As I promised my loyal readers (all two of you) here is the second installment of the Henna pics. The background of this one was way too busy. After trying to clean it up I gave up and just cut them out (and made the background bigger because I could, the background being black and…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
This past Sunday night I had the privilege of attending my first “Henna”. It’s basically the Sefardi version of a L’Chaim or Vort (engagement parties) with way cooler clothes and some fancy skin coloring ceremonies (replete with lilili’ing and all). Sharon and Oscar make a really cute couple, and I wish them all the blessings…
According to the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, animals are divided into those that belong to the Emperor, embalmed ones, those that are trained, suckling pigs, mermaids, fabulous ones, stray dogs, those included in the present classification, those that tremble as if they were mad, innumerable ones, those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,…
This is a Rosh Hashana card I made for Chabad of West Orange County during the construction of the shul (which has since been completed, and is gorgeous). The grungy theme was to reflect the building (verb) aspect, dirt and all. The picture is a stitched panorama with my trusty (actually, not very) point and…
A few months ago I went up to Northern California (real Northern Cali, not San Francisco or the like), to do some do some Rabbi/Kosher work up there supervising cheese production at a place called Rumiano’s. It’s a cte little family owned operation that makes some great looking and smelling cheese, but as it wasn’t…