Mystical Politics

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I spent this afternoon taking a walk around the neighborhood of Katamon, which is where I'm currently living in Jerusalem, and first I ...

I should be heading off to the library to work on my chapter on Testament of Job , Joseph and Aseneth , and Philo, instead of writing blog p...

A rather sweeter piece of news:  In Israeli zoo, newborn kittens bring sand cats back from extinction . Mazal tov! A breed of cat that wa...

Two Jerusalem cats at 12 Elazar ha-Modai St.  Because so many people make their way to this blog when they are searching for cats onl...

I'm tired of politics, it's time for some cat pictures. The orange cat is Zachary, and the grey, black, and white one is Winkle. ...

Enough with the serious business - here are some photos of my Hanukkah candles tonight (first two photos). The third is a close-up photo of ...

I just spent the day visiting museums in Copenhagen, including the ruins underneath the Christansborg castle, the Jewish museum, and the Nat...

When I first got here in June I arrived just in time for Hebrew Book Week (שבוע הספר). I went off with a friend to the book fair at Gan ha-P...

A friend just stopped by and told me about one of her projects while she's here in Jerusalem - she's photographing one cat a day and...

An article in the June 2009 issue of Scientific American is about The Taming of the Cat . It seems that they first became domesticated abou...

It's always interesting to see how people get to this blog. One of the most consistent searches that ends up here is for Bernardine Dohr...

Today's New York Times has a great story on the origin of the domestic cat - and as we all suspected, cats domesticated themselves, we ...

Khaled Abu Toameh in the Jerusalem Post reports that Bearded Gazans on razor's edge between life and death . Once, Hamas members were af...

I seem to have entered the netherland of the blog world - talking about my cat. So much for politics or religion.... Today was the beginning...

Well, I didn't manage to take any pictures, but I did just come back inside from shoveling the walk a third time today. I think about 2 ...