Hmm...

Jesse -- [noun]: A master of sexual gratification 'How will you be defined in the sexual dictionary?' at QuizUniverse.com

Well... now that we got that out of the way.
Shabbat Shalom to you!

It's raining outside, it's my cousin's (Orthodox) Bat Mitzvah on Monday, and the entire weekend is a celebration! Things at work are getting crazy geared up towards the Congress in Jerusalem, which is weird because as I get closer to the end of my job, things also get busier. Strange.

In a couple weeks, a bunch of us are going to Hawley's cottage for 5 days. I need that time. It's going to be my purge week to get rid of the year's stresses, so I can go to Israel and camp free of shit. A wonderful buffer week.

After that, it's my cousin's (Catholic) Wedding, then camp.

Summer's delightful. I love it. Especially when it involves Israel and camp.
It's raining outside.
I also like the rain.

I've caught onto this new Pandora music thing. It's fantastic. I'm finding a plethora of new music. So wonderful.

Check these bands out:

Pernice Brothers
The Bats
The Bevis Frond
Chuck Prophet
The Finn Brothers
T.S. Monk
Brendan Benson
Rusted Root
The Jayhawks

Good stuff there.

Shabbat Shalom to y'all

WE DID IT!!!

REFORM MOVEMENT WINS IN CANADIAN
WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS ELECTIONS!

ARZA CANADA IN FIRST PLACE WITH 7 OUT OF 19 SEATS


Canadian Election Results:

ARZA Canada: 7 seats
United Torah Coaltion (Orthodox): 7 seats
Mercaz Canada (Conservative): 3 seats
Hatikva Canada & Zionistparty.com: 2 seats


I'll post more on the significance of this later. For now, we're just so elated!

high school kids are smart

I've been reading over the letters of intent from the kids running for the executive board of NFTY-NEL (the youth group I used to be a member of, and incidentally still devote a considerable amount of time to). Some of the things these kids (read: intelligent young people) have to say are quite inspiring. This one blew me away.

I hope this letter finds you well. I would like to start off by recounting a very traumatic day for me: First I ate a plentiful, calorie-rich meal to commemorate the affliction of my ancestors. My emotions rose as I used my thousand dollar computer and forty-dollars-a-month internet connection to read about the suffering of people who live on less than a quarter a day. My anxiety grew as from my leather couch I witnessed images flickering on my flat screen TV of a world gone mad, with rising gun and gang violence, a growing rich-poor gap, and genocide around the world, tidily presented by the multi-billion dollar news networks. I guess the emotional climax was when I realized the paradox of our time: suffering is just so darn comfortable... In our modern world, awareness is scanning headlines in an internet browser; ‘paying it forward’ means passing along a chain email petition you know nobody will ever read; and taking action equates to buying a mass produced t-shirt that says ‘Bush sucks.’ Comical, clever, and compelling: a triple threat.

Way to go. Step up to the plate and kick some ass.