management

I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but I just discovered that my book list has been missing from my blog for the last few months! It should now appear on the bar at the top of the blog.

Just a blog management heads-up. I’ve replaced the “Popular Posts” gadget on the right sidebar with “The Conversion Candidate’s Toolbox.” This is a list of links to the blog posts that (I think) are most useful to the new orthodox conversion candidate. You also now have the option of sharing my blog’s link on Facebook

I thank all you regular readers for your patience with my sporadic writing this week. I hope to have the blog back to “normal” starting Monday morning at 7am Pacific. Now, for you new folk. There’s a lot of you. Like a lot a lot. On Tuesday, March 1st, I hit 20k pageviews after writing

Blogger has added a new feature: Reactions. They’re little check-boxes at the bottom of each post now. Have suggestions for other reactions I should add? Currently, I’ve added funny, painful, thought-provoking, and hits home. If you have suggestions for changing those, I’m open to that! Get your creative juices flowing! I thought this might be

I think the title just about sums it up. Regular posts will now be Monday-Friday, with random posts added as they come up!

As you’ve probably noticed, the blog has a new layout! I hope you like it! And if you have eagle eyes, you may have noticed that there are new pages listed above! Enjoy the expanded content, provided as always to promote practicality in the conversion process. If you have suggestions, edits, or gripes, my email

Mandatory Disclaimers: (1) I am not a rabbi. I am certainly no halachic source. I’m not even in a formal learning program right now, so my resources are my congregational rabbi, great friends (including an informal tutor and a couple of orthodox rabbis), and my own research, usually online. (2) I talk a lot about