All right. I’m coming down to the wire for my adult bat mitzvah preparations. I have to cut back on time-wasting activities, which includes taping but not watching my favorite shows (I’m about to cut out my soap opera completely), and, well, blogging. I have to cut back.
Through a series of circumstances (that include a change of rabbis in my synagogue, which resulted in several of the children moving up their bar/bat mitzvah dates and leaving the rabbi with no time for me), I am rather far behind in my haftorah and Torah readings. So the time I would have spent watching TV and blogging is going to be spent practicing. Judith Weiss has kindly offered to help, as has Rahel. I work better with a person than I do with a computer or practicing on my own.
Blogging, as a result, must be light over the next few weeks. Soccer Dad and Snoopy will be posting, and I’m very grateful to them for that. But I have to cut back to one or two posts a day. So here’s your chance.
If you’ve been dying to write a post about Jewish and Israeli issues, email it to me. You can write it straight or funny. If it’s well-written and makes its point clearly, I will put it up as a guest post with whatever name or pseudonym you wish. If it isn’t up to the quality of writing I’d like to see on my site, I will send you a polite rejection letter. Don’t take it personally. I have very high standards.
If you already are a blogger, and think you have a post you’d like to get more attention here, that’s fine. Send it over, and you’ll get a link to your blog inside the post. Cross-posting is fine, too.
I’m looking to keep this site up to date while I’m busy over the next four weeks. After that, we’ll see what happens. I’m of the opinion that you can never have too much to read, only too little time in which to read it.
I’d be happy to help you with your Torah and Haftarah stuff…tutorials over the phone, .mp3 files, whatever you need.