the influence of Greek philosophy.

“Now when I walk down Fifth Avenue in the summertime I just want to throw up. It seems that the fatter and uglier people are, the fewer clothes they wear. The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts that go from here to Poughkeepsie.  I always say they should put people in jail for wearing clothes like that. Especially stretch jeans over [US] size 10 - they should be outlawed. Ten years ago people were starting to look like slobs in New York, now it's an epidemic.” Not that she would ever intervene on a bad case of misjudged style. “Oh, now that would be horrible. It's a free country - if you want to look like a freak, that's your problem. “Most of the young people today look dreadful. And celebrities look even worse. They don't know what to do with themselves. “At the Golden Globes and Oscars they all look alike - it seems like they're all wearing the same nightgown and this year nobody had any jewellery at all. “I mix everything up. A museum curat...