This post was inspired by Andy, a former computer science guy, and is dedicated to Dr. Pinhas Grossman, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Cardiff University. In the course of a conversation with a friend of mine who collects מתנות לאביונים for distribution to several אביונים, the following question arose: A number of donors contribute arbitrary …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Words Mean What We Want Them To Mean
A while ago, in the course of a conversation with an acquaintance who was engaged to be married, I referred to his “fiancée”. At the time, I was fairly new to that particular social milieu, and my acquaintance, probably assuming that I was unfamiliar with the vernacular, gently told me that “We say כלה here.” …
More Than Four Wives
Reuters reports (via Religion Clause): Lashes for Saudi religious policeman with six wives Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:09pm IST RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi court has sentenced an employee of the kingdom’s religious police to 120 lashes for marrying six women. The man said he was not educated enough to know that Islam does not …