Author Archives: Meryl Yourish

It’s my birthday

And I’m going to see Idina Menzel’s new play, If/Then. Talk among yourselves. I have some celebratin’ to do.

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The Obamacare clusterfark

Reading about the reactions to Obamacare falling under its own weight leads me to this thought: Icarus has flown too close to the sun, and the wax holding together his wings is melting.

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Meimei’s newest thing

She likes to sleep leaning against my foot. Not ON my foot. Leaning against it. She is on my lap as I write this post, and she has just discovered my Star of David necklace. It appears we are in … Continue reading

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The anti-Israel administration

James Baker was not a friend to Israel, but the Reagan administration never tried to harm Israel the way that the Obama administration is. Susan Rice says that Benjamin Netanyahu just doesn’t understand the deal. Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Susan … Continue reading

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There will never be peace

As long as the Palestinians lionize murderers like this, there will never be peace between them and Israel. A sixteen-year-old Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier who was sleeping on a bus. The soldier died of his wounds. Why did the … Continue reading

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She’s cute and she knows it

Got a great shot of Meimei yesterday. She’s just getting more and more beautiful. I won the kitty lotto, all right. She and Tig are playing well together, too. They make me laugh and laugh.

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It’s eleven twelve thirteen!

At least, for those of us who display the dates this way: 11/12/13 Cool.

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Tuesday, briefly

This Pope is Teh Awesome: He fires bishops for wrongdoing. He foregoes many of the trappings of the Popehood. He embraced a severely disfigured man and prayed with him. And now he says that Jews are the big brothers of … Continue reading

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Honoring the veterans

Happy Veterans Day! Here’s a link to some deals for veterans at various local and nationwide chains. Now I’m going to get back to work. I work for a company with a large number of veterans. The place is a … Continue reading

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It’s not feminism that’s killing the Jewish Conservative movement

Avi Woolf went on an anti-feminist rant that has nothing to do with Conservative Judaism, but hey–he gets in a lot of cracks about feminists and pretends he knows something about Conservative Judaism while he’s at it. And yet, I … Continue reading

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Two readings this month for The Catmage Chronicles

I’m having a reading and book-signing at the Richmond JCC tomorrow, and will be doing the same again in a couple of weeks at Or Ami’s book fair. It will be nice to see how my own Jewish community likes … Continue reading

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Caturday

Some more Meimei pictures. First, Meimei the beauty Next, Tig and Meimei playing. They’re getting along great. Last, this is becoming her favorite place to sleep.

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The Arafat polonium blood libel

Here we go again. Did you know that Palestinians are blaming Israel for Arafat’s death? Yes. Palestinians blame Israel for Arafat’s poisoning Really. Palestinians: Israel Only Suspect In Arafat Death Come on. Israel Accused of Killing Arafat by Palestinian Investigators … Continue reading

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If you can’t laugh at terrorists…

I know he’s a terrorist. I know he’s a scumbag who ordered an attack on a teenage girl for having the audacity to go to schol. I know he is willing to slaughter many thousands of innocents for no reason … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

Yeah, but watch out for the knife in the back: Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom says everyone wants to hug Israel now that it’s going to be a natural gas exporter. See title. I know that the rules of the … Continue reading

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