Some post-Chanukah posts of mine

• Onan's sin: Marital sexual abuse.“. . . what was to prevent Onan from marrying other women, having children with them, and leaving Tamar chained to him in marriage and with no opportunity ever to have a child for the rest of her life, just to spite his deceased older brother?”
• Hebrew and politics. “The article posited that it’s because Israel developed a reputation as a secular state that the study of modern Israeli Hebrew became less acceptable in some Orthodox circles.”
• Dancer gets stomped on by Tzniut Squad/Modesty Patrol. Did I cross a line by publishing this poem?
• More fun with my left foot. Oh, goody, now I have a ganglion cyst. :( But it could be worse.
• Shlomo Katz in concert at Aish Kodesh.
• Shim'on, here. Remember me? I was left to rot in Pharaoh’s prison.
• Muslim, Christian states OK; Jewish state all wrong?? “Are we Jews the only religious community that's not allowed to have one single state with our own religion as the official religion? See this must-read by David Bogner/Treppenwitz.”
• YCT, Open Orthodoxy, and my husband and me. See link to article re Steg’s rabbinical school. See also next post.
• The key to Jewish continuity: Prioritizing Judaism. Sabbath observance has to be more important than soccer practice if we expect Judaism to thrive.
• Politically-incorrect thoughts. On unlikely heroes, the downside of the shidduch/matchmaking system, and Bat Mitzvah celebrations from which fathers, brothers, and uncles are deliberately excluded.
• My new favorite Shabbat/Sabbath food. Corn thins. Yum! (See photos.)
  
• A quick visit from the kid-no-more. Our favorite grad-school student drops in.
  

Please note that it is occasionally necessary for me to "hide" a post in a not-so-obvious place in order to preserve (what's left of) my anonymity as a blogger.