Blogger Dixie Yid is raising funds to help his friends, the Landon family. The Landons’ son is undergoing emergency treatment for neuroblastoma, a life-threatening illness. Read more about it here.
Diane Wiessinger is a La Leche League Leader in Albany, New York, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). In her classic essay Watch Your Language, she explains how we undermine breastfeeding by speaking about its “advantages.” She is also known for her creativity in explaining correct latch-on to breastfeeding educators and new mothers.
While Wiessinger is visiting Israel, I plan to combine two of my loves, blogging and breastfeeding, by reporting about her talks. Topics scheduled for tomorrow include “Changing Paradigms in Infant Latch” and “Words Create Reality–Making Breastfeeding the Norm.” (See this site for details.) In her third talk, “Lactation Consultation: Art or Science?,” Wiessinger will talk about different approaches toward a nursing dyad experiencing difficulties, and how to become a “breasteeding detective.”
Here’s my report from the Jack Newman conference in 2006.
This article by Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsburg caught my eye. When the author’s friend became a grandfather he told everyone that he had become an einekel, Yiddish for grandchild, instead of a zeidy, Yiddish for Grandpa. No one corrected him, including the writer, until the grandfather had told possibly hundreds of people. He then asked the writer to spread the word about the importance of correcting people.
This made me feel good because I often find myself correcting others. As I wrote here, I started young and the trait seems to run in the family.
In college, my English professor was once talking about poetry. He said that sometimes seemingly unimportant elements of a passage are emphasized, and gave the example of the Bible. “In the Bible,” he said, “insignificant words are put in italics.” I explained to him that some biblical translations italicize words that don’t appear in the original Hebrew like “is” and “the.” (This site gives examples from the King James translation of Psalms. Apparently some fundamentalist Christians take issue with the additions.) I realized my comment might embarrass him, but felt it was more important not to leave the other students with the misinformation. I did make the correction directly and respectfully, as recommended in the article, and I hope he forgave me.
Occasionally I correct my fellow bloggers, most often by email. If you have been a recipient of my constructive criticism, consider it a compliment. I only go to the trouble if I think the blogger would care, since I have enough editing and fact-checking to do for my own writing — I continue to find errors in my older posts.
Like most people I don’t enjoy being corrected, but I still prefer to find out about my mistakes in order to improve myself and so as not to (continue) look(ing) ignorant.
Ingredients:
1 large clove garlic
Fresh parsley or coriander, washed and dried
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup raw techina, or sesame paste
1 tsp. ground cumin
Salt to taste
About a half cup of water (Perhaps more.)
Method: Chop the garlic and parsley in a dry food processor until fine. Add the other ingredients, keeping back some water until the mixture is the right texture. Most people prefer it slightly runny. Keep in mind that it congeals some in the refrigerator. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. If you use bottled lemon juice, the preservatives will help the techina keep longer (I’m not recommending this, I’m just saying.)
When serving, put enough for one meal in a separate bowl and don’t return the leftover dressing to the original batch.
Leah and her mother won the contest! See the Yaldah Magazine site for details.
A female movie producer refusedto let the Jerusalem Film Festival broadcast her film to mixed or male-only audiences. Hat tip: Leora
A very lovely edition of Haveil Havalim, the Jewish Blog Carnival, is now up over at Ima on and off the Bima.
Baila hosts the newest Kosher Cooking Carnival–the procrastinator’s version. I procrastinated sending in my Rosh Hashanah cooking post so it only appeared now.
But please don’t procrastinate about sending posts to jpixcarnival@gmail.com, for the next carnival of Jewish and Israel-related photographs. The deadline is Friday, December 5.
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