Posts Tagged ‘ Judaism ’

The Pre-Birthday Blog

I know I haven’t posted in ages. I have been very busy completing my first full week of class and the last one for a good long time. There are so many Jewish Holidays in the month of October and I will be missing something like 5 days of class as a result. Even so, [ READ MORE ]

Multiple Sources Hint At Arafat Having Died Of AIDS Until We Realize No One Knows Anything

Even when it was happening a great deal of the community sort of bounced around the idea that former Palestinian terror leader Yasser Arafat was dying of something other than old age. I has long been theorized in a ha ha only serious sort of way that he was a homosexual because he was never [ READ MORE ]

An Ode To Chibb

Just now, I received some bad news from my dear friend Ben. It would seem that his beloved hedgehog Chibb has an inoperable tumor and must be taken tommorrow to the vet in order that she might end her stay here with us. Although no one can guarantee she will be going to a better [ READ MORE ]

Chillin After Camp

So after camp, my friend Matan came home with me to chill at my house for a little bit. We had alot of fun and hung out a great deal. Friday morning we went down to the city with Rona and met Yoni, Yaniv, Ainat, and the Richmans. It was a great deal of fun [ READ MORE ]

My First Publication: File Sharing in Judaism

I just recieved word that my article on file sharing and Jewish law will be published in the upcoming edition of Achshav! magazine. Even though this is a journal read only by Jewish teens affiliated with USY, it is still an international publication and it’s my first time being “published”. This article (available here in [ READ MORE ]

The Birth of Isaiah

In regards to my previous post regarding the LAAK Stack, the jukebox machine has arrived from Sub300 and I have successfully installed Debian Sarge from the d-i netinst cd. My mother (in her infinite wisdom) suggested I name it Isaiah after the prophet responsible for broadcasting messages to the people. Isaiah is currently running Linux [ READ MORE ]

End of an Era and the Purchase of a New Sarong

Today was my last USY event ever! This is truly the end of an era as it appears that the Magen dynasty will end with my departure. As is the tradition, the closing event for Hagesher Region USY is the shore dance. This consists of spending the day on the boardwalk of Ocean City and [ READ MORE ]

Lag Ba-Omer: The Remix

As if the original version wasn’t amusing enough, my good buddy hr.flemming was kind enough to concoct a litttle something special for me: Yeah. I laughed too[ READ MORE ]

Lag Ba-Omer

Traditionally, observant Jewish males do not shave or cut any hair from Passover to Shavuos by doing what is called counting the Omer. On the 33rd day of the count, however, known as Lag Ba-Omer, there is a day of respite for the folicles of man. Shaving and all other manners of hair cuttery are [ READ MORE ]

On Beauty

In the course of conversation with a newly (re)aquired friend, I was moved to lookup the dictionary definition of the word “beauty” at Dict.org. Two quotes that caught my interest: “The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.” –Wordsworth “The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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